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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Health problems & ageing

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

Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Poor CD4 response to HIV treatment increases risk of death from non-AIDS-related illnesses, even for those with higher baseline counts

News
28 December 2012
Starting treatment

Vitamin D deficiency increases risk of TB among people starting HIV therapy

News
19 December 2012
Cancer

Liver cancer has a more aggressive disease course in HIV-positive people co-infected with viral hepatitis

News
18 December 2012
Cardiovascular disease

HIV11: Lipid Levels Are Higher among HIV+ People on ART, Immune Suppression May Play a Role

Editor's pick
HIVandhepatitis.com
17 December 2012
Opportunistic infections

A drug used to treat HIV might defuse deadly Staph infections

Editor's pick
NYU Langone Medical Center
17 December 2012
Cardiovascular disease

Traditional risk factors strongest predictors of sub-clinical cardiovascular disease in people about to start HIV therapy

News
17 December 2012
Malaria

RBM Partnership calls for US$2.4 billion to avert potential malaria resurgence in sub-Saharan Africa

Editor's pick
Roll Back Malaria Partneship
11 December 2012
Hepatitis & HIV

HIV and hepatitis C co-infection increases the risk of cognitive impairment

News
11 December 2012
HIV treatment for children & young people

UNITAID new grants total $120 million: Focus on childhood AIDS, TB and malaria

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UNITAID
10 December 2012
Child developmental issues

Atherosclerosis Found in HIV Children

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Science Daily (press release)
6 December 2012
Cancer

Brivanib fails to match sorafenib for liver cancer, but tivantinib looks promising

News
5 December 2012
Ageing & HIV

Activist discusses challenge of growing old with HIV

Editor's pick
AFP
30 November 2012
Hepatitis B

Nucleoside analogues reduce hepatitis B liver cancer risk

News
29 November 2012
Malaria

Malaria study suggests drugs should target female parasites

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
28 November 2012
Malaria

Can Asia save Africa from drug-resistant malaria?

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BBC Health
26 November 2012
Bone & joint problems

Dutch find low bone mineral density in gay men, regardless of HIV infection status

News
26 November 2012
Cancer

Protease inhibitors linked to higher anal cancer rate in US group

Editor's pick
International AIDS Society
23 November 2012
Neurological & cognitive problems

HIV-positive MSM have neurologic disease earlier than HIV-negatives

Editor's pick
International AIDS Society
20 November 2012
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Life expectancy in older people with HIV could exceed the average – as long as ART keeps working

News
19 November 2012
Cardiovascular disease

Smoking the biggest single risk factor for acute heart disease in people with HIV

News
19 November 2012
Cancer

The connection between Fatty Liver Disease and the Increase in the Rate of Liver Cancer

Editor's pick
AASLD press release
11 November 2012
Diabetes

D:A:D model is good predictor of diabetes in HIV-positive people

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International AIDS Society
9 November 2012
Cancer

HPV vaccine may benefit HIV-infected women

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NIH press release
9 November 2012
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Young gay men with HIV in the UK worry about disclosure, transmission and prosecution – older ones about confidence and sex

News
7 November 2012