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AIDS stories: 75 news summaries

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AIDS Vaccine Fails in Trials

Clinical trials suspended after dismal results for most promising vaccine

Sep 22, 07 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Heavy hopes riding on an HIV vaccine were dashed as the vaccine proved so ineffective in a clinical trial that manufacturer Merck has ended the trial early. The vaccine had shown promise in animal and small-scale human tests but neither prevented nor reduced the severity of infection in a large-scale... More »

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AIDS • AIDS vaccine

Top 10 Incurable Diseases

Medicine marches on, leaving behind some ailments that defy understanding

Sep 14, 07 10:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Doctors have successfully performed a face transplant, but the cure for the common cold still eludes them. LiveScience ponders the diseases that got away.
  1. AIDS
  2. Alzheimer's disease
  3. The common cold
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AIDS • schizophrenia • list • common cold • avian flu • lupus • mad cow disease • chronic fatigue syndrome • Alzheimer's Disease

World on Brink of New Epidemic: WHO

Global cooperation is crucial to prevent new outbreak, report concludes

Aug 23, 07 3:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new global epidemic is likely on the horizon with fresh diseases cropping up at a record pace and billions of air travelers in motion to spread an illness with alarming speed, the World Health Organization warned yesterday. The AIDS or Ebola of tomorrow could be just around the corner... More »

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Indonesia • AIDS • disease • epidemic • vaccine • illness • World Health Organization • Ebola • avian flu • outbreak

Sex Is Most Common Cause of HIV in China

Society struggles with openness as virus spreads beyond IV-drug users

Aug 20, 07 8:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - Unsafe sex has become the most common means of transmission of HIV in China, edging out IV-drug use and blood transfusions, the BBC reports. That points to the need to focus prevention efforts on mainstream sexual practices—not just those of high-risk groups—which poses a daunting challenge in a... More »

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China • AIDS • HIV • sex • sexual behavior • safe sex • prostitute

South African Prez Fires
AIDS Crusader

Minister sacked as Mbeki continues to deny science of HIV

Aug 10, 07 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - South Africa's president has fired his government's leading HIV/AIDS crusader, the prime mover of a plan to offer free treatment to millions. Thabo Mbeki dismissed his deputy health minister, who has opposed his AIDS denialism for years, the Mail and Guardian reports.  Mbeki has drawn worldwide outrage for the... More »

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Africa • health • AIDS • HIV • South Africa • infection • illness • Thabo Mbeki • Nozizwe Madlala Routledge

Freed Doctor Recounts Libyan Torture

“My wounds are still bleeding,” says Palestinian

Aug 2, 07 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the wake of last week's jubilant homecoming of the Bulgarian nurses released from a Libyan prison, it's their Palestinian cellmate who’s first to go public with his story. Dr. Ashraf al-Hazouz’s joy at release after 8 years is “turning into a hunger for justice,” he... More »

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torture • nurses • AIDS • prison • Libya • Bulgarian nurses • Ashraf al Hazouz

Cocaine Tied
to Pitcher's Sudden Death

Police found cocaine in Rod Beck's home;
widow confirms habit

Aug 1, 07 7:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Phoenix police found cocaine and drug paraphernalia in the home of former All-Star pitcher Rod Beck following his sudden death in June, they said yesterday. Officials found "large quantities of powder, crack, and rock cocaine,"  the Arizona Republic reports. Though the medical examiner has not released the... More »

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drugs • MLB • AIDS • Chicago Cubs • San Diego Padres • Boston Red Sox • cocaine • Rod Beck • addiction • baseball

(Newser) - Libya announced details today about the deal that freed six foreign medical workers, as it  officially protested the pardoning of the workers by the Bulgarian government, BBC reports. The group had been imprisoned in Libya since 1999 for infecting 438 children with HIV/AIDS. But international experts say there was... More »

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torture • AIDS • European Union • Libya • pardon • Bulgaria • extradition

Dems Fret Over School Ruling

Howard U. debate concentrates on race

Jun 29, 07 8:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Supreme Court decision limiting the role of race in public-school assignments was the talk of the town yesterday—even at the Democratic debate. The agenda at historically black Howard University was minority issues, and although attention naturally fell on Barack Obama, his seven competitors also had their moments in... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Democrats • race • AIDS • Mike Gravel • discrimination • poverty • Howard University • US Supreme Court • Election 2008

Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

An advantage 4M years ago is a weakness now

Jun 22, 07 10:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American. The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies... More »

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evolution • health • AIDS • genetics • disease • HIV • DNA • chimpanzees • genome

G8 Concludes with AIDS Pledge

World leaders renew $60B pledge to fight disease in Africa

Jun 8, 07 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Global leaders renewed their vow to spend $60 billion to help fight AIDS, TB, and malaria in Africa today as the G8 summit wrapped up. But they set no deadlines for delivering the relief, leading critics to question the pledge. "I think it is deliberately the language of obfuscation,... More »

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Iran • Russia • Africa • AIDS • greenhouse gases • global warming • France • malaria • Tuberculosis • Kosovo • G8 summit • Group of Eight • Bono • U2 • George W. Bush • carbon emissions

Bush Asks Congress to Double AIDS Effort

Calls for $30 billion over 5 years, after he's out of office

May 30, 07 6:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush wants to double the funding of a U.S. program that battles the global AIDS crisis. Bush will ask Congress today to commit $30 billion over the next five years after the current program expires in 2008. The extra cash could save the lives of 1.5 million... More »

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AIDS • human rights • international development • Sudan • PEPFAR • economic sanctions • funding • George W. Bush

Desmond Tutu to Anglicans: Get Over It

Church should attend to AIDS, corruption, Darfur—not gay priests

May 28, 07 9:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu called on Africa's Anglican church to let go of what he called its "extraordinary obsession" with gay priests and same-sex marriage.  The church should, instead, be paying attention to the crises caused by AIDS, Darfur and Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe's corruption.  More »

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Africa • Robert Mugabe • gay marriage • AIDS • Anglican Church • religion • Desmond Tutu • homosexuality

Drag Queens Take Over Bingo

Bingo doesn't know what hit it

May 3, 07 1:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Time documents the rise of drag queen bingo, the revolution that added trannies to grannies to make church basements a little more fabulous. It began in Seattle in the early '90s, when Judy Werle hatched a bingo AIDS fundraiser. "We decided to liven it up in the way that... More »

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AIDS • Drag Queen • bingo • Transvestite • Judy Werle • Tammy Faye Bakker

UN Urges Mass Circumcision

Mass circumcisions in AIDS-stricken region could reduce infection

Mar 29, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mass circumcision should be urged in AIDS-devastated regions to cut infection rates, the UN said yesterday. With trials demonstrating that circumcised men are 60% less likely to contract HIV, such programs could prevent 5.7 million new HIV cases in the next two decades, the Guardian reports. More »

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Africa • United Nations • AIDS • HIV • circumcision

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