Positive Life NSW

A team of French investigators has found that people who are taking an HIV treatment combination that includes Nevirapine (Viramune) are more likely to achieve a viral load of zero than people taking a combination that includes Efavirenz (Sustiva, also in the combination pill Atripla). Report by Jae Condon

Mia Dawson has been living with HIV for 16 years. She looks at the resources and sites she has found to be the most useful when accessing information on treatments for women with HIV.

I was fortunate to be able to attend the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July thanks to sponsorship from Napwa. The range and amount of creative thinking addressing every issue around HIV was amazing and the good work of tens of thousands of people was humbling. Neil McKellar Stewart is the HIV Health Maintenance Officer at ACON Northern Rivers in Lismore.

A selection of latest HIV news from around the globe.

Lance Feeney looks at the issues around access to S100 dispensing services for working people with HIV and where to go to get your meds after 5pm.

Lance Feeney reports on Project Inform’s recent HAART 2.0 Think Tank held in San Francisco in October 2008.

Bill Whittaker on the Treataware Project.

Dean Murphy on a new guide on minimising side effects and getting the most out of your treatments.

Todd writes about the anxieties and benefits experienced when starting treatments.