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HATIP #131, 19th February 2009

Published: 19 February 2009

  • Highlights from CROI 2009

    This edition of HATIP is devoted to news headlines from last week’s Sixteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, held in Montréal, Canada. We published...

  • Opportunistic infections: prophylaxis and management

    Ugandan study supports the use of fluconazole to prevent cryptococcal meningitis Oral fluconazole prophylaxis safely prevents invasive cryptococcal disease in people with advanced HIV, according to...

  • Prevention technologies

    Antiretroviral treatment lowers rates of HIV transmission in heterosexual couples in Africa Antiretroviral treatment is associated with a lower risk of heterosexual HIV transmission in African...

  • HIV testing and prevention

    Men becoming visible: more light shed on men who have sex with men in Africa and India The majority of men who have sex with men...

  • Antiretroviral therapy

    When to start HIV treatment: cohort studies disagree on how early Two major analyses of the risk of death or AIDS-related illness in people who started...

  • PMTCT and maternal health

    ART use in mothers with low CD4 cell counts reduces breastfeeding transmission fivefold: Malawi The use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) by breastfeeding mothers greatly reduced the...

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