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Treatment outcomes and life expectancy
ICAAC: Factors unrelated to HIV or side-effects of HIV treatment major cause of illness in French cohort

Illness and death in HIV-positive patients taking protease inhibitor-based antiretroviral therapy are likely to be causes unrelated to either HIV or the side-effects of HIV

Published
05 January 2006
By
Michael Carter
Cancer
Large US study confirms increase in rate of anal cancer

A large survey analysing rates of cancer diagnoses in the United States has confirmed that the number of new cases of anal cancer has increased

Published
01 December 2005
By
Christopher Gadd
Delivery of care
Bowel cancer drug works well against KS

A drug which is usually used to treat bowel cancer is an effective treatment for the AIDS-defining cancer, Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), Italian researchers have found.

Published
01 November 2005
By
Michael Carter
Mental and emotional health and wellbeing
Unstable work and lack of partner increase risk of hospitalisation in early years of HIV infection, even with HAART

A French study suggests that, even when effective anti-HIV treatments are available, HIV-positive individuals have a high risk of being hospitalised in the early years

Published
04 October 2005
By
Michael Carter
Delivery of care
‘Non-AIDS-defining’ cancers more common in HIV-positive patients

A review of the medical records of over 4000 HIV-positive Americans has revealed that cancers of the skin, anus and prostate gland and Hodgkin’s lymphoma

Published
17 September 2005
By
Christopher Gadd
Delivery of care
HAART is not reducing risk of anal cancer in gay men

A study of HIV-positive gay men in San Francisco has found that 95% have anal HPV (human papilloma virus) infection, and more than 50% have

Published
29 August 2005
By
Edwin J. Bernard
Cancer
Surgery for CIN results in high rates of recurrence in HIV-positive women

HIV-positive women who undergo surgery for pre-cancerous lesions of the cervix have high rates of recurrence, French investigators report in the 1st August edition of

Published
15 July 2005
By
Christopher Gadd
Sexually transmitted infections epidemiology
Severity of anal lesions linked to HPV viral load and DNA methylation

A study of anal tissue samples from HIV-positive men has shown that high-grade pre-cancerous lesions are associated with similar patterns of DNA methylation to cervical

Published
03 June 2005
By
Christopher Gadd
Sexually transmitted infections epidemiology
HPV load predicts risk of high-grade cervical disease in HIV-positive women

HIV-positive women with high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) have higher levels of human papilloma virus (HPV) in the cervix than women without cervical disease, according

Published
17 January 2005
By
Christopher Gadd
Cancer
Pap smears may not accurately detect high-grade pre-cancerous anal lesions

Pap smears may not be an accurate predictor of high grade precancerous anal lesions that can lead to the development of anal cancer, according to

Published
10 May 2004
By
Michael Carter
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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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