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    Novel Additive Boosts Effect Of Vaccines Against HIV And Flu In Mice

    Oxford University scientists have discovered a compound that greatly boosts the effect of vaccines against viruses like flu, HIV and herpes in mice. An 'adjuvant' is a substance added to a vaccine to enhance the immune response and offer better protection against infection. The Oxford University...
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    Interactions Between Malaria Parasite And HIV Demonstrated By Novel Technique

    The World Health Organization estimates that in 2011 there were 216 million cases of malaria and 34.2 million people living with HIV. These diseases particularly afflict sub-Saharan Africa, where large incidence of co-infection result in high mortality rates. Yet, in spite of this global...
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    Nurses As Effective As Doctors In Treatment Of HIV Patients

    Nurse-centred care of HIV patients can be just as safe and effective as care delivered by doctors and has a number of specific health benefits, according to a new study led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the University of Cape Town (UCT). Published today in The Lancet, the research...
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    Can you find the HIV genome type with a undetectable VL?

    my friend had a VL of 204 and cd4 of 390, his recent blood test came back blank, it said unable to report genome tyle due to insaficent viral load. now a lab tech over in the UK told me the genometype will show no matter how high or low the VL is. the test that was used is RT AND PR INHIBITORS.
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    Signs Of HIV Infection Eliminated By Bone Marrow Transplant

    Two men with longstanding HIV infections no longer have detectable HIV in their blood cells following bone marrow transplants. The virus was easily detected in blood lymphocytes of both men prior to their transplants but became undetectable by eight months post-transplant. The men, who were...
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    Additional Benefits Of Early HIV Treatment Revealed By New HPTN 052 Study

    Study results released by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) show additional benefits of early antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV clinical outcomes. Expanded analysis of HPTN 052 study data, presented at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., demonstrated that early...
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    Urgent Need For HIV Treatments Suitable For Young Children

    An article written by an international group of researchers reports that there is an urgent need to develop formulations of current antiretroviral therapy (ART) treatments suitable for young children, in particular, tablets that are a combination of different HIV drugs, which can be dispersed or...
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    WHO Endorses Use Of Antiretrovirals To Prevent HIV Infections

    The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued its first guidance to nations considering providing ARVs (antiretrovirals) to HIV-negative, high risk people. HIV is a retrovirus. Retroviruses are composed of RNA, not DNA; they have an enzyme (reverse transcriptase) which allows them to transcribe...
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    Report Highlights Alarming Data Showing Disproportionately High Rates Of HIV Infectio

    Black AIDS Institute releases report on the AIDS crisis among black gay men Today, the Black AIDS Institute released its latest report, Back of the Line: The State of AIDS Among Black Gay Men in America. The landmark report highlights alarming data that show disproportionately high rates of HIV...
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    Animal Model That Replicates Human Immune Response Against HIV Could Simplify Vaccine

    One of the challenges to HIV vaccine development has been the lack of an animal model that accurately reflects the human immune response to the virus and how the virus evolves to evade that response. In Science Translational Medicine, researchers from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General...
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    "Bryologs" Activate Hidden Reservoirs Of HIV That Currently Make The Disease Nearly I

    "Bryologs" Activate Hidden Reservoirs Of HIV That Currently Make The Disease Nearly I Thanks to antiretrovirals, an AIDS diagnosis hasn't been a death sentence for nearly two decades. But highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, is also not a cure. Patients must adhere to a demandingly...
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    FDA Finally Approves HIV Prevention Drug, Truvada

    The FDA has finally*approved a new drug that prevents HIV infection. The medicine, Truvada, is a daily pill expected to be taken by people at a high-risk of becoming infected with HIV (gay and bisexual men usually, but the drug has been approved for all HIV-negative people). This is awesome news...
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    For HIV Prevention, Identifying Risky Behaviors Could Be Key

    HIV prevention must be better targeted, according to David Holtgrave from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US, and colleagues. Health care professionals need a more detailed analysis and understanding of the interplay between HIV risk behavior, access to treatment and...
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    Generic Drugs Key To US Overseas HIV Relief

    The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPfAR) began in 2003 with good intentions, but it was not until the U.S. government's massive overseas public health campaign adopted generic drugs that it became a success, according to a new article by Brown University researchers in the July...
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    HIV Programs Not Found To Displace Life-Saving Maternal Health Services In Sub-Sahara

    While HIV programs provide lifesaving care and treatment to millions of people in lower-income countries, there have been concerns that as these programs expand, they divert investments from other health priorities such as maternal health. Researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of...
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    FDA Approves The First At-Home HIV, But A Swab Can’t Replace A Counselor

    Yesterday, the FDA finally granted approval to*OraQuick,*the first-ever at-home HIV test. The test, which the New York Times calls "as easy as a home-pregnancy test" would make it super-simple to get tested and diagnosed, right in the privacy of your own home. Which is huge for stopping the...
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    HIV Home Test Kit Wins FDA Approval

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Tuesday that is has approved the first over the counter HIV test kit that allows Americans to test, in the privacy of their own homes, whether they are infected with the virus that causes AIDS. The OraQuick In-Home HIV Test detects the...
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    Top 5 Myths About HIV Testing, Dispelled

    Today is National HIV Testing Awareness Day, and it's also the start of the first-ever*HIV Awareness Month, founded by Dawn Averitt Bridge, mother of two and chair of the board of The Well Project, who's been living with HIV since 1988. Dawn—and The Well Project—is on a mission to change the...
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    The "Ethical Odyssey" Of An HIV Trial

    In the battle against HIV/AIDS conditions on the frontlines are constantly in flux as treatment, research and policy evolve. The landmark HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052 study, which established that antiretroviral treatment in people who are HIV positive decreases the likelihood of...
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    Nevirapine Based Treatment For HIV Is Effective In African Women

    In African women, an anti-AIDS treatment regimen that includes the drug nevirapine is as effective as a treatment regimen with the more expensive drugs, lopinavir/ritonavir, according to a study by a team of international researchers published in this week's PLoS Medicine. This finding is...
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