http://www.physorg.com/health-news/hiv-aids/ en-us PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on HIV, Aids, HIV research, Aids Research, Aids Studies and HIV medicine. 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 diagnosis. http://www.physorg.com/news178392058.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:50:02 EST news178392058 (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 HIV if given the opportunity in the first 24 hours of incarceration. The studies, which could lead to better prevention and earlier and more effective treatment of inmates, are published in the November 25 issue of PLoS ONE, a journal of the Public Library of Science. http://www.physorg.com/news178385344.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:29:36 EST news178385344 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 patient, and was developed by Dr. J-P. Routy from the Research Institute of the MUHC in collaboration with Dr. R. Sékaly from the Université de Montréal. "This is a vaccine made for the individual patient - an "haute couture" therapy, instead of an off-the-rack treatment" said Dr Routy. http://www.physorg.com/news178370803.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:40:01 EST news178370803 (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 it, a United Nations report said. http://www.physorg.com/news178347823.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:04:12 EST news178347823 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news178269287.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:34 EST news178269287 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. http://www.physorg.com/news178264103.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:00:01 EST news178264103 University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception. http://www.physorg.com/news178210769.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:03 EST news178210769 New discoveries about anti-HIV antibodies may bring researchers a step closer to creating an effective HIV vaccine, according to a new paper co-authored by scientists at the Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. http://www.physorg.com/news177874714.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:01 EST news177874714 'Prevention is the best cure' is a common expression, but what happens if preventative measures are not used? A large proportion of pregnant Ugandan women are going out of their way not to be HIV tested, increasing the risk of mother-to-child transmission. http://www.physorg.com/news177851040.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:30:01 EST news177851040 Money available to treat HIV/AIDS is sufficient to end the epidemic globally, but only if we act immediately to control the spread of the disease. That was the conclusion of a study just published in the open-access journal, BMC Public Health. http://www.physorg.com/news177760556.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:10:02 EST news177760556 (PhysOrg.com) -- The genesis of one the planet's most lethal viruses, HIV, has been caught on tape. New imaging experiments show individual HIV genomes -- strands of RNA - docking on the inner membrane of an infected cell wall as they are ensconced by HIV structural proteins. http://www.physorg.com/news177696439.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:49 EST news177696439 The recent failure of an HIV vaccine was probably caused by the immune system reacting to the virus 'shell' used to transmit the therapy around the body, according to research published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://www.physorg.com/news177608117.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:37:19 EST news177608117 Structural biologists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have described the architecture of the complex of protein units that make up the coat surrounding the HIV genome and identified in it a "seam" of functional importance that previously went unrecognized. Those findings, reported today in Cell, could point the way to new treatments for blocking HIV infection. http://www.physorg.com/news177251386.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:40:02 EST news177251386 The AIDS virus inserts its genetic material into the genome of the infected cell. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center have now shown for the first time that the virus almost entirely spares particular sites in the human genetic material in this process. This finding may be useful for developing new, specific AIDS drugs. http://www.physorg.com/news177247951.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:50:02 EST news177247951 (AP) -- In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44. http://www.physorg.com/news176996772.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:00:02 EST news176996772 (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 AIDS virus was a death sentence in Africa. http://www.physorg.com/news176636122.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:00:02 EST news176636122 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 9 percent in 2007, according to Jeffrey Harris, an MD as well as a professor in MIT`s Department of Economics. Harris, who has long studied health issues, contends in a new issue of the journal Health Affairs that the private sector should be given significantly more incentives to help develop an HIV vaccine. http://www.physorg.com/news176577489.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:30:06 EST news176577489 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news176562891.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:15:15 EST news176562891 Researchers have shown how an antiviral protein produced by the immune system, dubbed tetherin, tames HIV and other viruses by literally putting them on a leash, to prevent their escape from infected cells. The insights reported in the October 30th issue of the journal Cell allowed the research team to design a completely artificial protein -- one that did not resemble native tetherin in its sequence at all -- that could nonetheless put a similar stop to the virus. http://www.physorg.com/news176041913.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:32:33 EST news176041913 (AP) -- AIDS experts urged Russian officials on Wednesday to scrap their abstinence-based strategy for curbing the spread of HIV, saying the country's fast-growing epidemic could be entering a dangerous new phase. http://www.physorg.com/news175964193.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:07 EST news175964193 Supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory's role in the international Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) consortium, researchers are using the Roadrunner supercomputer to analyze vast quantities of genetic sequences from HIV infected people in the hope of zeroing in on possible vaccine target areas. http://www.physorg.com/news175872209.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:40:01 EST news175872209 In a clinical trial investigating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa published this week in PLoS Medicine, Neil Martinson (of the Perinatal HIV Research Unit, Soweto, South Africa) and colleagues find that adding two other antiretroviral drugs to single dose nevirapine - an antiretroviral drug given to women and newborn children during labor and delivery to prevent transmission - is effective in reducing the drug resistance that nevirapine causes when used by itself. http://www.physorg.com/news175808373.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:50:02 EST news175808373 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 settings would substantially improve patients' chances of survival and would be cost-effective. http://www.physorg.com/news175808239.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:50:01 EST news175808239 Sperm, and not just the fluid it bathes in, can transmit HIV to macrophages, T cells, and dendritic cells (DCs), report a team led by Ana Ceballos at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. By infecting DCs, which carry the virus and potently pass it to T cells, sperm may play a leading role in spreading HIV. The article appears in the November 23, 2009 issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news175777938.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:12:45 EST news175777938 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 difficult for many individuals to do. http://www.physorg.com/news175437599.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:30:01 EST news175437599 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 have concluded. http://www.physorg.com/news175435970.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:20:01 EST news175435970 (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 seen, not only evading the immune system, but also antiviral medicines. http://www.physorg.com/news175357738.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:30:01 EST news175357738 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. http://www.physorg.com/news175356473.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:09:40 EST news175356473 Scientists looking for a vaccine against the AIDS virus can be forgiven for wondering at times whether they made the right career decision. http://www.physorg.com/news175351650.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:00:02 EST news175351650 (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. http://www.physorg.com/news175235922.html Medicine & Health - HIV & AIDS Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:40:13 EST news175235922