Even older women at high risk have little interest in being tested for HIV, study finds
... Older people largely have been overlooked in HIV prevention and testing programs, and consistently have lower HIV testing rates as compared with younger adults, said Aletha Akers, M.D., M.P.H., assistant profes...U of M researchers discover new method to combat HIV
... ... The researchers named the new...Should adult male circumcision be recommended for HIV prevention in the US?
Three clinical trials in Africa found that adult male circumcision reduced the risk of men acquiring HIV infection from heterosexual sex by 51-60%. ...While adult male circumcision may also have a role to play in preventing HIV transmission in the US, say scientists at the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in a paper in PLoS Medicine, "the extent of this role on a population basis is unknown....Study finds HIV protease inhibitor drugs may adversely affect the scaffolding of the cell nucleus
... Published in the July 16 early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these biochemical findings may offer insights into the side effects of HIV protease inhibitors, including metabolic syndrome and regional losses of some of the bodys fat tissue. These side effects occur in up to one-third of patients taking anti-HIV...Scaling up HIV prevention programs is cost effective
... Proven prevention methods need to be scaled up rapidly, says Elliot Marseille, the project director and lead author of the report. Therefore, the fact that costs tend to g...New study to address HIV-related deaths in Downtown Eastside
More than $750K will go to a new study addressing barriers to injection drug users (IDUs) accessing essential HIV or hepatitis C medical care, the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS formally announced today....... The five-year study is funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The funding announcement follows a recent grant from the U.S. Department of Health to monit...HIV risks reduced when mothers teach daughters about disease
Low-income African American teen girls in Chicago continue to be at high risk for contracting HIV, but the risk decreases when their mothers teach them about the dangers of the disease, according to a new study at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ...... "African American adolescents are more likely to delay early initiation of sexual activities if monitored by their mothers," said Barbara D...Review shows male circumcision protects female partners from HIV and other STDs
A statistical review of the past medical files of more than 300 couples in Uganda, in which the female partner was HIV negative and the male was HIV positive, provides solid documentation of the protective effects of male circumcision in reducing the risk of infection among women. Male circumcision also reduced rates of trichomonas and bacterial vaginosis in female partners. The study is believ...Treatment outcomes of patients with HIV and tuberculosis
... ... <p...When HIV and liver disease co-exist
Since successful antiretroviral therapies have made HIV a treatable condition, more HIV patients who are also infected with hepatitis B or C are experiencing the progression of their liver disease. In the face of this novel challenge, experts in the field convened to share information and opinions on the management of such patients. The conference discussions are summarized in June issue of Hepa...Study: Directly observed HIV therapy for children is promising
.. ... The study was conducted in collaboration with Maryknoll, the international Catholic charity that runs a program for AIDS orphans in Phnom Penh, Cambodias capital city. The study is the first to test the benefits of directly observed treatment in children living in developing countries. Findings are publish...Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO
... ... ... Public health emergencies require urgent advice from the WHO ... ... ... ...... ... HIV treatment can be delivered even in settings of armed conflict, and humanitarian health agencies should not wait until a conflict is over before...HIV and malaria combine to adversely affect pregnant women and their infants
... Malaria is a parasitic disease spread by mosquitoes that kills more than one million people every year. While the disease affects mostly children, malaria also severely affects pregnant women, especially during their first pregnancy, accounting for an estimated 400,000 cases of seve...Hepatitis C negatively impacts HIV
... Co-infection of HIV and HCV is a significant medical and public health concern due to its increasing prevalence and complex patient management. An estimated 15 to 30 percent of HIV infected persons in...Circumcision reduces HIV infection risk
Ira D. Sharlip, M.D., AUA spokesman and Public Media Committee chair...John N. Krieger, M.D. ... Late breaking news on circumcision and HIV transmission will be presented to Annual...Meeting attendees during the Monday, May 21 plenary session. Dr. Krieger will be discussing the findings of two major trials in Africa that focused on circumcisions preventive effects on HIV transmissi...HIV's effect on white blood cells questioned by new research
... ... One popular theory has been the runaway hypothesis, which says that T cells infected by HIV...Routine HIV screening in the ED is cost effective and well liked by patients
... Rapid screening kits were provided free of charge by the DC Department of...The quest for an effective HIV vaccine presents new possibilities, challenges
A vaccine that prevents HIV infection remains an important goal in the fight against AIDS, but the current top HIV vaccine candidates may not work in this way, say scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Rather, the first successful preventive HIV vaccines, if administered prior to HIV infection, may reduce...New study probes how religion can help HIV/AIDS patients
... ... Now, Magdalena Szaflarski, PhD, and Joel Tsevat, MD, both researchers at UCs Institute for the Study of H...Green tea extract protects against brain damage in new mouse model of HIV-related dementia
... University of South Florida neuroscientist Brian Giunta, MD, reported the findings May 1 at Experimental Biology 2007 in Washington, DC. His presentation was part of the scientific program of the American Society for Pharma...HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy
