University of California - San Francisco
Using hair to manage HIV/AIDS and predict treatment success
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 16th, 2009
The findings, published in the February 20 issue of AIDS, note that the levels of antiretrovirals found in the hair of patients on treatment correlated strongly with levels of HIV virus circulating in patients' blood.
"High levels of antiretrovirals in hair correlated with success in HIV viral suppression in treatment and did so better than any of the other variables usually considered to predict response," said the study's primary investigator, Monica Gandhi, MD MPH, assistant professor of...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-03-16)
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