February 2009

Complications and OIs

Richard Chaisson from John Hopkins presented survival and mortality data.There is a direct relation between economic development and mortality. Haiti has the highest mortality rate in the americas and argentina, the us and canada have the lowest.Head, esophagus, anal lung and bladder cancers have increased in poz patientsFactors involved are immune defficiency, inflammation, pro coagulation

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Vaccine Strategy

Dr richard koup reviewed where we are in vaccines. Vaxgen, the merck vaccine and the canarypox vaccines were not succesfulThree trials were stopped in 2007. The STEP trial showed that those with pre existing exposure to adenovirus ad5 had a higher infection rates on the vaccine versus placebo. Those infected were also mostly uncircumcised. Those

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