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Fall 2025

Volume 17, Number 3

Adolescents and Young Adults and HIV

Features

Featured Article

When ART Tips the Scale

Weight Gain Worries in Youth with HIV

By Timothy J. Howze, PharmD, and Susan D. Carr, PharmD, AAHIVP

For decades, HIV has been linked in the public perception with weight loss and wasting. The image of a “slimming…
Un PrEPared

Un-PrEPared

Barriers to Acceptance of Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Adolescents and Young Adults

By Helen Ureña and Joseph Cervia, MD, MBA, AAHIVS

Abstract Despite being a population with a high incidence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), adolescents and young adults have had…
The Next Generation

The Next Generation

Challenges and Triumphs of Young Adults with HIV

By Jeremy W. Snyder, MD, FAAP, FACP, AAHIVS, and Carly Cloud Floyd, PharmD, PhC, AAHIVP, CDCES, TTS

Despite exciting advances in HIV prevention and treatment in recent years, overall new HIV infections have been increasing.1,2 Adolescents and…
Raising the Bar

Raising the Bar: HIV Risk and Prevention for Adolescents and Young Adults

Practical actions clinicians can take today to reduce HIV risk in AYAs

By Diana Howard, MD

I provide HIV care in Fresno, Calif., the third-highest incidence city for HIV in the state. In my clinic, I…
The Power of a Single Session

The Power of a Single-Session: A Scalable Approach to Mental Health and HIV Care

Adapting Brief Interventions for the Digital Era

By Juan Pablo Zapata, PhD

Accessing mental health support shouldn’t take months, but across many clinics in the U.S., average wait times still hover between…

Sections

LFTD Bruce Packet
Letter from the Director

Care That Centers the AYA Experience

By Bruce J. Packett II; Executive Director, AAHIVM
We tend to talk about HIV in big, tidy clinical categories: prevention, testing, care, treatment. Those frameworks matter but coldly flatten the people inside them. Living with HIV is not a single experience, and a clinical approach that assumes it is will always miss something important.
In the News

One dose of antibiotic treats early syphilis as well as three doses 

NIH-funded clinical trial shows potential to simplify treatment for early syphilis.

By The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
In the News

AAHIVM Credentialing Program Changes

The Academy is committed to developing a workforce of HIV providers ready to care for the next generation of those with and at risk of HIV. To further uphold this mission and better support our credentialing applicants, we’re making some changes to our credentialing program.
In the News

State Medicaid Officials Project Flat Enrollment Post Unwinding but Increased Spending and Budget Pressures, as States Prepare for Impact of Federal Medicaid Policy Changes

State budget pressures are leading to fewer provider rate increases relative to recent years and new restrictions on coverage of obesity medications
In the News

Treating opioid addiction in jails improves treatment engagement, reduces overdose deaths and reincarceration

NIH-funded study demonstrates life-saving potential of providing medications for opioid use disorder in carceral settings.

By The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
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At the Forefront

The HIV Clinical Leadership Fellowship Program

Q&A with a Recent Graduate

The HIV Clinical Leadership Fellowship Program offers a unique HIV fellowship for physicians committed to improving primary care for people with HIV in underserved communities.
Continuing Education

Addressing Vasomotor Symptoms (Hot Flashes) in Menopause and Perimenopause

A Guide for Effective Team Management in Women with HIV

By Sara E. Looby, PhD, ANP-BC
Clinical Research Update

Clinical Research Update – Fall 2025

By Carolyn Chu, MD, MSC, AAHIVS; AAHIVM Chief Medical Officer
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At the Forefront

From Experience to Impact

From Experience to Impact: The Leaders Behind the CAG

By Hannah Jacobs, Intern, American Academy of HIV Medicine

When Brooke Davidoff looks back on memories of her wedding, she’s not reminded of the wedding-day stress or the pressure…

The HIV Clinical Leadership Fellowship Program

Q&A with a Recent Graduate

The HIV Clinical Leadership Fellowship Program offers a unique HIV fellowship for physicians committed to improving primary care for people with HIV in underserved communities.

In the News

One dose of antibiotic treats early syphilis as well as three doses 

NIH-funded clinical trial shows potential to simplify treatment for early syphilis.

By The National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin…

AAHIVM Credentialing Program Changes

The Academy is committed to developing a workforce of HIV providers ready to care for the next generation of those with and at risk of HIV. To further uphold this mission and

State Medicaid Officials Project Flat Enrollment Post Unwinding but Increased Spending and Budget Pressures, as States Prepare for Impact of Federal Medicaid Policy Changes

State budget pressures are leading to fewer provider rate increases relative to recent years and new restrictions on coverage of obesity medications

As states completed the “unwinding” of pandemic-era continuous coverage, Medicaid enrollment fell 7.6 percent in FY 2025 and is expected to…

Treating opioid addiction in jails improves treatment engagement, reduces overdose deaths and reincarceration

NIH-funded study demonstrates life-saving potential of providing medications for opioid use disorder in carceral settings.

By The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

A study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finds that individuals who received medication for opioid use disorder…

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