- Introduction to HIV and AIDS
- The immune system and HIV
- Medical monitoring
- Accessing medical care
- Ways of attacking HIV
- Preventing HIV infection
- Starting HIV treatment
- Side-effects
- Adherence
- Drug resistance
- Drug interactions and pharmacokinetics
- Changing HIV treatment
- Interrupting HIV treatment
- HIV treatment during pregnancy
- HIV treatment in children
- Genetics and HIV treatment
- Treatment guidelines
- Preventing infections
- Antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings
- Drugs used by people with HIV
- Symptoms and illnesses
- Alternative & complementary therapies
Starting HIV treatment
latest aidsmap news
- High rate of death amongst patients with HIV diagnosed late
- CD4 cell count increases sustained up to five years in developing-world treatment programmes
- Raltegravir may have role in PEP if exposure involves drug-resistant HIV
- Excellent outcomes from five years of antiretroviral use in Botswana
- Study explores verbal and non-verbal communication in unprotected sex between men
- IL-2 provides quick ‘AIDS rescue’, but effect does not always last
- Once-a-day etravirine should work as first-line treatment
- Second-line combinations fail twice as often as first-line ones in the first year
- If you can't switch, better to stay on failing treatment than stop it, studies show
- Non-nucleoside resistance is efficiently transmitted within infection ‘clusters’