HIV treatment information for healthcare professionals and HIV-positive people

ARV4IDUs highlights

• English Edition ARV 4 IDUs vol1 no4 December 08 - PDF [340 Kb]
• Russian Edition ARV 4 IDUs vol1 no4 December 08 - PDF [524 Kb]
• Selected articles from the English web version Vol 1 No 4
• Substance use and harm reduction
• Injection drug users and HIV: evidence-based review of clinical treatment considerations
• Staphylococcal infections among injection drug users
• Abacavir and heart disease: SMART study supports an abacavir-associated increased risk of cardiovascular disease
• Antiretrovirals calculated to extend life expectancy by 35 years but still a 10 year difference for IDU
• An estimated 3 million injecting drug users worldwide could be HIV-positive
• Depression improves to a similar extent when using substitution therapy with either methadone or buprenorphine
• Lower rates of spontaneous HCV clearance in HIV-positive IDUs
• Global epidemiology of HIV and IDU