AIDS Alert Archives – February 1, 2009
February 1, 2009
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Revising ADAPs to treat sickest first makes ethical, economic sense
There is an obvious ethical reason why AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs) should prioritize client services according to treating the sickest first. However, a researcher also finds a public health and economic reason for such a change. -
Waiting list guidelines for prioritizing clients
The AIDS Drug Assistances Protocol Fund Medical Advisory Committee's Recommendations for State ADAP Waiting List Guidelines, revised in September, 2004, suggest these prioritization strategies for clients who are on waiting lists to receive AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) drugs to treat their HIV disease: -
Peer education program trains HIV clients for productive work
In this new economy of doing more with less money, a 17-year-old peer education and skills training program sponsored by AIDS Service Center (ASC) of New York, NY, is a good model. -
Peer education program has many success stories
The peer education and skills training program at AIDS Service Center (ASC) in New York, NY, has helped to change the lives of many people living with HIV infection. -
Israeli HIV+ surgeon cleared to continue work
In a case that recalls the national hue and cry of the Florida HIV dental outbreak in the early 1990s, investigators have determined that HIV provider-to-patient infections remain exceedingly rare. -
Abstract & Commentary: Real world reassurance about a misperception
Patients enrolled in the Swiss HIV cohort study, initiating their first cART regimen between 1996 and early 2007, who had baseline and follow up CD4+ count and HIV RNA data available, were included in the analysis. -
FDA Notifications
On Dec. 30, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first nucleic acid test (NAT) that screens for the presence of two divergent types of HIV in donated blood plasma and human tissue.