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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Adherence

Taking HIV treatment exactly as prescribed is key to its effectiveness. This involves not missing doses, taking doses at the right time, and following any instructions about food.

Treatment interruptions

Near-global nelfinavir (Viracept) recall 'very difficult situation'

News
20 June 2007
Starting treatment

Depression increases mortality risk in non-adherent individuals on first-line ART

News
1 June 2007
Mental & emotional health & wellbeing

Patients who don't visit their HIV clinic regularly have increased risk of death

News
10 May 2007
Pregnancy, children & young people

Treatment failure in severe pneumonia highlights need to revise WHO guidelines for acute respiratory infections in South African children

News
3 May 2007
Starting treatment

BHIVA 2007: Fewer than 1 in 3 began treatment in line with UK guidelines last year

News
2 May 2007
HIV treatment

Indian private sector patients spending 60% of income on antiretrovirals, Mumbai study finds

News
16 April 2007
Adherence

CROI: Treatment changes and breaks occur at high rate in Ugandan HIV patients

News
12 March 2007
Adherence

CROI: Once daily Kaletra may be less effective when viral load above 100,000 copies/ml

News
2 March 2007
Starting treatment

CROI: Efavirenz-based ART more effective than nevirapine-based ART as first-line therapy in Southern Africa

News
27 February 2007
Adherence

HIV home-based care produces positive outcomes in Uganda

News
17 January 2007
Starting treatment

Previous poor adherence and HCV are risk factors for antiretroviral treatment failure

News
2 January 2007
Pregnancy, children & young people

HIV-positive South African mothers losing weight when breastfeeding

News
28 November 2006
Chemsex & recreational drug use

ARVs for Russian injecting drug users 'in best interests of public health and economics'

News
14 November 2006
HIV treatment

HIV/AIDS buffer service established in South Africa to reduce risk of drug stock-outs

News
20 October 2006
HIV treatment

Home-based AIDS care program achieves good adherence and response to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in rural Uganda

News
21 September 2006
Treatment interruptions

One-in-six interrupt treatment within two years of initiating ART

News
18 September 2006
Side effects

Medication errors common among hospitalised HIV patients

News
14 September 2006
Adherence

Adherence to non-nucleoside-based regimens may be less demanding

News
11 September 2006
Improving HIV care

Needle-free mode of T-20 dosing looks highly satisfactory for patients

News
28 August 2006
Epidemiology

Randomised trial of food supplementation in food insecure patients ART inconclusive

News
14 August 2006
HIV treatment

Adherence better in Africa than in North America, meta-analysis shows

News
9 August 2006
Adherence

Guide to international entry restrictions for people with HIV published

News
27 July 2006
Side effects

Spanish study confirms that tenofovir-related kidney problems are rare and linked to other risk factors

News
17 July 2006
New & experimental HIV treatments

Efavirenz / Truvada three-in-one pill licensed in US as Atripla

News
13 July 2006