The Future of HIV Care
Episodes
Jeanne Marrazzo: "We Just Can't Stop"
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
"What Matters to You?" How Oni Blackstock Practices Hope
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Back to Basics
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Regardless of your specific role in HIV care, you are almost certainly feeling the deeply challenging moment we face as science-respecting, empathetic...
Top HIV Clinical Developments of 2025
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
You Can't Spell AIDS Without AI
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 co...
Antiretroviral Therapy Is Not a Rotisserie Chicken
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
We Hear, They Heal
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we're talking about an infrequently discussed, but quite powerful, implement we have in our clinical toolkit for optimizing patient outcom...
A Weighty Conundrum Concluded (and Other IAS 2025 Highlights)
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This month, we're taking stock of clinically noteworthy developments from the IAS Conference on HIV Science in July. On the docket: new (definitive?) ...
HIV Guidelines Under Threat
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Wonderful Bad News
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
Can the British Be Our HIV Backup?
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 rel...
In HIV Care, the Nuances Matter
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Myles Helfand and Laura Waters, M.D., FRCP, discuss recently published, clinically noteworthy findings from a trio of venerable HIV cohort studies. Fi...
Not Your Everyday HIV Conference
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Waters, M.D., and Myles Helfand recap several noteworthy moments and clinically important studies from this year's Conference on Retroviruses a...
Our New, Sudden HIV Care Crisis
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 nev...
How Will HIV Care Evolve in 2025?
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 s...
GLP-1 Agonists and HIV: Do Weight-Loss Drugs Make Sense for Your Patients?
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 diab...
What Clinicians Need to Know—And Do—About HIV Criminalization
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Vaccination Season
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Myth vs. Reality: Integrase Inhibitor Side Effects
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ubiqui...
HIV Treatment Isn't Just About Treating HIV
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This month, Juan Michael Porter II speaks with Tristan Barber, M.D., FRCP, about the challenges we face in determining the precise causes of particul...
Your Patients Need You to Choose Their Side
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of "patient-centered care" can feel both nebulous and obvious: As a clinician treating a patient, are you not by definition providing pati...
Your Patients Are Probably Having Anal Sex. Let's Talk About It.
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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,...
Is Any Patient Truly "Hard to Treat"?
08 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
In the Deep South, a Beacon of HIV Care for People of Color
28 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
It's Time to Embrace Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding for People Living With HIV
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 themselv...
Race and HIV Care: We Can Do Better
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 tha...
HIV Care in 2023: A Look Back, and Then Forward
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 tak...
A Clinician's Keys to the HIV Care Continuum
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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., ...
We Can All Treat Opioid Use Disorder Effectively—and Humanely
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
HIV, Medical Discrimination, and the Law: What Clinicians Need to Know
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 int...
How to Talk About Sex (With Your Patients)
30 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Confronting Our Biases in Monkeypox Medical Care
31 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 abili...
Anal Cancer: It's Time to Get Our Butts in Gear
28 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, gastroenterologist Jessica Korman, M.D., joins us to discuss one of the more common, yet underscreened, comorbidities that an HIV care pro...
Breaking the Silence: Mental Health Among Medical Care Providers
29 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Please note that this episode discusses depression and suicide, which some listeners may find triggering. IF YOU NEED HELP: The peer counseling servic...
The Not-So-Secret Secret to Providing Trauma-Informed Care
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 lim...
The Human Touch
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 au...
The Short-Term Verdict on Long-Acting Antiretrovirals
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Power Differentials and Racism in HIV Care
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Top 10 HIV Clinical Developments of 2021
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...