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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.

Cardiovascular disease

HIV causes structural heart disease, study says

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Medical News Today
17 December 2013
Neurological & cognitive problems

Study Links Fitness Level and HIV-related Dementia

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University of Rochester Medical Center
16 December 2013
Kidney problems

HIV Can Infect Transplanted Kidneys in HIV-Positive Recipients With Undetectable Virus

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Science Daily (press release)
11 December 2013
Cancer

Good adherence to HIV treatment, undetectable viral load, reduce the risk of anal infection with high-risk HPV types for MSM with HIV

News
11 December 2013
Chemsex & recreational drug use

Ketamine 'should be made Class B'

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BBC Health
10 December 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Increasing diversity of sexual experience – major UK study

News
30 November 2013
TB transmission & prevention

Tuberculosis in South Africa's Gold Mines; A United Call to Action

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RESULTS
28 November 2013
TB treatment

Early ART only increases TB IRIS risk for people with HIV who have a CD4 cell count below 50

News
28 November 2013
Drug interactions & pharmacokinetics

Risk of Harmful Drug Interactions Rises With Age in HIV+ US Group

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International AIDS Society
26 November 2013
Drug-resistant TB

Treatment Action Group Applauds European Approval of New Drug to Fight Tuberculosis, Demands Expanded Access and Affordable Pricing

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Treatment Action Group
26 November 2013
Cancer

HPV: Sex, cancer and a virus

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Nature
26 November 2013
Drug-resistant TB

European Medicines Agency recommends two new treatment options for tuberculosis

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European Medicines Agency
23 November 2013
Health services & systems

Multi-disease prevention campaigns (part 2): case studies from Kenya and Uganda

News
21 November 2013
Sexually transmitted infections prevention

Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation sets up working group on extending HPV vaccine to gay men

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PinkNews.co.uk
20 November 2013
TB transmission & prevention

First results of tuberculosis vaccine candidate MTBVAC very promising

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TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative
18 November 2013
TB treatment

TB treatment must extend beyond the physical body and include social and psychological support as an important aspect of care

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TB Online
18 November 2013
Improving HIV care

Primary care key to management of patients with HIV infection

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
14 November 2013
Activism & civil society

What Is Our Story? Perspectives from the AIDS Generation

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BETA blog
14 November 2013
Organ transplants

Congress Votes To End The Outdated Ban On HIV Organ Transplants And Research

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ThinkProgress
13 November 2013
TB treatment

Rifampicin dose can be increased safely in TB treatment, may shorten duration

News
13 November 2013
TB treatment

Another negative result in the quest for a shorter TB treatment course

News
11 November 2013
Ageing & HIV

Spared Death, Aging People With H.I.V. Struggle to Live

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New York Times
8 November 2013
Global health initiatives

Global Fund Shift Mode of Funding, to Focus on Joint HIV/TB Programs

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Africa Science News
8 November 2013
Hepatitis B

Hepatitis B treatment with entecavir or tenofovir lowers, but does not eliminate, liver cancer risk

News
6 November 2013