Every Issue

Behind the cover: Any excuse to celebrate is all you need
Making living with HIV a celebration of life

The Conversation
‘Webale nnyo.’ Laughing matters.

Note from the Editor in Chief
‘Book of hope’

The Category Is: More than HIV
During a doctor’s appointment, there’s not always the opportunity to tell your care provider everything. So, POSITIVELY AWARE asked our social media followers:

Briefly | HIV Drug guide 2024
Biktarvy now recommended for pregnancy

Being Bridgette
Trust in medication or in medication we trust?
THE 28TH ANNUAL HIV DRUG GUIDE

Contributors
The people behind the 2024 HIV Drug Guide

HHS recommendations
Guidelines for people starting HIV therapy for the first time

A guide to the Drug Guide
Plus, a few things to know about HIV treatment

HIV life cycle
Different drug classes interrupt the virus from replicating at various stages

Class list
In this guide, HIV drugs are grouped into nine categories—plus, additional categories for select non-HIV drugs and PrEP

Help is out there
HIV treatment can be costly, but there’s help

2024 HIV Drug Chart
A quick guide to the most commonly used HIV medications
This Issue

Guide to long-acting injectables for HIV
Long-acting injectable medications for HIV treatment have much longer half-lives than oral medication, meaning the drug stays at a high enough level in the blood to suppress HIV.

Resistance is not futile
There are more options than ever for people with multi-drug resistant HIV

Are clinicians listening?
Healthcare as a whole comes with pitfalls that are both inherent to the systems that run it and that are a result of the people in those systems.

What’s new in the HIV treatment pipeline
With an HIV vaccine still elusive (but still possible), research continues for longer-acting, effective regimens that are less susceptible to resistance and easier to take.