AIDS Alert Archives – October 1, 2006
October 1, 2006
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Mentally ill patients with HIV often have the worst problems
Research shows that people with severe mental illness are at greater risk of becoming infected with HIV, their care is more costly when they are infected, and their health outcomes are worse than populations without mental illness. -
How PATH works for mentally ill patients with HIV
An intervention called Preventing AIDS Through Health (PATH) is designed to keep mentally ill people infected with HIV from progressing to AIDS. -
Adherence Strategies: Telephone follow-ups improve virologic outcomes
A study shows that telephone interventions led by pharmacists result in improved viral load suppression over usual care. -
Study empowers HIV patients to use Internet
Researchers say there's a digital divide among HIV patients, and it has consequences in medical care and quality of life. -
Recognizing the need for anal HPV screening
HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM) today more commonly develop cancer of the anus than women developed cervical cancer prior to Pap screening, an expert says. -
FDA Notifications: FDA's meeting of Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee
The FDA will hold a public meeting of its Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee on Oct. 19 and 20, 2006, to discuss design issues in the development of products for treatment of chronic hepatitis C, including co-infection with HIV.