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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Health problems & ageing

Co-morbidities, health conditions, diseases, opportunistic infections and other clinical problems that sometimes occur in people living with HIV.

Cancer

Malignancies Expected to Rise in People With HIV

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Medscape (requires free registration)
6 November 2013
Drug-resistant TB

Urgency Needed in the Global Response to Drug-resistant Tuberculosis

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PLoS Blogs
4 November 2013
Ageing & HIV

UNAIDS reports that more than 10% of people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries are aged 50 and over

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UNAIDS press release
4 November 2013
Cardiovascular disease

Framingham underestimates CVD risk in HIV-infected persons

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Medscape (requires free registration)
4 November 2013
Opportunistic infections

Meningococcal Disease Risk 10-Fold Higher in People With HIV

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Medscape
1 November 2013
Drug-resistant TB

Cape Town XDR-TB patient leads international campaign

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Health-e
31 October 2013
TB treatment

Patient-Centered TB Treatment Will Require Modernizing Directly-Observed Therapy

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PLoS Blogs (blog)
31 October 2013
TB transmission & prevention

Zero TB declaration by activists

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Treatment Action Group
31 October 2013
TB treatment

Simultaneous HIV and tuberculosis therapy doesn't cause problems with liver function

News
31 October 2013
TB diagnosis

Pros and cons of high-tech TB testing

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IRIN
30 October 2013
Drug-resistant TB

First new tuberculosis drug in fifty years risks being squandered without better research and pricing strategies

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MSF
30 October 2013
TB treatment

A double blow: Private-sector funding for TB research drops sharply amid severe public-sector budget cuts

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Treatment Action Group
29 October 2013
Bone & joint problems

High prevalence of osteoporosis and osteopenia in young men with HIV

News
29 October 2013
Cardiovascular disease

Low CD4 cell count increases heart attack risk for people with HIV

News
28 October 2013
Tuberculosis & HIV

People With HIV Accounted for One Quarter of TB Deaths in 2012: WHO

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International AIDS Society
26 October 2013
Drug-resistant TB

MDR TB: CDC Issues Guidelines for Use of New Drug

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Medscape
26 October 2013
Mental & emotional health problems

One in 10 UK men who call suicide helplines are gay

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Gay Star News
25 October 2013
Retention & linkage to care

Social problems and drug and alcohol problems common among people who develop AIDS despite long-term HIV care

News
25 October 2013
Tuberculosis & HIV

Majority of London TB cases are in non-recent entrants to UK

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Public Health England press release
24 October 2013
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Late testing rates declining in Europe, but largely in gay men

News
24 October 2013
TB transmission & prevention

Gains in tuberculosis control at risk due to 3 million missed patients and drug resistance

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World Health Organization (press release)
23 October 2013
TB diagnosis

London, tuberculosis capital of Western Europe, uses van with X-ray machine to detect TB

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Washington Post
23 October 2013
Opportunistic infections

Pfizer Receives European Approval For Label Update Regarding The Use Of Prevenar 13 In Certain High-Risk Populations

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Pfizer press release
22 October 2013
Mental & emotional health problems

Suicide rates tumble in people with HIV in Canadian study but psychiatric drug use remains high in Danish people with HIV

News
21 October 2013