Background: Canada, Mexico, and the United States are primary transit destinations for migrants in the Western Hemisphere. Migrants face barriers to accessing health services, including HIV/AIDS and STI prevention. Mobile apps may enhance public…
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Michael Sevilla Hughes, category manager – health at NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) (Credit: NHS SBS)
NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) has launched an ‘Online Sexual Health Services’ framework agreement designed to…
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Croydon Sexual Health and HIV clinic at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust (CSH) has gone live with Inform Health’s electronic patient record (EPR) and personal health record (PHR) systems.
CSH announced plans in February 2025…
Background: Smartphones provide a precise method to study human mobility at an unprecedented scale, allowing researchers to explore the links between mobility, HIV risk and treatment outcomes. However, leveraging smartphone technology to study HIV…
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HIV self-testing (HIVST) allows people to test for HIV outside traditional health facilities, but this presents challenges around pre-and-post-test counselling, reporting results and linking to care. Digital interventions for HIVST, a type of software…
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Jacqueline Naeem, MD, Vice President of Clinical and Social Health, PCCI
During the last decade, we have seen major breakthroughs in preventing HIV infection. However, even with these advances, the infection rate has not appreciably…
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Background: In 2022, 3100 adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa experienced new HIV infections each week. HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is effective at preventing HIV but has limited uptake and persistence. Mobile…
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Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) effectively prevents HIV among men who have sex with men, but its adherence faces significant hindrances. We evaluated the effectiveness of real-time digital intervention in promoting oral PrEP adherence through…
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Background: Mobile health (mHealth) has been continuously developed to support the HIV care continuum for people living with HIV (PLWH). Considering the practical needs and acceptability of digital health solutions, it is essential to…
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What You Should Know:
– Medisafe, a global digital health platform for medication management announced a strategic collaboration with EMD Serono to launch the HIV Resource Center by Medisafe.
– The HIV Resource Center by Medisafe…
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