HIV & AIDS
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.
Nov 29, 2011
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How the coronavirus will change your next dentist appointment
Surgical masks are replaced with N-95 respirators, the dental drill is silent, and waiting-room magazines are gone. Your next trip to the dentist may be much different from what you're used to.
Jun 8, 2020
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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.
Dec 22, 2011
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Researcher detects traces of HIV in the city
Since the treatment has become available, HIV is often described as "undetectable" and the risk of transmission has been drastically reduced. However, the epidemic is still quite present in the lives of many gay and bisexual ...
Jul 9, 2015
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How AIDS conquered North America: Researchers restore HIV genomes from serum samples more than 40 years old
Researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Cambridge in the U.K. have reconstructed the origins of the AIDS pandemic in unprecedented detail.
Oct 26, 2016
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Learning lessons from an HIV cure
For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and ...
Jun 17, 2011
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Latest anti-retroviral drug regimens provide 'Lazarus Effect' for HIV patients
Treatment of the HIV/AIDS epidemic has seen remarkable advancements with the advent of the latest anti-retroviral drug therapy and powerful tools to test for drug resistance, making the infection almost "undetectable" in ...
Feb 27, 2019
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The invisible US Hispanic/Latino HIV crisis: Addressing gaps in the national response
"In his February 5,2019, State of the Union Address, President Trump promised to reinforce national efforts to end the US HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030. However, the national public health agenda has neglected the accelerating ...
Nov 15, 2019
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New UN treatment targets for HIV/AIDS would be 'expensive but worth every penny'
A new study finds that implementing the United Nations targets for HIV testing and treatment would be an expensive but ultimately very cost-effective way to increase survival, reduce the number of children orphaned by HIV, ...
May 30, 2016
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Review of test cases suggests near zero possibility of transmitting HIV when viral loads are low
A trio of infectious diseases specialists with Global Health Impact Group, working with a doctor from Switzerland, has found evidence suggesting that people infected with the HIV virus who have a viral load below 1,000 cpy/mL ...
