With the latest advances in treatment, doctors have discovered that they can successfully neutralise the HIV virus. The so-called ‘combination therapy’ prevents the HIV virus from mutating and spreading, allowing patients to rebuild their immune system to the same levels as the rest of the population.
To date, it represents the most significant treatment for patients [...]
Archive for the ‘HIV & AIDs’ Category
Researchers Knock Out HIV
Posted in HIV & AIDs, Medical News on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Question formula-feeding by AIDS moms
Posted in HIV & AIDs, Medical News on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
NKANGE, Botswana, July 23 (UPI) — Efforts to prevent mothers in Botswana from passing AIDS to their nursing infants have apparently backfired, resulting in hundreds of deaths from diarrhea.
A growing body of research indicated that urging mothers with HIV to use formula has left infants without the crucial antibodies breast milk supplies, The Washington Post [...]
Clues To Future Evolution Of HIV Come From African Green Monkeys
Posted in HIV & AIDs on July 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Monkey viruses related to HIV may have swept across Africa more recently than previously thought, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
A new family tree for African green monkeys shows that an HIV-like virus, simian immunodeficiency virus, or SIV, first infected those monkeys after the lineage split into four species. The [...]
Anti-HIV Strategy Backfires in Botswana
Posted in HIV & AIDs, Health Article, Medical News on February 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
By Jon Cohen
ScienceNOW Daily News
26 February 2007
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA–A tragic outcome of an HIV intervention meant to prevent transmission from infected mothers to their children is triggering yet another examination of breast-feeding recommendations. As part of public policy, Botswana advises that all HIV-infected women use infant formula to avoid transmitting the virus to their babies [...]
Circumcision cuts HIV infection
Posted in HIV & AIDs on February 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (UPI) — Circumcision significantly reduces the risk of acquiring HIV in young African men, a study from the University of Chicago found.
Researchers followed 2,784 young men from Kisumu, Kenya, circumcising half of them. Forty-seven of the 1,391 uncircumcised men contracted HIV, compared to 22 of the 1,393 uncircumcised men.
“Our study shows that [...]
Circumcision cuts HIV infection
Posted in HIV & AIDs, Health Article, Medical News on February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
CHICAGO, Feb. 23 (UPI) — Circumcision significantly reduces the risk of acquiring HIV in young African men, a study from the University of Chicago found.
Researchers followed 2,784 young men from Kisumu, Kenya, circumcising half of them. Forty-seven of the 1,391 uncircumcised men contracted HIV, compared to 22 of the 1,393 uncircumcised men.
“Our study shows that [...]
Herpes Treatment Helps Infected Women Also Fight HIV
Posted in HIV & AIDs on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Levels of HIV come down in HIV-positive women who are also infected with herpes simplex and are being treated for it with the antiviral drug valacyclovir.
These are the findings of a study published in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
The research was conducted in Burkina-Faso in Africa and took the form of a randomized, double-blind [...]
Studies: Circumcision reduces HIV risk
Posted in HIV & AIDs on February 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
LONDON – Scientists say conclusive data shows there is no question circumcision reduces men’s chances of catching HIV by up to 60 percent — a finding experts are hailing as a major breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. The question now [...]
Canada announces AIDS vaccine effort
Posted in HIV & AIDs, Medical News on February 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
HIV attacks the first line of defence
Posted in HIV & AIDs, Medical News on February 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Researchers have developed a better understanding of how the HIV virus enters the female body during sex. The discovery could help to protect women and girls, who are more vulnerable than men to transmission of the virus during vaginal sex.
HIV attacks two types of cells in the skin of the human vagina, the US-based research [...]
HIV &AIDs,Special report(newscientist)
Posted in HIV & AIDs, Medical News on February 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
AIDS has now surpassed the Black Death on its course to become the worst pandemic in human history. At the end of 2004, 20 million people had been killed by it, and twice that number are currently infected with HIV. Barring a medical breakthrough, it could claim the lives of some 60 million people by [...]
