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Drug combinations pairing AZT and efavirenz have highest resistance risk

HIV treatment regimens that include both efavirenz and AZT have the highest rates of resistance, according to Swiss research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Published
08 November 2011
By
Michael Carter
Outcomes and prognosis
'High viral load' should mean over half a million copies, not over 100,000, Rome study suggests

A study by the University of Rome has found that a substantial proportion of patients with HIV are being diagnosed with viral loads of over half a

Published
24 October 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Treatment-experienced people
HIV Drug Resistance Effect Damped Down over Time

The proportion of HIV patients who are able to suppress the virus despite extensive drug resistance nearly tripled over a 10-year period, researchers reported.

Published
10 October 2011
From
MedPage Today
Global survey shows high frequency of resistance after first-line ART failure in children

90% of HIV-infected children in the resource-poor regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America had at least one drug resistance mutation after failure of first-line ART, Dutch researchers

Published
06 October 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Resistance
Big falls in prevalence of protease inhibitor and triple-class resistance

The prevalence of HIV resistance to protease inhibitors fell sharply between 2003 and 2010, according to a study presented to the 51st ICAAC meeting in Chicago. Investigators

Published
19 September 2011
By
Michael Carter
Resistance
Low but detectable viral load during HIV treatment involves a risk of resistance

Drug resistance frequently develops in patients who have a persistent low detectable viral load when taking HIV therapy, US investigators report in the August 15th edition of

Published
02 August 2011
By
Michael Carter
Health monitoring in resource-limited settings
Viral load monitoring of ART patients linked to lower death rate on treatment in southern Africa

After three years on ART patients enrolled in four scale-up programmes with routine viral load monitoring in South Africa had a fifty percent lower death rate than patients

Published
14 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Epidemiology and behaviour
Israeli study may point to the future of the HIV epidemic in men who have sex with men

Over the past decade across high-income countries an unexpected and disturbing trend has emerged—an increase in syphilis and HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM). Now researchers in Israel have found similar trends in HIV in that country. Furthermore, researchers there have found that about 30% of MSM newly infected with HIV have strains that are resistant to some anti-HIV therapies.

Published
31 May 2011
From
CATIE
Treatment-experienced people
Is there a future for HIV-infected patients in deep salvage?

Most of us built resistance as we joined study after study that exposed us to functional monotherapy. In fact, I consider many of us who have been struggling with multiple drug resistance to be wounded soldiers from a time when we were recruited into studies we joined out of desperation to access a new drug.

Published
04 May 2011
From
The Body
One in eight European children with HIV experienced failure of three drug classes within five years

One in eight children and adolescents receiving HIV treatment at major HIV clinics in Europe experienced failure of three classes of antiretroviral drugs after five years of

Published
26 April 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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