AIDS Treatment Update, Issue 45, September 1996
Edward King

A researcher exploring why some individuals remain uninfected with HIV, despite having been sexually exposed to the virus on numerous occasions, is keen to interview HIV-positive people who were infected recently.

By interviewing people who were infected within the last year and can recall their own likely exposure to HIV in the years prior to their diagnosis, she hopes to establish how much 'exposure' it usually takes for a person to become infected.

The structured interview can be taken either face-to-face, by telephone, by letter or by e-mail. Details will be held in the strictest confidence and will be linked only to code-numbers, not to individuals' names and addresses.

For more information, contact: Dr Emma Hirons, Clinical Research Fellow at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London; Tel 0171-725 6682/6790; Fax 0171-725 6604; E-mail e.aarons@ic.ac.uk.

* KS laser trial

The trial of photodynamic therapy for KS at the Royal Free Hospital in London, reported in AIDS Treatment Update issue 43, is also recruiting participants at the National Medical Laser Centre, 5 University Street, London WC1E 6JJ. Contact Dr Anshoo Sahota by telephoning 0171-209 6129/6137.

* Questions about HIV/AIDS treatments?

If you have questions about the information in AIDS Treatment Update or any other treatment-related issues and want to talk them through in confidence, call the AIDS Treatment Project's weekly information phone line on 0645 470047 (Wednesdays 6pm - 9pm; all calls charged at local stand the effects of a drug that used to be effective reverse transcriptase A retroviral enzyme which converts genetic material from RNA into DNA, an essential step in the lifecycle of HIV RNA The chemical form in which HIV stores its genetic material surrogate marker An indirect indicator of something such as the effect of a drug thymus A gland in the upper part of the chest, where cells produced in the bone marrow mature into effective immune system components viral load A measurement of the amount of virus in a sample

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