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News on HIV Drug Resistance in New Antiretrovirals From the XVI International HIV Drug Resistance Workshop

Doug Richman provided a comprehensive recap on HIV resistance from the annual HIV resistance conference, held this year in June in Barbados. 1 His focus was on four major areas: resistance associated with the new non-nucleoside reverse... Read more »

New HIV Drug to Move Into Wider Trials, Could Offer Hope to People With Drug-Resistant Strains

An experimental antiretroviral drug developed by Watertown, Mass.-based Panacos Pharmaceuticals -- which has been shown to reduce HIV viral loads by as much as 90% -- will enter further human trials this month, BBC News reports ( BBC News ,... Read more »

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New Mexico: Health Department Offers New HIV Drugs to Patients

The New Mexico Department of Health recently announced it has added three new drugs to the states HIV/AIDS Medications Program. Each of the drugs is an HIV treatment approved by the Food and Drug Administration within the last six months, said... Read more »

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HIV DRUGS ARE DANGEROUS AND TOXIC? WHEN NEW DRUGS!!!!

Hello Dearest Experts, Although it may be true that Hiv Meds might prolong progression to ARC (Aids Related Complications) it seems that the current medicines out to treat the disease are deliquent and inconsistent in allowing patients who spend...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Dear Craig-We do indeed need a new generation of antiretrovirals that are less toxic and maybe we are just starting to see this happen. But, I will tell you, I am a glass half full kind of guy. In my early HIV career I did research on CMV retinitis... Read more »

How good is this new hiv drug ???

Hi Dr Keith, how good is this new hiv drug ????thank you for your timeRossPanacos Pharmaceuticals announced yesterday that it has sold its first-in-class HIV maturation inhibitor bevirimat to Myriad Genetics, a biotechnology company that is also...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Bevirimat has shown moderate activity for the treatment of HIV infection including for virus which is resistant to the current HIV meds. Development is still early. For most HIV practices in US the currently HIV medications are usually working... Read more »

new hiv drug

Hi.. How many drug for hiv in 2003, Will they be more drug for hiv 2004... Thank you very much...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

So far in 2003 we have had 3 approvals in the United States. T20, or enfuvirtide, or Fuzeon is an injectable medication for drug-resistant HIV. FTC, or emtricitabine, or Emtriva was just approved. This nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor is... Read more »

New HIV Drug

Does anyone know when Sustiva/Viread/Emtriva will all be in one pill?...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thanks for your question.I don't think that anyone knows exactly when or if this will happen, but there is considerable interest both within the pharmaceutical industry and the treatment community, alike.If everything goes smoothly, we could... Read more »

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New Virus Leads Drugs to HIV-Infected Cells

Posted by new2this2010

This is great news.

http://www.dailytech.com/New+Virus+Leads+Drugs+to+HIVInfected+Cells/article22391.htm#cmt706319 Read more »

New York draws fire over case of drug-resistantHIV

Posted by Anonymous

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 »

new drugs overview (by a rookie), and comments

Posted by Anonymous

Many of you are much sharper about emerging hiv medications than I am...

Is this is good overview of some of the good emerging options??

I see two exciting classes of drugs. By this I mean they seem to show good efficacy in diminishing the viral load... Read more »

OLD DRUG, NEW INFORMATION: SF Trial of Peptide T

Posted by Anonymous

OLD DRUG, NEW INFORMATION:
Recruitment to Open for Peptide T Anti-Viral Trial

(Contact Diane Cenko, HIVCARE Client Outreach Coordinator, 415-353-6215 or 6259)

San Francisco, Calif. - February, 2001 -- A phase II study of Peptide T to evaluate its... Read more »

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