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Internet the most commonly used venue to cruise for sex by gay men with syphilis in SF

The most commonly used venue used by gay men diagnosed with syphilis in the San Francisco area in 2002 and 2003, to meet other gay

Published
19 December 2003
By
Michael Carter
Resistance
Different resistance patterns seen with subtype C HIV in Brazil

Treatment of people infected with HIV B and non-B subtypes in southern Brazil has shown that viral subtype influences likely resistance mutations, according to a

Published
11 December 2003
By
Megan Nicholson
Delivery of care
Main article: Palliative care and symptom management: Palliation vs Diagnosis and Cure

Review of palliative symptom management in people with HIV.

Published
04 December 2003
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Side-effects
HAART patients at greater risk of severe side-effects than AIDS

HIV-positive individuals who take HAART are more likely to experience a serious or life-threatening treatment side-effect than develop an AIDS-defining condition, according to a US

Published
02 December 2003
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology
African-Americans, Latinos and gay men bear the brunt of new US HIV infections

HIV continued to spread in the US in 2002, according to figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in advance of

Published
27 November 2003
By
Michael Carter
Palliative care
Palliative care and home-based care for HIV

The link between palliative care and home-based care, and how they can improve HIV management in low-resource settings.

Published
24 November 2003
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Task shifting
Professional roles and ARV provision

Review of 2003 thinking on how health professional roles may need to change to facilitate scale up of antiretroviral therapy.

Published
11 September 2003
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
A blueprint for ARV care?

Summary A publication from the international development consultancy John Snow, Inc, offers a framework to assess the readiness of health care services at particular sites to

Published
10 July 2003
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Scaling up antiretroviral therapy (meeting report)

Report on a 2003 meeting about scaling up antiretroviral therapy in resource-limited settings.

Published
26 June 2003
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HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Access to medicines and treatment
GSK cuts price of HIV drugs to poorest countries

Pharmaceutical giant, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), has announced that it is halving the price of some of the drugs in its anti-HIV portfolio for 63 nations, including

Published
28 April 2003
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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