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UNC Awarded NIH Grant As Part Of Nationwide Effort To Seek, Test, And Treat Inmates With HIV
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill comprise one of 12 scientific teams in more than a dozen states that will receive National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants to study effective ways to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS among people in the criminal justice system... -
Access To HIV Medications For Pregnant Women, Poor Countries Increased In 2009, WHO Report Says
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
More than half of HIV-positive pregnant women in low-income countries received antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission in 2009, a significant increase from the 15% of infected pregnant women who received the drugs five years ago, according to a World Health Organization report issued on Tuesday, the AP/Washington Post reports (AP/Washington Post, 9/28)... -
U.N. Agencies' Report Examines Global Progress In Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
"A record 1.2 million people in low- and middle-income countries started antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS in 2009" - a 30 percent increase from the previous year and a 13-fold increase in six years, according to a joint report released Tuesday by the WHO, UNICEF and UNAIDS, Reuters reports. In total, the report found that 5... -
Opinions: U.S. Aid To Pakistan; MDGs; GHI And Global Fund
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
U.S. Aid Mostly 'Invisible To Pakistanis' "The U.S. military has been working hard to provide flood assistance, but most of that is invisible to Pakistanis," David Ignatius writes in a Washington Post opinion piece... -
Also In Global Health News: WHO Flu Response; Sanitation In Mozambique; Interfaith HIV/AIDS Summit; HIV/AIDS In Uganda; More
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
WHO Director-General Defends WHO's Response To H1N1 On Tuesday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan defended her agency's response to the H1N1 flu pandemic saying, "I personally do not believe that WHO exaggerated the threat," and that "[a] new disease is, by definition, poorly understood as it emerges," Reuters reports... -
Biojector(R)2000 Utilized In A Human Clinical Trial Of DNA-MVA HIV Vaccine
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
Bioject Medical Technologies Inc. (OTCBB:BJCT), a leading developer of needle-free injection therapy systems, announced that its unique Needle-Free Injection Therapy (NFIT) system, the Biojector® 2000, is being utilized in a study sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) which is part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH)... -
Research On Killer HIV Antibodies Provides Promising New Ideas For Vaccine Design
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
New discoveries about the immune defenses of rare HIV patients who produce antibodies that prevent infection suggest a novel direction for designing new vaccines. Researchers at Rockefeller University and colleagues have now made two fundamental discoveries about the so called broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies, which effectively keep the virus at bay... -
Human Clinical Trial Of DNA-MVA HIV Vaccine Candidate Begins
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
A Phase I study, called RV262, recently began to evaluate a combination DNA prime/MVA vector boost vaccine regimen that was developed to protect against diverse subtypes of HIV-1 prevalent in North America, Europe, Africa and South America. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the U.S... -
Sneaking Spies Into A Cell's Nucleus
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
Duke University bioengineers have not only figured out a way to sneak molecular spies through the walls of individual cells, they can now slip them into the command center -- or nucleus -- of those cells, where they can report back important information or drop off payloads... -
More Health Benefits From Starting HIV Treatment Early
Posted: September 30th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
HIV-infected individuals who begin antiretroviral therapy (ART) soon after acquiring the virus may have stronger immune responses to other pathogens than HIV-infected individuals who begin ART later, a new study from the National Institutes of Health has found... -
Also In Global Health News: Church On Contraceptives In Philippines; Russia's HIV Epidemic; Floods In Nigeria; Niger Cash Payment Program; More
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Catholic Church Critical Of Filipino President's Stance On Contraception Catholic Church representatives have criticized Filipino President Benigno Aquino's support for contraception, the Associated Press reports... -
HIV Detection: The Cost-effectiveness Of Routine Use Of Pooled Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Detection of acute HIV infection (the stage of disease immediately after HIV acquisition but before HIV antibodies are detectable) with pooled nucleic acid amplification testing (that detects the presence of HIV genetic material in the blood before antibodies are detectable) is feasible but not cost-effective in all settings... -
Amyloid Makes It Harder For HIV Viral Particles To Stick To Body's Cells
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Amyloid protein structures are best known for the troubles they pose in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Now researchers are trying to exploit their presence in a very different place - in semen - to find a new way to stop HIV... -
International AIDS Society Emphasizes Universal Access To HIV Prevention, Treatment And Care As A Prerequisite For Improving Maternal And Child Health
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
At the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDG) summit in New York this week, world leaders gathered to review progress on the eight goals agreed in 2000 on alleviating world poverty and ill-health by 2015. As the summit came to a close, governments, businesses and aid organisations made commitments totaling $40bn to reach the goals, with particular emphasis on improving maternal and child health... -
