HIV/AIDS News

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Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail ; Compliance ; Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Article Date: 07 Nov 2009 - 0:00 PST UCSF HIV researchers have received two NIH grants of $1 million each to study the use of web-based, patient controlled personal health records to improve health and HIV prevention outcomes for ...

All public schools in the United Kingdom will be required to teach comprehensive sex education that includes HIV/AIDS and same-sex relationships, announced U.K. officials on November 5, reports Pink News .

Kimpton's new EPIC hotel is celebrating the 25th anniversary of White Party Week in Miami, the world's oldest and largest HIV/AIDS fundraiser, with special hotel rates and a donation from each room booked going to Care Resource, South Florida's oldest and largest HIV/AIDS service organization serving clients in both Miami-Dade and Broward Counties.

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: Regulatory Affairs / Drug Approvals Article Date: 06 Nov 2009 Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a labeling update for REYATAZ to include long-term data from the CASTLE Study.

Swaziland not only has the world's highest HIV prevalence rate, it now also has the highest tuberculosis rate, but health officials warn that not enough is being done to integrate TB and HIV services.

During a press conference on Thursday, Medecins Sans Frontieres warned that the "global economic crisis and calls to commit funds to other health crises" threatened to undermine recent gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Associated Press reports.

Their findings, published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , could lead to novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases.

Sitting in her office on 6th and Market street, Courtney Mulhern-Pearson shakes her head sadly as a Blue Angel screams by.

See here . We're discussing Denialism , which I recommended earlier. I start of the dialogue with Michael Specter like this: Hi Michael, First, let me say it has been a pleasure to read Denialism , a book I've wanted to dig into ever since you came to speak about it to our Knight Science Journalism Fellows seminar at MIT.

LIMBE, Malawi, Nov 4 - Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe.

On a recent Wednesday evening, Gillian Otsile, a volunteer at a local NGO, Men Sex and AIDS, approached a group of young men drinking cartons of traditional sorghum beer at a tavern in Selebi-Phikwe, a mining town in northeastern Botswana.

More people are HIV positive in South Africa than in any other country in the world.

Cutting funding for HIV/Aids treatment would condemn millions of poor people to death, international medical NGO Medicins sans Frontieres said on Thursday, amid signs of Western governments starting to backtrack on their commitments.

For the first time, emergency room services meeting international standards will be a part Tanzania's public health system, thanks to the opening of a new Emergency Medical Department building and extensive training being conducted at Muhimbili National Hospital.

The drug industry's response to the HIV epidemic is widely viewed as a story of sterling R&D success.

The chip-based test allows doctors to detect pathogens in blood in minutes. A new chip-based mobile blood test allows doctors in the field to detect pathogens in blood within minutes, no longer necessitating time-consuming lab results, according to a team of German researchers working together with Egyptian experts.

A petition calling for a stop to federal funding of the International Planned Parenthood Federation has been launched by Saskatoon-Humboldt MP Brad Trost.

President Barack Obama speaks before signing the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 on October 30, 2009 in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

The pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer announced today that the joint venture created by the merger of their HIV divisions is called ViiV Healthcare.