Newsletters and reports:

Hopkins report – September 2003

http://www.hopkins-aids.edu/publications/report/report_toc _03.html

ARV update from the 2nd IAS Conference
Joel E. Gallant

Pharmacology in Paris
Charles W. Flexner

Panel on clinical practices issues revised adult ART guidelines
John G. Bartlett

Basic lipids: NCEP made easy for HIV patients
Joseph Cofrancesco and Gail Berkenblit

Focusing on …prevention in positives
Emily J. Erbelding

 

RITA – Cancer and HIV

http://www.centerforaids.org/rita/0903/contents0903.htm

The summer 2003 issue of RITA! explores the latest epidemiological data on HIV/AIDS and cancer, the mechanisms of pathogenesis behind some of these malignancies, current philosophies of treatment, and available resources for research.

 

Forum for Collaborative HIV Research

New information posted to the website of the FCHR.

http://www.hivforum.org/

 

Cardiovascular risk in HIV infection and treatment: a roundtable discussion

This new report from an expert panel meeting held in May 2003 includes a review of studies looking at antiretroviral drugs and risk of cardiovascular disease.

Standardised data analysis plan and call for collaboration: initiatives for developing and comparing genotype and phenotype interpretation systems

Information source: description of HIV cohorts and databases

 

HIV and hepatitis coinfection:

High body mass index is an independent risk factor for nonresponse to antiviral treatment in chronic hepatitis C

Full test from Hepatology, September 2003, Volume 38, No 3

http://www.natap.org/2003/sept/090203_4.htm

HIV Treatment Bulletin Vol 4 No 8 October 2003