Scrap tests 'to boost HIV care'
Health Pages (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Africa should scrap expensive monitoring of side effects of HIV drugs - and get more on the drugs instead, study finds.
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Dilemma Over Toxic HIV Drug
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
HIV-positive patients using a drug that the World Health Organisation says causes long term irreversible side-effects will have to make do with it until the Kenyan government shifts to a lesser toxic drug.
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WHO Recommends HIV Drugs To Be Prescribed Earlier
BlatantNews.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
The WHO's 2009 yearly recommendations: All people living with HIV to be given antiretroviral drugs earlier in their sickness, mothers-to-be should be given drugs earlier during pregnancy's, and new mothers can now breastfeed and take drugs for the first time. A windfall for drug companies!
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Dilemma over toxic HIV drug
News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
HIV-positive patients using a drug that the WHO says causes long term irreversible side-effects will have to make do with it
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Bill to help sale of HIV drugs gains support
CanadaPharmacyNews.com (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
From CBC News: A federal private member's bill aims to cut through the red tape hampering generic drug companies from shipping cheap HIV/AIDS drugs to developing countries. On Wednesday, MPs will review New Democrat MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis's bill, designed to reform Canada's access to medicines law. When Canada passed its access to medicines legislation five years ago with support...
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HIV Drug Lexiva May Increase Cholesterol and Heart Attack Risk: FDA
AboutLawsuits.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The FDA has posted a warning for healthcare professionals that the HIV drug Lexiva may cause an increase in the risk of heart attacks and high cholesterol. GlaxoSmithKline, which manufactures Lexiva (fosamprenavir calcium), sent a letter to doctors last month alerting them to new data that suggests an association between the antiretrovirus drug, and [...]
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HIV Drugs
Chemical and Engineering News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Indian manufacturers will adjust to new WHO guidelines.
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HIV AIDS - 97 US Medicines in Testing
The Health, Drug, Prescription, and GMP Supersite (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Image via Wikipedia This is a really nice snapshot of some of the clinical testing going on in the HIV AIDS field, PhRMA's Pharmaceutical Researchers Are Testing 97 Medicines And Vaccines for HIV and Related Conditions (pdf). The article provides a quick overview for medicines grouped by: Anticancer Antiviral Gene therapy Immunomodulators Vaccines Other Previous Posts: Abzymes Pinpoint The HIV Achilles...
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Bill to ease sale of HIV drugs passes vote
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
A bill that would make it easier to sell cheap HIV drugs to developing countries has passed second reading in the House of Commons.
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Second Life for Pfizer's HIV Drug Selzentry
10Q Detective (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Pfizer’s (PFE-$18.85) anti-HIV drug Selzentry is now approved for combination use with other antiretroviral agents for treatment-naïve patients infected with CCR5-tropic HIV-1. Granted accelerated approval by the FDA in August 2007 for treatment-experienced patients infected with the R5 HIV-1 strain, industry pundits forecasted sales of more than $500 million by 2012. Uptake of Selzentry...
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SMOE's annual HIV retest requirement
Gusts of Popular Feeling (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Benjamin Wagner has an article in the Korea Herald about the retesting of all foreign SMOE employees for HIV and drugs when renewing contracts. The Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education has decided to retest all of its 1,120 foreign English teachers for AIDS and drugs -- regardless of visa type -- and plans to continue retesting them on a yearly basis. Other provincial...
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Community-led monitoring of anti-TB essential medicines in Uganda
Citizen News Service (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Community-led monitoring of anti-TB essential medicines in Uganda The Global Pan to Stop TB (2006-2015) identifies a need to empower communities to take ownership and drive the agenda for TB elimination. Communities are vital partners for policy makers and implementers in addressing TB, MDR-TB and TB-HIV, and diverse strategies are required to support their full participation. Community-led monitoring...
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The legal high industry goes pro
Technoccult (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Teachers Super High Me and and other marijuana documentaries reviewed at Alterati Getting high on HIV drugs in South Africa
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