This is good news. For all the complaining about the standard first line triple combination antiretroviral therapy stavudine lamivudine nevirapine, it appears to be remarkably effective.

This is a late obituary for U Hla Tun who piloted hospices in Burma / Myanmar. He died in December. Nil nisi bonum but perhaps now that he is gone people with HIV will be allowed into the hospices. From an Irrawaddy article several years ago …

Check out this interview with Frank Smithius …