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Issue 191 - November 2009
  • Lost to care
    The mystery of the disappearing patients
  • How does HIV make us sick?
    New evidence may change our understanding
  • Upfront
    Are we thinking clearly about brain impairment?
  • News in brief
    Undetectable: still a bit infectious
    A third of STI patients delay care
  • Punching fog
    How people with HIV are tackling stigma worldwide

Issue 190 - October 2009
  • Faith in the community
    The role of religion in supporting people with HIV
  • Don't live in ignorance
    How do we expand HIV testing?
  • Upfront
    Test early, test often: improving the UK's testing rates
  • News in brief
    HIV vaccine success: is it real?
    New booster works as well as ritonavir
  • The perils of success
    What if the new prevention methods work?

Issue 189 - August/September 2009
  • Walking back to happiness
    Turning 'can't complain' into 'on top of the world'
  • Contraceptive choices for women with HIV
    All the facts, all the options
  • Upfront
    HIV treatment is working in Africa. Will it be sustained?
  • News in brief
    New ways to use old drugs
    Even healed herpes increases HIV risk
  • Don't panic!
    A short Q&A on swine flu
  • HTU: Here's what you said
    The results of the 2009 HTU Readers' Survey

Issue 188 - July 2009
  • The world next door
    Africans and HIV prevention in the UK
  • Combinations and conundrums
    The challenges of hepatitis C treatment
  • Upfront
    Thunder, lightning, torrential rain...and walk for life!
  • News in brief
    Delhi decriminalises gay sex
    Drug shows promise against resistant TB
  • USA travel ban to depart at last
    Restriction on HIV-positive people to be lifted

Issue 187 - June 2009
  • Whose fear is it anyway?
    Why people with HIV aren't accessing dental care
  • Stigma begins at home
    Prejudice and exclusion within communities
  • Upfront
    Will the money drain out of AIDS?
  • News in brief
    New 'treatment as prevention' statements
    Ginkgo may reduce efavirenz levels
  • Love is a danger
    American study challenges prevention assumptions

Issue 186 - May 2009
  • Cervical cancer and you
    Jade's death sparks concern about screening
  • Scattered pictures
    HIV-related brain impairment
  • Upfront
    Why fit is happy: exercise, mood and HIV
  • News in brief
    HIV harmony in South Africa
    HIV-positive women need more contraception advice
  • Has HIV got nastier?
    Recent study into the virulence of HIV strains

Issue 185 - April 2009
  • The new epidemic
    HIV and hepatitis C infection in gay men
  • A jagged little pill
    Taking HIV drugs to prevent HIV
  • Upfront
    Sex, sleep and self-esteem: what we need most
  • News in brief
    HIV cure drive urged
    Global recession threatens treatment programmes
  • Africans develop AIDS more slowly
    Surprise finding from recent studies

Issue 184 - March 2009
  • Future daze
    How will medical care for HIV work in the future?
  • Sweet sorrow
    Diabetes and HIV
  • Upfront
    Microbicides and the trouble with good news
  • News in brief
    Abacavir and heart failure
    Undetectable in blood is not undetectable in semen
  • Double trouble
    How hepatitis C is on the increase in HIV-positive gay men

Issue 183 - January/February 2009
  • The NAM treatment survey
    What you think about starting - and staying on - treatment for life
  • Back to the future
    Edwin J Bernard looks back over five years as editor
  • Upfront
    The latest on adherence
  • News in brief
    Record number of people accessing HIV care in the UK
    Exercise intolerance may be due to impact of HIV treatment on heart
  • Unsafe convictions?
    Concern over prosecutions for HIV and hepatitis B transmission

Issue 182 - December 2008
  • Growing pains
    Why ageing with HIV isn't just a concern for the over 50s
  • A 'functional cure'
    Examining the excitement over a bone marrow transplant that 'eradicated' HIV
  • Upfront
    The return of the treatment interruption?
  • News in brief
    Modern treatments more forgiving of less-than-perfect adherence
    More people in the UK now eligible for darunavir
  • ICAAC news
    Starting treatment above 350 results in 70% improved survival