UN says 2024 decisive to ending AIDS as health threat
Decisions political leaders take this year will be decisive whether a target to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 can be reached, the United Nations said Monday.
Jul 22, 2024
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Infections: News and Research on Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Dr. Ruth Westheimer, America's diminutive and pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive sex therapist who became a pop icon, media star and best-selling author through her frank talk about once-taboo bedroom topics, has died. She was 96.
Jul 14, 2024
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Know your status: The importance of HIV testing
It's not making major news headlines like in the '80s, but HIV remains a significant health concern. About 38 million people are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to the World Health Organization.
Jul 2, 2024
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Pharma firm urged to share new 'game-changer' HIV drug
More than 300 politicians, health experts and celebrities on Thursday called for US pharmaceutical giant Gilead to allow cheap, generic versions of a promising new HIV drug to be produced so it can reach people in developing ...
May 30, 2024
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Researchers genetically modify E. coli bacteria with part of HIV virus in bid for successful vaccine
Nikolai Scherbak, docent of biology at Örebro University, has just returned to Sweden after participating in a conference in South Africa where he presented a study that increases the chances of developing a vaccine against ...
May 28, 2024
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Clients got HIV through 'Vampire facial' microneedling treatments
Between 2018 and the spring of 2023, a cluster of clients who had gotten 'vampire facial' microneedling skin treatments at a New Mexico spa were diagnosed with HIV, probably via poorly cleaned instruments, a new report finds.
Apr 26, 2024
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'It's the greatest living experiment': Pitt Men's Study marks 40 years of AIDS research
In a Pittsburgh hospital in the early 1980s, Charles Rinaldo saw a young, previously healthy gay man critically ill with a virus usually only seen in weakened immune systems.
Apr 1, 2024
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HIV medication can be used safely with gender-affirming hormone therapy
New research definitively shows that HIV antiretrovirals can be taken together with gender-affirming hormone therapy without changing how well either drug works. The study findings can help health care providers address potential ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Lack of access to health care is partly to blame for skyrocketing HIV rates among gay Black men
Over the past 20 years, people living with HIV in the United States have seen a drastic improvement in their overall quality of life. But the medical achievements that have made those lives better and created longer life ...
Feb 12, 2024
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Immunocompromised patients and COVID infections: Who's at risk?
Early in the pandemic, clinicians noticed that certain immunocompromised patients were experiencing persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections, some lasting weeks to months at a time.
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