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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to the two French researchers who discovered the HIV virus and to a German one for his work in the discovery of the cervical cancer-causing virus. Half of the prize, consisting of $650.000 (about 367.500 pounds or 468.500 Euros), went to the two French scientists,... |
6 October 2008
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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
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A Condom ringtone for mobile phones has been recently launched in India, in an attempt to raise the awareness about HIV and prevent its spreading across the country.Released by the BBC World Service Trust, the ringtone is part of a media campaign that encourages the use of condoms. The campaign is sponsored by the Bi... |
18 August 2008
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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
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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
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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
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A breakthrough in testing for HIV has been achieved: no more blood analysis is required, since a new saliva-based test comes with results in just 20 minutes, as described in the PLoS Medicine journal. The new technique uses the oral mucosal transudate (OMT), a liquid released at the base of the gums that later turns ... |
7 May 2008
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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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HIV does not kill by itself. It just leaves humans defenseless against other killers. About 50% of all HIV-positive African adults die of Salmonella infection, a disease that otherwise is treated after a seven-day bout of diarrhea. A new research made at UC Davis School of Medicine and published in the "Nature Medici... |
25 March 2008
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The idea that HIV infiltrated slow and steady in London is infirmed by a new research. The study published in "PLoS Medicine" shows that the rapid growth of the HIV/AIDS epidemic during the late 1990s, in the gay community of London, was episodic, with multiple clusters of transmission in a few years, explaining the ... |
18 March 2008
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Could this gel be the so-much-looked-after weapon enabling women to prevent a HIV infection? Trials made by a team from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine seem to indicate so. Tenofovir was self-applied by patients and well tolerated by HIV negative women... |
27 February 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
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On one hand, vaginal sex is the main entrance gate for the HIV into our bodies; on the other hand, women in many countries (like Sub-Saharan Africa) have little control on imposing safe sex (read condom use). That's why this new research made at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, U.S., could save millions of l... |
18 January 2008
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If some people immortalize their own semen in their paintings, others go deeper into the morbid side. Artist Robert Sherer, from Georgia, makes his painting using HIV positive and negative blood, to trigger a warning signal on the HIV epidemic. Last week, Sherer opened an exhibition featuring his masterworks made of... |
15 January 2008
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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
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There is a vivid debate about circumcision: is it a violation of the boy's rights? Many say it is a genital mutilation, decreasing penis sensitivity and causing both physical and psychological damage, similar to what they do in west/central/northeastern Africa to women, while others see its benefits. Beyond hygi... |
7 January 2008
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By now, HIV-1 has killed over 20 million people and about 35 million live with the infection. The race is desperate for stopping the pandemics and this new discovery is a real breakthrough: a semen chemical boosts HIV's ability to enter human cells. Potential inhibitors of prostatic acidic phosphatase, (PAP) inc... |
14 December 2007
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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
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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
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Homosexuality and heterosexuality seem to be artificial terms defined by human society obsessed by order. Human traits can be genetically determined in two ways: discrete, like eye color, or along a continuum, like height. Studies have shown that sexual orientation actually lies on a smooth continuum and the way peop... |
30 November 2007
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It seems like the HMRC data loss was not enough to make the authorities feel more responsible since they work with very important residents' information. Today, CBC News reports that an official in Newfoundland and Labrador could allow unauthorized people to access HIV and hepatitis details stored on a desktop c... |
28 November 2007
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The discovery of the antibiotics by the middle of the 20th century seemed to have doomed the human pathogens. They proved effective against many bacteria and fungi causing hospital infections, like meningitis, pneumonia and scarlet fever, which before were deadly. But antibiotics cannot attack viruses, like HIV or fl... |
13 November 2007
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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
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At the beginning of the '80s, US received a sudden shock with the discovery of HIV. The killer was there, later it was found it originated in Africa, but how did it enter the US? Now we finally know: through Haiti, brought by just one person around 1969, much earlier than previously thought! That was the HIV-1 t... |
30 October 2007
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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
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It is the scourge of the 21st century and for over two decades scientists have been looking for an AIDS vaccine. But the long battle experienced a severe blow last week when a long-waited trial of a new HIV vaccine was prematurely stopped after failing in inducing any stop or slow down of the infection. The STEP tria... |
