Gallant et al’s editorial on ART guidelines in resource poor settings

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I’m going to take Joel Gallant (who I greatly admire) and colleagues to task a bit for the *tone* and timing of their just published piece in CID, “Universal Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection: Should U.S. Treatment Guidelines Be Applied to Resource‐Limited Settings?”, which states that “new U.S. guidelines recommending ART for all HIV‐infected patients […]

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“There is another moral imperative in this world, and it’s called: ‘Treatment as Prevention’, and it deals with HIV and AIDS,” Stephen Lewis, co-founder of AIDS-free World

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Transcript of Welcoming Remarks by Stephen Lewis at HIV Treatment as Prevention Workshop, Vancouver 2013 Moderator, Stephen Lewis: In order to exercise incomparable compassion I’m going to speak for a few minutes so that David Wilson can finish eating, which is unusual for me to be vaguely decent on platform. I’m glad to open this

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Preliminary 2013 Antiretroviral Therapy Guidelines presented at 3rd International Workshop on HIV Treatment as Prevention

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WHO’s 2013 antiretroviral therapy (ART) guidelines will recommend earlier initiation of ART (at CD4 counts below 500 cells) but will “still prioritise treating patients who are symptomatic as well as those with CD4 cell counts less than 350,” according to Dr Meg Doherty, of WHO’s HIV Department who presented the yet-to-be-finalised 2013 Antiretroviral (ART) guidelines

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Lance Sherriff, brief bio

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Lance Sherriff began reporting on HIV/AIDS almost ten years ago (http://www.aidsmap.com/Cost-of-care-shown-to-be-primary-barrier-to-adherence-in-African-study/page/1416992/). He specialises in recording, photographing and filming conferences and other medical meetings, and performing interviews, then subsequently producing medical transcriptions. If you need to document a meeting or need medical transcription services, please contact him.

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