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Hiv Drug Resistance Update
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Studies Examine "Sugar Daddy" Relationships in Africa, Drug Resistance in HIV Subtypes; kaiserEDU.org Updated With HIV/AIDS Information"Confronting the 'Sugar Daddy' Stereotype: Age and Economic Asymmetries and Risky Sexual Behavior in Urban Kenya ," International Family Planning Perspectives : This report by Nancy Luke, an assistant professor at Brown University and a fellow at... Read more »FDA Updates Black Box Warning on Boehringer Ingelheim's Protease Inhibitor Aptivus to Treat Drug-Resistant HIVFDA and Boehringer Ingelheim on Friday updated the black box warning on Boehringer's protease inhibitor Aptivus, which is used in combination with Abbott Laboratories ' Norvir for people living with HIV/AIDS who have become resistant to other... Read more »Atripla Label Update Reflects New Efficacy, Safety and Resistance Data in Treatment Experienced PatientsOn January 7, 2010, FDA approved an updated Atripla label including new efficacy, safety and resistance data in treatment experienced patients from a trial ( Study 073: A Phase IV, Open-Label, Randomized, Multicenter Study Evaluating Efficacy and... Read more »
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Multidrug resistance - update from 2007Hello.A phenotype resistance test showed multidrug resistance in May of 2006. This includes all the active ingredients of Atripla.A few months later, I had genotype and phenotype tests repeated and they showed minimal resistance. In June 2007,...Response from Renslow Sherer, M.D.
University of Chicago Hospitals
There are many important considerations in the story that you tell, but I would not conclude that repeat resistance tests are always needed when adverse results are received. Better to conclude that there are MANY good reasons to quickly repeat...
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Are the undetectable viral copies more prone to being drug resistant and spawning many drug resistant viral copies?Commercial assays only detec >50 copies of plasma VL. Is it possible/likely (?) that the <50 copies of virus may be the ones that are drug resistant?What are the reservoirs where dormant HIV resides and does the virus continue to do damage...Response from Renslow Sherer, M.D.
University of Chicago Hospitals
Commercial assays only detect the majority species, so we are unaware of the mutations present on minority species, i.e. those with < 10-20% of the population. More sophisticated techniques have been developed which can detect resistance down to...
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Are the undetectable viral copies more prone to being drug resistant and spawning many drug resistant viral copies?Commercial assays only detec >50 copies of plasma VL. Is it possible/likely (?) that the <50 copies of virus may be the ones that are drug resistant? What are the reservoirs where dormant HIV resides and does the virus continue to do damage...Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Given those numbers, you are not only immunologically intact, but cognitively as well. There may be areas of low level replication going on despite a plasma viral load < 50. Plasma viral load is only a measure of circulating virus being produced....
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Changing Drugs Before ResistanceHi, I've been on HAART for two months now and have had great results and (knock on wood) no side effects from my Sustiva/Epivir/Videx combo. My doctor has told me that he switches people's combos before the virus becomes resistant, so...Response from Andrew T. Pavia, M.D.
University of Utah, School of Medicine
The short answer is that it is an interesting but unproven approach. I am interested in seeing research to try it but I do not use that approach in my practice. It is hard enough to find a regimen that one tolerates and is effective.There has been...
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Resisting Resistance - A Story
Posted by Survivor, 1 Reply
Personal Perspective: Resisting Resistance By Matt Sharp Spring 2006 In a little over four months I will turn fifty. When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1988 I never dreamed I'd reach forty. I've survived a long battle with HIV, and it has not been... Read more » Drug Resistant HIV
Posted by Anonymous
HiI just found out the strain of hiv i have is resistant to possibly a whole class of NRTIs and PIs..any experience with this for any of you? what could the options be for someone in my situation? I am still treatment naive. Read more » New York draws fire over case of drug-resistantHIV
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Nature 433, 788 (24 February 2005)New York draws fire over case of drug-resistant HIV ERIKA CHECK Rare, aggressive form of AIDS used to publicize dangers of unprotected sex. [WASHINGTON] A decision by New York health officials to announce the detection... Read more » HIV and the brain - update
Posted by ScotCharles, 6 Replies
My neurologist at UCLA, Dr. Elyse Singer, has been warning since the mid 1990's that HIV's effect on the brain and nervous systems was a ticking timebomb. The meds never completely eradicate the virus from the body and never effectively cross the...
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