Good for Treatment-Experienced Youngsters

posted: 10/11/2009

More excellent news from France, this time for children and young people people with drug-resistant HIV due to taking many HIV drugs – you can reach an undetectable viral load with a new three drug combination - the results are almost as good as starting treatment for the first time.
 

At the end of October news of the same combination's success with adults appeared.

The French study involved twelve children taking a combination of HIV treatment that included darunavir / ritonavir (Prezista), etravirine (Intelence), and raltegravir (Isentress). All twelve children had extensive resistance to anti-HIV drugs.

Nevertheless, after a year of treatment, all but one had a viral load below 400 copies/ml, and average CD4 cell count had increased from 124 cells/mm3 to over 500 cells/mm3.

None of the children developed a serious HIV-related illness or died, and only one stopped treatment because of side-effects.
 

The researchers describe these results as “remarkable”.

Source

London Marathon Fundraising

posted: 27/01/2009

Nick Eaton is running the London Marathon on Sunday 26th April. The marathon is 26.2 miles, or 42kms if you prefer and, as he says, it's a pretty daunting and challenging race to complete.
 

He's doing it this year to fundraise for George House Trust. You can donate at his JustGiving page and follow his training progress on Facebook

Join Gt Manchester Run Team

posted: 14/01/2009

Please join us in Team GHT at the Great Manchester Run, on Sunday 17th May 2009.

If you've had trouble registering for the Great Manchester Run, there's no need to panic!

George House Trust have 75 charity places for runners on this year's Great Manchester Run. These places are open to all runners including people wanting to run with Team GHT for the first time.

All Team GHT runners will receive:

* Free running vest
* Free luggage deposit facility at the charity village (in Manchester Central)
* After run party including free buffet
* Regular training tips and sponsorship advice

To book your place on the run with Team GHT please send a cheque for £32.00 made out to George House Trust. This pays to register you which we are required to do by the race organisers. If you can't afford this, see below - we have some free places.

Please clearly write your name, email address, telephone number and postal address on a piece of paper you attach to your cheque, or write it on the back of the cheque itself.

Please send this to (no stamp needed) :

GMR 2009
James Fisher
Administration Organiser (Operations)
George House Trust
FREEPOST - NWW1004
Manchester
M12 9GH

After the run, if you raised £100 or more in sponsorship you can ask us to refund your £32 entry fee.

Some free places

We have a small number of free places for people who are unable to pay the £32 entry fee. To ask for one of these places please contact us as soon as possible on 0161 274 4499 or james@ght.org.uk

Already have a place but want to run with Team GHT?

Please contact us so we can keep you up to date with fundraising sponsorship arrangements and let you know our plans for the day.

We look forward to meeting everyone again for another fantastic day!

You can check out photographs of Team GHT at last year's Great Manchester Run by clicking through to our Flickr 2008 Run gallery here