Latest AIDS Stories
The integration of mental health interventions into HIV prevention and treatment platforms can reduce the opportunity costs of care and improve treatment outcomes, argues a new Policy Forum article published in this week's PLOS Medicine. Syvia Kaaya from the School of Medicine at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and her international colleagues say that effective interventions exist for recognition and treatment of co-morbid mental disorders...
Game On! Suit Up, LA: Gay Basketball, Football and Softball Leagues Featured in New Campaign to Help Distribute One Million and One Free Condoms LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to encourage condom use and safer sex practices, the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health will begin distributing its official "L.A. Condom" in a 40-foot condom mobile that made its debut at Long Beach Pride. Condoms being distributed feature new wrappers designed by local...
COLUMBIA, S.C., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- HarborPath, an organization which provides a single point of access to HIV/AIDS medications through patient assistance programs, has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the Elton John AIDS Foundation. The grant funding will be used to expand HarborPath's services and help more uninsured individuals living with HIV/AIDS gain access to their life-saving medications at no cost. This is the first time the Elton John AIDS Foundation has...
Production of Therapeutically Relevant Levels of Clotting Factor VIII Further Demonstrates Breadth and Leverage of this Novel Approach to Monogenic Diseases RICHMOND, Calif., May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced the presentation of new data demonstrating the successful application of Sangamo's proprietary In Vivo Protein Replacement Platform (IVPRP) to produce therapeutically relevant levels of Factor VIII in a mouse model. Sangamo has...
Sunday, May 19, Minnehaha Park MINNEAPOLIS, May 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sunday, May 19, 2013, join the Minnesota AIDS Project (MAP) at Minnehaha Park for the 26th year of the Minnesota AIDS Walk. Donations to the AIDS Walk help the Minnesota AIDS Project prevent new HIV infections and keep people living with HIV in Minnesota healthy. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130518/DC16602) The day's events will begin at 9:00 a.m. with registration, activities in...
‘Ripping the Veil’ examines the cruel treatment of HIV/AIDS patients across the world. Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) May 18, 2013 A doctor embarks on a quest against violence, corruption and greed that takes her from posh, Caribbean resorts to the depths of the Venezuelan jungles in Jan Smolders’ latest novel, “Ripping the Veil” (published by iUniverse). “The Dominican Republic has anti-discrimination laws for HIV/AIDS but they are poorly enforced,” Smolders writes, explaining the...
Unprecedented Immune Reconstitution Drives HIV Viral Reservoir Depletion RICHMOND, Calif., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced today the presentation of new clinical data from its program to develop a ZFP Therapeutic(®) for HIV/AIDS. The data, which demonstrate that SB-728-T treatment results in a reduction in the HIV reservoir in HIV-infected subjects, are being presented at the 16(th) Annual Meeting of the American Society of Gene and...
Kingdom Ridge Capital will provide a college scholarship to Hekima Place orphan Colletta Mwangi. Hekima Place is a home for girls orphaned primarily due to HIV/AIDS. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kingdom Ridge Capital announced today it will provide a college scholarship to Hekima Place orphan Colletta Mwangi. Founded in 2005 by Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania native Kate Fletcher, Hekima Place is a home for girls orphaned primarily due to HIV/AIDS. Hekima Place is...
The Banyan Tree Project hosts a series of Twitter chats premiering videos from “Taking Root: Our Stories, Our Community” in honor of National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. Follow @BTPMay19 and #BTPchat on Twitter to talk about HIV #withoutshame. San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 To commemorate May 19th, 2013—the 9th annual National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—the Banyan Tree Project is hosting a series of Twitter chats throughout...
47-year-old Texan is cycling 3,456 miles from California to Massachusetts to remember lost family and friends and help people suffering with hemophilia in developing countries. Georgetown, MA (PRWEB) May 13, 2013 Cyclist Barry Haarde commenced his second cross-country bike tour, “Wheels for the World 2013: Fast and Furious,” in Costa Mesa, California on April 20 to raise funds for Save One Life. Save One Life supports over 1,000 impoverished children and adults with hemophilia in 11...
Latest AIDS Reference Libraries
AIDS is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published 18 times yearly by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, London, UK. It was established in 1987 and is the official journal of the International AIDS Society. It covers all aspects of HIV and AIDS research, including basic science, clinical trials, epidemiology, and social science. As of May 2012, the editor-in-chief is Jay A. Levy. AIDS has been cited as the most read journal in its area of science and has the highest impact of all...
Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), also known as African Green Monkey virus, is a retrovirus able to infect at least 33 species of African primates. SIV has been present in monkeys and apes for at least 32,000 years, probably longer. Strains from two of these primate species have crossed the barriers into humans resulting in HIV-2 and HIV-1. Contraction involves contact with the blood of chimps that are often hunted for bushmeat in Africa. SIV infections appear in many cases to be...
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) one of seven currently known human cancer virus, is also the eighth human herpesvirus. Kaposi's sarcoma, caused by the virus, is common in AIDS patients, primary effusion lymphoma, and some types of multicentric Castelman's disease. Moritz Kaposi discovered the blood vessel tumor, in 1872, which would eventually be names Kaposi's sarcoma. It was originally though that KS was of Jewish and Mediterranean origins until it was found to be common...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a lentivirus, causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) which is a condition in humans were the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection is transferred through bodily fluids where HIV is present as both free virus particles and within infected immune cells. The four most common routes of infection are unsafe sex, contaminated needles, breast milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her...
