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Issue 207: June 2011

Published: 17 June 2011

  • In this issue: changes afoot for HTU

    In this issue we’ve got a mix that illustrates the varied experience of living with HIV. David McLay reminds us that people with HIV still have specific...

  • Treatment is prevention: now, how do we make it work?

    A large international study using antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) as a prevention method has closed four years early because it has found that giving ARVs to HIV-positive people...

  • Is there life after death for HIV social care?

    HIV specialist social care is in danger of vanishing altogether as a facet of social work in England. Despite improvements in health, changes in the make-up and...

  • Breathtaking mortality: bacterial pneumonia and HIV

    Ever stopped to think about the top reason people with HIV end up in intensive care? Heart attack? Liver problems? Accidents? No, pneumonia. David McLay investigates an...

  • News in brief

    A trial designed to see if giving antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to HIV-positive people would stop them infecting partners has been stopped nearly four years earlier than planned, because...

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