AIDS

  • WHO Announces Global Progress in HIV Response but Sustained Investment is Vital
    Global progress in both preventing and treating HIV emphasizes the benefits of sustaining investment in HIV/AIDS over the longer term. The latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and UNAIDS Report on the global HIV/AIDS response indicates that increased ...More
    November 30, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • AIDS Researchers Isolate New Potent and Broadly Effective Antibodies Against HIV
    A team of researchers at and associated with the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the Scripps Research Institute, the biotechnology company Theraclone Sciences and Monogram Biosciences Inc., a LabCorp company, report in the current issue of Nature the isolation ...More
    August 17, 2011
    Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens
  • On 30th Anniversary of HIV/AIDS, Translating Science into Practice Remains a Challenge
    The following is a statement from HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) Chair Kathleen Squires, MD: Thirty years ago this month, the first alarming reports of a new and deadly infection were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since then, we have seen ...More
    June 3, 2011
    Posted in News
  • A 2020 Vision of Vaccines for Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS
    Collectively, malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS cause more than five million deaths per year – nearly the entire population of the state of Washington – and represent one of the world’s major public health challenges as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. In the May ...More
    May 25, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Study Shows Possibility of Developing Preventive Vaccine Against HIV/AIDS
    The HIV epidemic is the largest in the world and represents one of the most serious public health problems, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). Only 30 percent of the more than 10 million patients in need have the access to the antiretroviral ...More
    May 23, 2011
    Posted in News
  • 'Bad Blood' Documentary Coming to PBS Stations in June
    "Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale chronicles a frightening time in our nation's history when our blood supply was breached by both AIDS and hepatitis. Through the eyes of survivors and family members, Bad Blood tells how a "miracle" treatment for hemophilia became an agent of ...More
    May 18, 2011
    Posted in News
  • How Host Factors Aid in the Release of HIV Particles
    Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) – which causes AIDS – invades human immune cells and causes them to produce new copies of the virus, which can then infect new cells. A research team led by professor Don C. Lamb (LMU Munich) and Dr. Barbara Müller of Heidelberg University ...More
    March 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • 100 Medicines and Vaccines in Development for HIV/AIDS
    America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are working on 100 new medicines and vaccines to treat and prevent HIV/AIDS and related conditions, according to a new report from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Although scientists have made ...More
    December 1, 2010
    Posted in News
  • AIDS Drug Could Be Effective Against Herpesvirus
    Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) headed by the coordinator of the Structural and Computational Biology Programme, Miquel Coll, have published a new study that demonstrates that raltegravir, the drug approved in 2007 for the treatment ...More
    September 23, 2010
    Posted in News
  • AIDS Virus Lineage Much Older Than Previously Thought
    An ancestor of HIV that infects monkeys is thousands of years older than previously thought, suggesting that HIV, which causes AIDS, is not likely to stop killing humans anytime soon, finds a study by University of Arizona and Tulane University researchers. The simian ...More
    September 17, 2010
    Posted in News
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