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Because PrEP is based on the same drugs used to treat HIV-infected individuals, the big public health scare is that the dual use of these drugs will lead to skyrocketing levels of drug resistance. In fact, say UCLA researchers in a new study, that is not the case and indeed, the exact opposite is likely to happen.
07 December 2011 | Eurekalert Medicine & Health
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Security researchers often use language and metaphors from the natural
world to describe problems in the virtual world. (Thus, our use of the
terms "virus," and "worm.") Now it turns out that the links may not be
so arbitrary, after Microsoft researchers discovered that tools they
developed to detect spammers' efforts to avoid anti-spam filters were
also great at spotting mutations in the HIV virus.
03 December 2011 | ThreatPost.com
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eenagers in Asia
receiving treatment for HIV are showing early signs of
osteoporosis and children as young as five are becoming
resistant to AIDS drugs, an anti-AIDS group said on Thursday,
urging more attention be given to young HIV patients.
01 December 2011 | Reuters
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The proportion of HIV patients who are able to suppress the virus
despite extensive drug resistance nearly tripled over a 10-year period,
researchers reported.
10 October 2011 | MedPage Today
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Four cases of an HIV strain resistant to first line treatment have been reported at Father O'hea Hospital in Zvimba and were confirmed by tests conducted in Uganda recently.
24 August 2011 | AllAfrica
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Over the past decade across high-income countries an unexpected and disturbing trend has emerged—an increase in syphilis and HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM). Now researchers in Israel have found similar trends in HIV in that country. Furthermore, researchers there have found that about 30% of MSM newly infected with HIV have strains that are resistant to some anti-HIV therapies.
31 May 2011 | CATIE
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Most of us built resistance as we joined study after study that exposed us to
functional monotherapy. In fact, I consider many of us who have been struggling
with multiple drug resistance to be wounded soldiers from a time when we were
recruited into studies we joined out of desperation to access a new drug.
04 May 2011 | The Body
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One in eight children born with HIV becomes resistant to the three main
classes of drugs used to suppress the virus within five years of
starting treatment.
20 April 2011 | The Guardian
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Though the World Health Organisation (WHO) has focused this year's World Health
Day Apr. 7 on prioritising the struggle against the global spread of
antimicrobial resistance (AMR), scores of international researchers and
scientists fear this decision is coming too late, with 2011 already shadowed by
the failure of pharmaceutical antibiotics to curb the proliferation of
diseases.
07 April 2011 | IPS
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A gene that causes a wide range of bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics
has been found in the water supply in Delhi,
with worrying implications for the rest of the globe.
07 April 2011 | The Guardian
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