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Anticholinergic medications associated with falls and frailty in people ageing with HIV

Dr Jessica Doctor (bottom right) at CROI 2022.

Could antibodies be used for children with HIV instead of pills?

Dr Roger Shapiro at CROI 2022.

New edition of HIV & women

New edition of HIV & women

Asian people with HIV gain weight after starting treatment at similar rate to other ethnic groups

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Large disparities in dolutegravir uptake persist between men and women in low and middle-income countries

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Deep dive into HIV’s hidden DNA finds that some people could eventually drop their drugs

This figure from the journal article shows how all the pieces of proviral DNA found in all six study participants' cells were distributed around the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the  cells' nuclei. The red lines are DNA that gave rise, at one or more time points, to viral RNA, and the blue lines are DNA that never did. It can be seen that RNA production was rare from DNA that was located outside active gene sites in the 'gene deserts'.

History of drug resistance or virological failure warrants caution when switching to dolutegravir plus lamivudine

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Persistent and worsening obesity seen in young people on lifelong antiretroviral treatment

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Greater weight gain in pregnancy linked to TAF-and-integrase inhibitor combinations

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