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.

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.

!(thumbnail)/files/2003-6-06_ashm-thumb.jpg( )! The annual conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine (ASHM) is Australia’s only regular HIV medical conference. PAUL KIDD reports on the latest medical developments discussed at this year’s conference in Cairns.

A report from the 3rd International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions & Lipodystrophy, held in HIV in Athens, Greece from 23-26 October, 2001.