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Minimising the risk of cardiovascular disease (updated)

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This ATPA fact sheet explains the current knowledge about cardiovascular (heart) disease risk in people living with HIV/AIDS, and some strategies for minimising risk.

Lipo: any progress?

While newer antiretrovirals do not appear to cause lipoatrophy, the disfiguring side effect characterised by loss of fat from the face and limbs, the problem is still very much with us. David Menadue examins the latest research and treatments.

CROI 2007: A great leap forward

A major scientific conference on HIV has wound up with promising news on treatments which could signal a significant improvement in HIV treatment for the first time in some years.

ASHM 2006: Spotlight on Sculptra

The annual conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) was held in Melbourne in November. This article summarises some key developments.

Time to deliver

The 16th International AIDS Conference highlighted numerous important and promising developments in HIV treatments. JOHN DAYE reports.

Looking forward, looking back

In September 2006, the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care will mark a decade of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Has it really been 10 years since the so-called Protease Moment? KIRSTY MACHON reports on where we have come from – and where to from here.

Lipoatrophy

 An ATPA fact sheet on Lipoatrophy – the loss or ‘wasting’ of fat from the face, as well as sometimes the buttocks, upper arms legs or thighs. Options for prevention, treatment and management of fat loss associated with HIV treatments.

The fat debate

Are our fat tummies caused by HIV drugs, or are they just a sign we're getting older? DAVID MENADUE examines the medical debate.

Factors to discuss with your doctor when considering your choice of Antiretroviral Drugs

!(thumbnail)/files/atpafs_arv_thumb.jpg( )! This ATPA fact sheet is a quick reference to the factors people with HIV and their doctors need to consider when choosing an antiretroviral treatment regimen.

My toxic world

The beautiful beaches of Rio de Janeiro are hardly the place in which you’d imagine your thoughts would start turning to mortality, but for a while there not even the incredible, hunky, tanned Adonises strutting before me could distract me from thoughts of impending doom.