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Colour-coded blood test that turns blue if you have HIV is 10 times more sensitive than current methods

A test for HIV that is 10 times more sensitive and a fraction of the cost of current methods, has been developed by British scientists. It uses nanotechnology to give a result that can be seen with the naked eye by...

30 October, 2012

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HIV vaccines to be tested at the disease’s epicenter

An international research consortium plans to begin testing four new HIV vaccines in 2014 in a province of South Africa where the infection rate is among the highest in the world. The unusual effort to test several...

12 October, 2012

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Scientists converge in USA over effective HIV vaccine

Scientists worldwide gather in Boston to present more than 400 new research studies updating global progress in the search for a safe and effective HIV vaccine. AIDS Vaccine 2012, the world’s only and largest...

11 September, 2012

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New research helps explain why AIDS vaccine has been so difficult to develop

For decades, a successful HIV vaccine has been the Holy Grail for researchers around the globe. Yet, despite years of research and millions of dollars of investment, that goal has still to be achieved. Recent research...

10 September, 2012

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No virus to blame for new AIDS-like disease—it’s an autoimmune response

In 2004, medical researchers began noticing cases where patients, primarily middle-aged Asians, sought treatment for frequent opportunistic infections. Developing these infections, which mainly affect people with...

28 August, 2012

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Africa lacks capacity, equipment and funds to do AIDS vaccine research

Despite Africa contributing to 17 per cent of all AIDS vaccine trials, the continent, however, still lacks capacity in basic sciences; there is neither equipment nor the technical know-how to carry out assays locally...

24 August, 2012

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A decade of progress and sustained funding for HIV prevention research provides a pathway for ending AIDS

A decade of unprecedented investment in HIV prevention research has led to major scientific breakthroughs in vaccines, microbicides, voluntary medical male circumcision, treatment as prevention and pre-exposure...

23 August, 2012

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Cancer drug unmasks HIV in immune cells

People infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, must take anti-retroviral drugs for the rest of their lives in order to control their disease. Otherwise, reservoirs of dormant virus hiding within the immune system...

30 July, 2012

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Science sets its sights again on an AIDS cure

After 16 years of détente, scientists are once again ready to go to war with the AIDS virus. Unsatisfied with transforming AIDS from a death sentence into a chronic condition, researchers who once thought cure was...

20 July, 2012

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Researchers alert on growing HIV super-infection, drug resistance in Africa

Scientists have raised alarm on growing Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency (AIDS) super-infection, when a person with HIV could acquire a second, new strain of HIV. A new Ugandan study...

6 July, 2012

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