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Gilead Sciences Inc. in Forest City, CA, has issued a Dear Health Care Professional letter describing high rates of virologic failure in patients treated with a once-daily triple NRTI regimen containing Didanosine (ddI, Videx EC), Lamivudine (3TC, Epivir), and Tenofovir (Viread).
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AIDSinfo recently began a new service on its web site called Live Help. AIDSinfo is a web site sponsored by agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services.
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A new survey shows that most primary care practitioners often fail to offer HIV testing to their sexually active patients, and many even neglect to offer the test to pregnant patients.
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When a Nashville, TN, church spreads the word about HIV/AIDS education, the repercussions can be felt hundreds of miles away.
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Investigators in Washington, DC, have discovered cases of HIV patients who have significant liver dysfunction that is caused by secondary syphilis instead of the usual suspects of hepatitis C, medication side effects, and substance abuse.
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The Metropolitan Interdenominational Church of Nashville, TN, was about 3 years old in 1984 when the congregation learned that one of the founding members had died of a little-known disease called AIDS.
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North Carolinas recent discovery of an HIV outbreak among college students across a wide network of universities has made the public health challenge clear: Either make effective prevention, testing, and counseling services available to at-risk youths, or expect in a few years to add more young people to the states waiting list for HIV medications.
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An HIV RNA screening program in North Carolina has uncovered the beginning of an outbreak of HIV infection among college students and has led state health officials to speculate that the outbreak could have an impact on youth across the Southeast.
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Use of veterinary vaccines has decreased disease and illness in animals, but inadvertent human exposure to these vaccines, in particular live vaccines, actually has the potential to cause human infections and illness.