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US officials recommend new regimen to fight HIV/Aids
US health officials have recommended that hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk for Aids take a daily pill that has been shown to...
‘Diluted human resources’ impacting on male circumcision care
SA vastly expanded male medical circumcision services since 2010, and while surgical efficiency and record keeping improved, the quality of surgical care, such as...
Contested theory on why many African Aids victims are women
Nearly 60% of Aids victims in Africa are women and a team of Norwegian infectious disease spec ialists think they may have the explanation....
NFP gets rights for promising HIV medicine
The not-for-profit (NFP) International Partnership for Microbicides has received worldwide rights to a promising HIV prevention medicine, called dapivirine, from Janssen R&D Ireland, reports...
Researchers figure out enzyme’s HIV fighting activity
Johns Hopkins biochemists have figured out what is needed to activate and sustain the virus-fighting activity of an enzyme found in CD4+ T cells,...
Scientists report failure in strategy to reverse latency
Scientists at Johns Hopkins report that compounds they hoped would ‘wake up’ dormant reservoirs of HIV inside immune system T cells – a strategy...
Second baby free of HIV virus raises hopes
The hope that newborns can be ‘cured’ of HIV with early, aggressive drug treatment has been bolstered with the announcement that a second baby...
Studies reported at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston include…
The rollout of antiretroviral therapy in rural SA has resulted in a rapid recovery of life expectancy for HIV-infected individuals, with women appearing to...