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AIDS Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . September 9th, 1996

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Related Areas: Other Issues in AIDS Weekly | Other Publications

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Cell Receptor for Anti-HIV Chemokines Identified

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - HIV Neutralization Clusters Identified

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Human mAb Protects Against Many HIV Strains

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Mucosal Immunity: New Frontier in AIDS Research

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Naked DNA + Vitamin D3 = Mucosal Anti-HIV Response

AIDS Dementia - Comprehensive Small Animal Model for HIV Dementia Developed

AIDS Dementia - Memantine Trials Begin To Treat Neurodegenerative Conditions

AIDS Therapies - Beta-Chemokines Questioned As Potential Anti-HIV Therapy

AIDS Therapies (Norvir) - Final Marketing Authorization Granted for Protease Inhibitor To Treat HIV

AIDS Therapies (Onconase) - RNAse Cancer Drug Shows Promise for Inhibiting HIV

Amenorrhea - HIV Linked to Menstrual Dysfunction

At-Risk Populations (IVDU's) - Weight Loss May Indicate HIV Seroconversion Among Injection Drug Users

Cachexia (Treatment) - FDA Approves Somatotropin for AIDS Wasting

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - HIV Status of TB Patients Must Be Known

Cytomegalovirus - Toll-Free CMV Hotline Extended Through End of 1996

Diarrhea - Fecal TNF-Alpha Implicated in HIV Related Diarrhea

Epidemiology - Age Trends Similar for European and U.S. AIDS Cases

Genetics - Molecular Shape of Protein Envelope Determined

HIV Gene Therapy - HIV Renders Cells More Susceptible to Cytotoxic Effects of Cationic Liposomes

Immunology - Early Immune Responses Delineated in Acute HIV Infection

Industry News (Funding) - AIDS Barrier-Contraceptive Grant Received

Industry News (Funding) - Grant Awarded for Technology To Test Primate AIDS Model

Industry News (Testing) - Financing Provided To Establish HIV Home Test Market

International (Africa) - High Prevalence of Heart Disease Found in Zimbabwean HIV Patients

International (Africa) - Kenya Cardinal Burns Condoms

International (Asia) - Japan's Top AIDS Expert Arrested in Blood Scandal

Legal Issues - Settlement Terms of U.S. HIV Lawsuit Announced

Mycobacterium avium (Diagnostics) - Immunomagnetic PCR Allows Rapid Detection of M. avium

Pain Management - AIDS-Related Pain Often Inadequately Treated

Pediatrics - Severity Markers Identified in HIV Slow Progressors

Sexual Exploitation - Piot Addresses Link between AIDS and Sex Trade in Children at Stockholm Conference

TB/HIV Coinfection - Clinical Profile of TB Meningitis Unaltered by HIV

TB/HIV Coinfection - HIV Positive Patients with TB Increase Reported

TB/HIV Coinfection - Latent TB Infection Does Not Appear to Hasten AIDS

Testing (HIV) - Testing Rates Increased Among U.S. Women

Transmission (HCV) - HIV Influences Risk of Sexually-Acquired Hepatitis

Diagnostics (TB) - "Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB) in HIV Patients by Standard Methods and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)."

Diagnostics (TB) - "High Predictive Value of the Acid-Fast Bacilli for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (M.TB) in Respiratory Symptoms in an AIDS Reference Center, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. DOUBL

Diagnostics (TB) - "Rapid Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Patients Infected With HIV."

Disease Associations - "Cutaneous Mycobacteriosis in AIDS Patients."

Disease Associations - "Cutaneous Tuberculosis in Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)."

Disease Associations - "Hepatitis C and Haemophilia in Portugal."

Disease Associations - "Idiopathic CD4+ T-Lymphocytopenia (ICL) - A Follow-Up of Reported Cases in the United States."

Disease Associations - "Tuberculosis as Opportunistic Disease Among AIDS in the City of Rio De Janeiro."

Drug Development (Antiviral) - "Inhibition of HIV-1 Replication by a Recombinant Plasmid Transcribing HIV-1 Antisense RNA."

Drug Development (Antiviral) - "Ribosomal Frameshifting as a Target for the Development of New Anti-HIV Therapeutics."

Epidemiology (TB) - "Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in AIDS Patients in the Infectious Diseases Service-Sala 1-Pol I. Carrasco-Rosario, Argentina."

HIV Vaccine - "Motivation for Interest and Reasons for Exclusion in a Phase I/II HIV-1 Vaccine Trial in Thailand."

