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Health Experts Express Concern About U.S. Funding For International AIDS Treatment
31 07 2010 Health experts at last week's International AIDS Conference in Vienna expressed anger and concern about future U.S. funding for HIV treatment in developing nations and the knowledge that due to funding constraints, some African nations already are turning away patients who need treatment, the Washington Post reports. According to the Post, current funding levels barely cover the 5.2 million people in developing nations who already are receiving treatment and leave little left over for an additional five million people who still need treatment. The U.S... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Postoperative Infections, HIV Deaths, and Copy-Years Viremia: ID and HIV Articles of the Month
31 07 2010 John Bartlett selects and reviews the top infectious disease and HIV articles. Medscape HIV/AIDS (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Beyond Cuts: High-Tech 'Band-Aids' Call Doctors
31 07 2010 A new generation of wireless medical sensors mounted on an adhesive strip can call a doctor and transmit key data when they detect a problem. But federal regulators, who want to make sure the technology is safe, have yet to iron out regulations for these devices.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)
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HAART Beneficial When CD4 Cell Counts Fall Below 500, But Not Above?
31 07 2010 The CASCADE trial shows that initiation of HIV treatment when CD4 cell counts drop below 500 cells/uL slows disease progression and reduces mortality; little benefit was seen with earlier treatment. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Terrence Higgins Trust Re-Launches Support Group For Gay Men With Hepatitis C And HIV, UK
31 07 2010 On Thursday 12 August, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be running another six week course for gay men who are living with HIV and Hepatitis C. The group will meet each week from 6.30 - 9.30pm in central London. The course looks at living with both HIV and Hepatitis C, but the primary focus will be on Hepatitis. Issues covered include dealing with the impact of diagnosis, the medical aspects of Hepatitis C, treatment, sex and disclosure and coping emotionally. The course will be run by someone with personal experience of HIV and Hepatitis C... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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AIDS 2010 Follow-Up Coverage: Global HIV/AIDS Funding; HIV/AIDS Studies, Releases
31 07 2010 Media outlets continued to reflect on news from the International AIDS Conference-AIDS 2010, which attracted over 19,000 participants from 197 countries to Vienna last week, according to the conference blog. The Washington Post reports that "concerns about [the] costs" of global HIV treatment programs "dominated the talk" of the conference. The newspaper notes that some HIV/AIDS advocates used the conference as an opportunity to voice their criticisms of the Obama administration, which "many ... say is reneging on a commitment to continue big annual increases in global AIDS spending... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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New 'armor' developed to avoid infection from AIDS virus
31 07 2010 (Elhuyar Fundazioa) The doors are closing on the AIDS virus. A study by the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas has developed a method of attack against the AIDS virus The method involves creating a prevention system, i.e. an "armor" in the cells that are likely to be infected and thus impede, de facto, the virus from accessing them and starting to act on their immunological system. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Vanishing bile duct syndrome secondary to anti-retroviral therapy in HIV
31 07 2010 (World Journal of Gastroenterology) Vanishing bile duct syndrome (VBDS) is an important cause of jaundice, and results from destruction of bile ducts in the liver. However, this syndrome is rare in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection. Nevirapine, an anti-retroviral that is being increasingly used, was implicated as the cause of VBDS in a patient described in a recent report. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Africa: Women, the Silent Bearers of HIV Burdens
31 07 2010 When it comes to HIV, silence suffocates the women of Sub-Saharan Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Kenya: Drug Users to Get Free Needles
31 07 2010 Drug users may get clean, free needles as part of a campaign to reduce new HIV infections. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Kenya: HIV-Positive Mothers Advised to Wean at Six Months
31 07 2010 A new study recommends that HIV-positive women practise exclusive breastfeeding for six months and then wean off abruptly. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Nigeria: New Rules for HIV-Aids in the Workplace
31 07 2010 The 18th International AIDS Conference was held from18 to 23 July, in Vienna, Austria. For the International Labour Organisation, it provided an opportunity to launch the implementation phase of the new international labour standard. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Intervention effort cuts HIV incidence among female sex workers
31 07 2010 (University of California - San Diego) A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego and Mexico has found that even a modest behavioral intervention program averaging just 35 minutes can measurably reduce the incidence of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in the US-Mexico border region -- and that the program succeeds at comparatively little expense. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
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Zimbabwe: Empowerment Deputy Minister Raises Eyebrows On HIV
31 07 2010 Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Deputy Minister Tongai Matutu has said more money should be channelled to people living with disability than to those living with HIV who may have contributed in getting the virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Protecting child 'witches' in Africa | Joachim Theis
31 07 2010 The persecution of children accused of witchcraft is a reaction to the insecurity of modern Africa. We must protect themBeliefs in witchcraft and other occult forces are widespread in Africa, as they are in many other parts of the world. Animist beliefs consider death, disease, crop failure and other disasters not as natural occurrences, but as the result of the activities of supernatural powers. Families commonly consult traditional healers who divine the cause of the calamity. In some cultures, spirits are held responsible, while in others, individuals are identified as witches and blamed for the misfortune. Usually old and marginalized persons are scapegoated, but in recent years there have been increased reports of children, even toddlers, being accused of witchcraft in parts of Africa...
