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• Sofosbuvir demonstrates high response rate in interferon-free combination with ribavirin and GS-5885

  New and experimental hepatitis C treatment
  Liz Highleyman | 15 November 2012

  The hepatitis C polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir produced high rates of sustained virological response in genotype 1 patients when combined with ribavirin and the HCV NS5A inhibitor GS-5885, according to data presented this week ...

• In the real world HIV has changed; in the courtroom it is still the 1980s

  HIV and criminal law
  Roger Pebody | 26 July 2012

  In the midwestern American state of Michigan, prosecutors and judges still consider HIV infection to be a death sentence and are dismissive of scientifically grounded arguments about transmission risk and life expectancy, an ...

• Australasians reject Swiss statement - model predicts fourfold increase in HIV transmission over 10 years

  Transmission and prevention
  Edwin J. Bernard | 28 July 2008

  HIV transmission among serodiscordant monogamous couples in which the HIV-positive partner has an undetectable viral load due to effective treatment might rise fourfold over a decade if condom use is ...

• Lower weight explains why HIV-positive patients have a risk of lower bone mineral density

  How HIV works
  Michael Carter | 25 October 2007

  HIV-positive individuals have lower bone mineral density (BMD) than their HIV-negative peers because of lower body-weight, investigators conclude in a paper published in the online edition of the Journal of ...

• Australia: HIV transmission prosecutions and migrants controversy set stage for IAS conference

  Transmission and prevention
  Sally Cameron | 10 July 2007

  Australia’s response to HIV is complicated by the division of governance between the Commonwealth (the national government) and the States. Health care is jointly funded by both levels of ...

• Australian PM calls for end to HIV-positive immigration

  Epidemiology
  Keith Alcorn | 16 April 2007

  Australia should not admit HIV-positive immigrants, the country’s Prime Minister John Howard suggested on Friday. "I think we should have the most stringent possible conditions in relation to that nationwide, and ...

• US criminal HIV disclosure laws may do more harm than good

  Transmission and prevention
  Edwin J. Bernard | 25 July 2006

  United States criminal HIV disclosure laws may be unintentionally doing more harm than good by undermining safer sex messages, argue two academics specialising in the intersection of HIV prevention and ...

• Groundbreaking New Zealand ruling finds condom use eliminates HIV disclosure requirement

  Epidemiology
  Edwin J. Bernard | 09 October 2005

  A New Zealand judge has ruled that an HIV-positive man cannot be prosecuted under New Zealand law for "criminal nuisance" after nondisclosure of his HIV status because he used a ...