Imperfect Adherence to HIV Therapy Fuels Resistance
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Among HIV-infected adults who have not been previously treated with HIV drugs who start on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), less than perfect adherence to medication schedules and high levels of HIV in the blood before therapy are two major predictors of drug resistance.
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Denial, food shortages and squandered resources were among the problems preventing thousands of AIDS patients from getting treatment in countries hardest hit by the disease, according to a report by treatment activists.
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Surveillance for the HIV virus is weak in most of the world and prevention and treatment programs often fail to reach high-risk drug users, homosexuals and sex workers, the World Health Organization said on Friday.
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Comment is free: Johnjoe McFadden: Our resistance to an epidemic 3m years ago may have exposed us to the risk of HIV today.
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NDORI, Kenya -- Giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women has long been celebrated as one of the few successful tactics in the war against AIDS in Africa. A single pill for a woman in labor, followed by a sip of syrup for her newborn baby, cuts HIV transmission rates by more than half,...
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TORONTO (CP) - An ambitious initiative to provide life-prolonging anti-retroviral drugs to three million people with HIV/AIDS by the end of next year likely won&#39;t meet its target, the director general of the World Health Organization has admitted.
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The key genes which lead the body's fight against HIV infection have been pinpointed by scientists.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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NEW YORK  - HIV-positive patients who use pillbox organizers to help keep track of their medications can reduce their risk of progressing to AIDS, a new study shows.
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A key anti-HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) drug distributed in Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if they ignore doctors&#39; orders
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Despite the goverment's promise to "break the back" of the AIDS epidemic by 2005, about 40,000 Americans test positive for the HIV infection every year &#151; the same number as a decade ago.
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More than a year after the South African government decided to offer low-cost antiretroviral treatment to  everyone with AIDS, only about one out of every 50 AIDS patients who are medically ready for antiretrovirals receives them from the public health system, said researchers.
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As AIDS patients live longer they can experience a host of medical conditions that challenge the prevailing view of the disease as chronic and manageable.
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No-one is immune to HIV. But this is not to say the peril is equal, for some people are at greater risk of getting infected by the Aids virus than others.
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HIV can dodge destruction by powerful antiretroviral drugs by hiding out in the testicles, scientists say.
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NEW YORK  - Lab experiments show that cells  that line the mouth become more susceptible to infection with  HIV when they're exposed to alcohol.
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SYDNEY, Australia -- Access to life-extending HIV/AIDS drugs in developing countries has improved during the past three years, but new infections still dramatically outpace efforts to bring treatment to patients, health officials said Monday.