TY - JOUR T1 - Highlights from this issue JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 85 LP - 85 DO - 10.1136/practneurol-2017-001629 VL - 17 IS - 2 AU - Phil E M Smith AU - Geraint N Fuller Y1 - 2017/04/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/17/2/85.abstract N2 - It seems incredible now, but in the late 1980s hospitals in areas with high rates of HIV infection were full of young men with AIDS, many with neurological complications. The HIV epidemic seemed set to spread and one could foresee the management of neurological complications of HIV becoming a large part of neurological practice. Fortunately, public health interventions and highly effective antiretroviral treatments have dramatically changed this. While HIV is still a mimic for many conditions and remains a diagnostic challenge its effect on other pathologies is rather less than one might expect – as illustrated in the case of leprosy reported by Clare Galtrey and colleagues (see page 135 ).As the threat of HIV receded in … ER -