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Poor response to Hep C combination treatment in co-infected

Megan Nicholson | 05 March 2001
Two small studies of interferon and ribavirin were presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy which suggested that anti-HCV treatments may not be as effective in co-infected ...
Which are the most useful questions to measure adherence?

Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001
The best way of measuring the extent of an individual's adherence to anti-HIV treatment is to ask "how many doses have you missed in the last fortnight?", according to a ...
What causes body fat and metabolic changes during HAART?

Anon | 05 March 2001
Researchers are no nearer to identifying the causes of body fat changes during HAART after the First International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV last month in ...
How cocaine gives HIV a helping hand

Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001
Cocaine boosts the ability of HIV to infect immune system cells and suppresses the production of immune system chemicals which could keep the virus under control, according to researchers from ...
Ritonavir alert

Anon | 05 March 2001
People taking ritonavir will find their capsules replaced by a liquid formulation of the drug when they collect their next prescription. Due to an unknown manufacturing snarl-up the capsules in which ritonavir ...
First line d4T/ddI treatment means AZT resistance for some

Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001
French researchers have reported that 14 out of 37 treatment naive individuals who took part in the STADI trial of d4T/ddI developed resistance mutations associated with AZT after 24-48 weeks ...
Gonorrhoea up by 35% in London since 1997

Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001
An alarming increase in gonorrhoea cases amongst heterosexuals and gay men in London has taken place over the past three years, according to a report from public health officials in ...
Glasgow conference confirms swing to later treatment

Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001
US treatment guidelines will soon shift towards the more cautious approach favoured in the UK, Paul Volberding told the Fifth International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection yesterday in ...
Sex differences in viral load and disease progress

Anon | 05 March 2001
Since last November’s report that the relationship between viral load and disease progression in women may not be the same as in men, clinicians and activists have been questioning whether ...
Mapping HIV treatment use on the world wide web

Anon | 05 March 2001
The first public, online database to collect HIV treatments information launched officially on June 15, 1999. The registry is designed to follow the use of treatments by people with HIV ...

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KENYA: Muslim leaders champion HIV testing in marriage

IRIN Plus News | 02 July 2010

MOMBASA, 2 July 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - Binti Omar waits anxiously for her HIV test in a tent erected as part of a testing drive being conducted by the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya in the coastal city of Mombasa; Omar is accompanied by her fiancé, Abubakar Ismael, and his two wives.
House Subcommittee Approves $52.7B FY11 Foreign Ops Appropriations Bill

HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today | 02 July 2010

The Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs approved a $52.7 billion FY 2011 spending bill on Wednesday that withheld $3.9 billion in aid for Afghanistan over concerns about corruption in the country, CongressDaily reports. The bill "already cut $4 billion from President Obama's request to fund the State Department, U.S...
Immunodeficiency and the risk of serious clinical endpoints in a well studied cohort of treated HIV-infected patients

AIDS - Published Ahead-of-Print | 30 June 2010

Objective: To investigate the relative predictive value of CD4+ metrics for serious clinical endpoints. Design: Observational.
Expanding access to HAART: a cost-effective approach for treating and preventing HIV

AIDS - Published Ahead-of-Print | 30 June 2010

Objective: HIV continues to present a substantial global health burden. Given the high direct medical costs associated with the disease, prevention of new transmission is an important element in limiting economic burden. In addition to providing therapeutic benefit, treatment with HAART has potential to prevent transmission of HIV. The objective in this study was to perform an economic evaluation of the incremental net benefit associated with an intervention to expand treatment with HAART in British Columbia, Canada.
Exposure to HIV-1-encoded Toll-like receptor 8 ligands enhances monocyte response to microbial encoded Toll-like receptor 2/4 ligands

AIDS - Published Ahead-of-Print | 30 June 2010

Background: Chronic HIV-1 infection is characterized by high levels of persistent immune activation. Both HIV-1-encoded Toll-like receptor 7/8 (TLR7/8) ligands and TLR ligands encoded by products of microbial translocation have been implicated in inducing and sustaining immune activation in infected individuals, but the consequences of simultaneous exposure to different TLR ligands are not well understood. Objective: To examine the impact of preexposure of monocytes to HIV-1-encoded TLR8 ligands on their ability to respond to subsequent stimulation with microbial TLR2/4 ligands.
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A TRIM5[alpha] exon 2 polymorphism is associated with protection from HIV-1 infection in the Pumwani sex worker cohort

AIDS - Published Ahead-of-Print | 30 June 2010

Objective: The innate immune component TRIM5[alpha] has the ability to restrict retrovirus infection in a species-specific manner. TRIM5[alpha] of some primate species restricts infection by HIV-1.
How a normally defensive immune response can help HIV

Science Daily | 19 May 2010

The findings offer important opportunities for further research both for treatment of long-term persistence of HIV in those who are infected and for prevention of infection in those who are not, according to the researchers.
South Africa: Country Launches Massive UN-Backed HIV Prevention Drive

AllAfrica | 26 April 2010

South Africa - home to the one-sixth of the world's population living with HIV - today unveiled an ambitious campaign to prevent and treat the virus, a move hailed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Pregnancy timeline

BBC Health | 02 September 2009

From fertilisation to birth, an outline guide to a typical pregnancy and how the baby develops inside the womb.
Home HIV-test kits unauthorized for sale in Canada, Health Canada warns

Moreover.com HIV/AIDS feed | 01 January 1970

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Poor response to Hep C combination treatment in co-infected

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How cocaine gives HIV a helping hand

Ritonavir alert

First line d4T/ddI treatment means AZT resistance for some

Gonorrhoea up by 35% in London since 1997

Glasgow conference confirms swing to later treatment

Sex differences in viral load and disease progress

Mapping HIV treatment use on the world wide web

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KENYA: Muslim leaders champion HIV testing in marriage

House Subcommittee Approves $52.7B FY11 Foreign Ops Appropriations Bill

Immunodeficiency and the risk of serious clinical endpoints in a well studied cohort of treated HIV-infected patients

Expanding access to HAART: a cost-effective approach for treating and preventing HIV

Exposure to HIV-1-encoded Toll-like receptor 8 ligands enhances monocyte response to microbial encoded Toll-like receptor 2/4 ligands

A TRIM5[alpha] exon 2 polymorphism is associated with protection from HIV-1 infection in the Pumwani sex worker cohort

How a normally defensive immune response can help HIV

South Africa: Country Launches Massive UN-Backed HIV Prevention Drive

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