Now online at AIDS Treatment News:

**** AIDS Information Overload: What You Can Do Now
New software called Connotea, free and available to everyone,
could connect people immediately with the most important work and
resources in a wide variety of medical, scientific, service, and
activist fields.
http://www.aidsnews.org/2006/09/information-overload.html

*** Integrase Inhibitor MK-0518: Merck Opens Expanded-Access Program
Patients resistant to at least one drug in all three oral classes
may qualify for this new kind of antiretroviral -- which still must
be combined with other active drugs.
http://www.aidsnews.org/2006/09/mk-0518-ea.html

*** Long-Term Non-Progressors -- International Study Recruiting
The Elite HIV Controller Study wants a single blood sample from
long-term non-progressors anywhere.[
http://www.aidsnews.org/2006/09/non-progressor.html

*** ICAAC Conference In San Francisco, September 27-30
This 12,000-person antibiotics conference has significant updates
on HIV treatment research this year.
http://www.aidsnews.org/2006/09/icaac-2006.html

*** Retroviruses Conference: Important Deadlines Soon
Community Educator application deadline October 12; abstract
deadline (for doctors and scientists) October 3; Community Press
application deadline December 8; others deadlines.
http://www.aidsnews.org/2006/09/retroviruses-deadlines.html

*** Genetic Testing May Avoid Abacavir Hypersensitivity Reaction
An experimental genetic test may almost eliminate the
hypersensitivity reaction, which occurs in about 5% of patients
starting abacavir, by identifying those at risk in advance.
http://www.aidsnews.org/2006/09/genetic-testing.html

*** Toronto AIDS Conference: Calm Surface Deceptive?
The August 2006 Toronto conference of about 25,000 people had no
major controversies -- but serious concerns about problems and
inadequacies in the response to the global epidemic.
http://www.aidsnews.org/2006/09/toronto-conference.html

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John S James
AIDS Treatment News
www.aidsnews.org