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Pre-CROI HIV Cure Review Workshop Organized by Community Advocates- Meeting Notes

Thanks to Siegfried Schwarze, a research activist from  Germany, for writing down these notes from the meeting we had this past Sunday, March 4, 2012 in Seattle prior to CROI-2012. **************************************************************************** Sometimes the most important events don‘t take place at the conference itself but rather at  the surrounding workshops. This seemed to be the case this …

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Report of This Weekend’s HIV Cure Workshop in Seattle

A couple of months ago a rag tag group of activist–including Project Inform (represented by myself), the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition (ATAC)–reached out to some of the world’s leading HIV researchers and companies working on HIV cure research and asked them to spend an entire day with us talking …

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ViiV Announces Expanded Access of New Integrase Inhibitor…But Activists Are Concerned About Its Potential Misuse

The dolutegravir expanded access program (EAP) has been designed to provide free access to Shionogi-ViiV Healthcare’s investigational integrase inhibitor, dolutegravir (DTG, S/GSK1349572) in an open-label protocol program to adults living with HIV who have documented raltegravir or elvitegravir resistance, who have limited treatment options, and who require DTG to construct a viable antiretroviral regimen for …

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Activists Caution HIV+ Patients and their Physicians About Monotherapy in Upcoming Access Program

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 9, 2012 Contact: Nelson Vergel (NelsonVergel@yahoo.com) Activists Caution HIV+ Patients and their Physicians About Monotherapy in Upcoming Access Program New York, February 9, 2012—AIDS activists and physician advocates welcome the news that ViiV Healthcare will be providing  expanded access of dolutegravir (DTG), a new investigational integrase inhibitor for HIV patients with …

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What to do if you think you have recently been exposed to HIV

This would definitely be the HIV medication combo that I would take if I was HIV negative and wanted to treat a potential HIV exposure (condom breakage, needle stick, etc). Prior studies were done using Truvada alone (two drugs combined in one pill), but adding raltegravir to Truvada makes a lot of sense. Raltegravir (brand …

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Outsmarting HIV with Healthy Nutrition

From: https://www.positivelyaware.com/2012/12_01/hiv_wellness_series.shtml Living with a chronic illness like HIV can present certain nutritional challenges. Without effective HIV medication treatment, replicating virus can tax the body, destroying lean body mass and impairing immune function and quality of life.1, 2 While this destruction of lean tissue can be controlled with effective HIV antiretroviral combination therapy, other challenges like fat …

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Activists launch new survey, ask people with HIV to take 10 minutes to help speed HIV cure research

Please forward to others who would like to participate Find the survey here. San Francisco, CA-A coalition of HIV advocacy groups are calling on all people with HIV to take 10 minutes to complete a survey they hope will help speed the pace of HIV cure research. At issue are the kinds of risks that …

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PoWeR asks for your support and end of year tax deductible donation

Program for Wellness Restoration (PoWeR,  https://powerusa.org/  ) is going through a tough financial time now that most industry educational grants have been eliminated.  We ask you to think about us when conmsidering organizations to make tax deductible donations before the end of the year. In 2011, PoWeR has been able to accomplish the following with …

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Sexual Dysfunction in HIV

Sexual disturbances develop in some patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy. To evaluate sexual dysfunction and the influence that different antiretrovirals could have on those parameters, a study was conducted a prospective study in patients with stable clinical condition attending an HIV outpatient clinic. A total of 351 evaluations were performed in 189 HIV-infected men, …

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