Editorial

• Volume 1 Number 3 March 2008

Original articles

• Russia: drug dependence treatment system impedes human right to health

• HIV and HCV research and drug users

Conference reports

• IDUs access to HIV/AIDS treatment and care in Central and Eastern Europe

• 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Boston, 2-6 February 2008

• MELD score predictive of pre-transplant mortality in HCV coinfected patients

• Does abacavir decrease SVR rates with HCV treatment?

• No effect of interferon maintenance therapy on fibrosis progression in non-responders

Guidelines

• Challenges of treating IDUs infected with HIV

• US adult and adolecent HIV treatment guidelines updated

Journal reviews

• Injection drug use, low baseline CD4 counts continue to predict poorer HAART response after six years

Other news

• Community concern over Thai government reinstating war on drugs

On the web

• IHRA newsletter – December 2007

• JAIDS supplement: focus on IDUs

PDFs

• Volume 1 Number 3 March 2008 PDF