October 2018

Contents

Editorial

• 19 October 2018: vol 19 no 16: BHIVA and Ageing Conferences, PrEP guidelines

Conference reports

• BHIVA Autumn Conference 2018

• Second case of potential HIV eradication

• New UK PrEP guidelines 2018

• Other selected talks at BHIVA Autumn 2018

• 9th International Workshop on HIV and Ageing

• Detectable viral load quadruples odds of recurrent falls in older men with HIV

• More than 40% of HIV group has hepatic steatosis, regardless of age

• Associations of loneliness with cognitive function and quality of life (QoL) among older adults living with HIV – 18% lonely quite often

• Physical function worse in older women than men with HIV, despite better CD4 recovery

Antiretrovirals

• Dolutegravir/lamividune FDC submitted to EMA and FDA

Treatment access

• UK government funding cuts leave sexual health and HIV care at breaking point

• Brazilian court suspends patent on hepatitis C medicine sofosbuvir

Guidelines

• UK PrEP guidelines now online (2018)

Cure-related research

• Post-AIDS 2018 updates on HIV cure research

Other news

• HIV positive mother is living donor to negative child: HIV is considered an acceptable outcome of liver transplant

• LGBT HIV activist Zak Kostopoulos murdered in Athens: campaign calls for justice

PDFs

• 19 October 2018: vol 19 no 16