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Important news for PrEP in the UK

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Reports from the 54th ICAAC and IAS 2014 conferences, newly approved drugs for HIV and hepatitis C, new UK guidelines for pregnancy and PEP, plus a potential new approach for PML…

Ten reports from AIDS 2014, coverage from paediatric and INTEREST workshops, London guidelines, dolutegravir access in the UK, plus lots more…

This short survey is looking for community views from the UK and internationally to help shape future research

Short reports and links to news at the 20th World AIDS Conference: cure research, PrEP (do you swallow?), pipeline report, HIV and children, HIV-related complications, activists protest Gilead’s price for sofosbuvir and global TasP…

Latest review of latest developments in HIV, HCV and TB: pipeline drugs, vaccines, cure strategies and diagnostics

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Broadly good, but a few surprises: raltegravir alternative to efavirenz, limited use of generics, no need to switch stable patients…

A new Latvian translation of the i-Base guide to HIV, Pregnancy and Women’s Health is now online. This is the fourth i-Base guide to be translated into Latvian, in collaboration with Association HIV.LV and the EATG COPE project. HIV, pregnancy …

Reports from EASL, BHIVA and CROI: new hepatitis C drugs, including pricing and UK access; ARVs in pregnancy; early use in babies; tenofovir in Zambia; US guidelines for treatment and PrEP; all this and more…

SCART is a UK study for HIV-related Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS). It uses an experimental cancer drug called selumetinib. KS is a type of cancer that is more common in HIV positive people although it is much less common now that …

A ‘rapid report’ covering the numerous new and upcoming drugs for hepatitis C – plus new guidelines from WHO and EASL…

The TAILOR study plans to enrol almost 400 HIV positive people who are already on stable HIV treatment. It will use different doses of telmisartan (20 mg, 400 mg and 80 mg) to see whether this reduces the risks of …

CROI 2014: 15 reports: ARVs, prevention, MTCT, paediatrics, TB and cure plus reviews of important basic science and cure research developments…

First reports from CROI 2014: no linked HIV transmissions when viral load is suppressed; 3-monthly PrEP injections, PI/r monotherapy, ACTG 5257, NEAT001, paediatric ARV pipeline, low dose efavirenz and more…

Women and HIV, research update on HIV persistence and cure, sofosbuvir approved for hepatitis C in the US and Europe, priced at $1000 a day…

TB treatment for children, reports from EACS, global funding for treatment, efavirenz and risk of suicide, i-Base job vacancies…

The study that could stop your next HIV test coming back positive…

UK cinema launch of the compelling documentary about the people who fought for the drugs we use today. Meet the director and other activists.