Joseph Sonnabend

A more balanced response would have been a call for more research, and importantly, for a fuller description of those individual situations wh...

It was written with two HIV positive patient collaborators of mine, Michael Callen and Richard Berkowitz.

This title may surprise some. In a paper from a group at CDC I learned yet another HIV/AIDS related acronym. It's CBWT, Child-to-Breastfeedin...

As it turns out, not washing immediately after sex may actually have a significant protective effect for men at risk from heterosexual interco...

There are plenty of other experts who are not so certain that starting treatment above 500 CD4 lymphocytes will confer a net benefit to the HI...

We have known for quite a long time that it's possible to be infected with HIV more than once.

These trials of the effects of anti-herpes treatment on HIV also represent missed research opportunities.

Too often the results of prevention trials are presented in ways that exaggerate the benefits of an intervention, and information is withheld...

Patient autonomy is just a particular instance of individual autonomy, a term that may sound pretty dry and academic but if we used the term i...

I was prompted to write this entry after reading an important report about HIV and anal cancer which has just appeared in an advance access ed...

Today, I'm going back 24 years to recall - with the help of a few contemporary documents, a significant event in the history of the HIV/AIDS e...

I may as well jump in immediately: The iPrEx trial of pre-exposure prophylaxis is a failure. Maybe a shocking statement in view of the univers...

Rather than attempt to deprive Gary Null of his right to free expression the signatories of the letter might consider some of the reasons why...

By 1981 we had come to understand that infection and disease are not synonymous terms. But it almost seemed that this important lesson learne...

The HIV-1 and HIV-2 epidemics originated from cross species jumps from two different non-human primates. Attempts have been made, in the case...

Always on the lookout for information on cytomegalovirus (CMV) an article entitled "Human Cytomegalovirus Induces Systemic Immune Activation C...

The opinions of the guidelines panel and others who favour starting treatment at higher numbers are most certainly not held by all experts in...