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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.

Chemsex & recreational drug use

Counselling as well as drug treatment needed to reduce risky behaviour in opioid-using youth

News
30 April 2010
Ageing & HIV

Many new HIV diagnoses in people aged over 50, including recent infections

News
30 April 2010
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Feasible to recruit and retain meth-using gay men to programmes treating dependence to the drug

News
30 April 2010
TB treatment

WHO issues updated TB treatment guidelines

News
29 April 2010
Health services & systems

HIV and TB in Practice in India: Integrating TB/HIV care and other essential health services into ‘targeted interventions’ for drug users

News
29 April 2010
Cardiovascular disease

French HIV-positive patients have increased risk of heart attack

News
28 April 2010
HIV treatment

AIDS-related deaths continue to fall, diseases of ageing and lifestyle on the rise in people with HIV

News
28 April 2010
Drug interactions & pharmacokinetics

Drug interactions still common and often unrecognised in patients taking HIV treatment

News
23 April 2010
Neurological & cognitive problems

Morphine may protect against HIV-related brain disease

News
21 April 2010
Pregnancy, children & young people

Diarrhoea in children with HIV: a clinical review

News
15 April 2010
TB treatment

WHO issues updated TB treatment guidelines; experts say lack of trials in TB/HIV patients `striking`

News
15 April 2010
Child developmental issues

HIV subtype affects risk of brain impairment in HIV-positive children

News
14 April 2010
TB transmission & prevention

Trial of TB vaccine candidate begins in people with HIV

News
14 April 2010
Cancer

Lymphomas amongst patients with HIV in South Africa described for first time

News
14 April 2010
TB transmission & prevention

Isoniazid preventive therapy doesn't increase risk of resistant TB

News
13 April 2010
Men who have sex with men (MSM)

Having older sexual partners increases HIV risk for younger gay men

News
6 April 2010
Opportunistic infections

Pneumococcal vaccine offers protection to HIV-infected African adults with low CD4 counts

News
5 April 2010
New & experimental HIV treatments

Anti-HIV drugs inhibit emerging virus linked to prostate cancer and chronic fatigue syndrome

News
2 April 2010
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

How long have I got, doc?

News
1 April 2010
Money

Securing your future

News
1 April 2010
Opportunistic infections

Cheap antibiotic halves risk of death in first 18 months of antiretroviral treatment

News
1 April 2010
Treatment guidelines

South Africa updates HIV treatment guidelines

News
29 March 2010
TB treatment

Integrating TB and HIV services: lessons from the field

News
23 March 2010
Malaria

Efavirenz, Kaletra and boosted atazanavir reduce levels of key anti-malaria drug

News
22 March 2010