27 September 2007
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With all the massive campaign against HIV, the infection is booming amongst young homosexual men in New York City, as stated a preliminary data from the Health Department. Since 2001, HIV diagnoses among MSM under age 30 have risen by 33%, from 374 to almost 500 in 2006. The numbers were double among MSM aged 13 to 1... |
14 September 2007
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Gay men are known to be more exposed to HIV infections than heterosexual people are. But a new research has discovered that the significant differences regarding the HIV infection in the US between gay men and straight men and women are determined by factors that go far beyond sexuality. In 2005, more than 50 % of th... |
14 September 2007
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Junk food and a sedentary lifestyle have inflicted many diseases that have taken a heavy toll worldwide. If we consider the rapid evolution and spread of the adult sugary diabetes (type II) from the last year, we can consider this the disease of the 21st century. The specialists are already worried about the amazingl... |
13 September 2007
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In the race for an anti-HIV vaccine, scientists have just opened another chapter, discovering the molecular mechanisms that make a few antibodies effective against HIV, while most of them fail. Vaccines have been fighting for long successfully against many infectious diseases, but scientists still do not know how exa... |
7 September 2007
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Hugh Hefner is a poor amateur: the king of Swaziland, Mswati III, 39-year old, had to choose from amongst 100,000 chanting, bare-breasted maidens who have paraded before him so that he could choose his 14th wife. A special honor for the Swazi girls. The maidens are dispatched by King Mswati III to cut the reeds on th... |
5 September 2007
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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
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Well, cleaning the penis minutes after sex does not wash away the HIV. On the contrary, for uncircumcised men, it even increases the risk of getting infected. The team at the Makerere University Institute of Public Health made the research on 2,552 uncircumcised, HIV-negative men aged 15 to 29 from the Rakai district... |
22 August 2007
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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
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HIV kills, but before killing, it turns you into a vegetable. A new study shows how HIV can cause learning and memory deficits by means of a double attack on the brain cells. Previous researches had already shown that a protein on the surface of the virus could destroy neurons. But the new research at the University ... |
17 August 2007
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Oral sex is regarded as safe, both against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases; moreover the unbearable condom is no longer necessary. But after researchers have recently discovered that the human papillomavirus (HPV), a germ that causes cervical (uterine) and throat cancer, can be transmitted thro... |
26 July 2007
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Well, vagina appeared to be a better candidate for producing "microbicides", drug-delivery systems such as gels, rings, sponges or creams to prevent infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. In 2006, University of Utah researchers have developed a vaginal "molecular condom" that starts as a liquid s... |
24 July 2007
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It is known that monkeys infected us with HIV. But a new research at the University of Arizona in Tucson revealed that they did this much more recently than previously believed. The monkey HIV strain, called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), was found by a new genetic analysis on African green monkeys, to have fi... |
17 July 2007
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Till the end of the 20th century, vaccines managed to deal with some of the worst evils of humankind: smallpox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, diphtheria or polio. There was a moment when the new intelligent drugs and high technologies almost turned vaccines into something obsolete. But after the anthrax attacks in ... |
17 July 2007
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The Mediterranean cuisine considers olive oil one of the healthiest types of food. Now it appears it has a hidden quality: it can even fight the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), as found by a team from the University of Granada, Spain, headed by Professor Andrés García-Granados, senior lecturer in Organic Chemistry. T... |
10 July 2007
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This is the agony of the medical world: finding a cure or a vaccine against HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). Now, the latest hit against the virus is an experimental drug that suppressed it to undetectable levels in people with highly drug-resistant strains. The new chemical, TMC125 (etravirine), is the first of i... |
6 July 2007
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Marijuana has been proven to be useful against nausea, and depression resulted from chemotherapy and other aggressive treatments against cancer or HIV. That's why in many countries, marijuana is permitted for medical purposes. Medical marijuana law exists also in eleven US states: Alaska, California, Colorado, H... |
2 July 2007
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For the moment, HIV is one step ahead of us, and with all the modern medicine, with its awesome scientific and technological achievements, there is no cure against HIV-infection. The best that can be done is to keep the virus at bay, stopping the outbreak of AIDS, but the virus remains stuck in the infected cells. No... |
2 July 2007
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The "Careless Whisper" singer doesn't want to take an HIV test, arguing that he does not believe in them. Now George, allow me to be frank. I agree that no one lives forever. If someone has HIV (God forbid!), one dies a little faster, but most important, one can cause others to die faster as well. So taking a te... |
28 June 2007
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