February 6, 2001

• Daily Summaries from the 8th Conference Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections - From Medscape, free registration required. See also the official conference website.

February 3, 2001

• New HIV Treatment Guidelines Available - Download the latest guidelines on HIV treatment from the HIV Treatment Information Service.

February 2, 2001

• Eighth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections
• Protest letter to GlaxoSmithKline
  Press release, sign-ons from international community of activists.

January 30, 2001

• Community sign-on letter to Glaxo re Ghana/South Africa lawsuits

January 28, 2001

• Look at Brazil: Patent laws are malleable. Patients are educable. Drug companies are vincible. The world's AIDS crisis is solvable. By TINA ROSENBERG, New York Times Magazine.

January 26, 2001

• J'accuse: The West is willfully turning its back on the greatest human tragedy of our age, says the former deputy head of Unicef. "I want someone to explain to me why it isn't called murder." - by Stephen Lewis, former Canadian ambassador to the UN and deputy executive director of UNICEF. From the Globe & Mail newspaper, Canada.
• Hep C drug may increase nucleoside analogue toxicity - from aidsmap.com
• January Issue of The Hopkins Report - Including technical article on Structured Therapeutic Interruptions by Joel N. Blankson, M.D., Ph.D., and Robert F. Siliciano, M.D., Ph.D.

January 24, 2001

• New Guidelines on preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission available: "Public Health Service Task Force Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-1 Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV-1 Transmission in the United States." Download the document in PDF format from the HIVATIS website guidelines library.
• Risk of HIV treatment liver toxicity higher in people with hepatitis -Reuters Health

January 23, 2001

• Increasing Mortality Due to End-Stage Liver Disease in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection - New study from the Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

January 22, 2001

• Reactivation of hepatitis B seen in HIV-infected patients after starting HAART - Reuters Health
• Ketoconazole (Nizoral) causes disproportionate increase in CSF levels of ritonavir (Norvir) - Reuters Health
• Discontinuing Prophylaxis for Opportunistic Infections - from Jules Levin, NATAP - a technical report on stopping PCP prevention, including free downloads of recent scientific studies.

January 17, 2001

• Hydroxyurea may trigger pancreatitis when combined with didanosine (ddI, Videx) - Reuters Health

January 15, 2001

• Low health literacy portends low CD4+ cell counts, high viral load levels - Reuters Health

January 12, 2001

• d4T plus ddI: Warning for Pregnant Women - AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #358
• Nevirapine Warning on Post-Exposure Prophylaxis - AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #358

January 11, 2001

• Highly active antiretroviral therapy implicated in osteonecrosis (bone death) in HIV-infected patients - Reuters Health. For a more technical review of this condition, see the report by Andrew Carr, MD on the National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project website.

December 27 - 29, 2000

• Death Watch - Three new additions to the excellent Washington Post series on AIDS in Africa.

December 13, 2000

• Indinavir(Crixivan) Implicated in Adhesive Capsulitis of the Shoulder - from HIVandHepatitis.com/Reuters Health.
• Insulin Therapy Increases Weight Gain, Well Being in AIDS Patient - from HIVandHepatitis.com/Reuters Health.

December 7, 2000

• Hepatitis B and C increase risk of liver toxicity after starting HAART - from AIDSMap.com.
• Treatment interruptions in salvage therapy: latest - from AIDSMap.com.

December 1, 2000

• DO THESE MEN MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS? - World AIDS Day report card from the Global Treatment Access Campaign. See also:
• Global Treatment Access: Call for 95% Price Reduction; New GTAC Organization, Web Site - from AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #356.
• World AIDS Day links and stories - from The University of California at San Francisco's HIVInsite.
• Structured Treatment Interruption: Important Controlled Trial in Monkeys - from AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #356.
• Answering the AIDS Denialists: Is AIDS Real? - from AIDS TREATMENT NEWS Issue #356.

November 10

• Nevirapine liver toxicity: US reminder issued - from AIDSMap.com

November 2, 2000

• Sustiva (efavirenz) side effects become long-term for over one in three - from AIDSMap.
• FDA Approves New Formulation of Videx (ddI) - from HIVandHepatitis.com.

October 23, 2000

• Glasgow conference confirms swing to later treatment - from AIDSMAP

October 20, 2000

• Vaccine Controls AIDS Virus in Early Tests on Monkeys - from The New York Times