AIDS Alert Archives – November 1, 2003
November 1, 2003
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Community groups push for a greater role in stemming epidemic
Community-based organizations (CBOs) and other groups representing minorities infected with HIV spent the early part of the fall meeting with national legislators and others to discuss keeping AIDS on the governments top agenda. -
Multiple challenges await long-term survivors
Before Tony Dorsey, an outreach worker with FACT in Las Vegas was infected with HIV through a needlestick injury, the possibility that his job as a phlebotomist could place him at risk never once occurred to him. -
Multiple barriers prevent minorities’ early treatment
The most recent HIV/AIDS statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that HIV is the leading cause of death for African-Americans, ages 25-44, in the United States and the third leading cause of death for both African-Americans and Latinos in the 35-44 age group. -
New research offers clues to HIV/HCV co-infection
Several studies presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) have shown how HIV patients who are co-infected with hepatitis C are at greater risk for medical complications, including diabetes. -
HIV resistance patterns are shifting, study shows
Investigators studying genotypes of 64,000 clinical samples submitted for genotyping to Virco based in Mechelen, Belgium, have found that HIV-1 drug resistance remains extensive, but that trends have shifted in recent years. -
Drug resistance guide being pondered by CDC
Guidelines released this year from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the International AIDS Society-USA2 (IAS) recommend resistance testing for all recently infected patients beginning treatment. -
Are former Soviet nations plodding down wrong path?
Researchers and AIDS activists who have witnessed AIDSs destructive path across the world have nearly two decades of observations and data to show how the epidemic can be halted in countries where it begins primarily as an IDU (injection drug use/injection drug user) transmission problem. -
Bush administration backs out of global AIDS funding
The $15 billion pledged by President Bush to fund an international HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention initiative has evaporated as quickly as a magicians rabbit out of the hat, international AIDS activists charge.