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• "Moral failure" of leading nations attacked by UN representative

  Julian Meldrum | 13 December 2001

  Stephen Lewis, the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, on HIV/AIDS in Africa, delivered a blistering address to the closing ceremony of the 12th ICASA in Burkina ...

• Tipranavir development plans announced

  Keith Alcorn | 19 November 2001

  Boehringer-Ingelheim has announced further development plans for its protease inhibitor, tipranavir. Speaking at NAM’s symposium on Emerging Therapies for HIV Infection last Friday at the Royal College of Physicians in London, Dr ...

• Dual therapy inadequate for resource poor countries

  Megan Nicholson | 09 October 2001

  at the Sixth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (6-10th October), Melbourne, Australia. The urgent need for triple combination antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection in developing countries was ...

• US votes to approve tenofovir

  Keith Alcorn | 04 October 2001

  The Food and Drug Administration’s Antiviral Advisory Committee has voted unanimously to approve the licensing of tenofovir in treatment-experienced individuals, but split nine to seven against approving the drug for ...

• Some water based lubricants stop HIV

  Anon | 05 March 2001

  Widely used nonspermicidal lubricants may have previously unsuspected anti-HIV effects, according to research presented at HIV DART 2000: Frontiers in Drug Development for Antiretroviral Therapies, held in Isla Verde, Puerto ...

• 10,000 people in UK don't know they are HIV-positive

  Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

  The 1998 report of the Unlinked Anonymous Surveys Group, published today, shows that one-third of adults with HIV in the UK are unaware of their infection. The survey also found: ...

• UK heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake gay men for first time

  Anon | 05 March 2001

  New HIV diagnoses amongst people presumed exposed to HIV through sex between men and women outnumbered those amongst gay men during the first quarter of 1999, said the Communicable Disease ...

• 1998 revision to the British HIV Association guidelines for antiretroviral treatment of HIV seropositive individuals

  Anon | 05 March 2001

  Introductionhref="#Debates" target="_self">Debates about HIV managementhref="#When" target="_self">When to start treatmenthref="#What" target="_self">What to start treatment withhref="#How" target="_self">How to monitor treatmenthref="#Initiating" target="_self">Initiating antiretroviral therapyhref="#References" target="_self">References Introduction When the British HIV Association guidelines on the treatment ...