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AIDS stories: 75 news summaries

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 Accelerated Aging 
 Tied to HIV/AIDS 

Middle-aged sufferers have symptoms of HIV-negative 80-year-olds

Nov 2, 09 3:25 PM CST
(Newser) - The aging population of Americans with HIV/AIDS is in a much different spot than those infected before the drug cocktail was introduced in the mid-1990s. But new research reveals disturbing trends related to aging. The cause is likely either the disease or the medications, and the result is symptoms—from... More »

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AIDS • dementia • HIV • memory loss • osteoporosis • HIV/AIDS • medication • drug cocktail • mild cognitive impairment • gay men

Rush isn't buying

 Swine Flu 
 Crisis Is Fake 
 —Just Like 
 AIDS in Africa 

Those dang Africans are just fishing for relief cash, says Limbaugh

Oct 29, 09 8:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - What do H1N1 and HIV have in common? They’re both money-making schemes! At least according to Rush Limbaugh, who yesterday took a fairly reasonable critique of swine flu hysteria off the rails and into crazy town, by saying it was being purposely hyped “for many of the same... More »

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Africa • AIDS • Rush Limbaugh • swine flu • H1N1 virus

investigation

Insurers Drop Rape Victims Who Take HIV Meds

Assaulted women locked out of health care

Oct 22, 09 11:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sexual assault victims prescribed precautionary HIV/AIDS meds risk being denied health insurance—because they have a pre-existing condition. The vast majority never develop the disease, but many have lost their insurance altogether, the Huffington Post reports. Others have been denied mental health care for PTSD that arose after they were... More »

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health insurance • AIDS • HIV • rape • HIV/AIDS • sexual assault • women's issues • health insurance industry • pre-existing condition • America's Health Insurance Plans

 AIDS Vaccine Data Overstated 

Much-hyped Thai results statistically insignificant, researchers say

Oct 20, 09 2:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - The data from last month’s much-hyped Thai AIDS vaccine trial are actually statistically insignificant, according to a secondary analysis published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The original results from the trial, which included more than 16,000 people, concluded that the vaccine reduced infections by... More »

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AIDS • Thailand • AIDS vaccine • clinical trials • peer reviews • medical study

OPINION

CDC Must Stop Advocating Circumcision

Male procedure just as backward as reviled female version

Sep 29, 09 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Virtually everyone in the Western world seems to agree that female circumcision is horrible. It greatly reduces sexual pleasure, violates individual autonomy, and provides no discernible health benefits. Well, all that is true of male circumcision, too, writes Ethan Epstein, yet the CDC is considering a plan to “promote... More »

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AIDS • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • female circumcision • genital mutilation • circumcision • female genital mutilation

 Vaccine Cuts HIV 
 Infection Rate by 1/3 

Watershed US-Thai study is first to show success

Sep 24, 09 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new vaccine tested in Thailand has protected a significant minority of subjects against HIV infection—marking the first time a vaccine has shown even partial success against the virus that causes AIDS. The 16,000-volunteer study, undertaken by the US Army, the Thai health ministry, and two drug companies,... More »

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AIDS • Thailand • HIV • vaccine • antibodies • AIDS vaccine • HIV/AIDS • infection rate

OBITUARY

 Showbiz Scribe 
 Army Archerd 
 Dead at 87 

Column appeared in Variety for 52 years

Sep 8, 09 9:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Army Archerd, who chronicled Hollywood for 52 years as a columnist for Variety, died today of mesothelioma, the showbiz publication reports. He was 87; the cancer was thought to be related to exposure to asbestos during World War II. He was known for injecting a social consciousness into his reporting,... More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • AIDS • asbestos • World War II • Variety • mesothelioma • Army Archerd • showbiz • gossip columnist • Rock Hudson • celebrities

AIDS Charities Blast
Hitler Sex Ad

Racy commercial stigmatizes those infected with virus, critics say

Sep 5, 09 5:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A racy ad showing Adolf Hitler having unprotected sex is designed to scare young people about AIDS, but charities say the spot vilifies victims of the disease, the Telegraph reports. The explicit commercial, which shows a couple undressing and having intercourse, takes a creepy twist when the camera pans up... More »

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AIDS • Germany • HIV • Adolf Hitler • virus • unprotected sex

(AP) - The Brazilian Health Ministry has created a website to let people inform partners they've got a sexually transmitted disease via an emailed virtual postcard. The official in charge of the ministry's STD and AIDs programs notes that many have a hard time telling partners they're infected—and that the emails... More »

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AIDS • email • Brazil • sexually transmitted diseases

(Newser) - Diarrhea kills 1.6 million children under 5 every year—more than AIDS or malaria—and gets a fraction of the funding. But a deceptively simple new treatment may mark a breakthrough, Time reports. Zinc supplements appear to dramatically decrease diarrhea-related deaths—one afflicted village in Mali hasn’t had... More »

