Tag: AIDS
Scientists urge fresh push for AIDS cure
International scientists on Thursday urged a new push for a cure to AIDS, saying the three-decade epidemic is outpacing medications to curb it.
Crisis opens up new paths in search for AIDS funds
The star-studded world AIDS conference opening in Washington on Sunday will hear urgent appeals for funds at a crucial point in a war now in its fourth decade.
Infection With 2 HIV Strains Slows Disease Progression
WEDNESDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) — While many people don’t know it, there’s more than one kind of AIDS virus. Besides the HIV-1 strain that’s common throughout the world, a type known as HIV-2 is found in some parts of Africa. Now, a new study finds that people infected with HIV-2 and later with HIV-1 appear to be better equipped to fight off the virus.
Mouse With Human-Like Immune System Could Advance AIDS Research
WEDNESDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) — Scientists who created mice with elements of the human immune system believe the rodents will further efforts to develop a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
UN reports progress against HIV in poor countries
A push to get more AIDS treatment to the world's poorest, hardest-hit countries is paying off as deaths inch down — and new infections are dropping a bit, too, the United Nations reported Wednesday.
Exercise caution in approving AIDS drug as preventive, say health workers
However, healthworkers are urging the Indian drug regulator to exercise caution in giving Truvada's new preventive application a green signal. A company needs to get a fresh marketing approval on an existing drug, if it plans to promote it for a new …
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First Drug Approved to Lower Risk of Acquiring HIV
TUESDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) is the first drug to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk of contracting HIV among adults at higher risk of acquiring the AIDS-causing virus.
UNAIDS welcomes US approval of drug to stop HIV
The UN agency tasked with fighting AIDS on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the United States to allow the use of an HIV prevention pill for the first time.
FDA approves first pill to help prevent HIV
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the first drug shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection, the latest milestone in the 30-year battle against the virus that causes AIDS.
US approves first-ever pill for HIV prevention
The first-ever daily pill to help prevent HIV infection was approved Monday by US regulators for use by healthy adults who are at risk for getting the virus that causes AIDS.
Hopes high as AIDS conference returns to US
A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope that new human immunodeficiency virus infections may some day be halted for good.