Zephyr Foundation

This is our final bulletin from CROI 2011. We hope you have found our news coverage useful. You can find all our coverage at www.aidsmap.com/croi2011, including the news reports and bulletins.We are always looking for ways of improving and developing our resources – so if you have any comments that you would like

There is increasing evidence of the transmission of HIV strains with resistance to anti-HIV drugs in low- and middle-income countries. Research in eleven sub-Saharan African countries showed that the chances of detecting transmitted resistance increased by over a third each year that a country had been scaling up HIV treatment. A separate study involving people recently diagnosed

A new type of anti-HIV drug that targets the first step in HIV’s entry into cells has done well in a Phase IIa study. Currently known as BMS-663068, the drug was shown to be safe and to work against the virus. HIV cell entry is a three-step process. The virus must first attach to the