“The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is a scientifically focused meeting of the world’s leading researchers working to understand, prevent, Continue Reading

Durante la 20.a conferencia sobre Retrovirus e Infecciones Oportunistas (conferencia CROI 2013, Atlanta GA. Marzo 2013), el tema de conversación más importante fue sobre Continue Reading

“The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) is a scientifically focused meeting of the world’s leading researchers working to understand, prevent, Continue Reading

Two new studies show better immune recovery if therapy was initiated early. One gave antivirals within 4 months of the infection. Many times the early infection is passed off as a mild viral Continue Reading

A recent article by a major HIV thought leader, Paul Sax, MD from Harvard, reminds providers that we should only perform a test if it will cause an action. Continue Reading

A study of 209,000 patients found that the fats in the blood were not much different if the patient fasted 1 hour or 16 hours. This finding is contrary to previous opinions. Continue Reading

TREATMENT IS PREVENTION (?)

I attended the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in early Continue Reading

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TREATMENT AS PREVENTION
At UCSF (the large hospital in San Francisco) they decided to offer HIV treatment Continue Reading

Conference coverage: Starting ARVS, PreP and New Booster

In the past we treated anyone with a CD4 <200 or <14%. Now the guidelines Continue Reading

A 54 year old man is brought to the hospital by his relatives. He is very underweight and weak. He has a fever, cough, and can’t swallow well. Continue Reading