Patricia Pichilingue-Reto MD, FAAP, AAHIVS

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Amor es 🤍😍

It’s #Pride! The perfect time to take pride in:

✔️ Yourself

✔️ Your health

✔️ Your HIV status

Celebrate pride by getting tested for #HIV. Find a testing site or where to get a self-test near you: bit.ly/3xnJwc3 #StopHIVTogether

Bebé de mamá 🤍

Little foot 🤍

Almost monday 🫠

Almost Monday mood. Cosmo 🤍

Dr. Anthony Fauci urges Americans not to accept "Normalization of Untruths".

Bebé 🤍😍

🚫Inhaled corticosteroids treat or cure measles.
🚫Clarithromycin (an antibiotic) can treat measles.

With so much information out there, it can be hard to know what’s true. Learn the facts: www.idsociety.org/public-healt...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Ignite the Movement: Knowledge, Action, and Advocacy for Youth & HIV. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. "Ignite the Movement: Knowledge, Action, and Advocacy for Youth & HIV" webinar, in observance of National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, aims to provide physicians, community members, and attendees wit...

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Ignite the movement!

Ignite the movement!

Monday mood

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What is tuberculosis (TB)?

Today is #WorldTBDay.

#Tuberculosis - or TB - is caused by bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis that mainly affects the lungs.

Common symptoms include
❗️ Cough
❗️ Chest pains
❗️ Weight loss
❗️ Fever
❗️ Night sweats

Learn more about TB 👉 bit.ly/3yYNwzx #EndTB

Two cats fighthing for a box.

Histo (2025)

New Histo Guidelines!

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NIH funding

Vaccinate your kids. Vaccines cause adults.

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Cosmo: “Mom, what a masacre!” #superbowl

Good: CDC’s outbreak publication (MMWR) is now up and running after the first pause in over 70 years

Bad: Todays publication is about fires, and not the missing bird flu or mpox studies we knew were up for publication. Of which have safety implications for veterinarians and people with house cats
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The removal of #HIV- and #LGBTQ-related resources from the websites of CDC and other health agencies is deeply concerning.

Access to this information is crucial for ID and HIV health care professionals.

Our full statement: https://buff.ly/42AO8LI

Thank you to the store cashier for asking me if I am old enough to buy beer #firstweekbeingfortyyearsyoung

We made the news, Louisiana.

Everyone needs more of this pill and less antibiotic pills. Best white elefant gift 🤶🏽 #merrychristmas🎄 #christmasmood

Syphilis Treatment: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Investigating Nonpenicillin Therapeutic Strategies This review and meta-analysis compared nonneurological syphilis treatments. Results indicate alternative therapies like doxycycline, ceftriaxone, and azith

✨️Recent Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis #OFIDJournal
Investigating Non-Penicillin Therapeutic Strategies in Syphilis Treatment
Penicillin monotherapy did not outperform ceftriaxone, azithromycin, or doxycycline
#idsky #medsky
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Single mutation in H5N1 bird flu virus may make it more infectious to humans, study finds Study published in Science says a single hemagglutinin mutation, similar to one seen in a Canadian case, could make H5N1 better suited to infect people.

A new study suggests #H5N1 #birdflu circulating in cows might have an easier path to adapting to humans than previous versions of the virus. One mutation changed the receptors to which the virus binds from those in birds to those found in human upper airways. www.statnews.com/2024/12/05/h...

He looks like mine 🤍

IAS-USA Recommendations: Antiretrovirals for Treatment and Prevention of HIV in Adults This Special Communication from the International Antiviral Society–USA provides updated 2024 recommendations for HIV treatment and clinical management and HIV prevention.

🆕️🔥 #JAMA
Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV in Adults: 2024 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel #idsky #hivsky #tbsky #worldaidsday #medsky
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Listeria Outbreak Linked to Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products Information about multistate Listeria outbreaks linked to ready-to-eat meat and poultry products.

#IDsky Listeria outbreak

www.cdc.gov/listeria/out...

bert from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and a white scarf around his neck ALT: bert from sesame street is wearing a striped shirt and a white scarf around his neck

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