29 August 2008

Contents

Pregnancy

• Low rates of MTCT in UK and Ireland

Paediatric care

• WHO recommends treating all HIV-infected infants aged less than 12 months

• Plasma concentrations and virologic evaluations after stopping NNRTI treatment in PENTA 11

Guidelines

• UK (BHIVA) 2008 Treatment Guidelines published online

• Major updates to US guidelines on prevention and treatment of OIs (2008)

Basic science and immunology

• Elite control of a virus that caused AIDS in the transmitting partner

• Presentations from the May 21-23 HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) Meeting

• Failure of STEP leads TAG to criticise the proposed PAVE100A vaccine trial

Other news

• Free osteopathy for people with HIV at the British School of Osteopathy

• AIDS denialists shut out of Senate hearing after winning “whistleblower” award

• MTV internet game challenges ignorance and assumptions about who has HIV

On the web

• PRN notebook

• JACI special issue on prospects for eradication

• New resources from HIV InSite

• Overview of mucosal transmission