AIDS Alert Archives – January 1, 2010

January 1, 2010

• Fatigue chief complaint? A surprising explanation

  Fatigue is such a common complaint among HIV patients that it's often ignored or expected in clinical care.

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• Adherence Strategies: Social support research provides clues to possible adherence strategies

  HIV clinicians often work with patients who have such an overwhelming number of barriers to optimal treatment adherence that it's difficult to know where an adherence intervention should begin.

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• Detecting highly transmissible acute HIV

  Screening STD clinic patients especially men who have sex with men (MSM) for signs of an acute, highly transmissable stage of HIV infection could heighten detection and prevention efforts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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• Condom wrap-up, new options for prevention

  Good news for prevention of HIV and other STDs as a new year dawns. The second-generation FC2 Female Condom is available for purchase in the United States, which gives American women a nonlatex, female-controlled option in disease protection.

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• Journal Review: Fatal H1N1 infection in an HIV positive woman

  The authors describe a fatal case of H1N1 pandemic influenza A associated with pneumonia, which resulted in respiratory and renal failure in a 39-year-old HIV-positive woman.

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• FDA Notifications

  On Nov. 5, 2009, using expedited review procedures developed to support the President's Emergency Program For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), granted tentative approval for lamivudine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate fixed dose combination tablets, 300mg/300mg.

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