HIV Treatment Bulletin: January/February 2012 - Volume 13 Number 1/2

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Editorial

Volume

13 Number 1/2 January/February 2012

Special

reports

Supplement:

HIV testing and risks of sexual transmission

Conference

reports

2nd

International Workshop on HIV & Women, 9-10 January 2012,

Bethesda, USA

Similar

efficacy and a few gender related differences in side effects with

rilpivirine vs efavirenz at 96-weeks

The

effect of BMI on efficacy, safety and tolerability of lopinavir/r in

women

Hormonal

contraception and higher risk of non-AIDS-defining events in Nashville

cohort

Poorer

adherence and loss to follow up in Kenyan women who are pregnant when

enrolled to ART programmes

5th

HIV Persistence Workshop on HIV Reservoirs, 6-9 December 2011, West

Indies

Workshop

report and commentary

Antiretrovirals

Nevirapine

prolonged release (PR) once-daily formulation available in the

UK

Etravirine

200 mg formulation available in UK

Tenofovir

label extended to paediatric indication

FDA

approve US paediatric dose for raltegravir

FDA

approve paediatric dose for darunavir

Efavirenz

dose increase to 800 mg QD with rifampin in patients >50

kg

Guidelines

Draft

BHIVA ARV treatment guidelines online for comment until 5

March

BHIVA

guidelines for the routine investigation and monitoring of adult

HIV-1-infected individuals 2011

Draft

BHIVA pregnancy guidelines online for comment until 5

March

Paediatric

care

Delaying

ART in childhood can reduce long-term CD4 count in

adulthood

TB

coinfection

Need

for expanded access to two promising MDR TB drugs

PK and drug

interactions

Interactions

between nevirapine and antimalarials (artemether and

lumefantrine)

Interactions

between antiretrovirals and complementary and African traditional

medicines

Drug

interactions between sirolimus (rapamycin) and ARVs

Contraceptive

failure with etonogestrel implants and efavirenz: case

reports

Opportunistic

infections and complications

No

increased risk of non-AIDS deaths from cumulative use of ART in

EuroSIDA cohort

Treatment

access

FDA

approval of generic ARVs

Disastrous

warning for global HIV programmes in 2012

Janssen

block Patent Pool access to darunavir, rilpivirine and

etravrine

UNITAID

continues funding the Patent Pool, paediatric HIV medicines and

malaria

Michel

Kazatchkine resigns from Global Fund: Jaramillo, Brazilian

banker, to serve as general manager

Call

to Action on Global Fund restriction to new funding to

2014

Analysis

of why the Global Fund cancelled Round 11

Reaction

to the Global Fund’s decisions on Round 11 and grant

renewals

Activists

oppose Gates Foundation funding study using low dose

d4T

Transmission

and prevention

NICE

guidance on increasing the uptake of HIV testing

Other

news

London

Commissioning: new announcements

Book and film

reviews

Testosterone:

A man’s guide: practical tips for boosting physical, mental and

sexual vitality; by Vergel

On the

web

2011

HIV Persistence Workshop

A

Call for Comprehensive Responses to HIV in People Who Use

Drugs

Achieving

a cure for HIV infection: do we have reasons to be

optimistic?

Future

meetings

2012

conference listing

PDFs

Volume

13 Number 1/2 January/February 2012 PDF

Introduction to combination therapy July 2010 [830 Kb] http://i-base.info/guides/starting

Guide to

changing treatment and drug resistance February 2011 [780Kb] http://i-base.info/guides/changing

HIV and your

quality of life: a guide to side effects and other complications December

2010 [1.2Mb] http://i-base.info/guides/side

Guide to HIV, pregnancy & women’s health September 2011 (1.1

Mb)

http://i-base.info/guides/pregnancy

Hepatitis C for people living with HIV March 2009 [887 Kb] http://i-base.info/guides/hepc

HIV testing and

sexual transmission

http://i-base.info/guides/testing

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