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  • 40% of new infections in women...

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    40% of new infections globally are now occuring in women, according to American epidemiologist Prof. Kenrad Nelson. It is well known that the gender disparity seen in the early days ...

  • 39th ICAAC opens in San Francisco

    Anna Poppa | 05 March 2001

    The 39th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) has opened in a scorching San Francisco. This annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology is set to be ...

  • Preventing mother-to-baby transmission in South Africa

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    A range of measures designed to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to baby in South African women constitute cost effective healthcare strategy according to a research team in Johannesburg. Using ...

  • d4T & fat wasting - more evidence

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Further evidence that people who receive long-term treatment with d4T are more likely to suffer fat wasting compared with people receiving AZT was presented this week at the Eighth Annual ...

  • New US guidelines on hepatitis C testing and counselling

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    The US Centers for Disease Control have published expert guidelines on hepatitis C testing and counselling, with the warning that approximately 3.9 million Americans are already infected. Research published in ...

  • HAART for Africa would cost rich world taxpayers $2 a year

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Dr Jeffery Sachs, Professor of International Development at Harvard University, considered by the New York Times to be the most important economist in the world, launched a wide ranging attack ...

  • IAS guidelines: US/international panel sticks to early treatment approach

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    The International AIDS Society will continue to recommend HIV treatment for asymptomatic individuals with CD4+ cell counts between 350 and 500 and viral load above 5,000 copies, in contrast to ...

  • Treatment interruptions on hydroxyurea slow viral rebound

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Interrupting a hydroxyurea-containing HAART regimen may not lead to the same degree of viral rebound as seen with other structured treatment interruptions, according to Franco Lori and colleagues at the ...

  • PI-dropping studies: still little impact on body fat changes

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Switching from a protease inhibitor to an NNRTI or abacavir yields inconsistent results when the aim is the reduction of PI-related side effects such as lipid and body fat disorders, ...

  • More tricky drug interactions: fine tuning HAART

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Highlights from the First International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV Therapy, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, March 30-31, 2000. Using efavirenz with bid IDV/RTV 800/100mg ABT-378/r with other PIs Amprenavir and ritonavir Amprenavir/ritonavir and efavirenz Saquinavir ...

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