At the IX International Conference on AIDS, the Treatment Action Group (TAG) debuted its recent treatment publication, The Wasting Report: Current Issues in the Treatment and Research of HIV-Associated Wasting and Malnutrition. Written by TAG's Tim Horn and David Pieribone,…
'Early' Is Right, They Say, Unless of Course Your Regimen's Wrong; Then You're Shit Out of Luck Burning Through Your Options One by One For this month's issue of TAGline, we decided to finish up last month's discussion with Aaron…
Smoldering Embers of HIV's 'Raging Fire,' Partly Doused, Threaten to Rekindle the Blaze A Thymus Trickles While we had the ear of Dr. David Ho, we thought we'd take advantage of the opportunity to sharpen our own picture of what…
The Fickle (and Unforgiving) Fashion of Antiretroviral Therapies: Early treatment choices and their unintended consequences. 'Early' AZT 1990 No survival benefit found; resistant mutant associated with more rapid progression. AZT+3TC 1994 Double resistance after one year; reduced sensitivity to other…
Something to Measure Propelled by Results From Multiple Studies, Viral Load Monitoring Lunges to the Forefront of HIV Medicine Optimization -- and Access -- Remain Recently, several very powerful and sensitive tests for measuring the presence of HIV RNA in…
The Latest Word on Protease Resistance A Turning Point Treatment Activists Sit Down with Vancouver High Fliers, Try to Make Sense Out of the New Cries of 'Eureka' Several weeks ago, at the July 15th TAG meeting, we met to…
Amino acid substitutions conferring reduced sensitivity to selected protease inhibitors: saquinavir (Invirase) 10 48 54 63 ritonavir (Norvir) 20 36 46 54 63 71 82 84 90 indinavir (Crixivan) 10 20 24 36 46 54 63 64 71 82 84…
Long-Awaited Research Paper Takes on the Viral Diversity Threshold, Cannibalistic CTLs and NSI-to-SI Switch Shining Star of the New Guard AIDS research is only fifteen years old. A few years ago, the field was largely dominated by and comprised of…
Licking Their Wounds Following a FY 1996 Budgetary Revocation, Activists Regroup for the Battle of 1997 Of friends and fair weather TAG's own Mara Liasson is busy--both engaged in and chronicling--our very own budget battle on Capitol Hill, where political…
Can HIV Be Eradicated from an Infected Individual? Don't apologize; the question was meant to be provocative. Why else would a tiny little meeting (participants included, among others, David Cameron (Holland), Doug Richman (US), Joep Lange (Denmark), Julio Montaner (Canada)…