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• New NNRTI MK-1439 shows promise in early clinical trial

  New and experimental HIV treatments
  Liz Highleyman | 06 March 2013

  A next-generation non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI), MK-1439, demonstrated robust antiretroviral activity and good tolerability as monotherapy in a small phase Ib clinical study, researchers reported yesterday at the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI ...

• Sharing drug preparation equipment a potential source of hepatitis C transmission

  Hepatitis C transmission and prevention
  Michael Carter | 27 November 2012

  Drug users who share injecting equipment such as water, filters and water containers are potentially putting themselves at risk of infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV), according to German research published in the ...

• Adding rituximab to chemotherapy regimens improves outcomes for AIDS-related lymphomas

  Cancer
  Michael Carter | 14 December 2011

  The addition of rituximab to chemotherapy regimens for the treatment of AIDS-related lymphomas improves both overall survival and progression-free survival, German investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. Therapy with rituximab appeared to ...

• Persistence of very low levels of virus increase risk of relapse after hepatitis C therapy

  Hepatitis C treatment
  Michael Carter | 04 November 2011

  The persistence of a low viral load during the first twelve weeks of hepatitis C therapy is associated with an increased risk of relapse after the completion of treatment, investigators report in ...

• Janssen issues warning on potential non-toxic contamination of Prezista 400mg or 600mg tablets

  Side effects
  Keith Alcorn | 11 May 2011

  Janssen, the manufacturer of the HIV protease inhibitor Prezista (darunavir), has issued a warning to pharmacists and patients regarding the potential contamination with wood preservative of approximately 2000 bottles of Prezista 400mg ...

• Stem cell transplant has cured HIV infection in 'Berlin patient', say doctors

  The search for a cure
  Keith Alcorn | 13 December 2010

  Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man with leukaemia in 2007 say they now believe the man to have been cured of HIV infection as a result ...

• Hepatitis C still increasing in German gay men with HIV, reinfection common

  Hepatitis C transmission and prevention
  Gus Cairns | 12 November 2010

  A survey from the main HIV clinic in Hamburg, Germany, presented at the Tenth Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection in Glasgow, has found that the incidence of new hepatitis C ...

• Goosby warns of need for long-term funding commitment for AIDS, says financial trades tax is 'interesting'

  Epidemiology
  Keith Alcorn | 17 February 2010

  International donors need to start looking at a 30 to 40 year time frame for 'long-term sustainable support' to manage the global response to AIDS, US Global AIDS Coordinator Eric ...