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NEWS IN BRIEF 2011

As well as our news reporting, the news pages on our website now also include selected stories from other sources. Here we highlight stories from the last quarter – visit www.aidsmap.com/news for the full news reports references to the original sources. ... read more...

Growing Pain

As people with HIV live longer, they are facing pains old and new. David McLay reports on peripheral neuropathy and arthritis ... read more...

Barriers to Care

Immigration removal centres and HIV. Evidence has shown that a series of failings in immigration removal centres (IRes) has compromised the continuity of care for people with HIV ... read more...

Gus Cairns looks at the new Standards for psychological support for adults living with HIV

People with HIV have higher rates of depression, anxiety and most other psychological problems than the general population ... read more...

Access to Healthcare abroad

This leaflet tells you about how you can get healthcare in other countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) ... click here...

Red Ribbon 30 Year Anniversary

In a report released by the Health Protection Agency to mark the 30 year anniversary of the first HIV diagnosis on 5 June 1981 in Los Angeles ... read more...

Social Care Needs

Whatever will happen to HIV-positive seniors over the next few years, we will not only have medical treatment needs, but also social and care needs ... read more...

NHS LifeCheck

Getting personalised health information can be a challenge ... read more...

Treatment breaks permanently harm immune recovery

Patients who took breaks from treatments (‘drug holidays’) had substantially poorer CD4 count increases and substantially higher rates of death and AIDS ... read more...

HIV services to be commissioned nationally

It was announced on 21st December that the UK government proposed to commission HIV services nationally ... read more...

How to talk to your Doctor

Are you saying the right thing? Does your doctor understand you? Or even taking you seriously? ... read more...

Stem cell transport has cured HIV infection in ‘Berlin patient’

Doctors who carried out a stem cell transplant on an HIV-infected man ... read more...

Anti-HIV drugs prevent HIV infection, trial shows – if you take them

A randomised controlled trial has found that the HIV infection rate in HIV-negative gay men ... read more...

Bridging the divide: HIV and health systems

“The world sometimes seems to be divided between the HIV people and the health systems people ... read more...