Chicago, Ill. -- Positively Aware magazine's 17th Annual HIV Drug Guide is now available, in print and online at www.positivelyaware.com. Widely recognized throughout the country as the "must-have" reference tool for HIV service providers and consumers alike, the Positively Aware
HIV Drug Guide provides important information to individuals living
with HIV as well as their caregivers on how to best manage their
treatment.
This 76-page issue of Positively Aware devotes a full page to
each approved HIV medication, where readers will also find detailed
information on side effects, drug interactions, and current trends in
HIV care and treatment. In addition to the 31 medications now approved
for use in HIV, four investigational drugs are also included in the Drug
Guide. The pullout HIV Drug Chart, sponsored by Walgreens, includes
dosing information on all of the drugs, as well as food and liquid
requirements, alongside a photo, which can be used to help quickly and
easily identify each medication.
Approximately 25% of people living with HIV are also co-infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). For the first time the drug guide includes a section on hepatitis B
and C, including a look at the current standard of care, as well as
drugs in the pipeline. This year's HIV Drug Guide has an updated and
expanded section on pharmaceutical co-pay and patient assistance
programs, with an easy to read chart, which includes for the first time
information on how to help pay for not only HIV drugs, but those used to
treat hepatitis B/C, and other drugs commonly used by people with HIV.
One of the most popular features of the Positively Aware HIV Drug
Guide, year after year, is the viewpoint given on each medication from a
physician and an activist. Contributors to this year's Drug Guide
include Howard Grossman, MD, Associate Attending Physician at St.
Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City, and Assistant
Clinical Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, College of
Physicians and Surgeons; longtime HIV/AIDS activist and international
consultant Matt Sharp of San Francisco; Renata Smith, PharmD, Clinical
Assistant Professor in HIV/Infectious Diseases at the University of
Illinois at Chicago; and Associate Editor Enid Vázquez.
"Just as the needs of the people who we see walking through our doors
for services has changed as the epidemic has shifted over the years,
the Drug Guide continues to evolve along with it," says Jeff Berry,
Editor of Positively Aware. "We are continually looking for ways
to make this vital, life-saving information more accessible and
available to the people who need it most, and this year's Drug Guide
brings us one step closer to that vision."
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