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Co-morbidities, health conditions, diseases, opportunistic infections and other clinical problems that sometimes occur in people living with HIV.

Combatting stigma

“An unspoken world of unspoken things”: a study identifying and exploring core beliefs underlying self-stigma among people living with HIV and AIDS in Ireland

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Swiss Medical Weekly
18 March 2015
Chemsex & recreational drug use

This HIV Charity Is Telling People To Measure Out Drugs With A Plastic Sushi Bottle

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Buzzfeed
18 March 2015
Bone & joint problems

FRAX fracture prediction tool underestimates fracture risk in people with HIV

News
18 March 2015
TB treatment

Lancet: Phase 2b trial results of novel TB regimen show potential to shorten treatment

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Lancet (free registration required)
18 March 2015
Drug-resistant TB

Tuberculosis and superbug strains 'ravaging' Europe, WHO warns

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Reuters
17 March 2015
How HIV works

Inflammation and gut leakage remains elevated in people with HIV despite early antiretroviral treatment

News
16 March 2015
Cancer

Screening may miss pre-cancerous anal lesions in women with HIV

News
12 March 2015
Opportunistic infections

New approach to HIV management in Tanzania and Zambia reduces deaths by almost one-third

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
11 March 2015
Cardiovascular disease

Studies offer mounting evidence that statins may reduce the risk of heart disease in people living with HIV

News
10 March 2015
Cardiovascular disease

HIV and Cardiovascular Risk: Early Statin Use May Help

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BETA blog
6 March 2015
Harm reduction

Safe injection facilities: more than just a place to shoot drugs

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The Conversation
5 March 2015
Tuberculosis & HIV

TB/HIV Research Frontiers Meeting in conjunction with the 22nd Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2015)

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World Health Organization
5 March 2015
Cancer

Screening study finds high prevalence of early-stage lung cancer among smokers with HIV

News
5 March 2015
Cancer

Smoking is the biggest risk factor for non-AIDS-defining cancers in people living with HIV

News
4 March 2015
Cancer

Study finds high rates of cancer among older people living with HIV

News
3 March 2015
Side effects

Tenofovir, boosted atazanavir and boosted lopinavir are associated with cumulative risk of developing chronic kidney disease

News
27 February 2015
HIV treatment

Tenofovir alafenamide equally effective but safer for kidneys and bones than current formulation

News
27 February 2015
TB treatment

CROI 2015: Trial to evaluate the use of health navigators to link HIV/TB patients to care and treatment fails to show positive results

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Science Speaks
26 February 2015
Starting treatment

Starting HIV treatment at CD4 count above 500 reduces the risk of serious illness and death by 44%, African Temprano trial shows

News
26 February 2015
Drug-resistant TB

XDR-TB in South Africa is largely spread person-to-person, not by failure of drug treatment

News
26 February 2015
Opportunistic infections

Stopping cotrimoxazole during antiretroviral therapy raises risk of bacterial illness, malaria, Ugandan trial shows

News
26 February 2015
Chemsex & recreational drug use

ChemSex Support videos

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56 Dean Street
24 February 2015
Cancer

Low CD4 count important risk factor for oral HPV infection in patients with HIV

News
23 February 2015
Drug-resistant TB

UGA researchers discover potential treatment for drug-resistant tuberculosis

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University of Georgia press release
20 February 2015