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Pharmaceutical industry
Supreme Court Rules for a Drug Firm in Patent Dispute

The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a drug company over Stanford University in a patent dispute concerning a test to measure the amount of HIV in a patient's blood.

Published
06 June 2011
From
New York Times
Testing and health monitoring
Elevated CD8 cell count associated with HIV treatment failure

An elevated CD8 cell count is associated with an increased risk of HIV treatment failure for patients who initially achieve an undetectable viral load, investigators from the

Published
30 May 2011
By
Michael Carter
At least one in six patients maintains a viral load over one hundred thousand

A study of patients in southern Africa diagnosed during primary HIV infection has found that one in five maintained viral loads over 100,000 copies/ml for at least 400

Published
09 March 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Viral load
Treatment monitoring: no clear benefit to adding viral load to CD4 or clinical symptoms in Thailand and Africa

Viral load is probably not essential for determining when to switch to second-line treatment in low- and middle-income settings, two large randomised trials conducted in Thailand and Cameroon

Published
01 March 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Viral load
Cepheid and FIND Announce Collaboration to Develop HIV Viral Load Test

The Xpert® HIV viral load test, which will run on Cepheid's GeneXpert® platform, is expected to complement the ground-breaking Xpert MTB/RIF test for tuberculosis (TB) and drug-resistance.

Published
03 February 2011
From
PR Newswire
HIV treatment
Nevirapine rather than efavirenz-based HIV treatment more likely to suppress viral load to zero

The inclusion of nevirapine rather than efavirenz in an HIV treatment combination was more likely to suppress viral load in the blood to completely undetectable

Published
22 December 2010
By
Michael Carter
Epidemiology
Supreme Court caution to Indian Govt on second line treatment

The Supreme Court today cautioned the government against abdicating its constitutional duty of providing treatment to HIV positive patients on grounds of financial constraint saying it involves the right to life.

Published
13 December 2010
From
Yahoo News India
Viral load
HIV detectable in CSF of 10% of patients taking successful antiretroviral treatment

Ten per cent of patients taking antiretroviral therapy who have an undetectable viral load in their blood have detectable levels of HIV in their cerebrospinal fluids, Swedish

Published
17 November 2010
By
Michael Carter
New and experimental HIV treatments
Most patients in darunavir monotherapy trial stay fully suppressed

The latest data from a European trial using boosted darunavir (DRV/r) as the sole HIV drug have found no evidence of increased treatment failure or of viral

Published
11 November 2010
By
Gus Cairns
New and experimental HIV treatments
Protease inhibitor monotherapy in African setting results in viral load, but not CD4, failure in the short term

A study of protease inhibitor monotherapy in Africa has found that 25% fewer patients on monotherapy achieved an undetectable viral load than those on standard combination therapy.

Published
10 November 2010
By
Gus Cairns
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Community Consensus Statement on Access to HIV Treatment and its Use for Prevention

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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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