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African business key to AIDS fight - Holbrooke
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 07 05

Africa’s businesses are a key weapon in the war against HIV/AIDS but thus far have not done enough to combat the epidemic, Richard Holbrooke said on Thursday.

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Japanese Scientists Introduce New HIV Drug
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 06 05

Japanese researchers have developed a durable new drug that blocks HIV from entering human cells and causes almost no side effects.

The new drug, code named AK602, was unveiled by…


 

Angelina Jolie adopts Ethiopian AIDS orphan
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 06 05

Actress Angelina Jolie is adopting a newborn Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS, People magazine reported on Tuesday.

Jolie, who has toured the world as goodwill ambassador for the…


 

Asia in danger of AIDS explosion
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 06 05

The risk of AIDS spreading in Asia is higher than ever and there is a danger of an “explosion” of the deadly disease if prevention efforts are not intensified…


 

Task force urges HIV testing of all pregnant women
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 05 05

The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its 1996 guidelines for HIV screening, and now recommends that all pregnant women be tested.

That way,

 

AIDS Risk Increasing in Asia: UNAIDS Report
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 03 05

Although the AIDS epidemic is mainly concentrated among vulnerable populations throughout most of Asia, HIV could spread into the general population unless determined action is taken, according to a new…


 

China AIDS victims fight bad drugs, ineptitude
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 30 05

Wang Shuling’s skin is stretched tight over her bones and her body shakes like a leaf, to the point that she cannot walk on her own and her hands are…


 

Low-Level Viremia ‘Blips’ in Very Early HIV Infection
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 24 05

Intermittent low-level viremia (LLV) can occur in the very early stages of primary HIV infection, before the ramp-up phase of HIV viremia, according to a new report.

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Racial gap seen in gay sex HIV rates
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 23 05

In the US, black men who have sex with men (MSM, in the parlance of researchers) are more than twice as likely as similar men of other races…


 

US approves Boehringer drug for resistant HIV
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 23 05

Boehringer Ingelheim won U.S. approval on Wednesday to sell its AIDS medicine Aptivus for treating adults with drug-resistant HIV infections in combination with Abbott Laboratories Inc.‘s Norvir.

Germany’s…


 

Japan’s AIDS stigma hampers treatment
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 22 05

A strong stigma against AIDS in Japan is hampering access to treatment in the world’s second-largest economy, activists said on Wednesday, even as experts warn an explosion of the disease…


 

HIV positive African clergy fight AIDS stigma
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 22 05

A group of African clergy infected with HIV is urging the faithful to test for the virus and admit their status to help fight stigma hampering efforts to stem

 

Generic drugs key to uphill AIDS fight
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 21 05

Generic drugs hold the key to AIDS treatment in the developing world, although a target of getting 3 million people on therapy by the end of 2005 may…


 

S. Africa court mulls AIDS drugs defamation
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 21 05

A South African court reserved judgment on Tuesday on an attempt by the country’s most influential AIDS activist group to block an AIDS “dissident” from labelling it a…


 

Indian, Pakistani prostitutes discuss AIDS lessons
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 20 05

A group of Pakistani prostitutes has been picking up tips in safe sex and “brothel management” in one of India’s biggest red light districts in Calcutta, health activists said.


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Internet fuels risky sex in gay, bisexual men
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 16 05

Gay and bisexual men who meet partners over the Internet are more likely to engage in risky sex but have a greater tendency to do so with people who…


 

AIDS “tsunami” threatens Africa’s children
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 15 05

The Red Cross issued a warning of “a silent tsunami” wiping out an entire generation as it launched a campaign on Wednesday to help millions of African children orphaned or otherwise affected…


 

Blacks hardest hit by HIV in US
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 14 05

Blacks account for nearly half of the more than 1 million Americans with HIV, according to federal data released on Monday that suggests the battlelines of the nation’s

 

Mandela urges rich world to act against AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 13 05

Nelson Mandela joined some of the world’s top musicians Saturday in pressing the rich world to act against AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.

“We live in a world…


 

Global Fund grant to Russia to boost AIDS drugs
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 10 05

The number of Russian AIDS patients receiving life-extending drugs will increase ten-fold to 15,500 under a two-year project, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS,…


 

Science hopes to give women new tools against AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 09 05

New HIV prevention treatments for women may be available as early as 2009, a sign of hope for fighting a world AIDS epidemic with an increasingly…


 

China’s migrant workers a high AIDS risk
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 09 05

China faces a tragic surge in HIV/AIDS cases unless it curbs the spread of the disease among the vast country’s transient rural workforce, a Chinese health expert said…


 

S. Africa warns of “national wipe-out” from AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 08 05

South Africa faces “national wipe-out” unless it steps up its war on HIV/AIDS, a business leader said on Wednesday as a study showed education - one of…


 

South Africa’s armed forces grapple with HIV/AIDS
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 07 05

Nearly one in four South African soldiers is infected with HIV, putting added strain on the country’s armed forces as peacekeeping commitments grow across the continent, South African Military Health…


 

Zimbabwe to seek more AIDS help as politics weighs
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 05 05

Zimbabwe and U.N. agencies will ask donors for at least $40 million for HIV/AIDS programmes between 2006-7, hoping to speed funding that officials charge is being…


 
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