Alcohol

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  To your health!

  Liz Highleyman investigates the research to date on alcohol and HIV. ...

  From:HIV treatment update

Alcohol in your own words

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  20 years and counting

  I became infected in 1984 and this month celebrated the fact that not only was it my 51st birthday, but also I had survived twenty...

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Alcohol news from aidsmap

• Untreated HIV infection is associated with higher blood alcohol levels

  Starting HIV treatment is associated with reductions in blood alcohol levels, results of a small pilot study published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes suggest. The investigators believe this could be related to “inflammatory ...

  25 April 2012 | Michael Carter

• Alcohol increases desire for sex without condoms: systematic review

  Alcohol consumption has an impact on the intention of individuals to have unprotected sex, according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Addiction. “The higher the blood alcohol content, the more pronounced the intention ...

  21 December 2011 | Michael Carter

• Earlier deaths in people with HIV due to drugs, alcohol, co-infections, poorly controlled HIV - not rapid ageing

  Patients taking antiretroviral therapy have the same mortality risk as individuals in the general population, according to Danish research published in the open-access journal PLoS One. However, this was only the case when the patients responded to treatment and ...

  12 December 2011 | Michael Carter

• Frequent alcohol use hastens HIV disease progression

  Frequent alcohol consumption is associated with faster HIV disease progression, US investigators report in the online edition of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. The researchers found that individuals who consumed two or more alcoholic drinks a ...

  17 May 2010 | Michael Carter

• Meta-analysis shows that alcohol consumption has negative impact on antiretroviral adherence

  HIV-positive individuals who drink alcohol are approximately 50% less likely to be adherent to their antiretroviral therapy than those who abstain from alcohol, according to a meta-analysis published in the online edition of the Journal of ...

  14 August 2009 | Michael Carter

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• Germany: Intoxicating history

  In tracing the modern history of Germany’s policy on intoxicant and drug use, which favours therapy rather than punishment, Cambridge historian Dr Victoria Harris highlights that criminalisation may not be the only route.

  18 May 2012 | University of Cambridge

• Sexual health teams 'should offer alcohol advice'

  Young people should be given advice on the dangers of alcohol when they access sexual health services, a group of health experts has recommended.

  03 January 2012 | BBC

• Substance Use Doesn't Increase Risk of Neurocognitive Problems in HIV

  Neurocognitive problems—notably HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder (HAND)—are no more likely to occur in illicit substance users compared with non-substance users, according to a report published ahead of print on the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes website.

  12 July 2011 | AIDSMeds

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