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AIDS issue of the British medical journal The Lancet online

The “AIDS Issue” of the British medical journal The Lancet is now online at www.thelancet.com. Many of the articles are available for free, after registering on the site.

The Lancet, Volume 368, Number 9534, 05 August 2006
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/issue?volume=368&issue=9534

Contents include many articles, opinion and discussion articles in addition to research papers, including

  • AIDS in 2006 marks the time to deliver – Gayle HD
  • HAART’s first decade: success brings further challenges – Dore GJ, Cooper DA
  • Microbicides: stopping HIV at the gate
  • HIV/AIDS harm reduction in Iran
  • Scaling up antiretroviral treatment in resource-poor settings (3 articles)
  • Russia, the G8, and HIV
  • Informing children of their HIV status
  • ESPRIT trial – 4 letter and authors reply
  • Heart disease in Africa

Primary Research

  • HIV treatment response and prognosis in Europe and North America in the first decade of highly active antiretroviral therapy
  • CD4-guided scheduled treatment interruptions compared with continuous therapy for patients infected with HIV-1
  • Durable efficacy of tipranavir-ritonavir in combination with an optimised background regimen of antiretroviral drugs for treatment-experienced HIV-1-infected patients at 48 weeks in the Randomized Evaluation of Strategic Intervention in multi-drug reSistant patients with Tipranavir (RESIST) studies: an analysis of combined data from two randomised open-label trials
  • The KLEAN study of fosamprenavir-ritonavir versus lopinavir-ritonavir, each in combination with abacavir-lamivudine, for initial treatment of HIV infection over 48 weeks: a randomised non-inferiority trial

Department of Ethics

  • Circumcision and HIV prevention research: an ethical analysis
  • AIDS: from crisis management to sustained strategic response – Peter Piot
  • An examination of the Global Fund at 5 years

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