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Beijing Hotels Told to Stock All Rooms With Condoms
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Beijing, preparing to host the 2008 Olympics, has ordered hotels to provide condoms in all bedrooms in a bid to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS after cases of infection soared 54% in the first 10 months of this year. Reuters Health Information
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Scaling up HAART Coverage Can Reduce New HIV Infections
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Treating all HIV-positive individuals with HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) could result in a nearly two-thirds reduction in annual incidence of new HIV infections and help curb the AIDS epidemic, researchers from Canada report. Reuters Health Information
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Peripheral Artery Disease Common in HIV Patients
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There is a considerably elevated prevalence of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) in HIV-infected patients, Swiss researchers report in the March 1st issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information
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Simple Test Spots Abacavir Hypersensitivity
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Instead of employing the standard sequence-based genotyping method in screening for HLA-B*5701, which indicates a risk of abacavir hypersensitivity in patients with HIV, testing for an HCP5 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) is simpler and appears to achieve similar results, according to Swiss and US researchers. Reuters Health Information
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