hiv patients

At least six HIV-positive people have died after evangelical churches in Britain reportedly told them to stop taking their medication because they had been healed by God.

BOSTON (MedPage Today) -- Treatment of HIV patients with antiretroviral regimens containing tenofovir (Viread) did not appear to significantly affect renal function after one year of therapy compared to other antiretroviral regimens, researchers said here.

(MedPage Today) -- The proportion of HIV patients able to suppress the virus despite extensive drug resistance nearly tripled over a 10-year period, researchers reported.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- Low-income HIV patients on a single-pill regimen had about a 25% lower risk of hospitalization over time than those taking multiple pills, a researcher said here.

CHICAGO (MedPage Today) -- The proportion of HIV patients whose virus is resistant to at least one drug in each of the three major medication classes appears to be falling, a researcher said here.

(MedPage Today) -- The recently approved anti-HIV drug rilpivirine (Edurant) is a new option for people starting treatment for the virus, according to investigators on two randomized controlled trials.

(MedPage Today) -- Short, intense treatment for latent tuberculosis may be the wave of the future for people also infected with HIV, researchers reported.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A major study finds that treating HIV patients early, before they're too sick, dramatically lowers their chances of spreading the AIDS virus to a sexual partner....

DENVER (MedPage Today) -- Universal treatment for today's HIV patients is "a real game-changer" that could dramatically slow transmission of the virus and the progress of the pandemic, according to Julio Montaner, MD, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

(MedPage Today) -- HIV patients new to treatment may harbor some relatively rare drug resistance mutations that can markedly reduce their chance of successful treatment, researchers reported.