AIDS Therapy

First U.K. national database measures levels of HIV drug resistance

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 17th, 2003

The first report from the National HIV Resistance Database is published in the U.K. Health Protection Agency's Communicable Disease Report (CDR) and shows that HIV drug resistance is increasing.

This database was set up in order to monitor available information on drug resistance among individuals with HIV and work is undertaken by the Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit in collaboration with laboratories undertaking the resistance tests and with the Health Protection Agency.

"Drug treatments for HIV have proved to be very successful in keeping many of those infected in good health; however, in a small number of people the resistance...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2003-11-17)

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