February 2016

Contents

Editorial

• Jan/Feb 2016: Volume 17 Number 1/2

Conference reports

• 46th World Conference on Lung Health of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease

• Promising first results with a 9-month regimen for multidrug resistant tuberculosis in French-speaking African countries

• Pharmacokinetics of old and new TB drugs for children

• The REALITY trial: cotrimoxazole/isoniazid/pyridoxine tablets are bioequivalent to individual products and are acceptable to participants

• BHIVA Autumn Conference 2015, 12-13 November 2015, London

• Selected webcasts from BHIVA Autumn conference 2015

Antiretrovirals

• BMS sells pipeline compounds to ViiV Healthcare

• EU provide positive approval for generic lopinavir/ritonavir

• Further results using dolutegravir monotherapy: urgent need for controlled studies

• Potential economic impact of dolutegravir/3TC dual therapy

Treatment access

• Treatment as Prevention (TasP) in the UK supports access to ART at any CD4 count

• WHO 2015 guidelines: newly recommended generic ART products on the way for adults

• Better generic ART for low and middle income countries: dolutegravir at US $44 a year

• When Global Fund support ends: Sustainability lessons from transitions in Costa Rica, Fiji, Romania, and Bulgaria

Guidelines

• New US guidelines strengthen recommendation for ART irrespective of CD4 count (January 2016)

Side effects

• Renal monitoring in people living with HIV: a new review

Hepatitis coinfection

• NICE approves ombitasvir, paritaprevir, ritonavir with or without dasabuvir to treat adult HCV

• NICE approves daclatasvir to treat adult HCV

HIV prevention and transmission

• European application underway for PrEP indication for tenofovir/FTC

• VAT may be payable when importing generic medicines in to the UK

• South African Medicines Control Council approves tenofovir/FTC for PrEP

• Two cases of HIV transmission on tenofovir DF monotherapy

Cure-related research

• Developing multi-pronged antibodies to target the HIV reservoir

Other news

• Public Health England reports cases of microbial resistant Shigella

On the web

• 6th International Workshop on HIV and Aging

• 15th EACS Conference: webcasts online

• RITA: HIV and smoking

PDFs

• January/February 2016: Volume 17 Number 1/2