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Nobel Prize

Discoverers of HIV, human papilloma virus win $1.4M award

Oct 6, 08 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Nobel Prize for medicine was awarded today to three scientists who discovered two of the world's deadliest sexually transmitted viruses. Half the prize goes to Harald zur Hausen, a German who discovered the human papilloma virus, which causes cervical cancer in women. The other half goes to Françoise... More »

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medicine • HPV • HIV • virus • Nobel Prize • HIV/AIDS

 HIV/AIDS May Be 100 Years Old 

Evidence of old strain discovered in Congo

Oct 2, 08 3:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The HIV/AIDS epidemic exploded in the 1980s, but new research shows HIV was plaguing the human population in Africa for a century before that. Old collections of human tissue samples from the Congo have produced evidence of old strains of HIV that may have emerged in 1908, reports Nature. More »

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HIV • DNA • genome • University of Alabama • HIV/AIDS • Pasteur Institute • Congo • biopsy • Leopoldville

New HIV Study Shows Disease Accelerating

CDC finds 40% more cases than thought; blacks' rate alarming

Sep 12, 08 7:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new CDC study of Americans with HIV conducted with new technology shows that the virus is spreading faster than previously thought, reports the New York Times. In 2006, more than 56,000 were newly infected with the virus that causes AIDS—40% more than anticipated. The study also showed... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • HIV • public health • infection • STD • HIV/AIDS • African-Americans • white people

 HIV Adoptions From 
 Abroad on Rise 

Ethiopia leads nations on finding US homes

Sep 2, 08 1:16 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

HIV Rates
Rise for Gays, Ignored by World Programs

Targeted by 1% of prevention funds

Aug 10, 08 6:21 AM CDT
(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,... More »

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AIDS • HIV • bisexual • homosexual

A Pill a Day Could Keep
HIV Away

Massive 15,000-person trial will test drug's effectiveness

Aug 4, 08 7:24 AM CDT
(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... More »

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AIDS • HIV • infection • drug trials • AIDS prevention

  Drug Revolution Boosts
HIV Survival Rates

Early diagnosis is vital

Jul 25, 08 3:20 AM CDT
(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... More »

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HIV • life expectancy • AIDS epidemic • Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration • screening • Terence Higgins Trust • Julian Hows

 Gene Raises AIDS Risk in Africa 

Africans 40% more likely to contract HIV

Jul 16, 08 10:14 PM CDT
(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... More »

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Africa • United Nations • AIDS • malaria • HIV • University College London • Duffy-negative • San Antonio Military Medical Center • Matthew Dolan • AIDS epidemic

Senate Targets Ban on HIV- Positive Visitors

$50B AIDS bill, nearing vote, could dismantle 20-year prohibition

Jul 16, 08 4:31 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

OPINION

Stubborn Mbeki Denies  the Blood on Hands

From HIV to Zimbabwe, S. African's inaction has cost lives, says Cohen

Jul 3, 08 6:45 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

 HIV Rate Soars 12%
 Among Young Gay Men 

Black gays hit by biggest jump in 'second wave' AIDS epidemic

Jun 27, 08 2:28 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

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

City well above
national average

Jun 10, 08 4:47 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

 For Infections, Try Gator-cillin 

Scientists probe reptile's impressive immune system

Apr 7, 08 3:28 PM CDT
(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... More »

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

AIDS Drug
May Raise Risk
of Heart Attack

New finding about important treatment confuses doctors

Apr 2, 08 6:52 PM CDT
(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... More »

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AIDS • HIV • heart attack • abacavir • drug cocktail

HIV Scandal Spreads in Kyrgyzstan

Health workers charged with
infecting children

Mar 21, 08 7:51 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Reuse of Syringes at Nev. Clinic Triggers Health Alarm

Practice may have spread hepatitis, HIV

Mar 6, 08 4:05 AM CST
(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... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • HIV • Las Vegas • hepatitis B • Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada • anesthesia • syringes • unsafe practices • hepatitis C • Southern Nevada Health District. • Brian Labus • Dipak Desai

Organ Donor Gives HIV
to 4 Chicago Patients

Flaw in tests allowed disease to go undetected

Nov 13, 07 1:07 PM CST
(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... More »

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organ transplants • HIV • public health • organ donor

Cold Virus Foiled AIDS Vaccine

Study subjects with immunity to common virus saw increased risk with vaccine

Nov 8, 07 1:08 PM CST
(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... More »

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AIDS • Merck • HIV • AIDS vaccine

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

'Unnerving' how long it existed 'below radar'

Oct 30, 07 4:12 AM CDT
(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... More »

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

Experimental AIDS Vaccine May Increase HIV Risk

Hundreds of trial volunteers being notified in South Africa

Oct 25, 07 6:38 PM CDT
(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... More »

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AIDS • Merck • HIV

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