Editorial

HIV Treat Bull - 2009 Mar-Apr;10(3/4): 01

Welcome to the March/April 2009 issue of HTB.

For London readers we include an update on our attempts to obtain commissioner funding. While this is not the most important news in HTB, we include it to show our continued attempt to get a better response from commissioners on our important services, and also to show the many people who wrote letters of support last year, that this made a difference for us in continuing to argue our case.

The fax-back i-Base appeal support form on page 45 includes only a couple of tick boxes. It important for us to hear when clinics have no budgets for our resources as this may help us access national funding. Please consider this two-minute support if your clinic hasn’t already answered this point.

For the main news in this issue, please forward straight to the first reports from our conference coverage from this year Retrovirus Conference, still one of the most important annual meetings.

Supplements with this issue

We also include two supplements with this issue.

This first is a revised and updated 2009 edition of our Guide to HIV and Hepatitis C Coinfection.

As part of this resource we made a short youtube video with Dr Sanjay Bhagani about an alternative to liver biopsy called FibroScan. Check out the link here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_E4ZGmKooA

The second supplement is a new format developed from a resource that has been online for several years: the i-Base Training Manual for Advocates. While this introduction to clinical trials has been written mainly for advocates we thought this might be of interest for other healthcare professional and patients interested in research.

This booklet will shortly be available online in Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and Italian, supported by NEAT, the new Network for European AIDS Trials.

As with all publications, additional copies of both booklets are available free, including in bulk for use in UK clinics – please order in the usual way.

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