BETA - Bulletin of Experimental Treatment for AIDS


BETA, the Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS, covers new developments in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and research. BETA includes in-depth articles on HIV prevention technologies and approaches, as well as HIV treatment and strategies for living well with HIV. It is published twice yearly by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation.

Contributing writers to BETA include well-known HIV/AIDS researchers, clinicians, and community advocates. Each issue of BETA includes News Briefs, Drug Watch, feature articles on a range of topics, alternating Aging & HIV and Women & HIV columns, and a list of open clinical trials.

For more information or a free subscription: (415) 487-8060 beta@sfaf.org

Latest Issue

Fall/Winter 2011 Vol. 23 - No 4

  • Making Sense of Side Effects

    “Thinking about HIV medicine side effects is very scary,” says Geri, who is HIV positive. But, she adds, “That’s the thing about taking HIV medicines. Even if they might cause side effects, they are helping me live with the virus.” Learn how to avoid or manage side effects from anti-HIV treatment and get the most from your meds.

  • HIV/HCV Coinfection: A New Era of Treatment

    Roughly one-third of people living with HIV also have hepatitis C virus. This life-threatening liver disease is transmitted most often through blood-to-blood contact; cases are also appearing, new research shows, among sexually active gay men with HIV. New drugs and strategies are revolutionizing hepatitis C treatment.

  • Aging & HIV: A Conversation with Dr. Glenn Treisman

    What do aging, HIV, and mental health have to do with one another? Quite a lot, according to Glenn Treisman, MD, director of the AIDS Psychiatry Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital and a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.


  • 2011

  • Winter/Spring 2011 - Vol. 23 No. 2

    HIV Eradication: Time to Talk about a Cure
    HIV and Bone Health
    Positive Parent: Reproductive Options for People with HIV
    and more...

  • 2010

  • Winter/Spring 2010 - Vol. 22 No. 2

    Inflammation, Immune Activation, and HIV
    HIV and the Recession: Living Well in Tough Times
    Understanding and Managing Peripheral Neuropathy
    and more...

  • Summer/Fall 2010 - Vol. 22 No. 4

    Sex Work, Criminalization, and HIV: Lessons from Advocacy History
    A Glass Half Full: Cancer Risk for People Living with HIV
    The iPrEx Results: Lifting Hopes, Raising Questions
    and more...


  • 2008

  • Winter/Spring 2008 - Vol. 20 No. 2

    HIV Treatment in U.S. Jails and Prisons
    HIV-Associated Pneumonias
    Smoking and Your Health: How to Quit (And Why You Should)
    and more...

  • Summer/Fall 2008 - Vol. 20 No. 4

    When to Start Antiretroviral Treatment: A Changing Equation
    Trauma: Frozen Moments, Frozen Lives
    Confronting the "Evidence" in Evidence-Based HIV Prevention
    and more...

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