Mum-to-baby transmission rate now below one per cent
Herpes and STIs aid gay HIV transmission
Half of all HIV transmitted by people infected for less than a year
Fuzeon could prevent transmission to babies
Immune therapy produces long-term CD4 increases, few side effects
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More money in Scotland for sexual health
HIV positive journalist cleared of rape
Health & Social Care Bill ‘gives draconian powers’
‘Wrong to blame immigrants for TB epidemic’
Heavy boozing and unsafe sex on the South Coast
THT offers grants to young leaders
Insurers still refusing people with HIV
Insurers Is gay wedding honeymoon over?
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Thailand to keep generic HIV drugs scheme
Chinese activist faces subversion trial
‘Women of Africa bear the brunt of human rights abuses’
India & Saudi Arabia back HIV marriage tests
Zimbabwe facing HIV drug shortages
Homophobic mob abuse in Jamaica
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Treatment NewsCompiled by Gus Cairns Abacavir implicated in heart attacksUsing the drug abacavir (Ziagen®, also in Kivexa®) seems to nearly double the risk of heart attack, at least while patients stay on it, a study has found. The drug ddI (didanosine, Videx®) also raises the risk, by about 45%. Gay men with HIV have near-normal death ratesA study of HIV patients in 24 countries by the UK Medical Research Council has found that gay men who don’t allow their CD4 counts to drop below 350 now have
near normal death rates compared to  One shot a month – the next stage in HIV therapy?With a good choice of HIV therapy now available, and resistance rates going down rather than up, what’s the next stage in creating HIV treatment that’s easier to take? Resistance rates tumble – but there may be more there than meets the eye The Retrovirus Conference heard good news on HIV drug resistance. Rates of resistance are falling, both in terms of the proportion of patients who catch drug-resistant HIV, and the proportion who develop it on treatment.
Does undetectable mean uninfectious?A group of Swiss scientists recently said that a person with HIV who’s got a consistently undetectable viral load can’t transmit it. What’s the evidence for this? Are there exceptions? And what might the consequences be? |
Issue 137 Abacavir implicated in heart attacks Gay men with HIV have near-normal death rates One shot a month – the next stage in HIV therapy? Resistance rates tumble – but there may be more there than meets the eye Does undetectable mean uninfectious? Compiled by Gus Cairns Issue 136 Click Here 
Issue 137 NHS “failing” patients who catch hepatitis C Faster hep C damage in people who already have HIV Tenofovir works better for hep C patients Continued interferon doesn’t help Issue 136 Click Here 
March 2008 Issue 137 Is it time to give up the search for an Aids vaccine? New report on guidance for professionals on Asylum Seekers and HIV Researchers developing breath test which could monitor adherence to treatment Scotland takes action on sexual health New ‘rough sex’ website for gay men launched Nurse’s death prompts needle stick concerns ‘Hepatitis C linked to hard sex’ ‘If you can’t get up, get down. If you can’t get down, get out!’ Manchester HIV prosecution dismissed but more on way Issue 136 Click Here 
Issue 137 Charity honours African community activists Queen breaks HIV taboo in Uganda HIV activists join the US election campaign trail Elton & David ride to the rescue in Lesotho ‘Egypt is torturing people with HIV’ Stick to condom advice, say experts European HIV cases ‘have doubled since 1999’ ‘Kenyan civil war fuelling HIV crisis’ British man gets prison in Sweden for HIV transmission Compiled by Martin Flynn Issue 136 Click Here |