More Developing Countries Show Universal Access To HIV/AIDS Services Is Possible
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
Significant progress has been made in several low- and middle-income countries in increasing access to HIV/AIDS services, according to a new report released today... -
New WHO Report Shows Fight Against HIV/AIDS Depends On Fully-Financed Global Fund
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
Country contributions to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM)-to be announced at next week's donor replenishment meeting in New York-are expected to fall far short of the $20 billion needed for the Fund to maintain and expand its grant programs, the international medical humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today... -
To Improve TB Testing, Nanobiotechnology Experts Join Forces
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
Two UK companies have been awarded joint funding for a research project that could see significant advances in the quest to aid detection and eradication of Tuberculosis (TB), across the world. The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and Orla Protein Technologies (Orla) have been awarded £91,000 by the Technology Strategy Board to investigate improved methods for the detection of TB... -
Major Grant To Study HIV-Neutralizing Antibodies Won By IAVI-Led Team
Posted: September 29th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
A team of investigators headed by International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) Investigator Pascal Poignard has been awarded a major grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate the biological mechanisms underlying the generation of broadly neutralizing antibodies by HIV positive individuals... -
Global Universal Access To HIV/AIDS Services Attainable, But Not There Yet
Posted: September 28th, 2010, 12:00pm CDT
A significant number of low- and middle-income nations have made HIV/AIDS services more accessible, says a new report - Towards Universal Access - a joint effort by UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund), WHO (World Health Organization), and UNAIDS (United Nationion AIDS program). The target, however, was for universal access to HIV prevention, treatment and care by the end of 2010... -
MDG Summit: Funding The Global Fund; Arab World's 'Own Challenges'
Posted: September 28th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
BusinessDay reports that following last week's Millennium Development Goal (MDG) summit at the U.N. in New York, advocates "have called on rich nations to double their pledges to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria, saying it desperately needs more money if the world is to meet the health-related Millennium Development Goals by 2015... -
Opinions: U.S. Food Aid; MDGs; Contraceptive Access, Technology; U.S. AIDS Funding; Foreign Assistance Reform
Posted: September 28th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
Food Aid Hindered Progress Of Democracy In Africa "The best way to help the millions of hungry people in countries that receive food aid get rid of their corrupt and incompetent rulers - and to ensure that their children will never go hungry in future - is to starve them now... -
The Freezing Of A Virus Fragment In A Shape Recognized By The Immune System Has Implications For Vaccine Design
Posted: September 28th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
One approach to an HIV vaccine is to teach the immune system to recognize certain protein structures on the viral surface and produce antibodies that bind to those structures and neutralize HIV. A strategy for designing such a vaccine involves identifying the key viral surface structures, snipping them off and developing a method to present these fragments to the immune system... -
Probe Detects HIV Protease And Toxicity Of Drugs
Posted: September 28th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
A biomedical engineer at the University of Arkansas has developed a molecular probe that can simultaneously detect the presence of HIV-1 protease and toxicity levels of chemical compounds used to combat the deadly virus that causes AIDS. The probe can be used to investigate the efficacy and efficiency of HIV drugs, some of which are so toxic that many patients elect to stop treatment... -
Goals Of U.S. National AIDS Strategy Are Achievable, Says JAIDS Editorial
Posted: September 28th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
The first U.S. National AIDS Strategy "makes epidemiologic sense" and can meet its central goal of achieving a 25 percent reduction in the incidence of AIDS by 2015, according to an editorial in JAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes... -
HHS Announces $30 Million In New Resources To Support The National HIV/AIDS Strategy
Posted: September 27th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that CDC has allocated $30 million of the Affordable Care Act's Prevention and Public Health Fund to expand HIV prevention efforts under the President's National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). This includes $21.6 million in grants to state and local health departments... -
CDC: One In Five Gay Men HIV-Positive
Posted: September 27th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report Thursday that found one in five gay men is HIV-positive. The Associated Press: "One in five sexually active gay and bisexual men has the [HIV] virus, and nearly half of those don't know they are infected, a federal study of 21 U.S. cities shows. ... -
MDGs Summit Coverage Continues
Posted: September 27th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
Reuters AlertNet examines reactions by development experts and advocates to the U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which wrapped up Wednesday, after world leaders adopted a declaration that "promised intensified efforts by the 192 U.N. member states to achieve the eight goals by 2015... -
Recent Releases In Global Health
Posted: September 27th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
Several blogs, publications examine the U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) summit: The MDGs serve a dual purpose "helping the poor countries to fight poverty and the rich countries to preserve a sense of social solidarity," writes Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute in a post on the Guardian's "Poverty Matters Blog... -
