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Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding

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Nov 05, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against AIDS, a medical group warned Thursday, with one health worker saying he feared a return to the days when the ...

Economist argues that public-private partnerships are a must in creating an HIV vaccine

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT economist Jeffrey Harris argues that while the scientific obstacles to creating an HIV vaccine are great, the lack of commercial incentive poses a major problem.

3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on why we still don't have an HIV vaccine

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Nov 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

While many vaccines used around the world today are produced for profit by commercial firms, the private sector accounts for a tiny fraction of the funding for an HIV vaccine: 4 percent in 2008, down from ...

Strategies to reduce HIV treatment dropout rates: cost-effective and improve survival chances

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Oct 26, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

In a study published this week in PLoS Medicine, Elena Losina (of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston) and colleagues predict that strategies to reduce dropout rates from HIV treatment programs in resource-poor settin ...

Researchers question evidence linking overlapping sexual partners and African HIV rates

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Oct 22, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Contrary to conventional wisdom, scientific evidence proving that overlapping multiple sexual partners — concurrency — drives the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is actually quite limited, Brown University researchers ...

Taking medicine for HIV proves hard to swallow for many people

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Oct 22, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Highly active antiretroviral therapy has increased the longevity and quality of life for people living with human immunodeficiency virus. But it requires strict adherence in taking the medicine, something that is extremely ...

AIDS: Are the wilderness years over for vaccine research?

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Oct 21, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Scientists looking for a vaccine against the AIDS virus can be forgiven for wondering at times whether they made the right career decision.

War of the viruses: Could ancient virus genes help fight modern AIDS?

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Oct 21, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Almost 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, scientists have yet to find an effective vaccine against HIV, the virus that destroys the immune system and causes AIDS. HIV is perhaps the most adaptive virus ever ...

Feelings of stigmatization may discourage HIV patients from proper care

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Oct 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The feeling of stigmatization that people living with HIV often experience doesn't only exact a psychological toll —new UCLA research suggests it can also lead to quantifiably negative health outcomes.

Full results show AIDS vaccine is of modest help

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Oct 20, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- Fresh results from the world's first successful test of an experimental AIDS vaccine confirm that it is only marginally effective and suggest that its protection against HIV infection may wane over time.

AIDS: Vaccine shows positive results in small trial - researchers

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Oct 19, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

An HIV vaccine tested in Tanzania has shown positive results in preliminary trials and may provide better protection than a promising Thai vaccine unveiled on September 24, Swedish researchers said Monday.

Maternal HIV-1 treatment protects against transmission to newborns

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Oct 16, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Mothers receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat HIV-1 infection are less likely than untreated mothers to transmit the virus to their newborns through breastfeeding, according to a new study. The findings, ...

Research shows treating HIV-AIDS with interleukin-2 is ineffective

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Oct 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

An international research team has demonstrated that treating HIV-AIDS with interleukin-2 (IL-2) is ineffective. As a result, the researchers recommend that clinical trials on this compound be stopped. Their finding was published ...

NIH launches 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine trials in HIV-infected pregnant women

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Oct 10, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The first clinical trials to test whether the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine can safely elicit a protective immune response in pregnant women launched yesterday, and a trial to conduct the same test in HIV-infected children ...

Researcher studies monkeys in Africa to better understand virus evolution

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Oct 07, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite the importance of AIDS in human health, scientists still know very little about the diversity and ecology of AIDS-like viruses in nature.

New Cellular Therapy for HIV in World's First Engineered T Cell Receptor Trial

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Oct 07, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Adaptimmune Limited and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, today announced the approval of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the US Food and ...

Continuing racial differences in HIV prevalence in US

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Oct 06, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

HIV prevalence among African Americans is ten times greater than the prevalence among whites. This racial disparity in HIV prevalence has persisted in the face of both governmental and private actions, involving many billions ...

Einstein to develop anti-HIV drug delivery system

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Oct 02, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University a four-year, $7.2 million grant to develop a microbicide-releasing vaginal ring to prevent HIV transmission.