AIDS Treatment News

AIDS Treatment News, the world's first treatment newsletter for people with HIV, reports on mainstream and alternative treatment, access to care, Web resources, public policy, and political action.

October

Flu Shot Reminder: AIDS Treatment News "alert" October 11, 2007; A good time to get the annual shots is October or November, before the flu season begins.
New Kind of Antiretroviral, KP-1461; Clinical Trial Recruiting. Interview with Stephen Becker, M.D.: AIDS Treatment News "alert" October 11, 2007; John S. James; KP-1461, an experimental HIV drug already in a phase II trial, works so differently from other antiretrovirals that at first glance it looked like science fiction, and we found it hard to take seriously as a current possibility today. In fact this drug is highly credible, and based on elegant science that goes back at least 25 years. KP-1461 is the only antiretroviral in human use or testing that can eradicate HIV from laboratory cell cultures. No one knows how it will work in people -- but we might know by the second quarter of 2008, when the current phase II trial could be complete. AIDS Treatment News interviewed Dr. Stephen Becker, a leading AIDS physician and researcher who is vice president of clinical development at Koronis Pharmaceuticals, in Seattle, Washington.
Isentress (Raltegravir) Pricing: Community Sign-On Letter: AIDS Treatment News "alert" October 11, 2007; John S. James; The Fair Pricing Coalition and others are collecting signatures until this important Merck drug (the first integrase inhibitor) is approved and launched.
AIDS Treatment News New Toll-Free Phone Number, 800-804-8845: AIDS Treatment News "alert" October 11, 2007; Our new toll-free editorial and business number is 1-800-804-8845 -- weekdays 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time (11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time), or leave a message. This number is for editorial and business calls; please do not list it as a hotline.
AIDS Hotlines: 800-CDC-INFO, Toll-Free, 24-hr, English or Español: AIDS Treatment News "alert" October 11, 2007; Quick reference for telephone information.
AIDS Treatment News Daily Alerts: www.aidsnews.org/now: AIDS Treatment News "alert" October 11, 2007; John S. James; See our selection of treatment news updated every day at www.aidsnews.org/now -- free, ad-free, and registration-free. You can scan AIDS treatment developments in a few minutes a week, right on the Web page -- or subscribe by email or RSS if you wish. For the latest background on this project, see www.aidsnews.org/doc.

July

Online Fundraising New Ideas: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 14, 2007; John S. James; Fundraising isn't working well today and needs new business models. This writer developed a series of designs from a new approach to ecommerce: online financial accounts that can reproduce at their owner's command, creating new accounts that can inherit any number of capabilities, and evolve in grassroots community use (the idea is confusing at first because it is so new -- we will explain). From this basic idea come potential fundraising innovations that you never heard of before. In this series of four short articles we put some of them on the table for public discussion and use. All our work is rights-free.
Activism and Online Fundraising: Overview: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 14, 2007; John S. James; Why is fundraising so hard when millions of people want to help, and have plenty of surplus money between them -- thousands of times what AIDS and health activism would need? How could we provide better opportunities for giving?
"Fundathon": Toward Massively Multiplayer Online Fundraising Games: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 14, 2007; John S. James; Fundraising campaigns could be elaborate local or global contests or games to raise money for good causes -- showing financial results instantly, costing almost nothing, and letting donors, teams and individual fundraisers make their mark.
Selling Digital Art in Bulk through Prepaid URLs: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 14, 2007; John S. James; Suppose a major donor anywhere in the world could sponsor tens of thousands (or any number) of copies of a song, video, or any other digital "content" -- letting tens of thousands of people in social networks just click to download free, with no registration ever, instantly paying the artists or a cause by the act of free downloading itself. And each sponsor can deliver a message to the thousands of anonymous end users who download from his or her contribution. We show how independent artists could market globally at no expense if people care about their work -- offering an alternative to corporate monoculture. Or artists could donate their digital original to an organization that will use it this way to raise funds.
Financial Accounts That Can Reproduce, Inherit, and Evolve: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 14, 2007; John S. James; Here we show the power of this idea, and some unusual business and fundraising models it will make possible.
Major International AIDS Society Conference in Sydney, Australia, July 22-25: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 10, 2007; John S. James; Watch for treatment and prevention research news late this month, and following.
Is Cure Possible for HIV?: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 11, 2007; David Scondras; The c-word is coming back due to new research, after a decade of banishment.
AIDS Search Engine Wanted: What to Do Now?: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 10, 2007; John S. James; Simply adding 'HIV' to your search works pretty well to make any online search AIDS-related.
AEGIS: AOL Blocked Email; RSS Is Better Than Email for News: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 10, 2007; John S. James; RSS works better than email for receiving or distributing online news, and AEGIS has suggested that its email users switch.
Sex and Drugs: New Government Data on U.S. Sexual Behavior, Drug Use: AIDS Treatment News "alert" July 11, 2007; John S. James; The most accurate information available provides a reality check in this highly politicized area.

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