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Senate Approves Bill to Allow HIV+ Patients to Receive HIV+ Donor Organs

The U.S. Senate this week unanimously passed the HOPE Act, a bill that will make an exception to current law enabling people with HIV to receive organs for transplantation from another HIV positive individual. The measure now awaits approval from the House of Representatives.

Published
20 June 2013
From
HIVandhepatitis.com
Kidney problems
Tenofovir May Raise Risk of Kidney Damage, but Effect Tapers Over Time

Tenofovir raises the risk of kidney dysfunction among people with HIV, but the adverse effect occurs mostly within the first two years of therapy.  

Published
14 February 2013
From
AIDSMeds
Kidney problems
Kidney disease in HIV-Infected Patients: Guideline and Commentary

The New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute has issued timely new guidelines on kidney disease in HIV-infected adults. Key points emphasize the importance of informing and educating HIV-infected patients about the increased risk for kidney disease; routinely assessing kidney function in HIV-infected patients; recommending earlier antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation to patients with HIV-associated nephropathy; and assessing ART medication dosages, as well as other medications, when a patient's GFR reaches ≤ 50 mL/min.

Published
17 October 2012
From
Medscape (requires registration)
Health problems
More HIV-Positive Patients Receive Organ Transplants

Hospitals are increasingly willing to transplant vital and scarce organs into people who have HIV, a once-unthinkable step now made possible with drug regimens that are helping such patients live longer.

Published
12 October 2012
From
Wall Street Journal
Organ transplants
Plea to end transplant ban between HIV patients

A federal ban that forbids HIV-positive donors from giving organs to HIV-positive recipients is outdated and unnecessarily restrictive and should be repealed for the benefit of all transplant patients, says a growing clutch of health care and public health experts.

Published
02 July 2012
From
San Francisco Chronicle
Treatment outcomes and life expectancy
AIDS down, heart disease up in hospital admissions of HIV+ in US

Hospital admissions for AIDS illnesses dropped steadily from 2001 to 2008 in a four-center US study, while admissions for cardiovascular disease in HIV-positive people rose.

Published
29 March 2012
From
International AIDS Society
Kidney problems
Kidneys Take Centre Stage

Maggie Atkinson shines a much-needed spotlight on the latest research on HIV and kidney health and updates us on her efforts to keep her pair of these unassuming stars performing smoothly.

Published
06 February 2012
From
The Positive Side
Hepatitis and HIV
No HIV Disease Progression in Transplant Recipients

Now that people infected with HIV are living longer, physicians are seeing a growing number who need kidney or liver transplants because of comorbid conditions. But what happens when you take patients in an immunosuppressed population, give them new organs, and further immunosuppress them with drugs to prevent rejection of those organs?

Published
19 November 2011
From
Medscape (requires free registration)
Health problems
AMA Supports Allowing Research on Organ Transplantation Between HIV-Infected Individuals

The American Medical Association (AMA) today voted to support amending a federal law that bars clinical research of HIV-infected organ donation, as a potentially lifesaving measure for people living with HIV.

Published
15 November 2011
From
American Medical Association
Treatment guidelines
2011 European AIDS Clinical Society adult treatment guidelines

Updated adult treatment guidelines were issued by the European AIDS Clinical Society at the 12th European AIDS Conference, Belgrade, 12-15 October 2011. The guidelines include specific recommendations on managing co-morbidities and hepatitis B coinfection in people living with HIV.

Published
17 October 2011
From
EACS
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

Together, we can make it happen

We can end HIV soon if people have equal access to HIV drugs as treatment and as PrEP, and have free choice over whether to take them.

Launched today, the Community Consensus Statement is a basic set of principles aimed at making sure that happens.

The Community Consensus Statement is a joint initiative of AVAC, EATG, MSMGF, GNP+, HIV i-Base, the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, ITPC and NAM/aidsmap
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