Globally acknowledged leaders in clinical management of HIV infection, including those from India, participated in the vibrant academic exchange and discussions at the recently concluded Chennai ART Symposium (CART 2011) in Chennai, India (8-9 January 2011). CART 2011 was...
" A drug used to treat HIV-positive patients may offer gay and bisexual men some protection against contracting the virus, the authors of a new study say. Trials of the combination drug Truvada among nearly 2,500 men suggested it could reduce the chances of male-to-male HIV...
I was a Funeral Director and embalmer in California in the 1980's when a meeting was held by the firm I worked for. Employees from five firms were represented. We were told about a new contagious...
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Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...
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" CNN ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- There are more new cases of Americans infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, than previously believed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday. ...
"June 10, 2008 Zimbabwe’s Relief Ban Harms People With HIV In the aftermath of Zimbabwe’s government recent suspension of humanitarian relief efforts, many nongovernment organizations (NGOs) that had been offering AIDS services in the...
A recent PLOS published article reports that non-exclusive
breastfeeding (EBF) more than doubles the risk of early postnatal HIV
transmission in children of HIV-infected women.
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"Bowing to an increasing need for more effective AIDS treatments in India and recent high-profile public advocacy from a broad coalition of AIDS activists, India's National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) and Health Minister A. Ramadoss will announce the rollout of...
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At Famed Thai AIDS Temple Where Thousands Received Compassionate
Hospice Care Before Dying, Thailand's Lop Buri Provincial Government,
the Dramaraksa Foundation and AIDS Healthcare Foundation Now Partner to Open Free AIDS
Treatment Center Providing Lifesaving Antiretroviral...
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AIDS patients have been reporting that their meds are getting stolen, and that the thieves are mixing it with marijuana to get (even) high(er). "Thugs in a KwaZulu-Natal community are robbing people living with...
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"A charge of genocide has been laid against Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) head Zackie Achmat at the International Criminal Court, the Cape Argus reported on Thursday.
In the 59-page criminal complaint in the court in The Hague in The Netherlands, Achmat is accused of...