http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Investigating the genetic footprint that drug resistance causes in HIV, researchers in Europe have discovered that compensatory polymorphisms enable resistant viruses to survive. Presented in the journal Retrovirology, the study was supported in part by three EU-funded projects: VIROLAB, EURESIST and CHAIN. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-scientists-genetics-hiv-resistance.html HIV & AIDS Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:50:01 EST news270459248 New research published online first in the Lancet suggests that drug-resistant HIV has been increasing in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa since the roll-out of antiretroviral therapy nearly a decade ago. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-scientists-surveillance-hiv-drug-resistance.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:30:01 EST news262178877 Drug resistance to HIV medicines has been creeping higher in parts of Africa and Asia but is not steep enough to cause alarm, said a survey released by the World Health Organization on Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-hiv-drug-resistance-higher.html HIV & AIDS Wed, 18 Jul 2012 10:39:17 EST news261826745 HIV superinfection, when a person with HIV could acquire a second, new strain of HIV, may occur as often as initial HIV infection in the general population in Uganda, a study suggests. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-hiv-superinfection-infection.html HIV & AIDS Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:12:35 EST news258300742