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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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HIV vaccine enters second phase of testing on volunteers

The second phase of a human trial for China’s potential HIV vaccine started on Tuesday in Beijing. About 150 volunteers, mostly those with a high risk of contracting HIV, including gay people, took part in the clinical...

15 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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FDA approves drug that can prevent getting HIV/AIDS

Adults who do not have HIV but are at risk of getting the disease will now be able to take a drug to reduce their chance of getting infected. For the first time, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a drug for...

17 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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US approves over-the-counter HIV home testing kit

The United States announced Tuesday that it had authorized the first over-the-counter home testing kit for HIV, the virus that leads to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Under the testing procedure, the...

4 July, 2012

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