NEW YORK - Refusing to swallow what they say is an outrageous price for an oral AIDS medication, about 10 members of the AIDS activist group ACT UP from New York and Philadelphia staged a protest inside the Manhattan-based international headquarters of Bristol-Myers Squibb Wednesday. The protest, which was at the compa
A study from Rome of 1,251 people with HIV found they experienced similar efficacy whether they were taking the protease inhibitor ritonavir or indinavir in combination with nucleoside analogs. The study was reported in the Nov. 20 issue of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses.
About 60 percent of people with HIV who are taking drug therapies have asked their physicians for help in implementing strategic treatment interruptions, according to an informal poll conducted last month at a conference of disease specialists. New York researcher-clinician Roy Gulick asked an audience of physicians an
One of the most commonly prescribed nucleoside analogs -- d4t or stavudine -- may be capable of causing a life-threatening liver dysfunction in a small percentage of patients, notes an article from a National Institutes of Health team. The syndrome -- known as hepatic steatosis and lactic acidosis -- had been associate
Just two weeks away from the international AIDS conference, the assessment still seems to be quite cautious about the prospects for patients to benefit from deliberate -- or strategic -- interruption of therapy. One of the leading optimists for the therapy, Dr. Franco Lori of the Research Institute for Genetic Human Th
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Lynde Francis keeps a gentle voice for the woman on the other end of the phone, but her face shows her real frustration. She sits with her head in her hand, grimacing, as she tries to talk the anonymous caller into taking a second HIV-antibody test. You aren t there with your husband 24 hours a day,
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe - It is a little after midnight and, for sleepy Bulawayo, that is late enough for everything to be closed. Bulawayo may be the second most cosmopolitan city in the country, seen as the capital of western Zimbabwe, but it is still a far cry from the excitement of Harare. Simba and Carlos know this, bu
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Ska remembers wanting to go back for her other shoe. She remembers a security guard, with his orange and green uniform, standing idle and watching the beating. And she remembers thinking, at first, there was only one attacker but then realizing, after someone grabbed her from behind and locked her ar
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The words slam across the reports pages: Lesbians should be sewn up ; Homosexuality must be punishable by hanging ; Homosexuality and lesbianism should be banned and culprits must be severely penalized by death, castration. These are some of the responses government-appointed commissioners recorded j
For at least the second time in two years, experts are warning doctors to carefully monitor their patients with HIV who are taking the non-nucleoside antiviral nevirapine , particularly in the first two months of taking the drug. The statement also urged that patients with a history of skin and liver complaints, such a
The ACT UP/Golden Gate chapter did last week what no chapter has ever done: It dropped ACT UP from its name. Why? To put an end to the continuing confusion between ACT UP/Golden Gate and a group of people using the name ACT UP/ San Francisco, said they group. From now on, the ACT UP/Golden Gate group is to be known as
Florida prosecutors say they are looking into the possibility that a large number of people with HIV/AIDS have conspired with certain insurance agents and viatical settlement brokers to defraud many of the nation s life insurance companies out of millions of dollars. In a development that has stunned AIDS advocacy grou
A report in the Jan. 1 issue of the journal AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses warns that the influenza virus may contribute to HIV disease progression in at least one more way than originally understood. For years, experts have noted that common infections, such as the flu, are more dangerous for people with comprom
With all the alarming reports last week about the study showing that oral sex carries a higher risk of transmitting HIV than originally thought, one important detail was missing. The reports were that, in the most definitive study to date, researchers found that eight out of 102 Gay and bisexual men most likely acquir
Out of more than 850 reports delivered at the Retrovirus conference this week, only one addressed the oral transmission of HIV among men having sex with men, and that one was a poster in a far corner of a large exhibit hall. But the news was worrisome and attracted a swarm of observers Tuesday afternoon, followed by a
SAN FRANCISCO - If there is one thing a person can count on with HIV disease, it is this: almost nothing. After years of growing consensus around the strategy of hit early, hit hard, many experts now appear to be backing off the early. After assuming the development of certain fat deposits were linked to the use of
The Lesbian Services Program of Whitman-Walker Clinic has begun recruiting women with HIV to take part in a study funded by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to determine whether there are any cases of female-to-female sexual transmission of the virus. Another goal of the study, which will involve
For the first time, Gay and bisexual men of color now outnumber white Gay and bisexual men in newly diagnosed AIDS cases, according to a new study published today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, published in the Jan. 14 issue of the CDC s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, says da
Once again, a group of researchers has emerged with some evidence to argue that early intervention with a triple-drug therapy can have a major effect on the outcome of HIV infection and provide[s] the highest chance of normalization of the immune system. The latest to weigh in is a team led by renowned Italian research
Only five percent of people with HIV infection in Thailand can afford even the cheapest of HIV medications, say activists in that country, and many believe that pressure from the U.S. prevents the Thai government from making the drugs available more cheaply. That is why, on Dec. 23, more than 100 activists and people w
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