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Africa • AIDS • malaria • children • treatment • death • diarrhea • women's issues

(Newser) - The entire structure of the virus that causes AIDS has been decoded for the first time, a breakthrough that may eventually lead to effective treatments for the disease and others like it, Reuters reports. University of North Carolina researchers, using a new method they liken to zooming out on a... More »

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drugs • AIDS • RNA • genome • University of North Carolina • pharmaceutical • HIV/AIDS • influenza • genetic research • rhinovirus

DC to Offer STD Tests
to All Students

Pilot program found that 13% of youths had chlamydia, gonorrhea

Aug 5, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - All DC high school students will be offered testing for sexually-transmitted diseases, the Washington Post reports. The move follows a pilot program at eight schools last year in which 13% of 3,000 students tested positive for STDs, mostly chlamydia and gonorrhea. The new plan says students must watch a... More »

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high school • AIDS • HIV • STD • chlamydia • gonorrhea • Washington, DC • testing • sexually transmitted diseases

Scientists Find First Human Infected With Gorilla HIV

Disease continues to evolve

Aug 3, 09 2:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - A woman from Cameroon living in Paris is the first human discovered to be infected with a form of HIV found in gorillas, HealthDay reports. The finding is yet another indication that the disease continues to mutate and to be transmitted by primates. The woman, 62, has not developed symptoms... More »

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AIDS • HIV • Cameroon • research • infection • gorilla • virus

 Teen Pregnancies,  
 STDs Increase: CDC 

Figures raise concerns after positive trends

Jul 20, 09 1:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - After declining in 1991-2005, the US teen birth rate climbed in 2006 and 2007, HealthDay News reports. Crunching numbers from 2002-07, the Centers for Disease Control found a number of trends had flatlined or worsened after a period of improvement.
  • 2004 saw 745,000 pregnancies among females under 20,
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AIDS • HPV • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • HIV • syphilis • STD • chlamydia • gonorrhea • teen pregnancy • sexual assault • adolescents • teenager • sexually transmitted diseases

 For HIV, Women the Weaker Sex 

Hormone leads to higher immune activity, faster progression

Jul 14, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women may be the weaker sex when it comes to HIV. The virus progresses faster in women, and a new study published in Nature Medicine finds that may be due to the hormone progesterone, the BBC reports. The research team is continuing work on the findings to see if... More »

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women's health • AIDS • HIV • HIV/AIDS • health research • health study • progesterone

 US Doctors Look to Africa 
 for Lower-Cost Treatments 

Developing nations offer cheap, effective solutions for health care

Jul 2, 09 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - When an AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama wanted to boost the number of patients who returned for treatment, they didn't look to programs in the rich West for ideas. They went to Zambia, where strategies for treating patients with HIV have succeeded despite widespread poverty. With US health... More »

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health care costs • AIDS • HIV • doctor • medical treatment • University of Alabama • Zambia • developing countries • HIV/AIDS • women's issues

(Newser) - Brryan Jackson wasn’t supposed to live. Injected with HIV-positive blood by his father at 11 months of age, Jackson has grown into a compassionate teenage advocate for AIDS sufferers. Graduating from high school near St. Louis yesterday, he vowed to go into politics. More remarkably, he has forgiven his... More »

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AIDS • HIV • teenager

Scientists Urge WHO to Slam Homeopathy as HIV Remedy

Brits want such treatment ruled out
for HIV, TB, malaria

Jun 1, 09 8:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Concerned about deaths tied to choice of treatment, British scientists are calling on the World Health Organization to speak out against homeopathy as a way to battle HIV, TB, malaria, influenza, and infant diarrhea. Clinics throughout Asia and sub-Saharan Africa offer to treat such diseases through homeopathy, though there is... More »

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AIDS • malaria • HIV • medical treatment • alternative treatment • World Health Organization • HIV/AIDS • tuberculosis • homeopathy

(Newser) - While the world panics over swine flu, many far more serious outbreaks lie in wait, reports Foreign Policy. Here are some you won’t see on TV—yet:  
  • Cholera: The deadly diarrheal infection is rampant in Africa, with infections shooting up 96% in 2006. The current outbreak in
... More »

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Africa • AIDS • meningitis • Ebola • outbreak • pandemic • cholera • swine flu • spinal meningitis • dengue fever

Zimbabwe's Prisons Are
'Hell on Earth'

With no food, medicine, dozens die daily in death camp conditions

Apr 1, 09 10:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - In Zimbabwe even a short prison term can quickly turn into a death sentence: Conditions are so unsanitary and food so scarce that dozens die daily, as revealed in a secretly shot documentary. Using smuggled cameras, the film shows rotting bodies and mass graves—and that's just in a single... More »

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Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • AIDS • prison • starvation • cholera

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