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| AIDS Programs Reach Out To African Immigrant Community | Thu, 09 Sep 2010 |
| The Seattle Times reports on educating people about AIDS in the African immigrant community in Seattle. "For African immigrants, who come from countries with high rates of HIV and AIDS, talking about their own diagnosis is often taboo... | |
| Team Of Scientists Issues HIV Vaccine Strategy | Thu, 09 Sep 2010 |
| The Council of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise on Tuesday released a new strategy for HIV vaccine research, which marked "the culmination of an 18-month effort that included the input of 400 scientists worldwide," VOA News reports (DeCapua, 9/7). The strategy, published as a Commentary (... | |
| Education More Important Than Knowledge In Stopping Spread Of HIV In Africa | Thu, 09 Sep 2010 |
| Simply teaching people the facts about how to protect themselves from HIV may not be enough to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa, a new study suggests. Researchers found that villagers in Ghana who had higher levels of cognitive and decision-making abilities - not just the most knowledge -- were the ones who were most likely to take steps to protect themselves from HIV infection... | |
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| Are White Homosexual Men Still Taking Too Many HIV Risks? | Tue, 07 Sep 2010 |
| Risky sexual behavior among members of a subset of the gay community is still adding to the spread of HIV. Research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has found that young white homosexual men have an important contribution in the local spread of HIV... | |
| Road-Map Agreed For Confirmatory Trials Of Promising Microbicide | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| Two further clinical trials are planned to confirm a vaginal gel which has shown potential in reducing the risk of HIV. The results of the first trial of the gel, which were announced in July at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, must be confirmed before the product can be made available for general use... | |
| Recent Releases In Global Health | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| Lancet Editorial Makes Recommendations For Health-System Strengthening "There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries," write the authors of a Lancet Comment... | |
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| VOA News Examines U.S. Global Health Initiative | Mon, 06 Sep 2010 |
| VOA News examines President Barack Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), noting the initiative's emphasis on cost-effective strategies to improve child- and maternal-health as well as programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria... | |
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| A Scientific Breakthrough On How HIV Takes Control Of Cell Division | Sat, 04 Sep 2010 |
| Dr. Eric A. Cohen, Director of the Human Retrovirology research unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), and his team published yesterday, in the online open-access journal PLos Pathogens, the results of their most recent research on the role of the Vpr protein in HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and AIDS (acquired autoimmune deficiency syndrome)... | |
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| Are HERVs An Answer To AIDS Mysteries? | Fri, 03 Sep 2010 |
| Why is it so hard to isolate and purify human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)? Why has no one been able to see, by electron microscopy, a single HIV particle in the blood of AIDS patients, even those who have a "high viral load"? Why does HIV seem to mutate with startling rapidity? AIDS researchers have not been able to come up with answers to these questions... | |
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