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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

Issue 181 - November 2008
  • Can we create 'elite controllers'?
    Is a combination therapeutic vaccine approach viable?
  • The consequences of fear
    How the myth of 'HIV health tourism' is harming people with HIV
  • Upfront
    Don't forget the children
  • News in brief
    New guidelines recommend normalisation of HIV testing
    One in three of us has suicidal thoughts
  • No allowances
    An HTU reader's experiences of the DLA review

Issue 180 - October 2008
  • Consolidation not innovation
    An overview of HIV treatment issues from Mexico City
  • Combination prevention
    Why combining existing HIV prevention methods beats the 'magic bullet' approach
  • Upfront
    The 're-gaying' of the epidemic
  • News in brief
    New NNRTI, etravirine (Intelence), approved
    More good news on HIV life expectancy
  • 'HIV is a virus, not a crime'
    Why the international movement against criminalisation is gaining momentum

Issue 179 - August/September 2008
  • Understanding resistance
    Even the experts admit there's more to learn
  • Blood-borne hysteria
    Isn't it time to rethink what happens when a healthcare worker is found to have HIV?
  • Upfront
    The latest on HIV/hepatitis C co-infection
  • News in brief
    HIV life expectancy now similar to general population five years after diagnosis
    BHIVA guidelines do a u-turn on Kivexa
  • Is treatment the best prevention?
    Can 'antiretroviral therapy as prevention' really work?