HIV & AIDS #ItsASin – Part of LGBT history Month

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Feb 9, 2021 | AIDs, Gay, HIV, screening, STI, World news

  As we celebrate another year of LGBT history, we reflect on how far as a community we have come, the issues we have had to deal with and how it has changed us, not only personally but as a nation. This month we have been treated to a 5 part series that really...

Promising antibody therapy suppresses HIV

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Apr 9, 2015 | HIV

A recent study published in Nature reported that an experimental therapy with broadly neutralising antibodies, given intravenously, drastically reduced the amount of HIV virus in the blood of the treated patients. If the results can be replicated this might lead to an...

Cellular scissors chop up HIV virus

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Mar 11, 2015 | HIV, Uncategorised

In exiting new research published in Nature Communications, a team from the Salk’s Gene Expression Laboratory have managed to customise a defence system used by many bacteria (CRISPR) and trained this scissor like machinery to recognize the HIV virus. This could...

HIV patients should be screened for bone fracture risk

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorised

New guidelines published in the journal Clinical Infectious diseases, recommend screening for bone fracture risk in all patients over the age of 40, who have HIV. This is in addition to all post menopausal women and men over the age of 50. They recommend that these...

When to start HIV treatment ( ART)?

by Dr Wayne Cottrell | Nov 26, 2014 | AIDs, HIV

There has been much discussion about when to start treatment for HIV after infection. The current guidelines state that people should start treatment before their CD4 count drops below 350-500. The threshold CD4 count for starting treatment used to be much lower but...