AIDS Reader

April 02, 2008

Although adenoviruses are a recognized cause of serious pulmonary and disseminated disease among stem cell transplant recipients, their importance in other immunocompromised patient populations is less clearly documented.

April 01, 2008

Study Finds Antiretroviral Drugs May Prevent HIV Infection A study involving monkeys found that the use of 2 antiretroviral drugs, emtricitabine (FTC) and tenofovir, prevented transmission of a primate version of HIV (Berman J. Voice of America. February 5, 2008).

April 01, 2008

Little of promise in terms of HIV prevention science was reported at the 15th annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), held from February 3 to 6, 2008, in Boston. Coupled with several other pieces of disappointing news related to early HIV diagnosis and efficacy of vaginal microbicides, most hope continued to relate to disease treatment.

March 02, 2008

A 37-year-old man with a 9-year history of HIV infection presented to the emergency department after 5 days of fever, chills, malaise, and a pruritic rash initially on his forehead and arms that spread to his scalp, neck, and legs.

March 02, 2008

Dermatological disorders may occur in more than 90% of persons infected with HIV. In this setting, skin disorders tend to be more frequent as immunodeficiency progresses. The spectrum of cutaneous diseases includes inflammatory dermatoses, drug reactions, infections, and neoplasms. Johnson and colleagues1 present an unusual case of Sweet syndrome in a 37-year-old HIV-positive man coinfected with Treponema pallidum. Sweet syndrome was originally described by the late English dermatologist Dr Rob

March 02, 2008

Patients with HIV infection demonstrate an unexpectedly high incidence of bone-related disorders, most notably osteonecrosis

March 02, 2008

Osteonecrosis, also known as avascular necrosis or aseptic necrosis, refers to ischemic death of the cellular constituents of bone and marrow when it occurs in the epiphyseal or subarticular region. The incidence of osteonecrosis may be increased by as much as 100-fold in HIV-infected persons relative to the general population,1

March 02, 2008

One time-honored way of acknowledging that a research finding has become mainstream is to see it listed as a clue in the New York Times crossword puzzle.

March 02, 2008

Yunnan Province opened 7 mobile methadone treatment clinics last year in rural areas along the drug-producing Golden Triangle (Xinhua News Agency. January 5, 2008).

February 02, 2008

Public health experts once held high hopes that the female condom would give women worldwide the ability to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases.