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AIDS Weekly

Susan Hasty, Publisher

Table of Contents . . . February 3rd, 1997

Non-Subscriber - Summaries Only

Related Areas: Other Issues in AIDS Weekly | Other Publications

Editorial - Strange Bedfellows Damage CDC and NIH Credibility

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - 65 Percent of Late-Stage AIDS Patients Respond to 3-Drug Combo

Conference Coverage (Retrovirus) - Early Treatment with 3-Drug Combo Yields Dramatic Effects

AIDS Therapies (GS 840) - Phase III Oral Compound Trial Begins for HIV/AIDS

AIDS Therapies (HIV-IG) - Trial Continues Following Interim Efficacy Review

AIDS Therapies (MKC-442) - Preliminary Results Reported for MKC-442 Anti-HIV Drug

Animal Models - Squirrel Monkeys Useful for HIV Vaccine Studies

Antisense Technology (HIV) - Liposomal Antisense Blocks HIV rev

Cryptosporidiosis (Treatment) - Expanded NTZ Orphan Drug Designation Announced

Education and Prevention - Funding HIV High Risk Populations, Not Low Risk

Epidemiology - AIDS Deaths Decline

HIV Testing - Supreme Court Hears Arguments About Anonymous Testing

HIV Testing - Test Results Demonstrate Easy Use and Public Health Benefits

HIV Vaccines - Human Antibody Libraries Speed Vaccine Evaluation

HIV/HCV Coinfection - HCV Genotype May Be Linked to HIV Progression

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Full Service Drug Distribution and Compliance Program Announced

Industry News (Patents and Technologies) - Patent Awarded for BufferGel Technology To Prevent STDs

International (Europe) - Anti-CMV Drug Advances to Phase I/II Trials in France

International (Europe) - French Doctors Say HIV Infected Surgeons Should Stop Performing Surgery

International (Europe) - Phase I Topical Microbicide Clinical Trial Initiated in London

International (Europe) - Viracept Anti-HIV Drug Marketed in Europe

Internet - Conference Highlights for HIV Summarized on World Wide Web

Internet - New AIDS Discussion Forum Announced

Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - Church Leaders Oppose Proposal To Give Prisoners Condoms

Legal Issues - Irish Government To Outlaw Using Hypodermic Needles as Weapons

Managed Care - Hopkins Offers HMO for AIDS Patients

Occupational Risk - Needles with Covers and Dull Tips Can Reduce Sticks

Pathogenesis (HIV) - Antibody Correlation with AIDS Progression Report Published

Pediatrics - Zerit: Option for Treating HIV Infected Children

Vectors (Development) - HIV LTR Directs Gene Expression in an HSV Vector

Blood Products (Transmission) - "Antibodies to Cytomegalovirus and HIV Infection in a Hemophilic Cohort."

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

Disease Associations - "Causes of Death in Canadians with Hemophilia 1980-1995."

Disease Associations - "HHV8 in AIDS Related Malignancies."

Disease Associations - "Review of Non-Tuberculous Mycobacterial Infections in HIV Infected Patients."

Drug Development (Antivirals) - "Antiretroviral Therapy State-of-The Art: Review And Recommendations."

Drug Interactions (Antiviral) - "Interactions with Anti-HIV Drugs - An Overview."

HIV Gene Therapy - "HIV-1 Status and Function of G-CSF-Mobilized Peripheral Blood Hematopoietic Stem Cells from Asymptomatic HIV- 1 Infected Individuals: Implications for Anti-HIV Gene Therapy."

HIV Gene Therapy - "Preclinical Proof-of-Concept for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Based Gene Therapy for AIDS."

Pathogenesis (Antiviral Drugs) - "Anti-Retroviral Drugs Cause Sequential Effects on CD4 Counts, Apoptosis and Inositol Signalling."

Pathogenesis (Antiviral Therapy) - "Can Antiviral Therapy Restore Immune Function?"

Pathogenesis (HIV) - "Decline of CD4 Level and Its Correlation With Clinical Events in Chinese HIV Infected Patients."

Prophylaxis (TB) - "Incidence of Mycobacterial Infections During a Randomized Prospective Trial of Primary PCP/Toxo Prophylaxis."

Transfusion Medicine (Complications) - "T-Lymphocyte Subsets in HIV Seronegative Hemophiliacs."

AIDS Therapies (Combined) - "Efficacy of Triple Combination Therapy with Zidovudine (ZDV) Plus Zalcitabine (ddC) Plus Lamivudine (3TC) Versus Double (ZDV+3TC) Combination Therapy in Pati

At-Risk Populations - "Changes in HIV Risk Behavior among Injecting Drug Users: The Impact of 21 Versus 90 Days of Methadone Detoxification."

Blood Banking (Safety) - "Error Detection and Reduction in Blood Banking."

Community-Acquired Bacteremia - "Community-Acquired Bacteremia in HIV-Positive Patients: Protective Benefit of Co-Trimoxazole."

Diagnostics (HIV) - "Analysis of HIV-1 Load in Blood, Semen and Saliva: Evidence for Different Viral Compartments in a Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study."

Diagnostics (HIV) - "Comparison of In-House and Commercial Sample Preparation and PCR Amplification Systems for Detection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 DNA in Blood Samples from Tanzanian Adults."

Diagnostics (HIV) - "Lack of Screening Test Sensitivity during HIV-1 Non-Subtype B Seroconversions."

Disease Associations (HCV) - "Abnormal Urinary Coproporphyrin Levels in Patients Infected by Hepatitis C Virus With or Without Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Study of 177 Patients."

Education and Prevention (HIV) - "A Qualitative Evaluation of HIV and AIDS Education to Senior School Children in Lothian Region, Scotland."

Epidemiology (Backcalculation) - "Sources of Uncertainty in Estimating HIV Infection Rates by Back-Calculation: An Application to Italian Data."

Epidemiology (Prevalence) - "Demographic Approaches to the Estimation of Incidence of HIV-1 Infection among Adults from Age-Specific Prevalence Data in Stable Endemic Conditions."

HIV Vaccines - "Measuring Vaccine Efficacy for Both Susceptibility to Infection and Reduction in Infectiousness for Prophylactic HIV-1 Vaccines."

Kaposi's sarcoma - "CT Appearances of Intrathoracic Kaposi's sarcoma in Patients with AIDS."

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Absence of Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus-Like DNA Sequences in Malignant Vascular Tumors of the Serous Membranes."

Needle Exchange Programs - "Prevention of HIV/AIDS and Other Blood-Borne Diseases among Injection Drug Users: A National Survey on the Regulation of Syringes and Needles."

Pneumocystis carinii - "Geographic Variation in the Management and Outcome of Patients with AIDS-Related Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia."

Primary Care - "U.S. Hospital Care for HIV-Infected Persons and the Role of Public, Private, and Veterans Administration Hospitals."

Sexual Behavior - "Occasional Condom Use and HIV Risk Reduction."

Sexual Behavior - "Sexual Risk-Taking, Socio-Sexual Biographies and Sexual Interaction: Elements of the French National Survey on Sexual Behaviour."

Testing (HIV) - "The Acceptability of Voluntary HIV Antibody Testing in the United States: A Decade of Lessons Learned."

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