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09/02/2010 03:40 PM
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Kenyan study shows people with HIV can provide safe, effective community management of ART
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Community-based
care delivered to adults living with HIV by people living with HIV using mobile
technologies provided care as safe and effective as clinic-based care,
researchers report in the advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.
This prospective
community randomised clinical pilot study was conducted in villages surrounding
a rural clinic
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09/02/2010 10:50 AM
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Imiquimod a good treatment for pre-cancerous anal lesions in men with HIV
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HIV treatment centres should screen and
treat pre-cancerous anal lesions, UK investigators argue in the
online edition of AIDS. They were
prompted to make this suggestion by research showing that treatment with
imiquimod cream resolved or downgraded high-grade pre-cancerous anal lesions in
61% of HIV-positive gay men.
Although the investigators do not claim
that imiquimod will
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09/01/2010 11:00 AM
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People with HIV with higher CD4 counts should not miss seasonal flu jabs
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HIV-positive patients with a CD4 cell count
below 350 cells/mm3 have an impaired immune response to the seasonal
influenza (flu) vaccine, Swiss investigators report in the September 10th
edition of AIDS. They recommend that all HIV-positive patients
should have an annual influenza vaccine to help them to establish flu-specific
memory immune cells, the formation of
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09/01/2010 08:40 AM
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Nevirapine toxicity in women predicted by liver function, not CD4 count, developing country study reports
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Abnormal liver function tests at baseline, not CD4 cell
counts over 250 cells/mm³,
were predictors for severe liver damage and associated rash researchers among
women in Zambia, Thailand and Kenya on a nevirapine-based
antiretroviral regimen reported in a multi-country prospective cohort study published
in the advance online edition of HIV
Medicine.
Close to 70 percent of the
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08/31/2010 01:20 PM
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Vitamin A supplements linked to high HIV levels in breast milk
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Research in Tanzania shows
that women with HIV who took vitamin A and beta-carotene (VA/BC) supplements
had more HIV in their breast milk than those who did not, while women who took
multivitamins were more likely to develop mastitis. Both are major risk factors
for HIV transmission during breastfeeding
The discovery of
an association between vitamin
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08/31/2010 10:30 AM
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Many HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder
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A third of HIV-positive gay men have
post-traumatic stress disorder, UK investigators report in AIDS Patient Care and STDs. Events including starting treatment,
HIV-related illness, and witnessing an HIV-related death were all linked to the
development of symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. Emotional
responses to such events - rather than actual physical threat
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08/31/2010 09:10 AM
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Low CD4 cell count associated with poor response to swine flu vaccine for those with HIV
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Many HIV-positive patients do not develop
protective antibody levels after receiving the standard dose of the swine flu
vaccine, a study published in the September 10th edition of AIDS shows. A low current CD4 cell count
was the only factor associated with a poor response to the vaccine.
“The implications of this research
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08/30/2010 06:30 PM
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Haiti study shows lab tests sometimes cost-effective for HIV, even in poorest countries
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Only routine laboratory monitoring for asymptomatic anaemia was
clinically beneficial and cost-effective when compared to symptom-driven
testing in a study of HIV-positive patients in Haiti.
The retrospective study of a cohort of 1800 adult patients
at the Haitian Study Group for Kaposi’s sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections
(GHESKIO) in Haiti
on antiretroviral treatment from 2003 to 2006
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08/30/2010 12:40 PM
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HCV protease inhibitors likely to work for co-infected patients previously treated for HCV
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Previous treatment with pegylated interferon and ribavirin
will not reduce the effectiveness of hepatitis C protease inhibitors in
HIV-positive patients, US investigators report in the September 15th
edition of the Journal of Infectious
Diseases.
The study involved 26 HIV/hepatitis-co-infected patients.
The genetic diversity of hepatitis C was evaluated in patients before and after
they started treatment for
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08/27/2010 12:40 PM
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HIV diagnoses fall as treatment expands in British Columbia
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Canadian
researchers have published a large cohort study indicating that higher uptake of
antiretroviral therapy might reduce HIV transmission considerably in some
populations.
While there is
widespread recognition that limiting HIV replication by taking ART makes
HIV-positive people less infectious, evidence is still limited regrading the population-level HIV prevention impact of expanding ART coverage.
The Canadian
team set
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