... ... HIVMA joins its colleagues in the Intern...Resistant HIV quickly hides in infants' cells
... Mother-to-child transmission of HIV is an important factor in the AIDS pandemic, although important strides have been made in limiting transmission with antiviral drug therapies before, during, and following birth. In the last few decades the rate of mother-to-child transmi...1 in 3 HIV positive gay men report unprotected sex
... ... ... ... Almost 3600 questionnaires were handed out...Girls born with HIV infection at higher risk for cervical problems
... ... We have already seen this in HIV-infected women, said lead author, Susan Brogly, Ph.D., of the Harvard Schoo...Global Fund must fund salaries of health workers to deliver HIV, TB and malaria treatments
... "Recent comments from the inside of the Global Fund," say Gorik Ooms (Medecins Sans Frontières, Belgium) and colleagues, "suggest an intention to focus more on the three diseases, and to leave the strengthening of health systems and the support to the...New class of HIV drug attacks previously untargeted enzyme
... ... There are three types of enzyme...Rapid oral HIV test shows great promise according to MUHC-led research
... Senior and lead author Dr. Nitika Pai, a postdoctoral fellow at the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), and her colleagues tested 450 individuals for HIV infection at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in Sevagram India. Thirty two percent were found to be HIV positive. Researchers compared...Drug used to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child damages DNA
... NRTIs work by inhibiting the viral reverse transcriptase and by in...Cornell researcher helping develop quick, cheap HIV/AIDS test
A Cornell researcher is working to develop a quick, simple and cheap immune-system test for people in the developing world. It could help HIV/AIDS sufferers in the poorest countries get appropriate treatment to extend their lives, possibly by as much as 10 to 15 years.... The work is part of an $8.6 million international consortium, called the CD4 Initiative, led by Imperial College in London an...Community and clinic-based HIV-1 control program fails to decrease incidence of HIV-1 in Zimbabwe
... The study, published in PLoS Medicine, by Simon Gregson and colleagues from Imperial College London, randomised different communities in eastern Zimbabwe over a 3 year period. Six pairs of communities in Eastern Zimbabwe were compared, each of which had its own health center. Control communities received the standard government services for preventing HIV. The other communities received...Community-based measures fail to reduce HIV levels, new study shows
Interventions that target individuals with a high risk of contracting...HIV have a negligible impact on HIV transmission in the general...population, according to a new study of communities in Zimbabwe,...published today. The three-year study shows that community-based peer...education, free condom distribution, and clinic-based STI treatment and...counselling services targeted at female sex wor...Study shows that anal cytology predicts anal precancer in HIV-positive gay men
... This UCLA study demonstrated that abnormal anal cytology was highly predictive of anal cell abnormalities that were subsequently confirmed by anal biopsy. The study was based on data from 244 patients at the UCLA CARE clinic who had anal cytology screenings between Fe...HIV in late childhood and adolescence a growing problem
... It is estimated that half a million babies were infected with HIV during birth or breastfeeding in 2006, passed down from their mothers. It was assumed that their chances of survival to adulthood were negligible. However, a new...Clinical Trials Units selected for newly restructured HIV/AIDS research networks
... These Clinical Trials Units will carry out the next generation of HIV/AIDS vaccine, prevention and treatment research, says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. They will work with our clinical...Nevada scientist authors influential AIDS/HIV paper
RENO, Nev. The decade-long research that University of Nevada, Reno College of Science Chemistry Professor Thomas Bell has invested in the development of an extremely effective HIV/AIDS-fighting compound received an important boost recently when one of Bell's articles made the list of the 100 most influential publications in the HIV/AIDS research field for 2006.... Out of more than 10,000 HIV/A...Editorial: Pay more attention to genital herpes infections in HIV-infected persons
SEATTLE The association between genital herpes and higher viral loads of HIV-1 in HIV-infected persons is strong enough to warrant more routine testing for the herpes virus in HIV-positive patients, as well as additional clinical studies of the co-infections, according to an editorial to be published in the Feb. 22 New England Journal of Medicine.... "The clinical management of herpes simplex v...Batten down the hatches against HIV
... A promising approach to gene therapy involves short DNA fragments (interfering RNA) that bind to specific genes and block their "translation" into the corresponding, disease-related protein. A stumbling block has been the efficient and targeted delivery of RNA into the cells. Researchers led by Hongjie Dai at Stanford University have chosen to use carbon nanotubes as their "means of transpor...QUT scientists on the way to sifting out a cure for HIV
... ... Associate Professor Huaiyong Zhu, from QUT's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences, is leading the development of these membranes, also known as nano-mesh, and said preliminary research had proved it successful in...New compound shows promise in halting HIV spread
A new compound has shown promise in halting the spread of HIV by preventing the virus from replicating. Developed by Temple University researchers, 2-5AN6B could someday work as an effective treatment for HIV especially in conjunction with current drug treatments. Their work is published in the January issue of AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses. ... A nucleic acid, 2-5AN6B inhibited HIV rep...Investment level in HIV prevention programs related to HIV incidence in the United States
... The researchers found that from the beginning of the epidemic until 1985 (when new infections peaked), incidence of HIV predicted investment levels. During this period, society responded to increasing levels of infection with m...