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  • HIV risk from single contact may be higher than thought

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    The risk of HIV transmission from activities like unprotected anal intercourse with new partners may be dangerously underestimated by long-term studies of serodiscordant partners, a leading researcher into the sexual ...

  • HIV sceptics appointed to South African AIDS panel

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Following the publication of an article by Duesberg in an Italian journal, the Quackdown website explained the scientific evidence that refutes Duesberg's views: www.quackdown.info/article/what-do-we-know-about-aids-deaths-south-africa ...

  • Salvage therapy workshop: full reports

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Two comprehensive reports from the International Salvage Therapy Workshop held last month in Chicago are now available on-line. A report from Dr Steven Deeks is available at Medscape.com covering the following ...

  • Agents found to attack two new steps in HIV life cycle

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Reports have appeared recently on agents that are active against several new targets in the HIV life cycle. These are: Rev inhibitors Zinc finger inhibitors Rev is a regulatory protein which permits the ...

  • Viral load and disease progression risks may differ in men and women

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    US researchers have found that women injecting drug users have substantially lower viral load than men even when both groups have similar href="../atu/ATU_Glossary.htm#cd4">CD4 counts. A review of viral load measurements using ...

  • Body fat changes on HIV therapy: a new theory

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    An increasing number of reports of body fat changes in people taking anti-HIV therapy have led to widespread fears that protease inhibitors may be causing unfortunate long-term side-effects. Since the beginning ...

  • Bottle feeding cuts HIV risk for babies

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    A two year study of mothers and babies in Kenya has found that formula feeding of babies born to HIV-positive mothers reduces the risk of infant seroconversion by almost half ...

  • Cmin or Cspin? Why drug levels are the new battleground for pharma cos

    Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

    Pharmaceutical companies have a new buzzword this season: Cmin. This is the minimum concentration of a drug measured between one dose and the next, and it's become a focus of ...

  • European AIDS death rates plummet

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    A report from the EuroSIDA cohort of Europeans with HIV which appeared in the 28th November, 1998 issue of The Lancet showed that death rates at the beginning of 1998 ...

  • New guidelines on drug resistance testing

    Anon | 05 March 2001

    An international panel assembled by the International AIDS Society has agreed that tests for HIV drug resistance need to be used with caution until more is known about the clinical ...

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