HIV Vaccines - "Development, Preclinical, and Clinical Testing of Candidate AIDS Vaccines."

HIV Vaccines - "Enhancement of HIV Vaccine Immunogenicity by Modification of Delivery Systems and Effect of Adjuvants."

HIV Vaccines - "HIV Vaccine Efficacy Trial Preparedness: Key Factors Among Out of Treatment Injection Drug Users."

HIV Vaccines - "HIV Vaccines: Resolved That More Fundamental Research on Vaccine Development is Required Prior to the Implementation of Phase III Trials of Certain HIV Vaccines."

HIV Vaccines - "Phase I/II Evaluation of Candidate AIDS Vaccines."

HIV Vaccines - "TCA3 and Interleukin-12 as Cytokine Adjuvants on Candidate HIV-1 DNA Vaccine."

Information Access (HIV) - "Results of a Nationwide HIV/AIDS Information User Needs Assessment."

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - "Focus Group Theme That Will Shape Participatory Social Marketing Interventions in 5 Cities."

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - "HIV Prevention Programs: A Decade of American Experience."

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - "Research To Classroom: Selecting and Disseminating Education Programs that Reduce HIV Risk Behaviors Among Adolescents."

Pathogenesis (HIV) - "Use of Chimeric Viruses Between HIV-1 and HIV-2 to Study env Regions Responsible for Resistance to an Amphotericin B Derivative."

Therapy (DOT/TB) - "Hospital-Based Case Management and Directly Observed Therapy Programs Reduce Readmission Rates for Tuberculosis."

AIDS Therapies - "Adverse Events from Drug Therapy for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Disease."

AIDS Therapies (Combined) - "Lamivudine Plus Zidovudine Compared with Zalcitabine Plus Zidovudine in Patients with HIV Infection."

AIDS Therapies (Heparin) - "Inhibition of HIV-1 Infectivity by Low Molecular Weight Heparin - Results of in vitro Studies and a Pilot Clinical Trial in Patients with Advanced AIDS."

AIDS-Related Lymphoma - "Low Dose Methotrexate, Bleomycin, Doxorubicin, Cyclophosphamide, Vincristine, and Dexamethasone with Zalcitabine in Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome-Related Lymphoma

Cervical Cancer and HIV - "Characteristics of Women with AIDS and Invasive Cervical Cancer."

Cytomegalovirus Retinitis - "Intravitreal Ganciclovir for Cytomegalovirus Retinitis in Patients with AIDS."

Diagnostics (HIV) - "Early Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus on Dried Blood Spot Specimens: Sensitivity Across Serial Specimens."

Gastroenterology - "Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection, the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease."

Gastroenterology - "Uncertain Clinical Significance of Duodenal Mucosal Abnormalities in HIV-Infected Individuals: Results of a Case-Control Study."

HIV Gene Therapy - "Inhibition of HIV Replication by Sense and Antisense Rev Response Elements in HIV-Based Retroviral Vectors."

HIV Vaccines - "Conditional Reduction of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Replication by a Gain-of-Herpes Simplex Virus 1 Thymidine Kinase Function."

HIV Vaccines - "Interest among Gay/Bisexual Men in Greater Boston in Participating in Clinical Trials of Preventive HIV Vaccines."

HIV/Malaria Coinfection - "Selected P-falciparum Specific Immune Responses Are Maintained in AIDS Adults in Burkina Faso."

Healthcare Economics - "Costs of HIV+/AIDS at CD4+ Counts Disease Stages Based on Treatment Protocols."

Healthcare Economics (HIV) - "Lifetime Cost of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Health Care."

Hemophilia (HIV) - "Comparison of the Quality of Life Between HIV-Positive Haemophilia Patients and HIV-Negative Haemophilia Patients."

Immunology - "A Critical Role of Nitric Oxide in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1-Induced Hyperresponsiveness of Cultured Monocytes."

KSHV - "Seroconversion to Antibodies Against Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus-Related Latent Nuclear Antigens before the Development of Kaposi's sarcoma."

Kaposi's Sarcoma (Therapy) - "Disseminated Epidemic Kaposi's sarcoma Treated with Radiation and Chemotherapy."

Neurology - "Prednisone Improves Renal Function and Proteinuria in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Associated Nephropathy."

Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - "Establishment of AIDS-Related Lymphoma Cell Lines from Lymphomatous Effusions."

Screening - "Tuberculosis Screening in a Sexually Transmitted Diseases Clinic."

Sexual Behavior - "Changes in Sexual Behavior and a Decline in HIV Infection among Young Men in Thailand."

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