Editorial

• Volume 5 Number 6 July 2004

Treatment alerts

• A round-up of news about access to treatments, with links to sources

Conference reports

• XIII International HIV Resistance Workshop 8-12 June 2004, Tenerife

• Risk of NNRTI-resistance during STI: implications for SMART and other STI studies

• Persistent nevirapine resistance following mother to child transmission interventions

• Tipranavir resistance and viral response: L90M did not reduce response, recommendation to use with T-20

• Resistance in the UK: new approach to epidemiological studies

• Low AZT activity against HIV-2 infection

• No evidence for cross resistance between nevirapine and d4T

• Experimental compounds to target viral expression in latent cells

• Case of MDR reinfection with MDR virus

• Keystone HIV Pathogenesis and Vaccine Development Report 12-18 April 2004, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada

• Keystone HIV Pathogenesis and Vaccine Report

Antiretrovirals

• CD4 entry criteria dropped for UK tipranavir named patient access

• Tenofovir/FTC co-formulation expected in US by September

• Guidelines for T-20

• Persistent HIV viraemia fosters immunologic harm and viral evolution

• Latent drug-resistant HIV harboured for years

Women's health

• Smoking during HIV infection may alter the natural history of HPV infection and increase the risk of cervical disease

Paediatric care

• Pharmacokinetic characteristics of ritonavir, zidovudine, lamivudine, and stavudine in children with HIV

PK and drug interactions

• Non-prescription simvastatin in the UK: contraindicated with many HIV medications

• Label changes for indinavir warn of several interactions including atazanavir and PDE5 inhibitors

Transmission and prevention

• Sexual transmission of HIV by acutely infected individuals has a disproportionate effect on the spread of HIV and may explain the current pandemic

On the web

• Online medical resources

• Conference abstracts

• Treatment Access

• Journal articles

• Online publications

PDFs

• Volume 5 Number 6 July 2004 PDF