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...According to our models, drug resistance in San Francisco will increase by around 30% in the next three to five years," says Sally Blower, a professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "That will present its own challenges to that city, but the most significant implications of our work are for countries where treatment is just being rolled out. San Francisco is always the canary in the mine...
...Kahn, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and a contributor to the Science study, says test and treat should not be confused with WHO's goal of universal access to antiretroviral drugs, which he says is a worthy one. But because the treatment for drug-resistant HIV strains is expensive - it requires a constantly changing cocktail of new, pricey drugs - and because adherence to such a complicated drug regimen can be difficult for patients, Kahn believes WHO and other institutions should begin planning for the time that HIV drug resistance begins in earnest, particularly...
...Having ran a comprehensive computer search for over a month, the researchers looked for patterns of mutation that were more prevalent among the treated patients—the more common the mutation, the greater the probability of it being responsible for the drug resistance, according to Jun Liu, a professor of statistics at the Harvard School of Public Health and one of the authors of the paper...
...It’s very encouraging that we can identify patterns of resistance so that we can understand something about why these patterns exist,” said Daniel R. Kuritzkes, a professor of medicine at HMS who has conducted extensive research on mechanisms and clinical significance of HIV drug resistance...
...unscrupulous candidates in Philippines politics, murder has long been the ultimate political tool for eliminating rivals to steal a win at the polls. "This is especially so at the level of local rather than national politics," says Benito Lim, a political science professor at the University of the Philippines, who believes the baleful tradition of "guns, goons and gold" at elections will be hard to uproot. Still, Comelec, the national election commission, hopes the tough gun ban (the early arrests have been widely publicized in the local media) will reduce the potential for violence...