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Information about both the tests that are used to diagnose HIV and those used to monitor the health of people living with HIV, including viral load and CD4 counts.

Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Social and economic circumstances impact on HIV treatment outcomes in US, Canada, Brazil, Australia

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23 January 2011
Cardiovascular disease

High prevalence of asymptomatic cardiac abnormalities in patients with HIV

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10 January 2011
Side effects

Genetic tests could predict which patients will have problems with some anti-HIV drugs

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7 January 2011
Epidemiology & behaviour

UK Gay Men’s Sex Survey: new data on age, strategic positioning, condom failure and HIV testing

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6 January 2011
Retention & linkage to care

Many South African patients not on ART are being lost to care

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22 December 2010
HIV treatment

Nevirapine rather than efavirenz-based HIV treatment more likely to suppress viral load to zero

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22 December 2010
Cancer

Prompt treatment and better screening could prevent many cancer deaths in patients taking HIV therapy

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20 December 2010
Retention & linkage to care

Missed appointments in first six months of HIV treatment associated with poorer outcomes

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13 December 2010
HIV testing programmes & uptake

HIV testing rates still low in Soweto

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9 December 2010
HIV testing programmes & uptake

HIV screening outside specialist settings is feasible, acceptable and effective in UK

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8 December 2010
Epidemiology & behaviour

In Europe, seven in ten HIV diagnoses are in men

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6 December 2010
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

HIV in the UK still cuts 13 years off life expectancy: late testing is the main reason

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1 December 2010
Epidemiology

UK HIV diagnoses fall - because fewer people infected abroad

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26 November 2010
Viral load

HIV detectable in CSF of 10% of patients taking successful antiretroviral treatment

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17 November 2010
Self-testing & home testing

Is self-testing for HIV on the way in Africa?

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15 November 2010
New & experimental HIV treatments

Most patients in darunavir monotherapy trial stay fully suppressed

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11 November 2010
New & experimental HIV treatments

Protease inhibitor monotherapy in African setting results in viral load, but not CD4, failure in the short term

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10 November 2010
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Persistent low-level viral load is associated with failure, but risk is small

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10 November 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

Additional treatment costs arising from expanded HIV screening in US will place further pressure on Ryan White funding

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3 November 2010
HIV treatment

Do HIV drugs really mean you aren’t infectious?

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1 November 2010
Combatting stigma

People who stigmatise HIV are less likely to take an HIV test

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30 October 2010
Transmission & prevention

HIV transmitted during a knife attack

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21 October 2010
Changing treatment

Targeted viral load tests in India prevent switches to second-line ARVs for one in four

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13 October 2010
HIV testing policies & guidelines

NICE to recommend more HIV testing in primary care and in community settings

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8 October 2010