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Kidney problems
Tenofovir May Raise Risk of Kidney Damage, but Effect Tapers Over Time

Tenofovir raises the risk of kidney dysfunction among people with HIV, but the adverse effect occurs mostly within the first two years of therapy.  

Published
14 February 2013
From
AIDSMeds
Malnutrition
Texas: Food availability linked with poor outcomes for HIV-positive children

An HIV-positive child whose family does not have enough good food available is more likely to have a poor clinical outcome, researchers reported. They found that children who did not always have enough to eat had lower CD4 counts as well as higher chances of incomplete viral suppression.

Published
12 February 2013
From
Baylor College of Medicine press release
Cancer
Cervical cancer a major threat to HIV-positive women

HIV-positive women are living longer, but are now dying of cervical cancer. In Zimbabwe, cervical cancer is now the most common cancer among women, particularly those living with HIV. Activists are urging the government to step up efforts to prevent deaths related to the disease, accusing it of paying lip service to the problem.

Published
08 February 2013
From
IRIN Plus News
Outcomes and prognosis
Multiple factors affect HIV prognosis, study shows

In a major advancement for the field of HIV treatment, a new study has identified a more accurate method of suggesting prognosis for HIV patients. The new method, called the Veterans Aging Cohort Study index, takes into account factors such as hemoglobin level, platelet count and comorbidity.

Published
05 February 2013
From
Yale Daily News
Vaccines
Vaccine group funds cervical cancer immunizations for poor

The GAVI global vaccines group is to help protect more than 180,000 girls in eight countries across Africa and Asia from cervical cancer by funding immunization projects with vaccines from Merck and GlaxoSmithKline.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Reuters
Mental and emotional health
The Coming Epidemic: Is HIV Really What Killed Spencer Cox?

My generation, which continues to stare down HIV, is facing a new plague -- the one that likely killed Spencer Cox. As yet unnamed, it manifests in aimlessness, depression, broken relationships, substance abuse, unsafe sex and suicide.

Published
04 February 2013
From
Huffington Post (blog)
Treatment guidelines
Uganda: Health Ministry Sets New Treatment Guidelines

The health ministry has released new national clinical guidelines for the management of common conditions. It also released new essential medicines and health supplies list for HIV/AIDS, malaria, TB, pneumonia and diarrhoea in children.

Published
01 February 2013
From
AllAfrica
Neurological and cognitive problems
A 'neurosteroid' found to prevent brain injury caused by HIV/AIDS

A report in the The FASEB Journal describes how a network of steroid molecules in the brain, termed "neurosteroids," is disrupted during HIV infection leading to brain damage.

Published
31 January 2013
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Cancer
HIV Patients At Two-Fold Higher Risk For Non-Melanoma Skin Cancers

HIV-positive patients have a higher incidence of non-melanoma skin cancers, according to a Kaiser Permanente study that appears in the current online issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Specifically, basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas occur more than twice as often among HIV-positive individuals compared to those who are HIV-negative.

Published
31 January 2013
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Side-effects
Tenofovir impairs enzyme that stops cells ageing

A team of Australian researchers has found that tenofovir and, to a lesser extent, other drugs from the nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) class, impairs an enzyme that

Published
31 January 2013
By
Gus Cairns
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