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- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; NEW YORK: Study in D.C. to Test Whether HIV Treatment Can Prevent Spread 17 Nov 2009 02:34 GMT
... the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The philosophy is if you could test ... White House around the time of World AIDS Day, Dec. 1. The approach relies on ... department personnel to be schooled in modernizing patient record-keeping and encouraging patients to take medication ...
- NIH, D.C. Health Department To Launch HIV Treatment Study 17 Nov 2009 11:50 GMT
... that global universal HIV treatment with antiretroviral drugs could reduce the virus' transmission rate to ... the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the purpose of the study is ... begin around Dec. 1, which is World AIDS Day. According to the , Fauci would ...
- AIDS researchers: Immunity key to finding vaccine 16 Nov 2009 19:53 GMT
... than ever to finding a vaccine against HIV/AIDS thanks to people who have had contact with ... to beating the virus that attacks the immune system. Dr. Frank Plummer, director of Winnipeg's National ... cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 31% in a trial ...
- Professor awarded over $2 million for HIV/STD research 19 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
... from living in the middle of an HIV epicenter. Primary prevention is the most important ... STD prevention program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been. OSU is ... American teens in Chicago and San Francisco. AIDS is the leading cause of death in ...
- V.I. AIDS expert heading to Africa 23 Nov 2009 22:18 GMT
... Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of HIV/AIDS in the world. Hall has left her ... with HIV - or any sexually transmitted disease - and getting them tested and treated ... I have seen people who really lost immune function in times of being off medications. ...
- AIDS patients to president: Send more money south 16 Nov 2009 11:30 GMT
... AIDS patients to president: Send more money south ... who fought for others suffering from the disease he contracted in the early 1990s, died ... infected with HIV to help boost their immune systems to fight off the disease. Both ...
- SPOT: A one-stop HIV and sexually transmitted diseases testing center for youth 16 Nov 2009 12:35 GMT
... In the last 10 years, the St. Louis area ... among the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases in this age group. To head off ... Louis Area National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, St. Louis Agency on Training and ...
- AIDS benefit helps provide support for our neighbors 19 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
... AIDS Benefit Helps Provide Support For Our Neighbors ... drugs available that help people keep their immune systems strong, but in no way lessen the toll the disease takes on the health, financial well-being and ...
- Basic Facts about HIV/Aids in Uganda 21 Nov 2009 19:32 GMT
... The HIV epidemic is affecting the populations in all ... just over one million people living with HIV/Aids in the country. There has been a stagnation ... in the country is circumcised); Alcohol and drug use that could impair judgement and lead to ...
- CALIFORNIA: Stimulus Money to Support UCSF HIV Studies 21 Nov 2009 03:36 GMT
... feasibility and acceptability of a self-administered, Web-based drug and alcohol intervention to improve HIV treatment ... associate nursing professor at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. Copyright © 2009 - Information, ... media reports on HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis does not constitute CDC endorsement. ...
- Vaccine quest boosted by HIV that infects monkeys 23 Nov 2009 12:33 GMT
... is successful. Current primate models use simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is similar but not ... led by virologist at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) in New York, could ... virus's original host. But HIV doesn't cause disease in chimps and their endangered status limited ...
- Nurse Researchers And Educators Reveal The New Faces Of HIV/AIDS 15 Nov 2009 10:11 GMT
... than 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide since 1981; 33 million are living with ... HIV transmission such as unprotected sex and drug use. Campbell is "feeling increasingly hopeful. Public ... (MDR-TB) affecting as many as 75% of patients with HIV in South Africa, Farley has ...
- HIV/TB epidemic in Eastern Europe a 'public health disaster' 23 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
... were most likely to be infected with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), to have disseminated TB, to ... well as reducing the incidence of the disease. Although the epidemiology of TB amongst HIV-infected ... than in Western Europe and Argentina . AIDS 23: 2485-95, 2009. Vorkas, CK and van ...
- Girls, Minorities Have Highest Incidence of STDs 18 Nov 2009 19:33 GMT
... Explain to interested patients that women ages 15 to 24 and ... have the greatest rates of sexually transmitted disease in the U.S. Adolescent girls and young ... MD, director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, said ...
- New faces of HIV/AIDS: A report 16 Nov 2009 12:35 GMT
... World AIDS Day 2009 will be marked with both grim ... HIV transmission such as unprotected sex and drug use. Campbell is "feeling increasingly hopeful. Public ... (MDR-TB) affecting as many as 75% of patients with HIV in South Africa, Farley has ...
- 'Secret' of the morning-after pill that gives protection against HIV 17 Nov 2009 15:55 GMT
... prevented hundreds of people from contracting the disease. The therapy, known as post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), ... similar to those given to people with Aids. If started within 72 hours of exposure, ... blood cells responsible for setting the body’s immune system in motion, making it hard to ...
- New EACS guidelines address co-morbidities and diseases of age 17 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... 2009 Treatment Guidelines published by the European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) are considerably longer and ... co-morbidities included in the new sections were diseases associated with age. The last guidelines were ... switching in virally-suppressed people covers switching for drug interactions, toxicity and simplification. It recommends that ...
- STD Programs Facing Severe Cutbacks, Affecting Public Health Infrastructure 16 Nov 2009 17:50 GMT
... economic crisis is having on sexually transmitted disease (STD) programs and in turn, having more ... not alone. A recent survey of state HIV programs, conducted by the National Alliance of ... the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), found that in Fiscal Year ...
- Russia: Drugs: Blame the West 24 Nov 2009 04:33 GMT
... While the Kremlin’s rhetoric on drug use reveals a profound insecurity, its policies ... Tatiana Golikova told Russia’s Security Council that “HIV/AIDS [has] increased threefold by comparison with regions where ... not work, but at least brings their patients back through the revolving door, paying each ...
- FDA reviews update to Pfizer vaccine for kids 16 Nov 2009 21:19 GMT
... HIV vaccine latest lift in fight vs. AIDS As an HIV vaccine breakthrough in Thailand ... infected with HIV to help boost their immune systems to fight off the disease. Both vaccines are years away. If successful, ...
- Racial and Sex Disparities in Survival Losses Due to HIV in the United States 15 Nov 2009 10:12 GMT
... gains for those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the United States. Yet ... HIV developed by the “Cost-effectiveness of Preventing AIDS Complications (“CEPAC”) team, and was led by ... These findings appear online in Clinical Infectious Diseases and in the November 15, 2009 print ...
- Fighting Diseases with eHealth: A WHO Perspective 17 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... international efforts to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases such as SARS, malaria, pandemic influenza H1N1 and AIDS, but also sponsoring programs to prevent and ... to monitor and create an inventory of drugs, check expiry dates and the adverse reactions ...
- Economic crisis impacts health department capacity to address rising STD rates 17 Nov 2009 09:12 GMT
... economic crisis is having on sexually transmitted disease (STD) programs and in turn, having more ... not alone. A recent survey of state HIV programs, conducted by the National Alliance of ... the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD), found that in Fiscal Year ...
- Genetic Variant Slows AIDS Progression 23 Nov 2009 14:50 GMT
... to play a major role in slowing disease progression in HIV-infected patients. In fact, those ... appear to take years longer to develop AIDS and die of complications of the disease. ... genetic variation makes it easier for the immune system to kill cells that have been ...
- Genetic Variant Slows AIDS Progression 23 Nov 2009 16:31 GMT
... to play a major role in slowing disease progression in HIV-infected patients. In fact, those ... appear to take years longer to develop AIDS and die of complications of the disease. ... genetic variation makes it easier for the immune system to kill cells that have been ...
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