Lipodystrophy

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A special one day meeting at the recent Geneva 12th World AIDS conference heard that the body fat changes and metabolic disorders emerging in people taking anti-retroviral therapy may have multiple causes and need careful investigation. AIDS wasting has not gone away, the meeting heard, but more effective treatments are now available and the issue should not be ignored just because powerful anti-retroviral drugs are now in widespread use.

Read the state of the art report on this subject at

http://www.healthcg.com/hiv/tuftswasting/