19% Of Sexually Active Gay/Bisexual Men Are HIV Positive In Parts of US Cities
Posted: September 25th, 2010, 10:00am CDT
Almost one in every 5 sexually active gay/bisexual men, also known as MSM (men who have sex with men) is HIV positive, and 44% of them do not know they are infected, according to a CDC report - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) - published yesterday... -
Nonstick Coating Of A Protein Found In Semen Reduces HIV Infection
Posted: September 25th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
A non-stick coating for a substance found in semen dramatically lowers the rate of infection of immune cells by HIV a new study has found... -
African-Americans Face Kidney Disease-Related Disparities According To 2 New Studies
Posted: September 25th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
Among HIV-Infected Kidney Disease Patients, African Americans are More Likely to Develop Kidney Failure and Die Prematurely Because of improved antiretroviral therapies in recent years, HIV-infected individuals are living long enough to develop chronic conditions... -
Beatrice Hahn And George Shaw, Pioneers In HIV Research, To Join Penn Medicine
Posted: September 24th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Beatrice Hahn, MD and George Shaw, MD, will be joining the faculty of the Penn Center for AIDS Research in the School of Medicine in 2011. Both are international leaders in human and simian immunodeficiency virus research and have made groundbreaking contributions to this field for over two decades... -
Cytheris Initiates INSPIRE 3, A Phase II Clinical Trial Of Recombinant Human Interleukin-7 (CYT107) In Chronically Infected HIV Patients
Posted: September 23rd, 2010, 5:00am CDT
Cytheris SA, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on research and development of new therapies for immune modulation, announced that it has begun enrolling patients in INSPIRE 3, a Phase II clinical program evaluating the effect of repeated cycles of the company's investigative immune-modulator, recombinant human Interleukin-7 (CYT107), in the treatment of chronic... -
News From Annals Of Internal Medicine - Tip Sheet For September 21, 2010, Issue
Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 3:00am CDT
1. Current Stool DNA Tests Not Effective, Cost-Effective for Colorectal Cancer Screening Questions about test accuracy and cost make the role of a stool DNA test screening for colorectal cancer uncertain... -
Russian Activists Risk Arrest Highlighting Denial Of HIV Treatment
Posted: September 22nd, 2010, 3:00am CDT
A group of Russian AIDS activists are charging that the Russian Ministry of Health is denying that there are drug stock-outs that prevent patients from starting or continuing treatment. "In this situation, people with HIV face a choice: to die quietly at home or try to attract the attention of the government and the media," said Alexey Yaskovich, a Russian activist from Novgorod... -
Inovio Completes Enrollment Of HIV Clinical Trial For DNA Vaccine Delivered Using Electroporation
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced the Phase I clinical study assessing Inovio's PENNVAX™-B DNA vaccine delivered using its proprietary electroporation technology in a preventive setting has fully completed the enrollment of 48 healthy volunteers... -
N.Y. Governor Vetoes More Rent Relief For HIV/AIDS Patients
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Gov. David A. Paterson, D-N.Y., has vetoed a bill to provide increased rent relief for more than 11,000 New Yorkers with HIV and AIDS. Paterson's office announced the veto on Sunday, "saying the proposed law would strain the state's already imperiled finances because it was not clear where the money to pay for it would come from," The New York Times reports. "Mr... -
Final Results Of Largest Ever HIV Microbicide Trial Revealed
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Results from the largest international clinical trial to date into a preventative HIV gel are published in the Lancet. The trial found that, although safe, there was no evidence that the vaginal microbicide PRO 2000 reduces the risk of HIV infection in women. The trial was part-funded and sponsored by the Medical Research Council (MRC)... -
U.N. MDG Summit Begins; UNAIDS Data Shows 22 African Countries See Drop In New HIV Infections
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 6:00am CDT
"Ten years after world leaders set the most ambitious goals ever to tackle global poverty, they are meeting again to try to spur action to meet the targets by the 2015 deadline - which the U.N. says will be difficult, if not impossible, in some cases," the Associated Press reports. More than 140 world leaders are scheduled to participate in the three-day U.N... -
The GRACE Study Has Significant Implications For Inclusion Of Women In Clinical Trials
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Data from the GRACE (Gender, Race And Clinical Experience) study will be published in the September 21st issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine. GRACE is the largest-ever study of treatment-experienced adult women with HIV-1 to examine gender differences in response to HIV therapy... -
HIV Treatment Response Similar In Men And Women
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 4:00am CDT
A new landmark study, which demonstrated it is possible to recruit large numbers of women into a clinical trial evaluating treatments for HIV infection, found no significant gender-based differences in response to the anti-HIV drugs darunavir and ritonavir at least among those who remained in the trial to the end... -
Lack Of Funding Undercuts Opportunities To Overcome Global Health Threats
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 3:00am CDT
World leaders assessing progress of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in New York this week could transform the fight against two of the leading causes of childhood deaths-malnutrition and HIV/AIDS-by implementing an innovative funding mechanism for global health, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Fro... -
THT Cymru Asks People Living With HIV In Wales: What Do You Want?
