A BIKTARVY® Information Exchange: Topics About HIV Treatment
The treatment of HIV has been continually evolving over the past decades. Join leading HIV clinicians as they discuss crucial insights to HIV treatment and review the clinical data for BIKTARVY. Register for a webinar below to learn more about their experiences and strategies to help support patients.
Upcoming BIKTARVY Webinars
BIKTARVY® Data in Virologically Suppressed Adults With Known or Suspected M184V/I Resistance Mutation
John
Hogan, MD, AAHIVS
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
12:00 PM
ET
Resistance is a crucial consideration when optimizing ART. This webinar highlights BIKTARVY data in virologically suppressed adults with known or suspected M184V/I resistance mutation and findings of Study 4030.
Starting BIKTARVY®: 5-Year Efficacy and Safety in Treatment-Naïve Individuals—240-Week Data, Including 96-Week Open-Label Extension Data
Frank
Palella, Jr., MD
Thursday, December 12, 2024
1:00 PM
ET
Learn about the importance of rapid ART initiation and its role in linkage to care and achieving viral suppression. Review data on BIKTARVY in treatment-naïve adults with HIV, including additional data on adherence and safety.
These non-CME educational programs and speakers are sponsored by Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Hear from key opinion leaders, Joel E. Gallant, MD, MPH, and Calvin J. Cohen, MD, MSc, as they discuss the events that shaped the way providers approach HIV treatment. Dr. Cohen is an employee of Gilead, and Dr. Gallant is a former employee of Gilead.
Transcript
Introduction [0:04]
I was a medical student, starting school in, here in San Francisco at UCSF in 1981. I recall being in medical school in the early ‘80s just about the beginning of when we started to hear this bad news grumbling about this mysterious illness that was killing young men.
HIV Impact [0:23]
You saw people on the streets who were emaciated covered with Kaposi sarcoma lesions with walkers. Death was everywhere. We had no idea what we were up against, we had no idea the size or shape of it if this was going to be temporary for a few months or what it obviously turned out to be.
Dr. Gallant’s Story [0:50]
For me as a, as a gay man who had been at risk and was untested, every day was terrifying. And, and so many of my patients were just reminders that they were no different than I was. In the early ‘90s, patients became friends, friends became patients, and...sometimes I don’t remember which, in which order that happened. But all of us had those patients.
Antiretrovirals [1:20]
It was the summer of 1996 and we were at yet another international AIDS conference this one in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. At that meeting, a few studies were presented to us that showed us something that the field hadn’t seen before, which was durable suppression of HIV for 48 weeks on a combination of three antivirals and at least acceptable toxicities. 1996 was a landmark year. We could now measure viral load and we could measure resistance. Instead of HIV winning and creating resistance to everything we threw at it, the antivirals were winning, we were winning. And we were able to stop HIV from growing and it wasn’t just for weeks, it was for a year. And it was exhilarating. I remember the first patient whose viral load came back undetectable. I had just gotten back from the Vancouver AIDS Conference. I remember getting that viral load report back, along with all my other stack of labs and it was the first time I had ever seen an undetectable viral load. And this guy was, he was a friend as well as a patient. I called him up and I said, “You’re not going to believe this, your viral load is undetectable.” And he started crying at work and then I started crying in my office and it was just tears of joy of course. And he’s still doing well to this day.
See Dr. Joel Gallant and Dr. Calvin Cohen discuss more HIV topics:
“Once you develop resistance, it’s there forever.” Dr. Joel Gallant comments on the importance of remembering the basic principles of preventing resistance from early years of HIV treatment.
Dr. Joel Gallant and Dr. Calvin Cohen discuss clinical, social, and community-level factors that influence the achievement of durable viral suppression.
The Importance of Viral Suppression
Listen to Dr. Joel Gallant and Dr. Calvin Cohen as they reflect on the importance of early treatment initiation and how it changed the conversation with their patients.
Early Treatment Initiation
Having conversations around optimizing regimens can help providers and patients who are assessing their options.
Treatment Optimization