New Treatment Guidelines Published October 29

A revision to the Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-1-Infected Adults and Adolescents was published October 29, 2004. The most current version of this and other U.S. HIV-related guidelines is always available http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/guidelines/ -- in either PDF, HTML, or PDA format.

Changes in this revision include when to start antiretroviral treatment, what to start with, discontinuation or interruption of antiretroviral therapy, and special populations: HIV-infected adolescents, injection drug users, hepatitis B/HIV co-infected patients, hepatitis C/HIV co-infected patients, and HIV patient with tuberculosis.