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New HIV Treatment Guidelines Focus on Comorbid Conditions

The latest guidelines of the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), released here at the society's 13th European AIDS Conference, give special emphasis to comorbid conditions that may occur in patients infected with HIV.

Published
16 October 2011
From
Medscape (requires registration)
Kidney problems
Zimbabwe: HIV Positive Renal Patients in Dilemma - AllAfrica.com

Major public hospitals are facing an acute shortage of dialysis machines with major referal centres excluding renal patients living with HIV and Aids from treatment.

Published
28 September 2011
From
Google Alerts HIV
Kidney problems
Botswana: HIV biggest cause of kidney malfunction

HIV has become the biggest cause of kidney diseases, says the Chairman of the Board of Riverside Private Hospital, Dr Kgosidialwa Mompati.

Published
07 July 2011
From
Mmegi Online
Kidney problems
Allowing people with HIV to be organ donors could save lives of HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure

If the U.S. Congress reversed its ban on allowing people with HIV to be organ donors after their death, roughly 500 HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure each year could get transplants within months, rather than the years they currently wait on the list, new research suggests.

Published
25 May 2011
From
Science Daily
Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
A New Push to Let HIV Patients Accept Organs That Are Infected

For Mr Aldridge, 45, and other HIV patients, a potential source of kidneys and livers is off limits, because it is illegal in the United States to transplant organs from donors who test positive for the virus — even to others who test positive.

Published
11 April 2011
From
New York Times
Medical procedures and other blood-borne exposure
Could HIV-infected organs save lives?

If Congress reversed its ban on allowing people with HIV to be organ donors after their death, roughly 500 HIV-positive patients with kidney or liver failure each year could get transplants within months, rather than the years they currently wait on the list, new Johns Hopkins research suggests.

Published
30 March 2011
From
Eurekalert HIV
Ageing and HIV
Aging With Complex Chronic Disease: The Wrinkled Face of AIDS

People living with HIV taking combination Antiretroviral Therapy (treatment) are living long enough to experience a diverse array of aging related conditions such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), renal disease, liver cirrhosis, and cancer.

Published
25 August 2010
From
The Body Pro / GMHC Treatment Issues
Kidney problems
Preventing HIV-Associated Nephropathy

Dr. Pravin C. Singal and colleagues at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, NY; the Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas; and New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY have identified mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) as a therapeutic target for HIV-associated nephropathy.

Published
30 July 2010
From
Science Daily
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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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