The initiative, linked to INiBICA, has been selected by an international program aimed at supporting research to improve care for people with this virus.

The Infectious Diseases Research Unit at Puerto Real University Hospital is leading a project aimed at people living with HIV in prisons in the province of Cádiz, which has been selected for the competitive international program 'Gilead Medical Affairs BRAVVO (Biktarvy Research to Advance HIV Outcomes)'.

The project "Multicenter study of the efficacy of single-dose treatment with BIC/FTC/TAF in institutionalized prison inmates living with HIV"has been submitted and selected by the aforementioned international program, which aims to support research to help improve care for people living with HIV.

The aim of the project is to evaluate the benefits of a specific antiretroviral treatment regimen in the population living with HIV who are incarcerated in a prison. In the words of Blanca Anaya, one of the project's principal investigators, "what we aim to do with this project is to demonstrate that the efficacy and safety results that this regimen has already shown in clinical trials also apply to patients institutionalized in prisons, whose characteristics (in terms of associated diseases, medical treatment, etc.) are far removed from the inclusion criteria required in clinical trials."

Thus, although the efficacy and safety of this regimen is supported by numerous studies, the population analyzed in these studies does not usually include those from minority settings such as female prisoners in correctional institutions.

The study will be carried out thanks to the close relationship between the prisons in Cádiz Puerto I, II, and III) and Puerto Real University Hospital. In this regard, for more than 20 years, doctors from the Infectious Diseases Unit have been traveling once a month to the various prisons to conduct infectious disease consultations that cover, among other things, the specialized care needs of inmates living with HIV.

This award joins those already obtained by the Infectious Diseases Unit at Puerto Real University Hospital, linked as an emerging research group in the study of infectious diseases to the Cádiz Institute for Biomedical Research Cádiz INIBICA), which acts as the promoter of the study and collaborates in the management of the financial aid received.

This would be the third research grant received by the Infectious Diseases Unit on a competitive basis in the last year and a half, which, added to another grant from the Regional Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs and the various studies and clinical trials in which it participates, reflects the commitment of the Infectious Diseases Unit at Puerto Real University Hospital Puerto Real research and the highly productive activity of its associated unit.

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