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Home Access Health Corporation Issues Call for Increased Testing for American Women and Girls HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American women and girls will make up nearly a quarter of all new HIV infections in the United States this year, providing a stark reminder that increased HIV testing can save lives, Home Access Health Corporation, the leading manufacturer of at-home laboratory services, said today. "According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online According to a new report in the journal Antiviral Therapy, researchers from the Washington University in St. Louis have found that nanoparticles loaded with bee venom are capable of destroying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while leaving the body’s cells unharmed. In a radical departure from traditional attempts to treat HIV, the research team says that the nanoparticles could be used to develop a prophylactic gel capable of...
New Campaign from Greater Than AIDS Focuses on Women & HIV/AIDS in America MENLO PARK, Calif., March 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys has teamed up with Greater Than AIDS to launch EMPOWERED <http://www.greaterthan.org/empowered>, a new public information campaign to reach women in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. Being released in the lead-up to National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (March 10), the...
Data Demonstrate that SB-728-T Possesses Necessary Immunologic Properties to Support a 'Functional Cure' for HIV/AIDS RICHMOND, Calif., March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) announced new data from its program to develop a 'functional cure' for HIV/AIDS in two presentations at the 20(th) Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), held in Atlanta from March 3 to 6, 2013. (Logo:...
PHILADELPHIA, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Par Pharmaceutical Company has agreed to pay $45 million to settle civil and criminal allegations that the company launched a long term care ("LTC") sales force to promote Megace ES for off-label uses including weight loss in elderly patients. The FDA approved Megace ES in July 2005 for the treatment of anorexia, cachexia, or an unexplained, significant weight loss in patients with a diagnosis of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome....
Data show more inpatients suffering infections from bacteria resistant to all or nearly all antibiotics ATLANTA, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A family of bacteria has become increasingly resistant to last-resort antibiotics during the past decade, and more hospitalized patients are getting lethal infections that, in some cases, are impossible to cure. The findings, published today in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Vital Signs report, are a call to...
EJAF's Final Grants for 2012 Address Needs of Under-served Populations? NEW YORK, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) today announced its final round of grants for calendar year 2012, totaling $3,346,530. This new funding brings EJAF's total grant investments for 2012 to over $7.4 million. ?"After 20 years of doing this work, I know that the only way to fight against AIDS is by helping everyone in need, especially those living at the...
1. Research Results Show Current CDC HIV Screening Guidelines Are Too Conservative and Not Cost-Effective 2. Study Says Heavy Drinking Leads to Increased HIV Risk for Men Who Have Sex with Men The results of two important studies have been published in the March issue of AIDS, the official journal of the International AIDS Society. One study notes that screening for HIV should be performed more frequently—up to every three months for the highest-risk patients, while low-risk groups to...
BROOKLYN, N.Y., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During tonight's Clinton Foundation Millennium Network event featuring a dialogue with President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and Hollywood actor Ed Norton, protesters from the human rights organization INTACTION disrupted the show wearing bloodstained white suits to protest the exploitative and racist health policies involving the circumcision of African men. The concept of HIV prevention through circumcision began with...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Study results presented today at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) show that a series of community efforts can increase the number of people who get tested and know their HIV status, especially among men and young people with HIV who might otherwise transmit the virus to others. The study was also able...
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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...
