Methadone urged for AIDS fight in ex-Soviet states
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 26 05
Russia and its neighbors should lift their ban on using opiates such as methadone to treat addicts who inject drugs, scientists at an international AIDS conference said…
Aggressive HIV strain appears to be isolated case
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 25 05
Suggestions that a new, highly multidrug resistant and rapidly progressing strain of HIV has evolved in New York City and could become widespread have been refuted by…
L.A. doctor indicted for “subdosing” AIDS patients
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 22 05
A well-known California AIDS doctor accused of “subdosing” his patients - giving them less than the prescribed amount of medication to boost his profits - has been indicted…
Two big Indian states could undermine AIDS fight
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 21 05
India needs to dramatically scale up the battle against AIDS in its impoverished and densely populated north if it is to avoid a disastrous spike in HIV…
Africa faces shortage of AIDS medics
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 20 05
Africans infected by HIV/AIDS are receiving cheaper life-prolonging drugs but lack the medical personnel to administer them and manage their treatment, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday.
…How can We prevent infection of Newborns?
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 19 05
How do you get infected with HIV?
• HIV and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrom • Jul 19 05
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is not spread easily. You can only get HIV if you get infected blood or sexual fluids into your system. You can’t get…
AIDS in Asia spread from Myanmar
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 19 05
Heroin users and prostitutes in Myanmar have spread HIV through large parts of Asia, according to a Council on Foreign Relations study released on Monday.
The use…
AIDS strikes at some countries’ ability to govern
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 19 05
Poor nations devastated by AIDS are coming under pressure to funnel what few drugs they can afford solely to their political and military elites, a move likely…
Clinton takes cheap AIDS drugs to African children
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 18 05
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton hopes his foundation will help treat more than 60,000 children suffering from HIV/AIDS as part of a plan to fight the disease…
U.N. says must raise peacekeepers’ AIDS awareness
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 18 05
More soldiers and U.N. peacekeepers are being trained to try to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, but greater efforts are required to stem the disease in the ranks,…
Singapore to inform spouses of HIV patients
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 17 05
Singapore, facing a rise in AIDS cases, will make it mandatory for spouses of HIV patients to be informed of their partner’s illness.
The health ministry…
India clears human trials for second AIDS vaccine
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 14 05
India has approved human volunteer trials for the country’s second preventive vaccine against HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, health officials said on Thursday.
Home to…
India asks people to save “wickets” in AIDS fight
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 13 05
Cricket-mad India is mixing cricket and humour to promote safe sex and fight AIDS in a bold pilot campaign warning people to save their “wickets” from…
Dying, He says he is lucky
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 13 05
Niram Sharma is 28, jobless and dying. He says he is lucky.
For, unlike Niram, most of the new friends he has made at HIV/AIDS support groups in this…
India says over 7,200 died of AIDS in two decades
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 11 05
At least 7,200 people have died of AIDS in India, the world’s second worst affected nation, since an official count began two decades ago, a…
Brazil to lose from AIDS patent move—drugs body
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 07 05
The global pharmaceutical industry body IFPMA warned on Wednesday that Brazil’s decision to break a U.S.-held AIDS drug patent would turn foreign firms against cooperating with the…
African business key to AIDS fight - Holbrooke
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 07 05
Africa’s businesses are a key weapon in the war against HIV/AIDS but thus far have not done enough to combat the epidemic, Richard Holbrooke said on Thursday.
…Japanese Scientists Introduce New HIV Drug
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 06 05
Angelina Jolie adopts Ethiopian AIDS orphan
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 06 05
Actress Angelina Jolie is adopting a newborn Ethiopian girl orphaned by AIDS, People magazine reported on Tuesday.
Jolie, who has toured the world as goodwill ambassador for the…
Asia in danger of AIDS explosion
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 06 05
The risk of AIDS spreading in Asia is higher than ever and there is a danger of an “explosion” of the deadly disease if prevention efforts are not intensified…
Task force urges HIV testing of all pregnant women
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 05 05
The US Preventive Services Task Force has updated its 1996 guidelines for HIV screening, and now recommends that all pregnant women be tested.
That way,
Intermittent low-level viremia (LLV) can occur in the very early stages of primary HIV infection, before the ramp-up phase of HIV viremia, according to a new report.
AIDS Risk Increasing in Asia: UNAIDS Report
• HIV/AIDS news • Jul 03 05
China AIDS victims fight bad drugs, ineptitude
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 30 05
Low-Level Viremia ‘Blips’ in Very Early HIV Infection
• HIV/AIDS news • Jun 24 05