latest aidsmap news

• Higher levels of drug resistance seen after first-line NNRTI failure than boosted PI failure: meta-analysis
• Wide variation found in anal HPV viral loads in HIV-positive men
• Offering rapid point-of-care tests would increase uptake of HIV testing
• Low rate of spontaneous hepatitis C clearance in patients with HIV; early HIV treatment recommended for those with chronic hepatitis C infection
• Cluster of multi-drug resistant HIV transmissions in Seattle
• Hypersensitivity testing for abacavir slightly more cost-effective than tenofovir use, if both drugs equally potent
• HIV no longer bar to granting of US visa for short visits
• Kidney disease risk increased for patients with HIV and hepatitis C
• Nearly one in three UK HIV patients has considered suicide in the previous week
• A new day for health in South Africa: Manto is replaced as health minister by TAC supporter