Sexual satisfaction among people living with HIV in the era of biomedical prevention: enduring impacts of HIV-related stigma?

Background People living with HIV (PLHIV) have historically faced a range of challenges negotiating satisfying sex lives in the context of virus transmission risks and HIV-related stigma. We examine the experience of sexual satisfaction among PLHIV in an era of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and undetectable=untransmissible (U=U)/treatment as prevention. Methods Data are derived from HIV Futures 9, a cross-sectional survey of PLHIV in Australia conducted between December 2018 and May 2019.

Artificial intelligence and digital tools for design and execution of cardiovascular clinical trials.

Recent advances have given rise to a spectrum of digital health technologies that have the potential to revolutionize the design and conduct of cardiovascular clinical trials. Advances in domain tasks such as automated diagnosis and classification, synthesis of high-volume data and latent data from adjacent modalities, patient discovery, telemedicine, remote monitoring, augmented reality, and in silico modelling have the potential to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular clinical trials. However, early experience with these tools has also exposed important issues, including regulatory barriers, clinical validation and acceptance, technological literacy, integration with care models, and health equity concerns.

Procrastination and preventive health-care in the older U.S. population.

Objective: Maintaining health preventive behaviours in later life reduces the risk of non-communicable diseases. However, these behaviours often require effort and discipline to adopt and may be prone to procrastination. This study examined whether procrastination affected engagement in health preventive behaviours among older adults.

Missing voices: building women living with HIV's meaningful engagement in HIV clinical and cure research.

Women living with HIV are consistently under-represented in HIV clinical trials, including cure trials. Little is known about how cisgender women living with HIV in Australia perceive HIV cure research, their level of trust in research institutions/staff, and factors salient to participation in HIV cure trials. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with women living with HIV and clinicians working with women living with HIV to investigate motivations and barriers to gender-equitable representation in HIV clinical research.

'All the dykes I know drink beer': Sexuality and gender performance through alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer women in Australia.

This article explores the relationship between gender, sexuality and alcohol consumption among lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) women in Australia. On average, LBQ women consume alcohol at a higher rate than heterosexual women, yet the use of alcohol and its gendered meanings in this population remain under-explored. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 42 cisgender women, 10 transgender women, and 8 non-binary people who identify as lesbian, bisexual, and/or queer.