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The SPIRAL Study: Switching to a Raltegravir-Based Regimen
31 07 2010 Paul E. Sax, MD, offers his opinion on a new clinical study that assesses moving patients with stable viral suppression to a regimen with raltegravir. Medscape HIV/AIDS (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Cameroon: Bonaberi - Man Flogged for Attempting Suicide
31 07 2010 Joshua's wife, just returning from the US, insisted on a joint HIV/AIDS test before sex. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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D.C. Health Dept. Pushes Female Condoms In HIV Outreach Initiative
31 07 2010 The Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of HIV in the city, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A 2009 study found that about 3% of the city's population over age 12 is HIV-positive. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an epidemic is "severe" when more than 1% of residents are living with the virus. Five community groups are promoting female condoms through outreach initiatives, which are funded in part by a $500,000 grant from the MAC AIDS Fund... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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South Africa: Gauteng Public Servants Intensify HIV Campaign
31 07 2010 In an effort to increase the number of people who know their HIV status, the Gauteng Health Department is running an HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) campaign for all public servants. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
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Africa: It's How You Spend the Money That Saves Lives
31 07 2010 Members of the African Union (AU) reaffirmed at the end of their meeting on 27 July in Kampala, Uganda, that they would strive to spend 15 percent of their national budgets on health, but at the end of the day it is about how "effectively and efficiently" you spend the money, not about how much. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Namibia: HIV/Aids Bicycle Project Bears Fruit
31 07 2010 The Walvis Bay Multi-Purpose Centre Trust last week donated pots, plates, stock for tuck shops and material for traditional attire to five groups. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
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Peer-Reviewed Journal Publishes Findings By Viral Genetics' Lead Scientist
29 07 2010 Research co-authored by Viral Genetics, Inc., (Pink Sheets: VRAL) lead scientist Dr. M. Karen Newell has been published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Leukocyte Biology (JLB). Newell's article identifies a potential mechanism that promotes chronic inflammation, a characteristic of most autoimmune diseases. Viral Genetics has been pursing treatments for Lyme Disease and HIV/AIDS. Articles published in the JLB undergo rigorous screening to ensure proof of concept as well as high research standards... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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HIV patient numbers increase among PCPs
29 07 2010 Primary care providers are increasingly caring for and treating people living with HIV, according to a recent survey by HealthHIV. (Source: Managed Healthcare Executive Magazine Online)
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Chimerix's CMX157 Shows Potential To Treat Multi-Drug-Resistant HIV And Improve The Activity And Toxicity Profile Of Tenofovir
29 07 2010 Chimerix, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company developing orally-available antiviral therapeutics, announced the publication of research results demonstrating the potential of CMX157 (hexadecyloxypropyl tenofovir) to effectively suppress replication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that cannot be treated with currently available nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), including tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Viread®), due to the development of multi-drug resistance... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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Nutra Pharma Receives Patent For Novel Antiviral Treatment Using Modified Cobra Venom
29 07 2010 Nutra Pharma Corporation (OTCBB: NPHC), a biotechnology company that is developing treatments for Adrenomyeloneuropathy (AMN), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Pain, announced that it has received approval from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its patent describing a method of treating and preventing infectious diseases, including colds, flu viruses, and bacterial and parasitic infections, using modified and detoxified cobra venom and neurotoxins... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
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