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  • September 2008

    • HIV Adoptions From Abroad on Rise

      Associated Press  |  Sep 2, 08 1:16 PM CDT

      HIV Adoptions From Abroad on Rise

      (Newser) - More US families are adopting HIV-infected children from overseas, primarily in Ethiopia, the AP reports. Stats from one international agency show 38 adoptions of infected Ethiopian children this year, up from 13 in 2007 and four in 2006. HIV adoptions have also increased in China, Ghana, Haiti, and Russia, say US adoption agencies, though at significantly lower numbers. More »

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      Africa  • public health  • HIV  • HIV/AIDS  • Ethiopia  • foreign adoptions

  • August 2008

    • HIV Rates Rise for Gays, Ignored by World Programs

      Associated Press  |  Aug 10, 08 6:21 AM CDT

      HIV Rates Rise for Gays, Ignored by World Programs

      (Newser) - Even as fewer people are dying from AIDS, new HIV infections continue to rise at alarming rates among the global gay and bisexual population, who are tageted by less than 1% of the $669 million spent on prevention worldwide, AP reports. In 86 nations, homosexual sex is considered a crime, and in seven countries it's punishable by death, according to the Foundation for AIDS Research, More »

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      AIDS  • HIV  • homosexual  • bisexual

    • A Pill a Day Could Keep HIV Away

      New York Times  |  Aug 4, 08 7:24 AM CDT

      A Pill a Day Could Keep HIV Away

      (Newser) - With 2.7 million people contracting HIV every year, the race is on to test the efficacy of a daily pill meant to prevent the virus, the New York Times reports. After recent unimpressive results in tests of vaccines and microbicides, the PrEP drugs are now some scientists’ leading hope for stopping infection before it starts. More »

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      AIDS  • HIV  • infection  • AIDS prevention  • drug trials

  • July 2008

    • Drug Revolution Boosts HIV Survival Rates

      Independent (UK)  |  Jul 25, 08 3:20 AM CDT

      Drug Revolution Boosts HIV Survival Rates

      (Newser) - A revolution in drug treatments for people with HIV has dramatically increased survival rates in the West, reports the Independent . A patient diagnosed today at the age of 20 can expect to live to nearly 70 by taking cocktails of drugs. Life expectancy improved by an average of 13 years between 1996 and 2005, and has continued to rise. More »

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      HIV  • life expectancy  • AIDS epidemic

    • Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa

      Times (UK)  |  Jul 16, 08 10:14 PM CDT

      Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa

      (Newser) - A gene extremely common among Africans but almost unknown other ethnic groups may be rendering people of sub-Saharan Africa more susceptible to HIV and AIDS, the Times of London reports. The gene variant—common because it provides malaria protection—makes carriers 40% more likely to contract HIV and could be responsible for 11%, or 2.5 million, of the AIDS cases in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. More »

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      United Nations  • Africa  • AIDS  • HIV  • malaria  • University College London  • AIDS epidemic

    • Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors

      Associated Press  |  Jul 16, 08 4:31 PM CDT

      Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors

      (Newser) - The Senate moved today to repeal a ban on allowing immigrants and vistors who are HIV-positive to enter the country, the AP reports. The measure was part of a $50 billion bill to combat AIDS worldwide. The US is one of only a dozen countries—including Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Libya—that forbids the entry of visitors with AIDS. More »

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      Senate  • immigration  • Africa  • John Kerry  • AIDS  • HIV  • Gordon Smith  • visas

    • Stubborn Mbeki Denies the Blood on Hands

      New York Times  |  Jul 3, 08 6:45 AM CDT

      Stubborn Mbeki Denies the Blood on Hands

      (Newser) - Five years ago Roger Cohen interviewed Thabo Mbeki in the New York Times , and even then the South African president insisted that Zimbabwe will "get over" its conflicts. So as supposed mediator in Zimbabwe's deepening economic and humanitarian disaster, why has Mbeki still done nothing? An earlier act of stubbornness might provide a clue: his AIDS denialism, which cost hundreds of thousands of lives in his own country. More »

