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Protease inhibitors and NNRTIs equally effective at restoring the immune system

Michael Carter | 15 April 2002
Protease inhibitor (PI) and NNRTI-based regimens appear to be equally able to bring about immune reconstitution in people who start treatment early, even though a PI based regimen achieves better ...
Protease inhibitor patients at higher risk of thrombosis?

Keith Alcorn | 15 April 2002
A study of 363 HIV-positive patients in Sweden has revealed that patients receiving protease inhibitor treatment may be at increased long-term risk of thrombosis (fatal blood clots) when compared with ...
First step towards edible AIDS vaccine

Keith Alcorn | 12 April 2002
US company Prodigene has reported success in attempts to genetically engineer maize so that it contains a surface protein from the primate form of HIV. The protein is called gp120, ...
Kenya HIV drug shortages highlight problems in widening access

Julian Meldrum | 10 April 2002
A severe shortage has emerged in Kenya of discounted supplies of two antiretrovirals (ARVs) produced by leading pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS). This may point to more general problems in ...
Controversy over herbal depression remedy as NAM launch Complementary Medicine guide

Anna Poppa | 10 April 2002
The simmering debate over the role of the troubled herbal medicine St John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum) in the treatment of depression boiled over again today following publication of results from ...
MTCT programmes short-sighted if no long-term HIV drugs for mums

Keith Alcorn | 05 April 2002
Treatment programmes which use antiretrovirals to prevent mother to child transmission are likely to succeed only in creating a generation of orphans and ruining the treatment chances of mothers, according ...
First London volunteer vaccinated in ground-breaking trial

Julian Meldrum | 04 April 2002
This morning, at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, the first London volunteer was vaccinated in a preventive HIV vaccine trial first reported here last December (follow this link for recruitment and ...
SA court supports doctors' right to give nevirapine while hearing awaited

Julian Meldrum | 04 April 2002
The South African Constitutional Court has upheld an interim order from a court in Pretoria, requiring that nevirapine should be provided to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, wherever present clinical ...
Calls for help exceed Global Fund resources

Keith Alcorn | 03 April 2002
PlusNews is a service of RHAIN, the Southern African Regional HIV/AIDS Information Network. Funding proposals submitted to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria have exceeded the resources ...
UK doctor calls for drug companies to work together on once-daily treatments

Keith Alcorn | 03 April 2002
Companies should work together to create more co-formulations of drugs in order to make once-daily HIV therapy a reality, according to Dr Graeme Moyle of London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, ...

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Aung San Suu Kyi Visits HIV/AIDS 'Safe House'

The Irrawaddy | 17 November 2010

Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi visited HIV-positive patients four days after her release from house arrest.
HIV treatment in children

Malawi: Nation Struggling to Address Paediatric HIV

AllAfrica | 17 November 2010

There are 91,000 children living with HIV in Malawi. A shortage of resources means that many do not receive proper treatment and care.
Epidemiology

Huge funding gaps for men who have sex with men, sex workers and people who use drugs

The Global Forum on MSM & HIV | 17 November 2010

The MSMGF urges global donors to report investments for most-at-risk populations, ensure funding contributions align with disease burden.
Tuberculosis and HIV

HAITI: Combating TB in Port-au-Prince's tent cities

IRIN Plus News | 17 November 2010

Health workers in Haiti are concerned about the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the tent cities that have housed more than one million people since the massive earthquake in January.
Promoting HIV testing

SADC plans mobile HIV clinics

News 24 | 17 November 2010

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) was planning to launch mobile HIV/Aids clinics along major trade routes in the region, the health department said on Tuesday.This was one of the decisions made at a SADC meeting of health ministers.
India

Free Trade Threatens Affordable HIV Treatment

Inter Press Service | 17 November 2010

With India's role as 'pharmacy to the developing world' seriously threatened by a free trade agreement to be signed with the European Union in December, the fate of cheap or free antiretroviral treatment for people living with HIV and AIDS hangs in balance.
Behaviour change interventions

HIV concerns invade Kenya’s unregulated adult film scene

Business Daily | 16 November 2010

In Kenya’s porn industry actors usually perform without condoms and there is no routine HIV testing.
Epidemiology

U.S. Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS in 2009

Funders Concerned About AIDS | 16 November 2010

FCAA’s new resource tracking report provides new information on 2009 HIV/AIDS grantmaking among 342 U.S.-based private philanthropic institutions.
Epidemiology

SWAZILAND: Declining customs union revenues threaten AIDS response

IRIN Plus News | 16 November 2010

MBABANE, 16 November 2010 (PLUSNEWS) - An economic meltdown in Swaziland, exacerbated by a major decline in revenue from the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), is unlikely to leave the national AIDS response unscathed, say local health officials.
Neurological and cognitive problems

Discordant HIV Levels in the Brain and Blood Are More Common Than Expected

AIDSMeds | 16 November 2010

Up to 10 percent of people on antiretroviral therapy have active HIV replication in the brain and spinal fluid despite having undetectable HIV levels in the blood, according to a new study.

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Protease inhibitors and NNRTIs equally effective at restoring the immune system

Protease inhibitor patients at higher risk of thrombosis?

First step towards edible AIDS vaccine

Kenya HIV drug shortages highlight problems in widening access

Controversy over herbal depression remedy as NAM launch Complementary Medicine guide

MTCT programmes short-sighted if no long-term HIV drugs for mums

First London volunteer vaccinated in ground-breaking trial

SA court supports doctors' right to give nevirapine while hearing awaited

Calls for help exceed Global Fund resources

UK doctor calls for drug companies to work together on once-daily treatments

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Aung San Suu Kyi Visits HIV/AIDS 'Safe House'

Malawi: Nation Struggling to Address Paediatric HIV

Huge funding gaps for men who have sex with men, sex workers and people who use drugs

HAITI: Combating TB in Port-au-Prince's tent cities

SADC plans mobile HIV clinics

Free Trade Threatens Affordable HIV Treatment

HIV concerns invade Kenya’s unregulated adult film scene

U.S. Philanthropic Support to Address HIV/AIDS in 2009

SWAZILAND: Declining customs union revenues threaten AIDS response

Discordant HIV Levels in the Brain and Blood Are More Common Than Expected

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