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 3:00am CDT
HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust Cymru (THT Cymru) is asking people living with HIV across Wales to give their views on how local HIV services could be improved, with the aim of using this feedback to redesign these services... -
Proposal By WHO To Eliminate AIDS In South Africa Is Flawed, Model Shows
Posted: September 21st, 2010, 2:00am CDT
In 2008, Reuben Granich and his colleagues at the World Health Organization published a paper in the medical journal The Lancet that proposed a new strategy for combating HIV in South Africa, a country staggered by the virus, with as much as 18 percent of the population estimated to be infected. Based on a mathematical model, the study suggested a "test-and-treat" strategy... -
PRO2000 Vaginal Gel And HIV-1 IN Africa; Does It Work?
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 12:00pm CDT
It was once thought that PRO200 vaginal gel was effective in harnessing HIV-1 transmission. However recent detailed studies published Online First at www.thelancet.com prove otherwise that this gel does not actually have an effect amongst women in Africa. On Feb 14, 2008, use was stopped on the recommendation of the Independent Data Monitoring Committee because of lack of proven successes... -
Also In Global Health News: Food Security In Africa's Sahel Region; Jailed TB Patients In Kenya; Pneumococcal Vaccination Efforts; HIV/AIDS In China
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Rain In Chad Could Ease Food Shortages, Famine Threat To Sahel Region Subsiding "Abundant rains in Chad have raised hopes for an end to severe food shortages but the effects will linger and lead to new difficulties across Africa's Sahel region in 2011, aid workers predict," Reuters reports... -
Circumcision Of Infant Males Prevents Heterosexual HIV Transmission, Australia
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Male circumcision is one of the most powerful interventions that is currently available in the fight against HIV, according to an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia... -
Research Roundup: Assessing Physician Quality; Community Health Centers' Future; Why Doctors Take Gifts; Access To HIV Treatment
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
Archives of Internal Medicine: Associations Between Physician Characteristics And Quality Of Care - Since "most patients do not have access to physician quality measures," they are often encouraged to use public information such as malpractice claims and board certification status to chose a doctor, according to this report that used 2004-2005 insurance claims from about 10,000... -
Videos Discuss GOP Senate Nominee O'Donnell's Views On Abstinence, HIV/AIDS
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
The following summarizes selected women's health-related videos. Videos Surface of GOP Candidate O'Donnell: MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" uncovered videos this week that feature tea party-backed primary victor Christine O'Donnell discussing abstinence for a 1990s MTV special. In the video, O'Donnell -- who defeated Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del... -
Rutgers Researchers Discover How HIV Resists AZT
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
Rutgers researchers have discovered how HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, resists AZT, a drug widely used to treat AIDS. The scientists, who report their findings in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, believe their discovery helps researchers understand how important anti-AIDS treatments can fail and could help AIDS researchers develop more effective treatment for the disease... -
Microbicide Films For HIV Prevention To Be Developed By Pitt
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
With the support of an $11.8 million, five-year federal grant, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and their collaborators are developing a quick-dissolving vaginal film containing a powerful drug that reduces the risk of HIV infection, and they plan to begin testing it locally within a year... -
Discovery Of Ancient Roots For SIV
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
The HIV-like virus that infects monkeys is thousands of years older than previously thought, according to a new study led by researchers from Tulane University... -
The 'ProteOn' XPR36 Giveaway Program' Names A Winner
Posted: September 20th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. and Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN) have announced that Simon Cocklin, Ph.D., a scientist at the Drexel University College of Medicine, has won a ProteOn™ XPR36 protein interaction array system from Bio-Rad in the ProteOn XPR36 Giveaway Program, a recent scientific research proposal competition... -
Tacoma, Colorado Springs And Salt Lake City Have The Highest Percentage Of HIV Patients In The U.S. Who Are Left Untreated
Posted: September 18th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
HealthLeaders-InterStudy, a leading provider of managed care market intelligence, estimates that Tacoma, WA; Colorado Springs, CO and Salt Lake City, UT have the highest percentage of HIV patients who are left untreated... -
Dramatic Drop In HIV Infections In Sub-Saharan Africa
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 3:00pm CDT
