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Whispers of immortality

Frontiers

The month in research

Editorials

25 years of AIDS
Anthony S Fauci, one of the world's leading experts on HIV/AIDS, summarises the first quarter century of the pandemic

The long war
Manuela Moraru and colleagues review the complex challenges presented by HIV/AIDS

HIV transmission as a crime
Criminal prosecutions for HIV transmission threaten public health, argue Ruth Lowbury and George R Kinghorn

News

Testing times

Roll out and deliver

news bites

Education

A brief history of AIDS
Robert C Gallo, one of the co-discoverers of HIV, gives a personal and historical insight into 25 years of the disease

ABC of wound healing:Infections

Picture Quiz: Circular shadows in the lung field

Careers

Mums in medicine
Could you study medicine and be a parent, all at the same time? Anna Down and Kirsty Le Doare even find time to research and write about it

Back to Pakistan
New rules mean many international medical graduates from Pakistan in training in the UK will have to return home. Amin Muhammad Gadit finds out what they can expect

Acute medicine
Considering a career in acute medicine? Suresh Chandran makes a compelling case for this stimulating subspecialty

People

The art of medicine
Daniel Carvalho Muller was originally a trained biologist but veered into medical and biological illustration. He is now one of the medical illustrators at the New England Journal of Medicine having formed his own medical illustration company.Tiago Villanueva caught up with him

Papers

Prophylaxis for tuberculosis in children with HIV: randomised controlled trial
Could prophylactic isoniazid prevent tuberculosis in HIV positive children? Kirsten Patrick considers the latest research

Life

Positive practice
James M N Duffy and Simon Rackstraw document the challenges facing doctors who are HIV positive

Letters from my cousin
Keletso Maribe Maribe explores the individual tragedy that underlies HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

On the front line: Fighting AIDS in a conflict zone
Clare Taylor is a British doctor who recently returned from working for a year in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was her first mission with Médecins Sans Frontières after several years of hospital medicine and training in tropical diseases

Should we all be anthropologists?
Understanding human beings is the first step tomount an effective response to HIV/AIDS, argues Catríona Macardle

"You are HIV positive"
A medical student describes what happened after hearing these words

Reviews

Three needles

HIV/AIDS

We lost dozens

Rural prescriptions

A closer walk

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