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Many Parents with HIV Avoid Contact with Kids
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 09 05
Nearly 4 out of 10 parents with HIV infection avoid casual contact such as hugging, kissing or sharing utensils with their children out of…
India begins AIDS vaccine trials on humans
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 07 05
India, home to the world’s second-largest HIV population after South Africa, began its first-ever human trials of a new vaccine against the deadly virus…
Kill Aids with positive attitude
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 04 05
For a society that derives perverse thrill from stigmatising the victims of Aids, the story of a young girl’s unconquerable will to live despite…
Poverty worsening HIV among U.S. black women
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 03 05
Poverty, unemployment and other socioeconomic factors are helping to fuel a growing HIV problem among black women, a U.S. study released on Thursday suggests.
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U.S. to double AIDS-fighting support to Haiti
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 03 05
U.S. funding to fight HIV/AIDS will nearly double to $40 million this year in Haiti, where the United Nations says one in 10…
Gilead HIV Combo Beats Glaxo Drug in Trial
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 03 05
Gilead Sciences on Thursday said preliminary data from a 48-week trial show that two of its two drugs, Viread and Emtriva, were better able…
Malawi losing 10 people per hour to AIDS
• AIDS/HIV • Feb 01 05
AIDS kills about 10 people every hour in Malawi and the government of the impoverished southern African nation is increasingly unable to cope with…
Japan sees problems with idea of global AIDS tax
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 27 05
A global tax to help fight AIDS, as proposed by French President Jacques Chirac, would not be fully effective unless every country in the…
Many black Americans may believe in HIV conspiracy
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 26 05
A sizable number of African Americans believe in various HIV conspiracy theories, and it may be deterring some men from using condoms, a…
700,000 AIDS patients get drugs, funds short
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 26 05
The number of AIDS patients receiving life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000 from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on…
S. Africa Catholic Church attacks condom promotion
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 26 05
Promoting condoms has failed to stem the spread of AIDS and may have increased promiscuity, the Roman Catholic Church in South Africa said on…
UN seeks drugs, prevention to curb AIDS in Africa
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 25 05
The United Nations is pressing African countries to accelerate a campaign of prevention and treatment to curb the spread of AIDS, which is draining…
Ethiopia launches free AIDS drug treatment
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 24 05
Ethiopia, one of the world’s poorest countries severely affected by HIV/AIDS, started a programme on Monday to give free antiretroviral drug treatment to 320,000…
‘Morning after’ treatment advised to prevent AIDS
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 21 05
A “morning after” treatment for the AIDS virus can help prevent infection after a rape, contact with a contaminated needle or a night of…
South Africa medics, activists stand by AIDS drug
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 20 05
Health officials and activists fighting AIDS in South Africa on Thursday stood by a key drug, nevirapine, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)…
New plan could speed AIDS vaccine development
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 18 05
The Global HIV/AIDS Vaccine Enterprise, an international alliance of independent organizations supporting HIV vaccine research, has issued a roadmap to speed the development of…
Spain’s Catholic Church backs condoms to fight AIDS
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 18 05
Spain’s Catholic Church acknowledged on Tuesday that condoms had a place in a broader strategy to halt the spread of AIDS, based primarily on…
Imperfect adherence to HIV therapy fuels resistance
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 13 05
Among HIV-infected adults who have not been previously treated with HIV drugs who start on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), less than perfect adherence…
Scientists find clue to AIDS origins, new therapy
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 10 05
A single change in a human gene may hold the key to preventing people living with HIV from progressing to full-blown AIDS, researchers said…
Gene helps people resist AIDS infection - study
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 06 05
People who carry extra copies of a particular gene seem to be less likely to become infected with the AIDS virus, researchers said on…
Key AIDS study was deeply flawed, expert says
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 04 05
A study aimed at showing whether a single dose of an AIDS drug could prevent mothers from passing the virus to their newborns was…
German team finds new way to block HIV replication
• AIDS/HIV • Jan 04 05
German scientists have found a new way to prevent HIV from replicating, offering hope in the face of the virus’ increasing resistance to existing…
Alcohol may boost HIV risk from oral sex
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 23 04
Lab experiments show that cells that line the mouth become more susceptible to infection with HIV when they’re exposed to alcohol.
The finding suggests…
Companies to Develop All-in-One HIV Pill
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 22 04
In an effort to make medication regimens easier for HIV-positive patients, two drug companies have announced plans to collaborate on the first all-in-one, one-a-day…
Medics answer AIDS pill drug resistance charge
• AIDS/HIV • Dec 20 04
A key anti-HIV/AIDS drug distributed in Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if they ignore doctors’ orders on how to take…