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Researchers to test monthly vaginal ring for HIV prevention

07/24/2012 majac Your Health Matters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two large clinical trials in Africa are ramping up to test the effectiveness of a vaginal ring that releases an HIV-fighting drug for a month or more, offering women at high risk a discreet way to protect themselves from the virus that causes AIDS. The studies will test the effectiveness of a vaginal ring containing the antiretroviral drug dapivirine in thousands of women in several African countries to evaluate its ability to prevent new HIV infections and its long-term safety. …

Africa, AIDS, HIV

AIDS cure may have two main pathways: experts

07/24/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Investigators are looking into two main paths toward a cure for AIDS, based on the stunning stories of a small group of people around the world who have been able to overcome the disease.

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US adds $150 million to fight AIDS, targets stigma

07/23/2012 majac Your Health Matters

The U.S. is adding an extra $150 million to the global AIDS fight, taking a first step toward reaching some stigmatized populations.

AIDS, US

US committed to AIDS-free generation: Clinton

07/23/2012 majac Your Health Matters

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton vowed Monday that the United States will step up the fight against HIV, insisting it was working towards the goal of achieving an AIDS-free generation.

AIDS, HIV, United States, US

AIDS meeting: Science here to slash HIV’s spread

07/23/2012 majac Your Health Matters

The leading U.S. AIDS researcher says science has provided the tools needed to slash new infections even without a vaccine — if countries will put them in place.

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AIDS conference opens at key turning point

07/23/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Researchers, doctors and patients attending the world's largest AIDS conference are urging the world's governments not to cut back on the fight against the epidemic when it is at a turning point.

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Women With HIV May Not Have Higher Cervical Cancer Risk: Study

07/23/2012 majac Your Health Matters

MONDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) — Infection with HIV — the virus that causes AIDS — does not appear to increase a woman’s risk of cervical cancer, a new study has found.

AIDS, HIV

‘No excuse’ for not turning tide on AIDS: expert

07/22/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Science has given the world "no excuse" to resist bold action against the spread of the 30-year AIDS pandemic, said a top US expert at the opening of the International AIDS Conference.

AIDS, US

US hosts AIDS conference amid calls for action

07/22/2012 majac Your Health Matters

The world's largest meeting on HIV/AIDS opened Sunday in the US capital as experts urged a speedier global response to the three-decade-long epidemic that killed 1.5 million people last year.

AIDS, US

Sex workers denied US visa hold their own AIDS conference

07/21/2012 majac Your Health Matters

Hundreds of sex workers from around the world who said they were denied visas to attend an international AIDS conference in the United States began their own meeting in Kolkata on Saturday in protest.

AIDS, United States, US

Nobel laureate, discoverer of HIV, sees ‘hope’ for cure

07/20/2012 majac Your Health Matters

The Nobel laureate who helped to discover HIV says there is hope for an AIDS cure following recent discoveries, in an interview with AFP ahead of a global conference on the disease.

AFP, AIDS, HIV

Toward a cure for AIDS: Scientists set research agenda

07/19/2012 majac Your Health Matters

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A team of global scientists has devised a strategy to find a cure for AIDS, an effort inspired by the remarkable story of a single U.S. patient named Timothy Ray Brown who was cured from the disease. Brown’s treatment in Berlin involved the destruction of his immune system and a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection. The procedure is too costly and too difficult to replicate on a large scale. …

AIDS, Berlin, HIV, Timothy Ray Brown

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