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Licking Lipo

Body Language

The Med Connection

Ready, Set, Switch?

Lipo Fix-Its


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Mandatory HIV Tests Before Marriage? (15)

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Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)




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Licking Lipo
After ten years of HAART, we have our lives back. Now we’d like our faces and bodies back, too

Body Language
By Laura Whitehorn
What lipo is—and what it isn't

The Med Connection
By Derek Thaczuk
What connects your life, your HIV treatment and lipodystrophy? Derek Thaczuk fingers the most likely culprits in your bathroom cabinet and offers some clues on how to thin the odds

Ready, Set, Switch?
By Derek Thaczuk
There’s no need to take lipo lying down! 

Lipo Fix-Its
By Liz Highleyman
Switching meds is not the only way to remedy—or hide—lipo’s hills and valleys. As Liz Highleyman reveals, the nondrug solutions are improving with time


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