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Hepatitis and HIV
HCV coinfection in HIV-positive gay men in Paris associated with 'hard' sex network

Sexual transmission of hepatitis C virus has been reported among HIV-positive gay men in Paris. The report is included in the June edition of Eurosurveillance

Published
08 June 2005
By
Michael Carter
How HIV works
Low level and intermittent HIV replication during very early infection

Low levels of HIV are present in the plasma of individuals during the very early stages of primary HIV infection, according to a United States

Published
08 June 2005
By
Michael Carter
HIV treatment
South African AIDS Conference opens with call for unity

“We must start working together,” Professor Lynn Morris of South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Disease told the participants of South Africa’s Second National AIDS

Published
08 June 2005
By
Theo Smart
Recreational drug use
How much of a concern is methamphetamine use by London's gay men?

”Fears over gay community drug use” read the BBC headline from the third of June 2005, reporting a study that found around one in five

Published
07 June 2005
By
Michael Carter
Cases of invasive pneumonia fall by over half in US AIDS patients in first five years of HAART

The incidence of invasive pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae in patients with AIDS dropped by over 50% in the first five years of HAART use,

Published
06 June 2005
By
Michael Carter
Sexually transmitted infections
More symptom awareness and improved testing methods required to stem tide of growing LGV epidemic

Europe-wide LGV prevention and control efforts need to be urgently improved, according to an update on the state of the current LGV epidemic in the

Published
06 June 2005
By
Edwin J. Bernard
HIV treatment
Stevens-Johnson syndrome affects mother and son taking nevirapine

Two cases of the rare side-effect of nevirapine, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, involving a mother and her son, are reported in the June 10th edition of AIDS.

Published
06 June 2005
By
Michael Carter
Resistance
HIV-1 and HIV-2 coinfection: viral response to HAART differs

For patients coinfected with both HIV-1 and HIV-2, both viruses should be taken into account when selecting treatment regimes and measuring outcome, emphasise investigators writing

Published
06 June 2005
By
Michael Carter
Side-effects
Risk of diabetes increased by being HIV-positive and on HAART

HIV-positive men who are taking highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) are more than four times more likely to develop diabetes than HIV-negative men, according to

Published
03 June 2005
By
Christopher Gadd
Palliative care
Africa's HIV palliative care needs examination

HIV palliative care in southern Africa is being provided by family members and local communities, who are “often inadequately trained in clinical skills and lack

Published
03 June 2005
By
Michael Carter
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