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AIDS-defining illnesses, especially TB, more frequent at high CD4 counts in Africa and Asia

Rates of death and illness remained 'substantial' even at higher CD4 cell counts among people receiving antiretroviral therapy in lower-income settings, and much greater efforts to get people

Published
07 February 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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
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AllAfrica
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
UK experts: successful treatment is "as effective as consistent condom use" in reducing HIV transmission

The British HIV Association (BHIVA) and the Department of Health’s Expert Advisory Group on AIDS (EAGA) published this week a position statement on the use of HIV

Published
23 January 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Resistance
Nigeria: Drug resistance data show merits of using tenofovir in first-line ART regimens

People living with HIV in Nigeria, at high risk for virological failure, on a tenofovir (TDF)-based first-line regimen, had fewer nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI) drug-resistant mutations

Published
23 January 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Side-effects
Low-dose stavudine study debated between South African researchers and activists

A proposed trial of low-dose stavudine (also known as d4T) sparked a heated debate between South African researchers and activists at the opening of the first Southern

Published
11 December 2012
By
Lesley Odendal
Treatment guidelines
Swiss research identifies factors associated with use of non-recommended HIV therapy

New Swiss research shows the importance of observing antiretroviral treatment guidelines, even in people who have well-controlled HIV infection. Published in the online edition of the Journal

Published
05 December 2012
By
Michael Carter
Treatment guidelines
Abacavir: new studies challenge the evidence of reduced potency when viral load is high

An analysis of two studies of the new HIV integrase inhibitor dolutegravir presented at the Eleventh International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection in Glasgow had

Published
26 November 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Sexually transmitted infections
2012 European guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of gonorrhoea in adults recommends dual antimicrobial therapy

The recommended treatment for uncomplicated Neisseria gonorrhoeae infections of the urethra, cervix, rectum and pharynx, when the antimicrobial sensitivity is unknown, is a combination of ceftriaxone 500 mg and azithromycin 2 g.

Published
22 November 2012
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Eurosurveillance
Side-effects
Phase out D4T in poor countries

D4T used to be prescribed at 40mg but was reduced to 30mg to reduce side-effects. But even at this reduced dose many patients cannot tolerate it. So do we really need a new study to look at a lower dose (20 mg) of D4T than the current one? Many people living with HIV around the world feel that we do not and that we should plan to phase out this drug completely as has been done in Europe and the United States.

Published
07 November 2012
From
Quackdown
Outcomes and prognosis
Death rates elevated at all CD4 counts below 500 in sub-Saharan Africa

A comparison of death rates between the HIV-positive and HIV-negative partners in serodiscordant couples in sub-Saharan Africa has found significantly higher death rates in people with HIV

Published
06 November 2012
By
Keith Alcorn
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