Researchers have discovered a new method of attacking the HIV virus which may offer a solution to drug resistance.
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Singapore recorded 422 new HIV infections last year, the highest number in a single year since records started in 1985, the city-state of 4.5 million people said Tuesday....
... disadvantage in developing countries must be addressed if the world is to prevent a dramatic escalation of the HIV epidemic as well as other health problems.
Professor Tarantola will join a panel of ...
... numbers of sexual partners, avoid alcohol and other substance use in sexual situations, and seek HIV testing, Horvath said.
More than one-quarter of the men in the study had not been tested for HIV. ...
Around 40 per cent of HIV-positive Venezuelans are diagnosed late, despite the availability of free diagnosis and testing.
... forth in a fresh round of infection. What HIV hunters need is a good bird dog. ... checked to see if perhaps it could help combat HIV, which is when its remarkable ability to flush out the dormant virus ...
Clinical examination can provide as reliable a guide to patient progress in HIV treatment as laboratory testing, a study finds.
... in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens. There is an overwhelming need for effective immunotherapies for HIV, as current therapies are expensive, impractical, and often highly toxic. The authors, ...
... the consequence, rather than the cause, of persistent replication of HIV.
In a related article, Sarah Rowland-Jones and ... Silva T (2008) Resisting immune exhaustion in HIV-1 infection. PLoS Med 5(5 ...
... under 15 years of age become infected with HIV every year, mainly through mother-to ... to detect and prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The program outlined by Pai and colleagues is efficient, ...
The usual waiting period for the results of a HIV test can seem like an eternity, especially in emergency situations where results are needed immediately. Also it requires a blood sample, which is ...
... requires monitoring both virus and host responses simultaneously,” Streeck says. “Therefore, it is important that HIV vaccine trials evaluate the immune responses carefully in the context of the ...
... our society has chosen to cast aside: those who suffer from addiction, mental illness and/or HIV,” says Zaller.
“We must move towards a more compassionate and just society where we engage those who ...
... novel insights into how this critical viral enzyme functions, but also clarifies how some of the anti-HIV pharmaceuticals work.
The research team, at Harvard University and the National Cancer ...
... for which the evidence of actual impact is increasingly unclear,” said Halperin. “Many of these approaches, such as HIV testing and treating other STIs, do have important public health benefits, and ...
