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Posted: March 30th, 2010, 11:00am CDT
In a landmark decision, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will now cover the use of FDA-approved dermal fillers for the treatment of HIV-associated facial lipoatrophy (LA), severely hollowed cheeks and changes to the face's appearance resulting from HIV treatments...
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Posted: March 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
The GAVI Alliance and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria "on Friday began an effort to raise as much as $24 billion from members of the Group of 20 nations that will test whether a major push begun a decade ago against infectious diseases can survive the global recession," the Wall Street Journal reports...
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Posted: March 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
During a meeting of lawmakers from 150 countries in Bangkok, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe on Sunday warned that the global economic crisis could reverse recent gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS, Reuters reports. An estimated 33.4 million people in the world are living with HIV/AIDS, the news service notes. "This is no time to stop...
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Posted: March 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
A safe, cheap and widely available antibiotic could save the lives of thousands of people starting anti-retroviral treatment for HIV in Africa and other developing countries. The findings come from a new analysis of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) Developing Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa (DART) trial...
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Posted: March 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
What makes some viral infections fatal and others much less severe is largely a mystery. It is thought that a part of the variability can be attributed to differences in how individuals respond to infection...