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The Future of HIV Care
Science is restless. It's always seeking, always exploring, always striving to answer new questions and build off the knowledge it has already gained. In HIV, we've spent decades refining our understanding of the virus and its complex web of intersections with our bodies and our societies. Yet we constantly strive to learn more, and to create ever-more-effective means by which we can prevent HIV transmission, treat HIV infection, and improve the length and quality of the lives of people…
Episodes
- The Future of HIV Care
HIV Care for Older Patients: Let's Get Practical
Last month, we talked with Meredith Greene, M.D., about adapting our models of care to better serve people living with HIV as they age. This month, we're…
- The Future of HIV Care
Our Patients Are Aging. What Are We Gonna Do About It? (With Meredith Greene)
More than half of people living with HIV in the U.S. are over the age of 50, and within a few years it will likely be more than two thirds, if we're not there…
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Clinical Highlights From the 26th International AIDS Conference (With Paul Sax)
The world's largest HIV-focused meeting took place in late July — and as ever, the science came fast and furious, to the tune of more than 2,500 presentations…
- The Future of HIV Care
HIV Care for Women: Where We Are and Where We're Headed (With Aadia Rana)
Outside of pregnancy, cisgender women have long been underrepresented in HIV clinical research (and frankly, even pregnancy-related evidence gaps remain…
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Aadia Rana: How Do We Keep More of Our Patients on HIV Treatment?
We are prescribing initial ART to roughly 83% of all people living with HIV in the U.S., but only 62% are taking all of their doses — and we are only retaining…
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Joel Gallant: Where Will Antiretroviral Therapy Go Next?
After years of relatively little movement on the HIV treatment front, we're entering a new period of activity, as fresh FDA drug approvals begin to roll in and…
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Demetre Daskalakis: Great HIV Care Is a Form of Resistance
Demetre Daskalakis, M.D., M.P.H., has returned to his roots: He's the new chief medical officer in town at Callen-Lorde, a widely respected, LGBTQ-centric HIV…
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Jeanne Marrazzo: "We Just Can't Stop"
Newly appointed IDSA CEO (and former NIAID Director) Jeanne Marrazzo, M.D., M.P.H., joins us this month to discuss a wealth of important topics that stand at…
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"What Matters to You?" How Oni Blackstock Practices Hope
We welcome Oni Blackstock, M.D., M.H.S., to our miniseries of interviews with people who are leading some of the big conversations we're having as a health…
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Back to Basics
Regardless of your specific role in HIV care, you are almost certainly feeling the deeply challenging moment we face as science-respecting, empathetic human…
- The Future of HIV Care
Top HIV Clinical Developments of 2025
Each year on TheBodyPro, David Alain Wohl, M.D., of the University of North Carolina summarizes and analyzes the 10 new studies and noteworthy events that he…
- The Future of HIV Care
You Can't Spell AIDS Without AI
Whether we think about it with excitement or fear (or both), AI has become a part of our daily lives — and, increasingly, it's a force we need to consider in…
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Antiretroviral Therapy Is Not a Rotisserie Chicken
This month, we're slicing up a feast of guidance and information on HIV treatment switching in the setting of viral suppression. ART, after all, is not a "set…
- The Future of HIV Care
We Hear, They Heal
This month, we're talking about an infrequently discussed, but quite powerful, implement we have in our clinical toolkit for optimizing patient outcomes: our…
- The Future of HIV Care
A Weighty Conundrum Concluded (and Other IAS 2025 Highlights)
This month, we're taking stock of clinically noteworthy developments from the IAS Conference on HIV Science in July. On the docket: new (definitive?) data on…
- The Future of HIV Care
HIV Guidelines Under Threat
This month, we're diving in deep on the U.S. approval of lenacapavir for PrEP -- both the promise it offers in expanding HIV prevention options and the current…
- The Future of HIV Care
Wonderful Bad News
This month, we're digging into some recent, clinically notable HIV research in the U.S. that leaves us seeing a complex mix of clouds and silver (or perhaps…
- The Future of HIV Care
Can the British Be Our HIV Backup?
In a time of growing uncertainty for the HIV response within the U.S., you may be wondering: What do I do if the public guidelines and resources I rely on to…
- The Future of HIV Care
In HIV Care, the Nuances Matter
Myles Helfand and Laura Waters, M.D., FRCP, discuss recently published, clinically noteworthy findings from a trio of venerable HIV cohort studies. First, they…
- The Future of HIV Care
Not Your Everyday HIV Conference
Laura Waters, M.D., and Myles Helfand recap several noteworthy moments and clinically important studies from this year's Conference on Retroviruses and…
- The Future of HIV Care
Our New, Sudden HIV Care Crisis
Myles Helfand is joined by new co-host and expert HIV clinician-researcher Laura Waters, M.D., to dig into an issue they had once hoped they would never need…
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How Will HIV Care Evolve in 2025?
You can't truly look to the future without taking time to make sense of the past. That's why our January episode explores some of the most important studies…
- The Future of HIV Care
GLP-1 Agonists and HIV: Do Weight-Loss Drugs Make Sense for Your Patients?