Over twenty of the most badly affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa have reported reductions in HIV infection rates of over 25% between 2001 and 2009, according to a new report issued by UNAIDS. Countries such as Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Zimbabwe, Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia and Ethiopia are making considerable headway, the report writes... -
Lillian Greenwood MP To Visit HIV And Sexual Health Centre In Nottingham
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
MP for Nottingham South, Lillian Greenwood, will be visiting HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust's (THT) Nottingham centre on Monday 20 September at 10.30am. During her visit, Lillian will meet staff and local service users to find out first hand about the issues facing people in the region when it comes to HIV and sexual health... -
Also In Global Health News: Food Security In Africa's Sahel Region; Jailed TB Patients In Kenya; Pneumococcal Vaccination Efforts; HIV/AIDS In China
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Rain In Chad Could Ease Food Shortages, Famine Threat To Sahel Region Subsiding "Abundant rains in Chad have raised hopes for an end to severe food shortages but the effects will linger and lead to new difficulties across Africa's Sahel region in 2011, aid workers predict," Reuters reports... -
Salon Column Examines Reasons For Unsafe Sex Among Older Adults
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
It is "impossible to ignore" the "dramatic spike" in sexually transmitted infections among adults ages 45 and older, "a demographic we tend to refer to as 'mature,'" author and Salon staff writer Mary Elizabeth Williams writes in column... -
Videos Discuss GOP Senate Nominee O'Donnell's Views On Abstinence, HIV/AIDS
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
The following summarizes selected women's health-related videos. Videos Surface of GOP Candidate O'Donnell: MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" uncovered videos this week that feature tea party-backed primary victor Christine O'Donnell discussing abstinence for a 1990s MTV special. In the video, O'Donnell -- who defeated Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del... -
Terrence Higgins Trust To Run New HIV Awareness Course In Manchester
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) will be launching a new City & Guilds course in understanding HIV and AIDS in Manchester. The qualification, a Level 2 Award in Understanding HIV and AIDS VRQ, is designed for people who are interested in HIV and AIDS or working in a role where knowledge of the issue would be beneficial to their work... -
HIV-1 Patients With An Undetectable Viral Load Can Switch To VIRAMUNE(R) Regardless Of Their CD4 Count
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
Boehringer Ingelheim announced that the European Commission has approved an update to the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) for VIRAMUNE® (nevirapine) in the treatment of patients with HIV. "Prescribing physicians will now no longer have to apply the CD4 count threshold when switching patients to a lipid-friendly regimen containing Viramune®... -
People With HIV To Get Revolutionary New Services To Manage Health And Wellbeing Long Term, UK
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
An innovative voluntary sector partnership is developing new HIV services to transform the way people manage HIV as a long-term condition. The services are being developed with people with HIV, and will be tailored to individuals' specific needs, personal circumstances and stage of diagnosis... -
UNAIDS Welcomes New South Wales Government's Plan To Make Injecting Room Permanent
Posted: September 17th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes the plan by the New South Wales State Government in Australia to grant the Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Sydney's Kings Cross a permanent licence. UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé visited the centre last month during an official trip to Australia... -
CDC Awards $6.2 Million For Integration Of Health Services
Posted: September 16th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it will award a total of $6.2 million over the next three years to health departments in six areas to combine and streamline health services for diseases with similar characteristics, such as HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), viral hepatitis and tuberculosis... -
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Enters Into License Agreement With Pfizer For The Development Of New Anti-HIV Drugs
Posted: September 16th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U.Leuven, Belgium) announced today that on July 29th, 2010 they entered into a license agreement with Pfizer. The license agreement grants Pfizer exclusive and sublicenseable worldwide rights to further develop and commercialise K.U... -
Also In Global Health News: New U.N. Drug Czar; Measles Vaccinations In China; Pakistan Flood Endangers Pregnant Women; Campaign Against Rape In Haiti
Posted: September 15th, 2010, 8:00am CDT
New U.N. Drug Czar Pledges Public Health, Human Rights Focus The new head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, Yury Fedotov, took office on Monday and "pledged to focus on public health and human rights," the Associated Press reports... -
Researcher Receives National Award Of Excellence In Research On Drug Abuse
Posted: September 15th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The National Hispanic Science Network on Drug Abuse awarded the National Award of Excellence in Research by a New Investigator to Alice Cepeda, sociology professor and associate director of the Center for Drug and Social Policy Research, Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston. Cepeda will be honored Sept. 30 at the organization's annual conference in New Orleans... -
