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Research of about 2,000 people in 36 countries shows rise in resistance to major HIV treatment drug
60 per cent of people found resistant in Africa, in Europe close to 20 per cent
Patients with resistance have to use less suitable, more expensive and toxic drugs
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Slate, January 27 2016 While progress toward a vaccine and even a functional cure for HIV has accelerated in recent years, a major obstacle has been the “viral reservoir”—locations and cell types in a body where the virus can persist at very low levels even when treatment has succeeded at making it undetectable in the blood by standard testing. Published in the Jan. 27 issue of Nature, a new...
nam/aidsmap, Published: 26 January 2016 Two statisticians involved in the PROUD and iPrEx trials of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) warn that future trials to test new PrEP drugs and formulations may be extremely difficult to design. David Dunn of the UK Medical Research Council and David Glidden of the University of California, San Francisco say that statisticians will need to choose and analyse...
LiveScience, August 27, 2015 03:05pm ET
Viruses related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have infected Old World monkeys as far back as 16 million years ago, according to a new study. The research provides insight into how monkeys evolved and adapted to the simian version of HIV, and why some viruses can jump from one species to another.
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