GLP-1 Agonists and HIV: Do Weight-Loss Drugs Make Sense for Your Patients? Three GLP-1 agonist drugs (which originally had been confined to diabetes treatment)…
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What Clinicians Need to Know—And Do—About HIV Criminalization
For all too many people living with HIV in the U.S., the prospect of facing incarceration because of their status is not an abstraction: It is a real and…
- The Future of HIV Care
Vaccination Season
Summer weather is transitioning into sweater weather in most of the U.S., and that means we -- and our patients -- are about to spend a lot more time indoors…
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Myth vs. Reality: Integrase Inhibitor Side Effects
This month, we're clearing the air around integrase inhibitors. They are by far the world's most commonly prescribed HIV drug class -- but that ubiquity has…
- The Future of HIV Care
HIV Treatment Isn't Just About Treating HIV
This month, Juan Michael Porter II speaks with Tristan Barber, M.D., FRCP, about the challenges we face in determining the precise causes of particular health…
- The Future of HIV Care
Your Patients Need You to Choose Their Side
The concept of "patient-centered care" can feel both nebulous and obvious: As a clinician treating a patient, are you not by definition providing…
- The Future of HIV Care
Your Patients Are Probably Having Anal Sex. Let's Talk About It.
Your Patients Are Probably Having Anal Sex. Let's Talk About It. It's Pride Month, so we thought: Why don't we talk about anal health? (Or, as we will…
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Is Any Patient Truly "Hard to Treat"?
In the United States, some of our most innovative steps forward in HIV care and research are taking place at one of the oldest HIV care facilities in the…
- The Future of HIV Care
In the Deep South, a Beacon of HIV Care for People of Color
This month, we speak with Kathie M. Hiers and Jean Hernandez of AIDS Alabama about how to overcome barriers to care for vulnerable people -- and how…
- The Future of HIV Care
It's Time to Embrace Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding for People Living With HIV
This month, we're going to explore a significant set of recent changes to U.S. HIV clinical guidelines. These changes are momentous in and of themselves, but…
- The Future of HIV Care
Race and HIV Care: We Can Do Better
It's Black History Month, the shortest month of the year. It's not enough to simply talk about racism in health care as an issue or to acknowledge that the…
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HIV Care in 2023: A Look Back, and Then Forward
This month, we take stock of the most notable developments in 2022 that affected HIV medicine and clinical practice in the U.S. — and we'll also take a glimpse…
- The Future of HIV Care
A Clinician's Keys to the HIV Care Continuum
Over the long term, successful HIV treatment is not about addressing a single issue; it requires a full continuum of care. Anita Ravi, M.D., M.P.H., the…
- The Future of HIV Care
We Can All Treat Opioid Use Disorder Effectively—and Humanely
Drug use is highly stigmatized not only within U.S. society, but within our health care system as well. This is all the more concerning in the context of HIV…
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HIV, Medical Discrimination, and the Law: What Clinicians Need to Know
For providers of HIV-related care and services in the U.S., the legal landscape has grown more fraught in recent years. Despite protections baked into the…
- The Future of HIV Care
How to Talk About Sex (With Your Patients)
This month, we talk with Joseph Cherabie, M.D., M.Sc., of the Washington University School of Medicine about the keys to successfully taking a sexual history…
- The Future of HIV Care
Confronting Our Biases in Monkeypox Medical Care
We talk with Gregorio (Greg) Millett, M.P.H., a longtime HIV and public health advocate, about the implicit (and explicit) stigmas that harm our ability to…
- The Future of HIV Care
Anal Cancer: It's Time to Get Our Butts in Gear
This month, gastroenterologist Jessica Korman, M.D., joins us to discuss one of the more common, yet underscreened, comorbidities that an HIV care provider can…
- The Future of HIV Care
Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Among Medical Care Providers
Please note that this episode discusses depression and suicide, which some listeners may find triggering. IF YOU NEED HELP: The peer counseling service we…
- The Future of HIV Care
The Not-So-Secret Secret to Providing Trauma-Informed Care
For this episode, we are looking at the provision of trauma-informed care to people who have experienced sexual assault. This includes, but is not limited to…
- The Future of HIV Care
The Human Touch
There have been quite a few moments from our prior interviews that felt powerful and important, but which didn't make the cut for the final podcast audio…
- The Future of HIV Care
The Short-Term Verdict on Long-Acting Antiretrovirals
We talk with Chloe Orkin, M.D., about one aspect of our future that in some very concrete ways has already arrived, and yet is currently out of reach for…
- The Future of HIV Care
Power Differentials and Racism in HIV Care
For our second episode, we tackle structural racism and power differentials in HIV care and services within the U.S. We focus on acknowledging current issues…
- The Future of HIV Care
Top 10 HIV Clinical Developments of 2021
We review some of the most important clinical developments in HIV that we've witnessed in 2021, with an eye toward how those developments will inform and alter…