News tagged with hiv transmission
AIDS research reveals a lack of family-planning programs in Uganda
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Nov 23, 2009 |
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University of Alberta graduate student Jennifer Heys wants to make her message clear: there needs to be more education in Ugandan communities about contraception.
AIDS experts say Russia needs new HIV strategy
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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(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.
Combination antiretroviral therapy effective at reducing HIV resistance in mothers and babies
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Oct 27, 2009 |
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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 a ...
Researchers question evidence linking overlapping sexual partners and African HIV rates
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Oct 22, 2009 |
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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 ...
Einstein to develop anti-HIV drug delivery system
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Oct 02, 2009 |
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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.
Scientists determine dynamics of HIV transmission in UK heterosexuals
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Sep 25, 2009 |
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Among heterosexuals in the United Kingdom (UK), HIV transmission can occur within networks of as many as 30 people, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Medical Research ...
HIV uses several strategies to escape immune pressure
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Sep 19, 2009 |
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A study of how HIV mutates in response to immune system pressure by Emory Vaccine Center researchers shows that the virus can take several escape routes, not one preferred route.
Weighing costs, benefits of HIV treatments
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Sep 15, 2009 |
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Prevention versus treatment? Cost versus efficacy? So go two of the dilemmas looming over Dartmouth's Paul E. Palumbo, M.D., and his fellow researchers in the race to fight HIV and other infectious diseases in the developing ...
Researchers propose ambitious new strategies for AIDS vaccine research
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Aug 07, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, believe conventional vaccine strategies should not be the only avenue explored in the development of an effective AIDS vaccine. Based on studying ...
Pre-chewed food could transmit HIV
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Jul 21, 2009 |
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Researchers have uncovered the first cases in which HIV almost certainly was transmitted from mothers or other caregivers to children through pre-chewed food. The source of HIV in the pre-chewed food was most likely the infected ...
Bacterial vaginosis treatments: Probiotics can increase effectiveness of some antibiotic therapies
Jul 08, 2009 |
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Antimicrobial treatments for bacterial vaginosis (BV) are effective, but taking lactobacillus tablets alongside metronidazole antibiotic therapy increases effectiveness over taking this antibiotic alone, according to a Cochrane ...
New contraceptive device is designed to prevent sexual transmission of HIV
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May 19, 2009 |
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Researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College have published results showing that a new contraceptive device may also effectively block the transmission of the HIV virus. Findings show that the device prevents infection ...
Cream with green tea extract hinders HIV transmission: study
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May 19, 2009 |
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A chemical found in green tea helps inhibit sexual transmission of the virus which causes AIDS, said a study Tuesday that recommends using the compound in vaginal creams to supplement antiretrovirals.
