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Russia has 'no anti-AIDS strategy', official says

There is no government strategy to fight the spread of AIDS in Russia, where the number of deaths caused by the disease continues to grow, a senior healthcare official said on Thursday.

HIV & AIDS created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hopes high as AIDS conference returns to US

A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope that new human immunodeficiency virus infections may some day be halted for good.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 15, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year by Science

The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science.

HIV & AIDS created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Prevalence of improper condom use a public health issue worldwide: researchers

Problems with the correct use of the male condom, such as not wearing a condom throughout sex or putting it on upside down, are common in the U.S. and have become a major concern of public health officials. New research shows ...

HIV & AIDS created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Trauma drives HIV epidemic in women

Physical violence, sexual abuse and other forms of childhood and adult trauma are major factors fueling the epidemic of HIV/AIDS among American women. Scientists have known for years that traumatized women are at greater ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Call for a new approach to fighting tuberculosis

Each year, nearly 2 million people die from tuberculosis – a treatable disease that has been brought under control in the United States, but continues to ravage other parts of the world. This health inequity should prompt ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

FDA review favors first drug for HIV prevention (Update)

(AP) -- A pill that has long been used to treat HIV has moved one step closer to becoming the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus that causes AIDS.

HIV & AIDS created May 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Viruses skip species by changing rapidly

While it may be that some Americans doubt we're related to chimps and other primates, viruses recognize the similarities in our cells.

HIV & AIDS created Oct 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Rats recruited to hunt for TB in Mozambique

A swarm of trained rats is on its way to Mozambique to help the country's over-stretched health system detect tuberculosis in patients, officials said Friday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blood transfusion services in Africa should suit local contact—funders take note

Scientists find that Western approach to blood transfusion employed in Africa - often a condition of financial aid - may add significant cost to blood units, due to emergency nature of most African patients ...

Other created Sep 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nobel laureate, discoverer of HIV, sees 'hope' for cure

The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 20, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers see successful results against human leishmaniasis with a more efficient and economic vaccine

A research coordinated by the UAB has succeeded in testing a vaccine against leishmaniasis. The vaccine was tested with the best animal model existing, the golden hamster, and can be produced at low costs by using insect ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

End to the 30-year war against AIDS in sight

Thirty years, 30 million deaths and 60 million infections after HIV appeared, medical researchers now have the tools to halt the deadly epidemic.

HIV & AIDS created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Ukraine urged to step up AIDS fight

(AP) -- The head of a global health fund on Monday urged Ukraine to step up its efforts to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Europe's largest.

HIV & AIDS created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

In Africa, success against AIDS: School of Public Health reviews decade of increasingly effective treatment

Harvard AIDS researchers gathered at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) last Thursday to mark 10 years of work under a key federal anti-AIDS program that has been instrumental in stemming the tide ...

HIV & AIDS created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0