HIV/AIDS Patients Get 1st Once-Daily Pill

People infected with the virus that causes AIDS will soon be able to take a once-a-day pill that combines three drugs in a "cocktail" therapy that can be swallowed in a single dose. Complete Story

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Russia Acknowledges AIDS Drug Shortage

Russia's chief epidemiologist said Tuesday that the country was suffering a shortage in HIV medicines and acknowledged that bureaucratic bungles had contributed to the problem.

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Calif. Court Expands HIV Responsibility

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who lead high-risk sexual lives have good reason to know they may be infected with the virus that causes AIDS and are responsible for informing partners about possible exposure.

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FDA Approves New Drug to Treat HIV

A new drug to treat HIV won federal approval Friday. The Food and Drug Administration said it approved Prezista for the treatment of the human immunodeficiency virus. The drug is the first approved HIV medication for its maker, Johnson & Johnson. It's also the first new HIV drug approved since June 22, 2005.

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Side Effects Cast Shadow Over New HIV Meds

The excitement over a novel class of drugs being developed to fight HIV has been dampened by fears they could pose serious safety risks, including the possibility they might actually speed the progression of AIDS.

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Congressman: AIDS Guidebook Needs Update

The federal guidebook for reducing the spread of AIDS highlights initiatives that are at least 7 years old, which some say hinders the nation's battle against the disease.

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HIV's Ancestry Traced to Wild Chimps

Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases emerged, scientists have confirmed that the HIV virus plaguing humans really did originate in wild chimpanzees, in a corner of Cameroon.

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San Francisco Makes HIV Tests Easier

City-run medical clinics will no longer require written consent and counseling sessions before testing people for HIV in a bid to increase the number of people screened for the virus, officials said Wednesday.

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CDC Wants Routine AIDS Virus Testing

Testing for the AIDS virus could become part of routine physical exams for adults and teens if doctors follow new U.S. guidelines expected to be issued by this summer. Federal health officials say they'd like HIV testing to be as common as a cholesterol check.

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12 Volunteers to Start Getting HIV Vaccine

Human volunteers this week began signing up for an experimental HIV vaccine developed at Atlanta's Emory University.

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HIV Infections Down in San Francisco

New HIV cases have fallen by almost 10 percent over the past five years, the city's first decline in infections since the late 1980s, health officials said.

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HIV Infection Rates Down in Southern India

The number of HIV infections has fallen by more than a third among young people in southern India, the worst-hit region of the South Asian nation, according to a study published Thursday in a leading medical journal.

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S. Africa Race Policy May Have Cut HIV

A controversial policy in AIDS-ravaged South Africa that barred many blacks and even the country's president from donating blood led to a substantial drop in HIV-tainted blood supplies, a study found.

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Religious Groups Get Chunk of AIDS Money

New groups are springing up to win a piece of President Bush's $15 billion AIDS program, with traditional players and religious groups joining forces to improve their chances in a competition that already has targeted nearly a quarter of its grants for faith-based organizations.

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Botswana Adopts Radical Approach to HIV

When Botswana first offered free AIDS treatment, health authorities in one of the world's most infected countries braced for a rush of patients. It did not happen.

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Reviewing America's Toxic History

Many Americans focus on the Nation as divided between liberals and conservatives.

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Circumcision may stop millions of HIV deaths-study

Circumcising men routinely across Africa could prevent millions of deaths from AIDS, World Health Organization researchers and colleagues reported on Monday.

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Twelve Years On, HIV-Positive Genocide Survivors Still Suffering

From the page: -- Rwanda marked its 12th Liberation Day since the 1994 genocide on Tuesday with calls of "never again", but thousands of women who were brutally raped in the 100 days of terror have an enduring reminder of their torment - the HI[V] virus. --

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Diamonds Not Always a Girl's Best Friend

In 1999, after rebel forces ransacked the town at the height of the 10-year civil war, Esano started working the streets and clubs to meet "rich men" - the estimated 200,000 miners, whose unceasing digging and panning has turned the impoverished Kono district into a lunar landsca …

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Health experts sound alarm over new types of HIV

A new strain of HIV is a product of merging two strains, subtype E and subtype C, to form a new straing that can cause the disease to spread faster.

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T-cells Developed From Human Embryonic Stem Cells

New research from UCLA have demonstrated that human embryonic stem cells can be genetically manipulated to develop into mature T-cells.

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Foreign medics deny HIV charge at Libya retrial

From the page: -- Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor denied infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV at their retrial on Tuesday, saying they had been beaten or tortured to make them confess. --

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AIDS: A Challenge for Black Communities

In the old days, civil-rights issues were much simpler. They amounted, in essence, to holding America to its founding promise, which meant attacking Jim Crow. Today, the most pressing issues affecting minority communities have little to do with Jim Crow.

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Teen sex assault victims rarely finish HIV meds

Findings from a new study suggest that just 15 percent of adolescents who have been sexually assaulted and started anti-HIV postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) actually complete the recommended 28-day course of treatment.

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How a tobacco farm in Kent could provide a life-saving drug for millions

From the page: -- In the perfectly controlled atmosphere of a brick-proof, hermetically sealed greenhouse deep in the Kent countryside, a fresh crop of tobacco plants is beginning to flourish.

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Calif. court expands liability for HIV infection

From the page: -- A person who has reason to believe he or she has HIV may be sued by sexual partners if they become infected, the California Supreme Court ruled on Monday, broadening the state's view of when liability arises from the disease. --

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HIV patient sues outreach center for sexual assalt

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Bug Chasers, Men Who Want to Be HIV+

Straight from the article:

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Infectious Diseases (part 1)

Disease has played a part in life for as long as life has existed (and maybe even before). Human history is filled with plagues and epidemics that have literally shifted the course of human events.

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'He thought sex with a virgin would cure him'

From the page: -- He said he raped me because he thought having sex with a virgin would cure him of his disease. --

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How should we help?

Bjørn Lomborg is the convenor of the Copenhagen Consensus. He says:

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Johnson & Johnson wins approval for HIV drug

It is a very good news , and the hope TMC114 really works to save more lives .

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Married with HIV

BBC News has been to Zambia as part of a special series looking at how Africa is faring one year on after the promises of increased aid made at the G8 summit in Gleneagles.

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Man Accused Of Not Disclosing HIV To Fiancee

Man Accused Of Not Disclosing HIV To Fiancee A city worker in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., was arrested after being accused of failing to tell his fiance that he was infected with HIV before they had sex and she was diagnosed with the disease, according to a Local 6 News report.

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Aids timeline

An up-to-date and thought-provoking timeline of the spread of AIDS.

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Woman jailed for giving lover HIV

-- A woman who recklessly infected her lover with HIV has been jailed for more than two-and-a-half years. Sarah Jane Porter, 43, of Seaton Close, Kennington, south-east London, was sentenced to 32 months after admitting inflicting GBH recklessly.

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Kenyan Teen's Death Exposes Gaps Seen in HIV/AIDS Support Network - Los Angeles Times

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School hit by protest after HIV girl's ordeal

25 years of AIDS and the ignorance is just as strong

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'Aids can be cured'

A "shockingly" large number of South African public servants believe HIV/Aids is curable, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has found.

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Antioxidant may prevent dementia due to HIV

Scientists have redesigned an antioxidant which may play a critical role in preventing dementia brought on by HIV-1 virus and AIDS.

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