Answering the Questions on Monkeypox in PWH - a podcast by Clinical Care Options

In this episode, Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, and Chloe Orkin, MBChB, FRCP, MD, discuss considerations for monkeypox, now called mpox, in people with HIV, including:

• The history of monkeypox (mpox)
• The current monkeypox (mpox) outbreak
• What we knew about monkeypox (mpox) in PWH prior to the current outbreak
• Data in PWH from an international case series of monkeypox (mpox)
• CDC data regarding monkeypox (mpox) in PWH
• Monkeypox (mpox) treatment recommendations
• Drug–drug interaction considerations between tecovirimat for monkeypox (mpox) and ART
• Monkeypox (mpox) vaccination recommendations for PWH
• Global access to monkeypox (mpox) treatments and vaccines
• Whether monkeypox (mpox) is a sexually transmitted infection and the implications of that
• Ongoing research on monkeypox (mpox) in PWH

Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
Medical Director
Ward 86 HIV Clinic
San Francisco General Hospital 
San Francisco, California

Chloe Orkin, MBChB, FRCP, MD
Professor of HIV
Queen Mary, University of London
Consultant Physician
Lead for HIV Research
Barts Health NHS Trust
The Royal London Hospital
London, United Kingdom

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