New Sperm-freezing Technique Dramatically Improves Viability Of Frozen Sperm, And May Allow Safe Use Of Sperm From HIV+ Men
Posted: September 15th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
A new technique for freezing sperm can dramatically increase the viability of frozen sperm. In addition, as the technique does not involve the freezing of seminal plasma, it holds out the possibility of allowing sperm from HIV+ men to be used without the danger of transmitting the virus... -
Supervised Injection Facilities Found To Help People Quit Drugs In First-Of-Its-Kind Study
Posted: September 15th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
A study led by researchers at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) at St. Paul's Hospital and the University of British Columbia has found that supervised injection facilities such as Vancouver's Insite connect clients with addiction treatment, which in turn resulted in greater likelihood of stopping injection drug use for at least six months... -
Latent HIV Infection Focus Of NIDA's 2010 Avant-Garde Award
Posted: September 14th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, announced today that Dr. Eric M. Verdin of the J. David Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, Calif., has been selected as the 2010 recipient of the NIDA Avant-Garde Award for HIV/AIDS Research for his proposal to study the mechanisms of latent HIV infection... -
AIDS Advocates Call For African Governments To Spend More Of Their Own Funds On Health
Posted: September 14th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
"Doctors and AIDS activists on Friday urged African governments to fulfill a decade-old pledge to spend more of their own money on health if they want international help in fighting AIDS," the Associated Press reports... -
Sexual Health Specialists Support FPA Campaign On STIs In The Over 50s, UK
Posted: September 14th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Specialists who run the UK's sexual health clinics strongly support the FPA's campaign to raise awareness of increasing STI risk in the over 50s... -
Also In Global Health News: Health Workers In Zimbabwe; Boston Globe Examines Aid; Foreign Doctors In Haiti; Dengue In New Delhi; HIV Drug Resistance
Posted: September 14th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
American Health Workers Now Await Trial In Zimbabwe Today, a Zimbabwean court released on bail four American citizens who were jailed and accused of dispensing AIDS drugs without proper licenses last week, the Associated Press reports... -
Four American Health Care Professionals Freed On Bail In Zimbabwe
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 9:00am CDT
Four American health care professionals, consisting of doctors and nurses, have been freed on bail by a Zimbabwean court. They had been arrested last week for not having the right medical licenses and dispensing medications without proper supervision and authorization. They had to pay $200 bail and are to appear in court on September 27th... -
Accord Reached On Draft Declaration For MDG Summit
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
"World powers have reached an accord, after weeks of tough talks, on a document to be adopted at a Millennium Development summit this month for which [U.N... -
Recent Releases In Global Health
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
Lancet Comment: Make Pain Treatment, Palliative Care Available To End 'Suffering Of Millions' "The undertreatment of pain caused by cancer and other conditions is a global health tragedy," write the authors of a Lancet Comment. Noting a resolution adopted by the U.N... -
ViiV Healthcare Awards Southern Initiative Grants To Reduce HIV Disparities Among African Americans And Latinos
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
ViiV Healthcare announced the grant awardees of the Positive Action Southern Initiative, focused on supporting African American and Latino populations in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi to help high-risk HIV/AIDS individuals and provide linkages to HIV/AIDS care and treatment adherence... -
Award For Biomedical Research Recognizes Drs. Erik De Clercq And Anthony S. Fauci For Pioneering Work In Understanding And Combating HIV/AIDS
Posted: September 13th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
Johnson & Johnson have announced that Erik De Clercq, M.D., Professor Emeritus, Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium, and Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, have been named the recipients of the 2010 Dr... -
Five American Health Care Professionals Arrested In Zimbabwe
Posted: September 12th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
Five Americans, two of them doctors, two nurses and an organizer who worked with AIDS patients and orphans in Zimbabwe have been arrested for not having appropriate medical licenses, according to their attorney, Jonathan Samukange... -
Terrence Higgins Trust Launches Dedicated Support Group For Gay Men Recently Diagnosed With HIV In Brighton, UK
Posted: September 10th, 2010, 8:00am CDT
Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is launching a new six week support programme for gay and bisexual men in Brighton who have recently been diagnosed with HIV. 'What Next?' is free to attend and will take place every Thursday evening from 6.30pm at a central venue in Brighton town centre... -
