Lessons Learned Through Adaptation of a Model Successful during the COVID Pandemic: Expanding HIV Self-testing for Persons Who Use Drugs.

The US overdose crisis is driving a surge in HIV diagnoses among persons who inject drugs (PWID). Innovative approaches are needed to address this increase in cases. Although HIV self-testing (HIVST) was hailed as a potential "game-changer" upon initial approval by the Food and Drug Administration over a decade ago, this convenient testing modality has not reached its full potential to impact the HIV epidemic.

Utilizing Insects as Bioindicators: An Approximation for Conservation in Urban Lentic Ecosystems in Central Chile.

This study considered using insect families as bioindicators to establish the health status of an ecosystem of lentic bodies. The water quality in urban lentic bodies in the Metropolitan Region, Chile, was evaluated from aquatic insect family assemblages and physicochemical variables for conserving aquatic life. Evaluations were carried out in parallel at four sampling stations of three water bodies (Batuco Wetland, Carén Lagoon, and Chada Reservoir) in a 2-3-year series, spring (2015, 2017, and 2018) and fall (2016 and 2018), with three replicates.

Factors to Male-Female Sex Approaches and the Identification of Volatiles and Compounds from the Terminalia of (Blanchard) (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Females in (Mirb.) Oerst. (Nothofagaceae) Forests in Chile.

During the spring-summer seasons between 2019 and 2023, in the localities of Maquehue (La Araucanía Region) and Llifén (Los Ríos Region), we collected 262 virgin (1 female/2.3 males) specimens emerging from the live trunks of trees, an atypical sex ratio in Cerambycidae, suggesting high male competition for females. Virgin specimens of both sexes were individually placed in panel traps in the field, capturing only males (n = 184) over the field study seasons and only in traps baited with females.

The real-world use and effectiveness of avacopan in routine practice for the treatment of ANCA vasculitis. First experiences in Spain.

Objectives: ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) are chronic diseases with relapses that associate organic damage because of the disease and its treatment. Avacopan is a new treatment indicated for AAV. We present the first experiences with avacopan in Spain as part of an Early Access program.