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South African doctor sees drug-resistant HIV

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4 hours ago | not rated yet | 1

(AP) -- It's 8 a.m. and Dr. Theresa Rossouw is already drowning behind a cluttered desk of handwritten HIV charts - new, perplexing cases of patients whose lifesaving drugs have turned against them.

Researchers creating model of HIV care for developing nations

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Dec 21, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Expanding Michigan State University's global health outreach, a team of researchers is working in the Dominican Republic to establish a model for HIV/AIDS care that can be exported to other resource-limited ...

Biological catch-22 prevents induction of antibodies that block HIV

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Dec 15, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 2

Scientists seeking to understand how to make an AIDS vaccine have found the cause of a major roadblock. It turns out that the immune system can indeed produce cells with the potential to manufacture powerful HIV-blocking ...

Why Some Monkeys Don't Get AIDS

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Dec 03, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two studies published this month in the Journal of Clinical Investigation provide a significant advance in understanding how some species of monkeys such as sooty mangabeys and African green ...

New study measures HIV anti-retroviral regimens' safety and efficacy

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Dec 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine released on World AIDS Day reports that viral failure, the point at which medication can no longer suppress the HIV infection, was twice as likely and happen ...

Gay, bisexual men who have social anxiety tend to engage in risky sex

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Dec 01, 2009 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

A Ryerson University HIV researcher has found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities among gay and bisexual men, some of whom are HIV-positive.

South Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies

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Dec 01, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- South Africa announced ambitious new plans Tuesday for earlier and expanded treatment for HIV-positive babies and pregnant women, a change that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the nation ...

Researchers identify new mechanism of blocking HIV-1 from entering cells

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Publishing in PLoS Pathogens, researchers at from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found a novel mechanism by which drugs block HIV-1 from entering host cells.

A reductionist approach to HIV research

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A major obstacle to HIV research is the virus's exquisite specialisation for its human host - meaning that scientists' traditional tools, like the humble lab mouse, can deliver only limited information. Now, a team of researchers ...

WHO: Treat HIV patients sooner

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.

Research highlights need for national HIV strategy

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Nov 30, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that well over one million people in the United States are infected with HIV/AIDS. New research from North Carolina State University shows that many of those infected ...

Tailor-made HIV/AIDS treatment closer to reality

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Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

An innovative treatment for HIV patients developed by McGill University Health Centre researchers has passed its first clinical trial with flying colours. The new approach is an immunotherapy customized for each individual ...

Some patients diagnosed with HIV experience improved outlook on life

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Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A new study from researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and the Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center reaffirms that some patients with HIV experience an improved quality of life following their ...

Preventing Spread of HIV in Jails: Best Window of Opportunity Early in Incarceration

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Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- With World AIDS Day less than a week away, two new studies from Yale School of Medicine show that jail inmates, one of the highest risk groups for AIDS, are far more likely to be tested for ...

UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China

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Nov 25, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(AP) -- The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual sex, a trend demanding new strategies to stave off a rebound in the epidemic after years of progress in containing ...

UN: HIV outbreak peaked in 1996

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Nov 24, 2009 | not rated yet | 1

(AP) -- The number of people worldwide infected with the virus that causes AIDS - about 33 million - has remained virtually unchanged for the last two years, United Nations experts said Tuesday.

Why circumcision reduces HIV risk

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Nov 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 2

The decreased risk of HIV infection in circumcised men cannot be explained by a reduction in sores from conditions such as herpes, according to research published in PLoS Medicine.

AIDS research reveals a lack of family-planning programs in Uganda

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Nov 23, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception.