High resistance to antiretroviral drugs: the Indian experience.

Effective antiretroviral treatment (ART) has significantly reduced the morbidity and mortality among people living with HIV/AIDS. The emergence of drug resistance is the major obstacle to the successful implementation of long-term treatment strategy of HIV disease. Hence, monitoring the resistance to ART is an essential task.

The natural history of human immunodeficiency virus infection among adults in Mumbai.

Background: Natural history studies of untreated HIV infection are useful for clinicians, public health experts and policymakers to improve and monitor care, plan services and control, and to model the epidemic. Several natural history studies on homosexual men and intravenous drug users have been published from developed countries. A few studies have emerged on heterosexual populations from Africa.