Leading infectious disease researchers called for a coordinated response to HIV and COVID-19 globally, building on the successes of key donor programs such as the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program ...
Mar 16, 2022
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While scientists have made unprecedented progress in preventing COVID-19 in the past two years, they have also moved closer to finding a vaccine to protect against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which has been infecting ...
Mar 11, 2022
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February is American Heart Month, which makes this a good time to learn about pulmonary hypertension.
Feb 23, 2022
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A team of researchers at the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced that a woman they have been treating for both HIV and leukemia has apparently been cured of HIV—14 months after discontinuing antivirals, ...
Even though annual deaths from AIDS are coming down—from a peak of 1.9 million in 2004 to 690,000 in 2020—that's still way too many. In 2020, 214,000 people with AIDS died of tuberculosis (TB), though only about 50% were ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have investigated the effect of infection with COVID-19 on the levels of oxidative stress, oxidant damage and glutathione, the most abundant physiological antioxidant. Compared to ...
Dec 27, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The first injection drug to prevent HIV infection was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
Dec 21, 2021
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Researchers with the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester are studying how the brain puts the 'brakes' on behavior. That may be different in individuals recovering from cocaine addiction and ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women.
Dec 7, 2021
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Use of antiretroviral treatments to prevent HIV infection—called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP—is very low among high-risk populations with poor access to HIV care, especially Black men in the South who have sex with ...
Dec 3, 2021
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