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According to new scientific evidence, it would appear that the retroviruses from which the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) evolved have been plaguing the animal world since 100 million years ago. The new time frame is about 85 million years 'older' than first thought, which brings into focus the need to ... |
28 September 2009
05:51 GMT |
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In the largest clinical trial aimed at observing the effects of a new, combo vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), results were only moderately successful. Two older vaccines were combined in the current studies, so that scientists could assess their efficiency when working together. But the effort ... |
25 September 2009
18:41 GMT |
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According to a number of French researchers, a woman in Cameroon was recently identified to carry a weird strain of an HIV-like virus, which most likely originated in a gorilla. The announcement, made on Sunday, is one of the few to date that hint at the fact that gorilla-bound viruses can circulate in human hosts as... |
3 August 2009
03:38 GMT |
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Scientists and researchers from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, in the US, have managed to create a synthetic immune system-like molecule, able to fight the dreaded human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in monkey test subjects. After being injected with the new chemical, the animals proved able to withstan... |
18 May 2009
16:51 GMT |
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Located at the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Bwindi region was one in which people died because of HIV infections and AIDS on a daily basis less than three years ago. Because the area is so underdeveloped, people living here didn't have any access to any kind of medical faciliti... |
13 April 2009
02:18 GMT |
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At the 237th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) yesterday, scientists have unveiled a new DNA model, one that breaks from the average Darwinian approach. While the regular human DNA molecule has four chemical letters, which combine in pairs of two, the new synthetic molecule has 12, which means t... |
24 March 2009
06:25 GMT |
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HIV has remained impervious to advancements in medicine over the last 25 years, and all the research paths explored by scientists seem to dead-end at some point. The current approach is to engineer super-molecules made from compounds found outside the human body, and to make them face the virus head-on. A new method ... |
16 March 2009
06:41 GMT |
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Although China was only recently commended for showing a more liberal approach to the spread of AIDS and of drug usage, it would appear that the praises came too soon, as a new report, published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine, revealed that drug addicts were subjected to inhumane treatments by authorities a... |
9 December 2008
19:01 GMT |
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The global financial crisis will also take its toll on human lives, if AIDS prevention funds are reduced by governments trying to maintain a positive economic balance, the United Nations said last week, in a news conference on HIV Awareness Day, which was on Monday. Sub-Saharan Africa will be mostly affected by lack ... |
2 December 2008
06:02 GMT |
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Chinese authorities are currently deeply concerned about the potential impact that the spread of HIV/AIDS could have on the country's vast migrant work force, composed of more than 200 million people, given the fact that a variety of factors could drive the incidence of the deadly disease through the roof. If th... |
1 December 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Apple has posted a banner on the “frontmost” page of its website, announcing that World AIDS Day is December 1. Those considering to “play a part” are encouraged to purchase (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition iPod models and iTunes Gift Cards. Apple, for its part, will give a piece of the proceeds ... |
1 December 2008
03:46 GMT |
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New find links the presence of higher amounts of the rare chemical selenium in the human bloodstream to a lower replication rate of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the main cause of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a disease for which there is currently no cure. Selenium appears naturally in the... |
28 November 2008
06:22 GMT |
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Recent scientific studies show that the treatment for children infected with AIDS has to start as soon after birth as possible, in order to avoid the 48-week deadline that children infected with HIV face. Usually, doctors wait for symptoms such as the weakening of the immune system before they start therapy. But new ... |
20 November 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Canada's only safe injection site, Vancouver's Insite, saves the government 14 million Canadian dollars each year, a recent study shows. In addition, the national health system says that, over 10 years, some 920 life-years will be saved, for people who would otherwise succumb to AIDS, hepatitis C, or other ... |
19 November 2008
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Though some think that the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cannot be attacked by the immune system at all, this is very wrong, say scientists. As a matter of fact, CD8+ killer T cells attack the virus as soon as it enters the body, even if the infiltrator is in very high concentrations. However, over time, these c... |
11 November 2008
04:31 GMT |
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Researchers were able to observe the direct actions of an immunosuppressive virus in a living organism for the first time, using unsuspecting mice once again. The animals were inoculated with the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, which acts by virtually shutting down the host's immune system completely, ... |
18 October 2008
06:35 GMT |
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New research uncovered the exact atomic structure of an enzyme that can destroy HIV even in its earliest stages, before it gets a chance to transcribe and replicate. Apparently, it acts as a natural immune reaction to the virus, but, during its evolution, HIV learned how to inhibit APOBEC-3G, practically rendering th... |
13 October 2008
05:13 GMT |
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Following a lucky discovery, scientists prove that the AIDS-causing HIV virus is actually about a hundred years old, virtually a few decades older than originally believed.The proof was lying in a box placed on an old storage room belonging to the University of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Dr. Michae... |
2 October 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Researchers of the University of Texas Medical School in Houston have recently announced that they might have found a way to fight off the human immunodeficiency virus for good by altering the part of its genetic code than never mutates. So far the laboratory tests indicate that the technique is effective, although u... |
