CART – combination anti-retroviral therapy.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
KS – Kaposi’s sarcoma.
late breaker – in research, this is a study presented at a medical meeting that was submitted to the conference organisers after the main programme had been decided. There are usually only a few dozen late-breakers, where the last minute results are thought important enough to include – like ‘late-breaking news’. Although this studies often contain the most exciting news, they are given much less time to present their results – maybe less than 10 minutes compared to a normal 15 or 20 minute session. These summary results are also difficult to verify because they include fewer slides and fewer details.
matched – in clinical trials matched refers to each group having similar age, gender, ethnicity, HIV duration, health etc in a study.
haematology – study (-ology) of blood (haema-)