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- World AIDS Day: Punitive Laws Threaten HIV Progress 25 Nov 2009 19:50 GMT
... said today on the eve of World AIDS Day. This year's World AIDS Day theme ... to HIV infection, such as sex workers, drug users, and men who have sex with ... treatment, and contribute to the spread of disease, Human Rights Watch said. Elsewhere, laws criminalizing ...
- Global epidemic report shows HIV treatment preventing deaths; infections fall by 17% 25 Nov 2009 04:30 GMT
... have a major impact on the global AIDS epidemic, according to a report released by UNAIDS ... 2008 4 million individuals were receiving antiretroviral drugs. And this meant that increasing numbers of HIV-positive patients were living longer and healthier lives. AIDS-related ...
- Also In Global Health News: Home HIV Treatment; Voluntary Testing In Kenya; Women/HIV Scorecard; Global Fund Zimbabwe Grant; Contraceptives In Tanzani 25 Nov 2009 14:33 GMT
... Vs. Clinic Treatment of HIV In Uganda patients at home is cheaper and just as ... because five million more Africans will need drugs in the next few years, and most ... authors from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria praised the study, saying ...
- World AIDS Day, 12/1: Free HIV Testing at All Five Bay Area 'Out of the Closet' Thrift Stores 25 Nov 2009 16:10 GMT
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- World AIDS Day, 12/1: Free HIV Testing at All Five Bay Area "Out of the Closet" Thrift Stores 25 Nov 2009 16:10 GMT
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- Hetero Sex Leading Cause of HIV in China 25 Nov 2009 19:30 GMT
... The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through ... and most of the remainder related to drug abuse, which was previously the main source ... said. The government remains sensitive about the disease, regularly cracking down on activists and patients ...
- AIDS deaths top 25 million but infections slow 25 Nov 2009 05:33 GMT
... AIDS deaths top 25 million but infections slow ... of the 1.1 million afflicted by the disease. Swaziland's HIV treatment is not easily available ... launch that the number of new human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus infections has been reduced by ...
- The global epidemic 25 Nov 2009 02:51 GMT
... been achieved in reducing the number of AIDS-related deaths. When AIDS surfaced on the medical ... therapy had turned HIV/AIDS into a chronic disease rather than a countdown to death. The ... infections to which most healthy people were immune. The doctors were puzzled because they could ...
- Global: HIV infections slowing but prevention gap persists 25 Nov 2009 09:06 GMT
... have changed since the publication date. Global: HIV infections slowing but prevention gap persists Integrated ... pace with this virus," Paul De Lay, UNAIDS deputy executive director told journalists during a telephonic ... epidemic had mainly been concentrated among injecting drug users, sex workers and their clients, but an ...
- HIV infections slowing but prevention gap persists 25 Nov 2009 15:31 GMT
... 2009 (PlusNews) - The rate of new HIV infections worldwide has declined by 17 percent ... of the credit, according to the annual UNAIDS update on the epidemic released on 24 November. ... epidemic had mainly been concentrated among injecting drug users, sex workers and their clients, but an ...
- New HIV infections reduced by 17% over the past eight years 25 Nov 2009 17:54 GMT
... New HIV infections reduced by 17% over the past ... prevention, treatment, care and support are bringing AIDS out of isolation GENEVA | SHANGHAI -- According ... dramatic increase in new infections among injecting drug users, the epidemic has leveled off considerably. However, ...
- Steady inroads being made against AIDS 25 Nov 2009 09:55 GMT
... EST A dry, new statistical report about HIV-AIDS is attracting a lot of attention because ... people have been infected since the human immunodeficiency virus was identified in the 1980s. There ... most new cases of HIV-AIDS; today, the disease is spread principally among intravenous drug users ...
- AIDS spreading fast through sexual transmission in China 25 Nov 2009 08:13 GMT
... blood transmission, becoming the top vehicle of AIDS in China, according to a recent report ... Overall, China has about 48,000 new infected patients in 2009, adding the whole reported HIV/AIDS ... it must be seriously considered when launching HIV prevention initiatives. Health Minister Chen Zhu admitted ...
- Pharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies test medicines and vaccines to treat HIV/AIDS 25 Nov 2009 09:17 GMT
... medicines and vaccines to treat or prevent HIV/AIDS and related conditions, according to a new ... include 23 vaccines and 54 antivirals. These drugs are either in human clinical trials or ... was identified. Although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that more ...
- AIDS death toll passes 25 mln: UNAIDS 25 Nov 2009 09:50 GMT
... Shanghai, November 25: AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but ... Around two million people died of the disease in 2008, bringing the overall toll to ... launch that the number of new human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus infections has been reduced by ...
- AIDS death toll passes 25 m... 25 Nov 2009 13:50 GMT
... Shanghai, November 25: AIDS has killed 25 million people worldwide but ... Around two million people died of the disease in 2008, bringing the overall toll to ... launch that the number of new human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus infections has been reduced by ...
- HIV/AIDS Update -Expanded indication for Selzentry (maraviroc) 25 Nov 2009 14:32 GMT
... HIV/AIDS Update -Expanded indication for Selzentry (maraviroc) You ... 111 patient-years). These subjects generally had cardiac disease or cardiac risk factors prior to SELZENTRY ... antagonizes the CCR5 co-receptor located on some immune cells, and therefore could potentially increase the ...
- The AIDS Institute, Nobel Prize Winner Join on World AIDS Day to Call for More Therapeutic Vaccine Funding 25 Nov 2009 19:30 GMT
... -- 11/25/09 -- In honor of World AIDS Day, The AIDS Institute (TAI), one of ... already infected individuals to help fight the disease by adjusting their immune response. TAI Executive Director Michael Ruppal said ...
- The AIDS Institute, Nobel Prize Winner Join on World AIDS Day to Call for More Therapeutic Vaccine F 25 Nov 2009 19:35 GMT
... The AIDS Institute, Nobel Prize Winner Join on World ... already infected individuals to help fight the disease by adjusting their immune response. TAI Executive Director Michael Ruppal said ...
- UN reports promising trend in HIV infection rates, record numbers living with virus 25 Nov 2009 05:52 GMT
... Support group for people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa The trend in new HIV ... account shifts in the spread of the disease in parts of Asia where the epidemic ... by transmission through sex work and injecting drug use " is now increasingly affecting heterosexual ...
- NORTH AMERICA: Latent Tuberculosis Infection Treatment Acceptance and Completion in the United States and Canada 25 Nov 2009 09:06 GMT
... TB infection is essential for preventing active disease, noted C. Robert Horsburgh Jr. of Boston ... OR 2.94, 95 percent CI 1.58-5.56), injection drug use (OR 2.13, 95 percent CI 1.04-4.35), ... scientific articles and lay media reports on HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis does ...
- Tailor-made HIV/AIDS treatment closer to reality 25 Nov 2009 17:56 GMT
... flying colours. The new approach is an immunotherapy customized for each individual patient, and was ... vaccine, to fight the specific strain of HIV/AIDS infecting a given patient, the scientists believe they ... tested the therapy in conjunction with anti-retroviral drugs, were published recently in Clinical Immunology. Phase ...
- UN AIDS chief in China to push for stronger civil society 25 Nov 2009 18:14 GMT
... SHANGHAI (AFP) – The UN AIDS chief said 50 million people are at risk from the disease in and the government must do more ... such as sex workers, migrant labourers and drug users, he added. said he chose China ...
- UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China 25 Nov 2009 12:15 GMT
... UNAIDS: Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China Posted on November 25, ... percent. Most of the remainder relates to drug abuse, which was previously the main source of ...
- Sex main cause for HIV spreading in China 25 Nov 2009 15:13 GMT
... SHANGHAI (AP) - The virus that causes AIDS is now spreading fastest in China through heterosexual ... Data show that 40 percent of new HIV infections diagnosed in China were acquired through ... percent. Most of the remainder relates to drug abuse, which was previously the main source of ...
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