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      Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • South Africa  • AIDS  • HIV  • Thabo Mbeki  • HIV/AIDS

  • June 2008

    • HIV Rate Soars 12% Among Young Gay Men

      Washington Post  |  Jun 27, 08 2:28 AM CDT

      HIV Rate Soars 12% Among Young Gay Men

      (Newser) - HIV infection rates are rising by 12% annually among young gay men aged 13 to 24—and even more among young black men, the Washington Post reports. That's 10 times higher than the overall gay community, possibly because younger men have “not been personally affected by AIDS in the same way that their older peers were," suggests one expert. More »

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      sex  • African Americans  • gay  • HIV  • HIV/AIDS  • survey  • homosexual

    • Sex in the City: 26% of New Yorkers Have Herpes

      New York Post  |  Jun 10, 08 4:47 AM CDT

      Sex in the City: 26% of New Yorkers Have Herpes

      (Newser) - Sex in the Big Apple comes with a higher risk of herpes than the national average, the New York Post reports. A full 26% of the city's inhabitants carry the virus that causes genital herpes. The condition only manifests itself in 15% of carriers but health officials warn that herpes carriers are two to three times more likely to get HIV, and urge that people pay special attention to safe sex in the city. More »

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      New York City  • New York  • AIDS  • HIV  • STD  • safe sex  • AIDS prevention  • herpes

  • April 2008

    • For Infections, Try Gator-cillin

      Cox Newspapers  |  Apr 7, 08 3:28 PM CDT

      For Infections, Try Gator-cillin

      (Newser) - Scientists are trying to harness the power of alligator blood to fight disease, bacterial infections, and even HIV, Cox News reports. Proteins in the reptiles' blood have antibiotic properties thanks to the animals' long evolution and frequent exposure to bacteria; their exceptionally effective immune systems can fight off invaders without previous exposure. "It's pretty exciting," says one gator researcher. More »

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      medical research  • HIV  • antibiotics  • immune system  • pharmaceutical  • MRSA  • alligator  • reptiles

    • AIDS Drug May Raise Risk of Heart Attack

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Apr 2, 08 6:52 PM CDT

      AIDS Drug May Raise Risk of Heart Attack

      (Newser) - Patients who use an important and widely used AIDS drug have twice the risk of heart attacks, a new study shows. Abacavir is a major component in the so-called "drug cocktails" used to control HIV. "This is a head-scratcher, in the sense that we don't really understand the biology here," one expert told the San Francisco Chronicle . More »

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      heart attack  • AIDS  • HIV  • drug cocktail

  • March 2008

    • HIV Scandal Spreads in Kyrgyzstan

      BBC  |  Mar 21, 08 7:51 AM CDT

      HIV Scandal Spreads in Kyrgyzstan

      (Newser) - Fourteen medical professionals in Kyrgyzstan face malpractice and negligence charges after allegedly infecting 42 children with HIV. The group of doctors, nurses, and a top administrator could receive prison terms of up to 10 years for administering contaminated injections and blood transfusions. Such incidents may be common, one aide worker says, but the stigma of HIV here keeps families from speaking up. More »

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      health  • AIDS  • HIV  • hospitals  • negligence  • Kazakhstan  • medical malpractice  • malpractice  • Kyrgyzstan  • health workers

    • Reuse of Syringes at Nev. Clinic Triggers Health Alarm

      Associated Press  |  Mar 6, 08 4:05 AM CST

      Reuse of Syringes at Nev. Clinic Triggers Health Alarm

      (Newser) - Six people with serious cases of hepatitis are just the beginning of what's expected to be a major health problem after a Las Vegas clinic gambled with the lives of tens of thousands of patients by reusing syringes, reports AP. The practice may have exposed patients to HIV and could be responsible for an outbreak of hepatitis C. The Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada is now the focus of the biggest public health notification operation in US history with nearly 40,000 patients contacted. More »

