Annals ofHIV - Aids

Volume: 5 - Number: 42 - June 15, 2006

Outstanding

Women in couples antenatal HIV counseling and testing are not more likely to report adverse social events.

Interplay between hepatitis C, liver steatosis and antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients.

Gender differences in clinical progression of HIV-1-infected individuals during long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy.

Hepatic steatosis and antiretroviral drug use among adults coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus.

BASIC SCIENCE

Rare mutations at codon 103 of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase can confer resistance to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy have high frequencies of CD8 T cells specific for Immediate Early protein-1 of cytomegalovirus

Divergent in vitro and in vivo correlates of HIV-specific T-cell responses during onset of HIV viraemia.

CLINICAL SCIENCE

Paradoxical CD4+ T-cell decline in HIV-infected patients with complete virus suppression taking tenofovir and didanosine.

Gender differences in clinical progression of HIV-1-infected individuals during long-term highly active antiretroviral therapy.

Hepatic steatosis and antiretroviral drug use among adults coinfected with HIV and hepatitis C virus.

Hepatitis B and HIV: prevalence, AIDS progression, response to highly active antiretroviral therapy and increased mortality in the EuroSIDA cohort.

Editorial reviews

Surplus men, sex work, and the spread of HIV in China

Epidemiology & social

Women in couples antenatal HIV counseling and testing are not more likely to report adverse social events.

Sex behaviour of men who have sex with men and risk of HIV in Andhra Pradesh, India.

Interplay between hepatitis C, liver steatosis and antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients.

Research letters

Rapid viral load suppression following generic highly active antiretroviral therapy in Southern Indian HIV-infected patients.

Decrease of Lewis frequency in HIV-infected patients: possible competition of fucosylated antigens with HIV for binding to DC-SIGN.

Clonal analyses of HIV quasispecies in patients harbouring plasma genotype with K65R mutation associated with thymidine analogue mutations or L74V substitution.

Early exclusive breastfeeding reduces the risk of postnatal HIV-1 transmission and increases HIV-free survival.

Risk factors for late HIV diagnosis in French Guiana.

Change in atherosclerosis progression in HIV-infected patients: ANRS Aquitaine Cohort, 1999-2004.

Panel of prototypical infectious molecular HIV-1 clones containing multiple nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor resistance mutations.

A conserved HLA B13-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocyte epitope in Nef is a dominant epitope in HLA B13-positive HIV-1-infected patients.

Lower incidence and severity of cytomegalovirus-associated immune recovery uveitis in HIV-infected patients with delayed highly active antiretroviral therapy