• HIV Medicine After Barcelona Conference: Interview With Howard Grossman, M.D.
  We asked a leading HIV physician to summarize some of the treatment issues that clinicians are now looking at after the Barcelona conference. Topics in this interview include:
  • Tenofovir, including for first-line therapy;
  • The shift from protease inhibitors to non-nucleoside RT inhibitors, for many but not all patients;
  • Benefits of once-a-day regimens;
  • Lipodystrophy, and strategies for avoiding or reducing it;
  • Viral resistance testing;
  • T-20
  • Prevention -- including danger of superinfection with a new HIV strain

• Pan-African AIDS Treatment Movement Launched
  Activists from 21 African countries have launched a movement to organize the different sectors of societies, along with international institutions, to address the epidemic more successfully.

• Chinese Activist Detained by Police, Immediate Action Needed
  Dr. Wan Yanhai, widely considered one of China's leading AIDS activists, was detained by police in Beijing August 24. Amnesty International and AIDS organizations have called for immediate letters and email on his behalf.

• Philadelphia, New York: Dr. Jon Kaiser's Treatment Update, September 17, 18
  A San Francisco physician who has long used both standard and natural treatments in HIV will speak at a free public meeting in Philadelphia September 17, and New York September 18.

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