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TB treatment

TB treatment and HBV: risk factors for liver toxicity in South Africans on antiretroviral therapy

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21 June 2007
Treatment interruptions

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

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20 June 2007
Epidemiology

Does the scale of the epidemic in South Africa call for compulsory HIV testing?

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18 June 2007
Side effects

World Health Organization to monitor ARV side-effects worldwide

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18 June 2007
Side effects

Link between diabetes and antiretrovirals may particularly affect resource-poor settings

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18 June 2007
Starting treatment

Dutch study and Canadian editorial call for earlier intiation of ART

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14 June 2007
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Audit of high infant mortality in Durban hospitals illustrates delivery gap remaining for PMTCT and paediatric ART programmes

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12 June 2007
Transmission & prevention

New infections in South Africa top 500,000 a year, 4.6% of young women infected in 2005

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6 June 2007
Mental & emotional health & wellbeing

HIV therapy preserves cognitive functions in advanced immune-reconstituted AIDS patients

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5 June 2007
Social & legal issues

IAS conference in Sydney will go ahead despite Howard's latest comments on HIV-positive migrants

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4 June 2007
Starting treatment

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

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1 June 2007
TB treatment

HIV-positive patients may need longer duration of TB treatment

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1 June 2007
Social & legal issues

Four Dutch men accused of 'premeditated' criminal HIV transmission via rape and injection

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1 June 2007
Side effects

Rosiglitazone does not improve fat loss in patients taking HIV treatment

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31 May 2007
Epidemiology

President Bush asks for doubling of PEPFAR funds

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31 May 2007
Transmission & prevention

WHO/UNAIDS endorse opt-out HIV testing

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30 May 2007
Improving HIV care

HIV contributes to lung cancer risk, independent of smoking

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29 May 2007
Starting treatment

Further evidence that HIV/hepatitis C coinfected patients have poorer immunological response to HIV therapy

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25 May 2007
HIV treatment

MSF says treatment waiting lists in southern Africa growing due to healthcare worker shortage

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24 May 2007
Side effects

Polyalkylimide gel safe and effective for treatment of facial lipoatrophy

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22 May 2007
Side effects

Blood disorders common in antiretroviral-exposed infants

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21 May 2007
Side effects

HIV/hepatitis C coinfected may have less risk of lipodystrophy and diabetes

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21 May 2007
Drug-resistant TB

TB that developed resistance to every drug kills two in Italy

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21 May 2007
Mental & emotional health & wellbeing

HIV dementia: are viral or host factors driving differences between subtypes?

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18 May 2007