31 July 2008
06:21 GMT |
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The same genetic variation that offered African people better protection against malaria seems to be responsible for an increase of nearly 40 percent in the chances of contracting the HIV virus, while in infected individuals the respective genes appear to increase their lifespan by almost two years, according to a st... |
17 July 2008
09:38 GMT |
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With the help of a special microscope that lights only the surface of the cell, researchers from the Rockefeller University have observed the first real time images of HIV particles assembling on the surface of a living cell to form a single particle of the HIV virus. This deadly virus causing the AIDS disease has cl... |
26 May 2008
05:22 GMT |
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The data are gruesome. About 4 million people got infected with HIV in 2006 and another 3 million died of it. Until now, about 25 million people have died of AIDS and other 40 million people are infected with HIV worldwide, most of them in the Sub-Saharan Africa.A new report made by World Health Organization, UNICEF ... |
4 April 2008
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Great hope for the 25-40 million HIV positive people in the world: researchers at Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, who published their research in the journal "Nature", have detected a molecule on the surface of human cells that stops the spread of mutant strains of HIV, when AIDS is... |
22 January 2008
06:11 GMT |
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AIDS was first time spotted in 1981, causing confusion and speculation. Medics in Europe and North America detected patients whose organism did not fight germs. They died of various infections, like pneumonia. The disease was clearly infectious and was characterized by a series of symptoms, due mainly to the ruin of ... |
8 January 2008
14:41 GMT |
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1. AIDS is a huge menace for the public health, but in Africa it also has a deep impact on the economical side. With about 28 million cases of HIV positive and 2 million annual deaths, HIV epidemic in the sub-Saharan Africa is going to cancel the progresses registered in social and economical development. African com... |
3 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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HIV entered China in the 1990s mainly through the non checked blood plasma-buying network and infected transfusions in hospitals. But now, sex has bypassed drug syringes as the main factor of HIV transmission in China, and this could lead to a booming of the infection spread from high-risk categories to the overall ... |
3 December 2007
06:22 GMT |
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While reading this article, you may be sipping your daily cup of coffee… but have you ever wondered where did coffee emerge from? Well, there's an easy answer to this question: in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia. Now a US-based charity is using this 'coffee mania' in the fight against HIV infection and sp... |
5 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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This is a headache-giving job: finding a cure against HIV. Now, a new research made at the University of Florida has revealed the way HIV changes over the course of a person's lifetime into a more lethal form that leads to the onset of full-blown AIDS and new therapeutic agents could target the virus earlier dur... |
17 October 2007
05:29 GMT |
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In case you've decided your life is pretty dull and you need a daily portion of excitement and adventure in it, and yet you find it difficult to leave your computer behind, here's a thought: subscribe to a newsfeed about Paris Hilton, and your life will never be the same again. You can accompany the blonde ... |
19 September 2007
10:02 GMT |
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Billions of dollars are spent annually worldwide on a research meant to find a vaccine or cure against HIV/AIDS, but some tackle the problem on a very basic level. In order to "cut the evil at its roots", as the saying goes, in some areas of Papua New Guinea AIDS victims are buried alive by relatives who could not ta... |
30 August 2007
03:51 GMT |
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The United Nations' HIV/AIDS portal for Asia Pacific has been hacked and infected, as has been discovered by Websense Security Labs. This is just low! It's one thing to hack eBay, or Amazon or AOL and other sites like that, but to go and infect such a website that has been created to help people with AIDS (... |
28 August 2007
09:45 GMT |
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The mighty Chinese communism is now facing the scourge of the 21st century: HIV.If until now intravenous drug use was the main cause of new HIV infections in China, a new official report shows that the first cause of HIV transmission in China is unprotected sex, and the virus is spreading from high-risk groups to the... |
20 August 2007
03:09 GMT |
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HIV has been rampant in Africa from the early '80s. More than 20 years ago, the disease appeared in Nairobi (Kenya), infecting 90% of the city's lower-class prostitutes; but some women practicing this "business" for over 13 years have not developed AIDS. Not having AIDS symptoms is not so shocking, since HI... |
27 June 2007
14:11 GMT |
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Microsoft has announced that it will openly share the source code for a set of tools designed for AIDS vaccine research with the scientific community. The Redmond Company's initiative comes after two years of collaborative efforts in AIDS research. Microsoft's CodePlex website will host the source code made... |
13 June 2007
07:30 GMT |
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South Africa, the nation with the largest number of HIV-infected people in the world (5.5 million, representing 10.8 % of the population) has found the solution: mass circumcision. This is the solution found by South African AIDS, asking for a mass circumcision program after researches revealed it decreased the rate ... |
8 June 2007
17:06 GMT |
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NTT DoCoMo has decided to join the Motorola initiative of taking part in the (PRODUCT) RED program. From now on, Motorola will donate approximately 1,000 yen for each M702iS(RED) handset sold in Japan, while 1% from the bills of all DoCoMo users will go to the Global Fund, used for fighting AIDS.Motorola's parti... |
21 April 2007
09:13 GMT |
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AIDS is rampant in developing countries, especially in South-Saharan Africa. Here, in many of areas, electricity is unreliable or nonexistent, water quality is disastrous, and there are few, if any, physicians. Now Antje J. Baeumner, a Cornell associate professor of biological and environmental engineering is on the ... |
27 March 2007
02:59 GMT |
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