Conference reports

Financing the global response to the epidemic will cost $9.2 billion a year, according to one estimate

The Global Fund: what, where, how much?

Leading businesses spurn Global Fund

14 Caribbean governments sign cut-price drugs agreement with six pharmaceutical companies

Thailand offers low-cost transfer to African countries of technology for the local production of generic antiretrovirals

Informal market plays a role in distributing antiretrovirals but exposes clients to risks

Abacavir hypersensitivity reactions in patients who rechallenge after interruptions for reasons other than hypersensitivity

Prolonged CNS side-effects of efavirenz can be severe and lead to treatment discontinuation

Four drug regimen for infants

Study of MTCT programme finds resistance in women on two doses of monotherapy

Emergence of resistance in children treated with ddI/d4T after treatment to reduce MTCT

Correlates of fatigue in HIV disease

Optimum hydroxyurea dose determined

Management of people with treatment experience and drug resistance

HIV-associated malignancies in the HAART era: flickers of hope and understanding

Lopinavir/r exhibits sustained virologic response in antiretroviral-naïve patients: 3-year data

Patients will have options regarding T-20 (enfuvirtide) injection sites

The role of tenofovir in antiretroviral-naive patients

Treatment interruption strategy reports from the XIV International AIDS Conference

New data from clinical trials of antiretrovirals

Behind the headlines about vaccine research

9th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Seattle, Februrary 24-28 2002

New research points the way for future treatment of women with HIV

3rd International Workshop on Clinical Pharmacology of HIV Therapy, Washington, 11-13 April 2002

Three studies compare gender differences in use of antiretrovirals

9th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), Seattle, Februrary 24-28 2002

Study results shed light on cardiovascular risks: role of antiretrovirals and metabolism of lipids and sugars

Switch to abacavir improves lipoatrophy

Potential use of niacin to reduce intra-abdominal fat

Further benefits shown with New-Fill for facial atrophy

Lipodystrophy associated with lower CD4+ T cell counts

Treatment interruptions

Analysis of cells from long term non-progressors points the way to using vaccines and STIs to restore immune response to HIV

Symposium on T cell turnover and thymic function

New drugs: perhaps some genuine excitement this time

T20 and beyond: inhibition of HIV attachment and fusion at the 9th CROI

Pharmacogenetics predict abacavir hypersensitivity

Pregnancy: growing body of evidence supports treating maternal disease

Peripheral neuropathy update

41st Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC), Chicago, 16-19 December 2001

Low dose pegylated interferon is ineffective in treating HIV/HCV co-infected patients

Phenotypic resistance to ddI is less frequent than resistance to ZDV, 3TC and abacavir

Impact of Kaletra on amprenavir plasma concentrations in HIV treatment-experienced patients

Immune reconstitution more difficult with low baseline CD4+ T cell counts

HIV-1 may revert to less pathogenic strain a few days after starting HAART

Change from CCR5 to CXCR4 phenotype may affect immunologic responses

ddI EC (Videx) study confirms and clarifies dosing on an empty stomach

Swatch study: should we be cycling drugs?

New HIV drugs, resistance, pharmacogenomics

Antiretroviral therapy

Immunopathogenesis of HIV infection

3rd International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV, Athens, 23-26 October 2001

Insulin resistance

Thyroid function abnormalities

Lipodystrophy and metabolic changes in children

Bone studies at lipodystrophy workshop

8th European Conference on Clinical Aspects and Treatment of HIV-infection, Athens, 28-31 October 2001

HIV drug resistance can develop under HAART at low levels of viraemia

Combinations of lopinavir/r and amprenavir in heavily treatment experienced patients

Further reports of benefits of polylactic acid for facial lipoatrophy

GigaHAART study shows benefit of treatment interruption prior to treatment with >7 drugs in highly treatment experienced patients

Tenofovir DF 907 study

The Max Cmin 1 trial: indinavir/ritonavir vs. saquinavir/ritonavir

No significant drug interactions found between tenofovir DF and indinavir, lopinavir/r, lamivudine, or efavirenz

Ritonavir corrects drug interaction between efavirenz and saquinavir

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