Also In Global Health News: Revaccinating HIV-Positive Children; Embezzled Aid In Mali; HIV In India; Mobile Phone Aid; Polio In Central Africa; More
Posted: September 10th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
HIV-Positive Children On HAART May Need Revaccination HIV-positive children on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) "may need to be revaccinated to maintain their immunity against preventable childhood diseases," according to researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, HealthDay/BusinessWeek reports... -
AHF Lauds US Commitment To Fund AIDS Treatment For 72,000 Additional Ugandans
Posted: September 10th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global AIDS organization, which currently cares for over 49,000 AIDS patients in Uganda through its Uganda CARES network of eleven treatment clinics throughout the country, lauded the United States government for increasing its funding commitment in Uganda for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the United State... -
Opinions: U.S. Commitment To Global Fund; Innovative Financing; Global Food Security; Aid For Pakistan
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
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Also In Global Health News: Mass Rape In Congo; Malaria Research At Walter Reed; Nevirapine For Infants; Aid To Pakistan Improved Trust; More
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 7:00am CDT
U.N. Now Estimates 500 Raped In Congo "Approximately 500 women were raped in eastern Congo in July and August," U.N. officials said Tuesday, revising an earlier report of 242 victims, according to the New York Times... -
AIDS Programs Reach Out To African Immigrant Community
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
The Seattle Times reports on educating people about AIDS in the African immigrant community in Seattle. "For African immigrants, who come from countries with high rates of HIV and AIDS, talking about their own diagnosis is often taboo... -
Team Of Scientists Issues HIV Vaccine Strategy
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
The Council of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise on Tuesday released a new strategy for HIV vaccine research, which marked "the culmination of an 18-month effort that included the input of 400 scientists worldwide," VOA News reports (DeCapua, 9/7). The strategy, published as a Commentary (... -
Education More Important Than Knowledge In Stopping Spread Of HIV In Africa
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
Simply teaching people the facts about how to protect themselves from HIV may not be enough to prevent the spread of AIDS in Africa, a new study suggests. Researchers found that villagers in Ghana who had higher levels of cognitive and decision-making abilities - not just the most knowledge -- were the ones who were most likely to take steps to protect themselves from HIV infection... -
Novel Sensing Mechanism Discovered In Dendritic Cells To Increase Immune Response To HIV
Posted: September 9th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
Dendritic cells are the grand sentinels of the immune system, standing guard 24/7 to detect foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria, and bring news of the invasion to other immune cells to marshal an attack. These sentinels, however, nearly always fail to respond adequately to HIV, the virus causing AIDS... -
Experts Gathered For UNAIDS, WHO Meeting Recommend Follow-Up Studies Of ARV-Containing Microbicide Gel Start Soon
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Experts gathered at a joint meeting of UNAIDS and the WHO last week called for two additional clinical trials to test the effectiveness and safety of a microbicide vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral tenofovir, which previous studies have shown reduces the risk of HIV transmission in women who used it before and after sex by 39 percent, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (9/5)... -
Funding Roadblocks Stall Progress On Vaginal Microbicide To Fight HIV
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 5:00am CDT
Donors have not committed enough money to move forward with two studies needed to confirm the efficacy of a vaginal microbicidal gel infused with the antiviral drug tenofovir to prevent HIV transmission in women, the New York Times reports... -
Switching To Nevirapine May Be Beneficial For Some HIV-Infected Children Who Have Achieved Viral Suppression
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
HIV-infected children in South Africa who were exposed to the drug nevirapine at birth (used to help prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission) and then received a protease inhibitor (PI) for viral suppression achieved lower rates of viremia (virus in the blood stream) if they were switched to nevirapine, compared to children who continued on the PI-based regimen, according to a... -
Also In Global Health News: India's Antibiotic Use; Abstinence Curriculum In China; Child, Maternal Health In India; Plumpy'nut; PEPFAR Funds - Uganda
Posted: September 8th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
India To Review Antibiotic Use; Japan Detects Resistant Gene Originally Found In South Asia "The health ministry has formed a committee to frame a policy for antibiotic use, following an uproar over a Lancet study that traced a drug-resistant bacterial superbug's origins to India," LiveMint.com reports... -
Are White Homosexual Men Still Taking Too Many HIV Risks?
