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WHO to Issue Guidance on Hormonal Contraceptives and HIV

Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines call on health service providers to remind patients, that neither hormonal contraceptives nor intrauterine devices known as IUDs offer protection against HIV or other sexually transmitted infections. Later this month WHO ...More

2 days ago

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Antiretroviral Drugs Guard Against HIV but May Lead to Birth Defects

HIV-positive mothers have been able to guard against transmitting the disease to their babies by taking antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. Although the drugs prevent children from being born with HIV, they could cause birth defects, such as cleft lip and palate. A new ...More

2 weeks ago

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Saliva HIV Test Makes the Grade

A saliva test used to diagnose the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is comparable in accuracy to the traditional blood test, according to a new study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University. The meta-analysis, ...More

3 weeks ago

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Viral Load a Major Factor Affecting Risk of Sexually Transmitting HIV

The level of HIV-1 in the blood of an HIV-infected partner is the single most important factor influencing risk of sexual transmission to an uninfected partner, according to a multinational study of heterosexual couples in sub-Saharan Africa. The study, published in the ...More

4 weeks ago

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Human Trials Initiated for New HIV Vaccine

In the first clinical trial of an injectable vaccine containing trimeric HIV envelope protein (gp140) relevant to the predominant strain of HIV in Africa, researchers from four UK academic centers (St George's University London, Imperial College, Hull York Medical School ...More

December 29, 2011

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Another Potential Obstacle to Developing an HIV Vaccine

A clinical trial testing a candidate HIV vaccine known as the STEP study was halted in September 2007 after interim analysis indicated that the vaccine did not work. Moreover, subsequent analyses indicated that the vaccine made some individuals more susceptible to HIV, in ...More

December 29, 2011

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UNC HIV Prevention Research Named Scientific Breakthrough of the Year

The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the 2011 Breakthrough of the Year by the journal Science. ...More

December 26, 2011

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Scientists Map the Pathogenic Landscape of HIV

In perhaps the most comprehensive survey of the inner workings of HIV, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco has mapped every apparent physical interaction the virus makes with components of the human cells it ...More

December 22, 2011

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FDA Expands Use of HIV Drug Isentress to Children and Adolescents

Isentress (raltegravir) was approved today by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use with other antiretroviral drugs for the treatment of HIV-1 infection for children and adolescents ages 2-18. The drug is part of a class of medications called HIV integrase strand ...More

December 22, 2011

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Journal of Clinical Virology Assembles Papers on HIV Diagnostic Testing Algorithms

Elsevier's Journal of Clinical Virology, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), today announced the publication of a special supplement, "Update on HIV Diagnostic Testing Algorithms." This supplement contains articles which summarize ...More

December 22, 2011

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