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Swiss Change Safe Sex Message on HIV
Swiss AIDS experts said Thursday that some people with HIV who meet strict conditions and are under treatment can safely have unprotected sex with non-infected partners. The proposal astonished AIDS researchers in Europe and North America who have long argued that safe sex with a condom is the single most effective way of preventing the spread of the disease _ apart from abstinence. "Not only is (the Swiss proposal) dangerous, it's misleading and it is not considering the implications of the biological facts involved with HIV transmission," said Jay Levy, director of the Laboratory for Tumor and AIDS Virus Research at the University of California in San Francisco............. |
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Fight Looms Over Global AIDS Program
Saturday February 2, 2008 9:16 AM WASHINGTON (AP) - A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas - arguably the most important and popular international program of the Bush presidency - may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal. President Bush wants to double and House Democrats want to triple spending on a program that is now treating 1.4 million people, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where he will visit in two weeks........ On the Net: President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief: http://www.pepfar.gov Global AIDS Alliance: http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/ |
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Swiss experts say individuals with undetectable viral load and no STI cannot transmit HIV during sex
----------------------------------------http://www.aidsmap.com/en/news/4E9D555B-18FB-4D56-B912-2C28AFCCD36B.asp Swiss HIV experts have produced the first-ever consensus statement to say that HIV-positive individuals on effective antiretroviral therapy and without sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are sexually non-infectious. The statement is published in this week’s Bulletin of Swiss Medicine (Bulletin des médecins suisses). The statement also discusses the implications for doctors; for HIV-positive people; for HIV prevention; and the legal system. The statement, on behalf of the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV / AIDS was authored by four of Switzerland’s foremost HIV experts: Prof Pietro Vernazza, of the Cantonal Hospital in St. Gallen, and President of the Swiss Federal Commission for HIV / AIDS; Prof Bernard Hirschel from Geneva University Hospital; Dr Enos Bernasconi of the Lugano Regional Hospital; and Dr Markus Flepp, president of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health’s Sub-committee on the clincal and therapeutic aspects of HIV / AIDS. continue
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AIDS vaccine research - back to drawing board
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/02/06/MN5CUSK7G.DTL [...] In the wake of three AIDS vaccine field trial failures - Merck's STEP trial was only the most recent - National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases chief Dr. Tony Fauci has agreed to convene a summit of top leaders in the vaccine field to rethink strategy and perhaps plot new directions for the flow of federal tax dollars. [...] the research community must come to grips with the unpleasant fact that HIV is the "undisputed champion" among viruses in its ability to mutate resistant strains. Gene fingerprint tests show, for example, that a single infected individual carries more genetic variants of HIV than the flu virus - a notoriously changeable bug - will evolve worldwide each year. "It has the uncanny ability to replicate continuously, no matter what we throw at it," [Harvard researcher Ronald Desrosiers] said. "And we don't even know what constitutes an effective immune response." [...] |
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Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 Researchers Use Technique To Identify, Generate Molecules for Microbicide Research, Development Global Challenges New York Times Examines Issues Surrounding Product RED Campaign African Women Gather To Address HIV/AIDS-Related Abuse Zimbabwean Government To Begin New Treatment Policy To Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission, Health Ministry Official Says Drug Access Delegation Plans To Issue Report About Thailand's Compulsory Licensing Program Across The Nation Los Angeles Times Examines Aging Among Long-Term HIV Survivors in U.S. Science & Medicine Researchers Use Technique To Identify, Generate Molecules for Microbicide Research, Development [Feb 06, 2008] |
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Egypt 'torturing HIV sufferers
HIV-positive Egyptian men are tortured and chained to hospital beds while awaiting unfair homosexuality trials, a human rights group has claimed. Human Rights Watch (HRW) decried the "ignorance and injustice" of a case in which a group of arrested men were given HIV tests without their consent......... |
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New discovery in battle against AIDS
Sunday, February 10, 2008 Researchers have found another handle that the AIDS virus uses to attack cells, and said this one may explain how it gets into the gut, where it hides out and multiplies for a full assault on the body. The handle is a cell receptor, and its discovery could open new ways to fight the fatal and so far incurable virus, the team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported on Sunday. The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, attacks immune system cells, or lymphocytes, known as CD4 T-cells. It was known to use three main receptors, or molecular doorways, to infect cells: CD4, CCR5 and CXCR4. Writing in the journal Nature Immunology, the NIAID scientists said they found a similar receptor, more a handle than a doorway, called integrin alpha 4 beta 7. Continues ... |
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However tough the battle, we will conquer
----------------------------------------BBC News: HIV vaccine research hits impasse Scientists are no further forward in developing a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist has said. Professor David Baltimore, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), said there was little hope among scientists. But he said that they were continuing efforts to develop a vaccine. "Our lack of success may be understandable but it is not acceptable," he said. continued
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Protein In Deer Tick Saliva Prevents HIV-1 From Attaching To T Cells:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080217224459.htm Researchers Reveal HIV Peptide’s Possible Pathway Into the Cell - 2008-02-20: http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2882 GENEART is Awarded two US Patents for Successfully Tested HIV Vaccines: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/genea...hiv-vaccines,285052.shtml |
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