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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)
History of HIV and AIDS
Peter Staley: Grief Is A Sword: A Eulogy For Spencer Cox

This death hit us hard. We have grappled to make sense of it. Why did he stop his meds? What role did his struggle with crystal meth play? Was this a failure of community? Are there lessons we can learn? These aren't just nosy questions by idle bystanders.

Published
25 January 2013
From
Huffington Post
Recreational drug use
Is London’s gay scene self-harming through sex and drug use?

David Stuart of gay men's drug project Antidote discusses increases in the use of methamphetamine and mephedrone in London's gay scene and an increased tendency to inject them.

Published
24 January 2013
From
Pink News
Recreational drug use
The Private War That Killed Spencer Cox

When Spencer Cox died on December 18, 2012, in New York City, the official cause of death was AIDS-related complications, which is understandable if post-traumatic stress, despair and drug addiction are complications related to AIDS. Spencer believed that this connection exists.

Published
03 January 2013
From
My Fabulous Disease
Men who have sex with men (MSM)
Young gay men with HIV in the UK worry about disclosure, transmission and prosecution – older ones about confidence and sex

A large majority of gay men in the UK with HIV describe having one or more problems with sex, an analysis of a survey originally published in

Published
07 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Side-effects
Efavirenz and the brain: are we nearer to solving a mysterious side-effect?

One of the most potent HIV drugs, efavirenz, unfortunately also causes mysterious and sometimes chronic disruptions of mood, thought and sleep. Researchers may have found the key to

Published
22 October 2012
From
HIV treatment update
Hepatitis C
European guidelines on management of mental health for people with hepatitis C published

European investigators have developed a consensus statement on hepatitis C and mental health. Published in the online edition of the Journal of Hepatology, the wide-ranging document assesses evidence

Published
16 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Nutrition
Obesity is a risk factor for co-occuring chronic health problems in patients with HIV

Obesity is associated with the clustering of multiple health problems in HIV-positive people, investigators from the US report in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune

Published
10 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
Hepatitis C symptoms and diagnosis
Mental Health in Hepatitis C: A European Expert Consensus Statement

European Liver Patients Association (ELPA) invited leading psychologists, psychiatrists and hepatologists to an expert conference in 2011. Martin Schaefer MD and his colleagues reviewed the scientific data and discussed their experience in the treatment of hepatitis C related psychiatric problems. The results were first presented at the EASL conference in Berlin in 2011. Since the conference, the recommendations were refined and updated further to include the new antiviral treatments, and will now be published as a “European Expert Consensus Statement“ in the Journal of Hepatology.

Published
09 October 2012
From
European Liver Patients Association
Health problems
Starting HIV treatment reduces the risk of serious non-AIDS-related diseases

Serious non-AIDS-defining illnesses are common in people recently diagnosed with HIV, Spanish investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. “Clinicians should be aware that during the initial

Published
09 October 2012
By
Michael Carter
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