HTB

2001

GSK to review drug pricing policy: pharmaceuticals giant reacts to criticism over costs to poor countries

Oxfam launches stinging attack on drug industry over cheap medicines ban

Companies weigh offer of royalties for AIDS drugs aimed at Africa

Drugs need not be stopped because of neutropenia in HIV-positive patients

Effective antiretroviral therapy resolves HIV organ-specific complications in 3 children

Seroconversion in Kenyan sex-workers linked with reduced HIV-specific immune response

Prevalence and correlates of anaemia in a large cohort of HIV-positive women

HIV-related fatigue relieved by psychostimulants

Studies underway on metabolic side effects of antiretrovirals

Lactic acidosis in pregnant women receiving d4T (stavudine) and ddI (didanosine): EMEA issue statement

UK to start trials of new cervical cancer vaccine

Anal HPV infection common in HIV positive and high-risk HIV negative women

Plasma cysteine deficiency and decreased reduction of nitrososulfa-methoxazole with HIV Infection

Capravirine clinical trials restricted: additional safety evaluation required

Gilead announces start of early access program for investigational anti-HIV agent tenofovir DF in United States and France

Mortality from liver disease increasing in HIV-positive patients

First European guidelines for HIV-1 drug resistance testing (2001)

US HIV treatment guidelines updated for adults and adolescents (March 2001)

US perinatal treatment guidelines updated

Differentiating within and between drug classes: sometimes it’s toxicity, sometimes its efficacy

Intermittent versus continuous HAART

Viral load “blips” and eventual rebound

Interaction between garlic and saquinavir and underreporting of alternative treatment use

Solid organ transplant in HIV/hepatitis co-infected patients

HIV and women – overview

Update on HIV drug resistance

Update and review of bone studies

Treatment interruptions, structured and unplanned, immunotherapy and what’s in store

Primary infection and treatment issues

Volume 2 Number 2 March 2001 PDF

Serious adverse events attributed to nevirapine regimens for postexposure prophylaxis after HIV exposures – worldwide, 1997-2000

US FDA and Bristol-Myers Squibb issue caution for combination HIV therapy with stavudine (d4T) and didanosine (ddI) in pregnant women

French guidelines updated

Diagnosis of acute HIV infection: it’s time to get moving!

HAART initiated during primary HIV infection leads to faster and more complete immune reconstitution

Viral response to antiretroviral therapy slower during acute HIV-1 infection

Is the chance to cut a chance to cure? The Caesarean section controversy revisited

HIV infection increases susceptibility to Chlamydia trachomatis pelvic inflammatory disease

Protease inhibitors safe and effective in HIV-positive pregnant women

Pregnancy does not accelerate progression of HIV-1 infection

Spontaneous regression of CIN and delayed-type hypersensitivity to HPV-16 oncoprotein E7

Will cidofovir be useful against cervical lesions?

Vitamin based protocol for the treatment for lactic acidosis

Osteonecrosis in HIV

Indinavir nephrolithiasis more prevalent than initially thought

HIV protease inhibitors associated with hepatic cytolysis

Inflammatory stimulus may contribute to HIV lipodystrophy

Alpha-1 antitrypsin, a natural protein may block HIV

European Commission approves GlaxoSmithKline’s HIV triple therapy Trizivir

Lamivudine withdrawal may reactivate HBV in HIV-positive patients

CPMP delivers positive opinion on Kaletra

Plasma viral load in HIV-1 and HIV-2 singly and dually infected individuals in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa

Human papillomavirus (HPV) may speed HIV progression

Influenza vaccination does not accelerate HIV infection

Nef gene defects identified in paediatric long-term HIV survivors

Medication adherence poor for many HIV-infected children

Oral ganciclovir safe, effective for children co-infected with CMV and HIV

High cancer incidence in perinatally HIV-infected children

Functional aerobic impairment detected in HIV-seropositive teens

NIH scientists highlight role of macrophages in HIV infection

Chronically infected HIV patients can mount anti-HIV immune response

Structured treatment interruption: important controlled trial in monkeys

Baseline HIV levels, age determine degree of immune restoration with treatment

Anti-HIV CD4+ and CD8+ assay allows rapid estimation of anti-HIV T cell response

Interleukin-7 mediates T-cell homeostasis and increases HIV-1 replication

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