A revision to the Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Injected Adults and Adolescents was published October 29, 2004. The most current version of this and other U.S. HIV-related guidelines is always available http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/--in either PDF, HTML, or PDA format. Changes in this revision include when to start antiretroviral treatment, what to start with, discontinuation or interruption of antiretroviral therapy, and special populations: HIV-infected adolescents, i...[ Details... ]
The 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, February 22-25, 2005, in Boston, has nine different deadlines, three of them on November 23: Community Educator Program Applications, Community Press Applications, and International Scholarship Applications. Note that some people will need to obtain a scholarship even if they do not need the money, as otherwise they will not be allowed into the conference, which is not open to everyone. "Community Press" means AIDS news...[ Details... ]
The 2004 World AIDS Day (December 1) will focus on "Women, Girls, HIV & AIDS." Local organizations plan and carry out most World AIDS Day events independently, often working through regional coordinators. This year there is no regional coordinator in the United States, but organizations can find background and many resources at http://www.unaids.org/wac2004/index_en.htm A 23-page Strategy Note for the 2004 World AIDS Campaign on women and girls is filled with compelling informatio...[ Details... ]
Access to Health Care for the Incarcerated (a working group of the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition, ATAC), is fighting for the health care rights of prisoners with hepatitis C and HIV. While many states have adopted HIV and hepatitis C treatment guidelines, prisons often have huge discrepancies between official policy and actual practice of medical care. Many prisons, for example, use restrictions to limit treatment eligibility and avoid the cost of medically necessary care. Prisoners who are able t...[ Details... ]
What does the November 2, 2004 U.S. election mean for AIDS? No one knows yet, until we see what happens with the second term of President Bush, and the more "conservative" Congress. Washington's response to AIDS has been largely bipartisan in some respects, and it is not clear how well this will continue. But clearly some facts will not change--and clearly we must do better in some ways, especially in funding advocacy, regardless of what happens in Washington. What will not change:...[ Details... ]
AIDS Treatment News #405 included an erroneous reference to the "Mood Swings" commentary on depression in Nature Medicine. The correct reference is: "Mood Swings," by A. Mandavilli. Nature Medicine. October 2004, volume 10, number 10, pages 1010-1012.COPYRIGHT 2004 John S. JamesCOPYRIGHT 2004 Gale Group...[ Details... ]
An article in the September 9, 2004 New England Journal of Medicine reported that patients using the antibiotic erythromycin at the same time as drugs that strongly inhibited cytochrome P-450 3A (CYP3A, an enzyme in the liver that helps remove many drugs from the body) had an increased risk of sudden death from cardiac (heart) causes. But those who used amoxicillin, a different antibiotic, instead of erythromycin, did not have the problem. The authors concluded "concurrent use of erythromycin and ...[ Details... ]
The November 2004 HIV AIDS Treatment Insider (published by the American Foundation for AIDS Research) has a short overview of the controversy around using Kaletra alone for HIV treatment for some patients--mainly as an option for those who would otherwise have no antiretroviral treatment because they could not afford it. (1) A trial in Houston, Texas with 30 patients reported 48-week data at the big AIDS conference in Bangkok. Thailand in July. The article, a fair presentation of both sides, al...[ Details... ]
The U.S. National Institutes of Health is seeking public comment on a proposal for "establishing a comprehensive, searchable resource of NIH-funded research results and providing free access for all"--but with important limitations. The proposal, summarized in a single page, is at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-04-064.html. Basically, NIH plans to ask its grantees to submit a final manuscript to NIH after it has been peer reviewed. when it is accepted for publi...[ Details... ]
Diver Greg Louganis and actor Chad Allen spoke about their struggles with depression at a public forum in New York (at the LGBT center on October 11), and will speak again in San Francisco on October 27, to raise awareness of the problem in the gay community. Men who have sex with men may be three times as likely as others to experience depression in their lifetime. These forums are sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, the Association of Gay and Lesbian Psychiatrists, and GlaxoSmithKline....[ Details... ]
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