Posted: September 7th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
Risky sexual behavior among members of a subset of the gay community is still adding to the spread of HIV. Research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has found that young white homosexual men have an important contribution in the local spread of HIV... -
Road-Map Agreed For Confirmatory Trials Of Promising Microbicide
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Two further clinical trials are planned to confirm a vaginal gel which has shown potential in reducing the risk of HIV. The results of the first trial of the gel, which were announced in July at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, must be confirmed before the product can be made available for general use... -
Recent Releases In Global Health
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
Lancet Editorial Makes Recommendations For Health-System Strengthening "There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries," write the authors of a Lancet Comment... -
The International AIDS Society Calls For An End To Harassment, Intimidation And Imprisonment Of HIV Professionals
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
Following the imprisonment of Maxim Popov in April 2010, sentenced to 7 years jail primarily for the promotion of HIV prevention efforts in Uzbekistan, the International AIDS Society (IAS) notes with alarm the detention of a medial practitioner working in HIV prevention in Ukraine. Dr... -
State News: Ohio, Florida Take Advantage Of Federal Health Funds; Mass. Psychiatrists Win Court Case
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
The Columbus Dispatch: "Gov. Ted Strickland's administration announced today that nearly $200 million in recently freed up state funds will go to Ohio hospitals, community mental health services, and a program which provides medication to low-income residents with HIV/AIDS. ... -
VOA News Examines U.S. Global Health Initiative
Posted: September 6th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
VOA News examines President Barack Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), noting the initiative's emphasis on cost-effective strategies to improve child- and maternal-health as well as programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria... -
Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Seeks European Marketing Authorization For Investigational Once-Daily HIV Treatment TMC278
Posted: September 5th, 2010, 3:00am CDT
Tibotec Pharmaceuticals announced its submission of a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for TMC278 (rilpivirine, as hydrochloride), an investigational non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) for the treatment of HIV... -
Gilead Sciences Submits European Marketing Application For Once-Daily Single-Tablet Regimen Of Truvada® And TMC278 For The Treatment Of HIV Infect
Posted: September 5th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
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AVAC Calls For Speedy Funding Of Critical Microbicide Follow-Up Studies
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 4:00am CDT
AVAC issues a call to action to donors, policy-makers, researchers and advocates to ensure that critical follow-up studies to the landmark CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial receive the economic and political support needed to move forward as quickly as possible... -
A Scientific Breakthrough On How HIV Takes Control Of Cell Division
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 2:00am CDT
Dr. Eric A. Cohen, Director of the Human Retrovirology research unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), and his team published yesterday, in the online open-access journal PLos Pathogens, the results of their most recent research on the role of the Vpr protein in HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and AIDS (acquired autoimmune deficiency syndrome)... -
Commitments To Global HIV/AIDS Programs Falter For 'First Time In 15 Years,' UNAIDS Chief Says
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 8:00am CDT
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe "said Thursday that global contributions to fighting [HIV/AIDS] are dropping off for the first time in 15 years amid tough economic times," Agence France-Presse reports. "The world economic recession is pushing countries ... -
Are HERVs An Answer To AIDS Mysteries?
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Why is it so hard to isolate and purify human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)? Why has no one been able to see, by electron microscopy, a single HIV particle in the blood of AIDS patients, even those who have a "high viral load"? Why does HIV seem to mutate with startling rapidity? AIDS researchers have not been able to come up with answers to these questions... -
Research At GHESKIO Leads To Update In WHO Guidelines For HIV Treatment
Posted: September 3rd, 2010, 6:00am CDT
Prompted by clinical research into the early initiation of antiretroviral therapies for HIV performed at the GHESKIO clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the World Health Organization (WHO) has revised its treatment protocols for HIV patients... -
Cheap And Accurate Tuberculosis Test Gives Results In Under Two Hours
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 6:00pm CDT
A tuberculosis test, called Xpert® MTB/RIF, can successfully identify 98% of all culture-confirmed TB cases, including more than 90% of those with smear-negative disease, a study published in NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) reveals... -
Also In Global Health News: China's First HIV Discrimination Case; Congo Mass Rape; S. Sudan Flooding; Kenya's Population Growth; Family Planning
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Court Accepts China's First HIV Discrimination Case, State Media Reports "A municipal court in central China has accepted the country's first lawsuit alleging work discrimination because of HIV status, state media reported Tuesday," the Associated Press reports (8/31)... -
Revaccination Could Benefit HIV-Infected Children
Posted: September 2nd, 2010, 2:00am CDT
HIV-infected children receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may require revaccination to maintain immunity against preventable diseases. There remains no standard or official recommendation on revaccination of children receiving HAART, an effective intervention in reducing morbidity and mortality in HIV-infected children... -
After Needle Accidents, Hospitals Face Legal Dilemma If They Test Incapacitated Patients
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 7:00am CDT
Anaesthetists are calling for greater clarity on the legal implications of testing incapacitated patients for blood-borne viruses, after a survey found that this is often done following staff needlestick injuries, in possible breach of UK legislation... -
U.N. Secretary-General, UNAIDS Executive Director Highlight Role NGOs Can Play In Achieving MDGs
Posted: September 1st, 2010, 6:00am CDT
During the 63rd U.N. Department of Public Information/NGO Conference on Monday in Melbourne, Australia, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon "call[ed] on delegates to do more to save the lives of mothers and babies," the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Herald reports (Alexander/Rose, 8/30)...