  • November 2007

    • Organ Donor Gives HIV to 4 Chicago Patients

      Chicago Tribune  |  Nov 13, 07 1:07 PM CST

      Organ Donor Gives HIV to 4 Chicago Patients

      (Newser) - A flaw in HIV testing procedures led to the infection of four organ-transplant recipients in Chicago, the Tribune reports, the first such cases in more than 20 years. Follow-up tests were never performed, so the four are only now discovering their infections from the January transplants. The donor was flagged as high risk, but doctors decided the patients' need for organs outweighed HIV fears. More »

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      public health  • HIV  • organ transplants  • organ donor

    • Cold Virus Foiled AIDS Vaccine

      Washington Post  |  Nov 8, 07 1:08 PM CST

      Cold Virus Foiled AIDS Vaccine

      (Newser) - A promising AIDS vaccine that failed in trials—actually increasing rather than reducing risk of infection—turned out to be ineffective in people who had immunity to a common cold virus, developers reported yesterday. The Merck vaccine contained an altered version of that virus, and study subjects with existing immunities to it saw increased risk of contracting HIV, the the Washington Post reports. More »

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      AIDS  • HIV  • Merck  • AIDS vaccine

  • October 2007

    • AIDS Came to US From Haiti Years Before It Was ID'd: Study

      Los Angeles Times  |  Oct 30, 07 4:12 AM CDT

      AIDS Came to US From Haiti Years Before It Was ID'd: Study

      (Newser) - The AIDS virus reached America through Haiti, not directly from Africa, and far earlier than has been suspected—the 1960's, not the early 1980's, researchers have discovered. Scientists analyzed 25-year-old blood samples and used what they know of the virus' mutations to construct a rough timeline of the progression of the disease, according to the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . More »

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      United States  • disease  • AIDS  • HIV  • Haiti  • virus  • epidemic

    • Experimental AIDS Vaccine May Increase HIV Risk

      Wired  |  Oct 25, 07 6:38 PM CDT

      Experimental AIDS Vaccine May Increase HIV Risk

      (Newser) - A once-promising AIDS vaccine being developed by Merck may actually increase the risk of contracting HIV, the Washington Post reports. In South Africa, 19 people who received the vaccine in a trial contracted the virus, as opposed to 11 who received a placebo. South  African researchers have begun warning hundreds of participants of the findings. More »

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      AIDS  • HIV  • Merck

    • Bank Gives Shy Thais Condoms

      Reuters  |  Oct 2, 07 11:10 AM CDT

      Bank Gives Shy Thais Condoms

      (Newser) - Some unusual withdrawals will be taking place later this month as Thailand's Kasikorn Bank begins giving away free condoms, branded with the bank's logo, at its 600 branches.  Called "Condoms for Confidence," the campaign to combat the spread of AIDS  seeks to alleviate embarrassment felt by many in conservative Thailand. “Women who buy condoms from convenience stores always get a strange look,” a health official told Reuters. More »

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      marketing  • AIDS  • Thailand  • banking  • HIV  • condom

  • September 2007

    • First Daughter Talks of New Book, Fiancé

      ABC News  |  Sep 27, 07 2:31 PM CDT

      First Daughter Talks of New Book, Fiancé

      (Newser) - In an interview set to air tomorrow night on ABC, First Daughter Jenna Bush promoted her new book, "Ana's Story," which tells the tale of a 17-year-old single mother living with AIDS whom Bush met while working for UNICEF in Latin America. The interview also touched on Bush's recent engagement to Henry Hager, who proposed while hiking in Maine. More »

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      marriage  • HIV  • Jenna Bush

    • Catholic Leader: Condoms in Africa Carry HIV

      BBC  |  Sep 27, 07 12:19 PM CDT

      Catholic Leader: Condoms in Africa Carry HIV

      (Newser) - Catholic opposition to condom use as an AIDS preventive in Africa took a bizarre turn yesterday when a respected archbishop in Mozambique charged that condoms imported from Europe had been deliberately infected with HIV. Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio made his comments at an Independence Day celebration and reiterated them to the BBC. More »

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      Catholic Church  • AIDS  • HIV  • condom  • abstinence  • Mozambique

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