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An Alabama doctor known for being the first to demonstrate the value of viral-load testing in human immunodeficiency virus clinical practice has been installed as chair of the board of directors of the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA). Michael Saag, M.D., directs the UAB Center for AIDS Research and helped author U.S. guidelines for antiretroviral treatments.
The Tri-State AIDS Holiday Project still needs a few more donors to help make Christmas merry for several families across Southern Indiana, Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois.The project is providing Christmas for 350 low-income households this year. That's 450 adults and more than 200 children, each in a family affected by AIDS or HIV.The project is a joint effort by the AIDS Resource Group ...
THE CHATHAMS - The second annual toy drive to help children suffering or affected by AIDS has been mounted by Chatham High School’s SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) group.
Scientists seeking to understand how to make an AIDS vaccine have found the cause of a major roadblock. It turns out that the immune system can indeed produce cells with the potential to manufacture powerful HIV-blocking antibodies -- but at the same time, the immune system works equally hard to make sure these cells are eliminated before they have a chance to mature.
A group of clergy, lawmakers and labor leaders is urging the nation's black churches and political leaders to push for major intervention in the African-American HIV and AIDS crisis.
It was another anniversary that was somber.
Despite education and outreach efforts, the number of gay men contracting HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases has been increasing for much of this decade.
Video from this event. The CSIS Global Health Policy Center and the International AIDS Society hosted a presentation by Anthony Fauci on the current status of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, followed by a roundtable discussion, moderated by Stephen Morrison, featuring Diane Havlir, Elly Katabira and Phillip Nieburg. Julio Montaner provided closing and opening comments.
NAIROBI, 15 December 2009 (IRIN) - The executive board of UNITAID, the international health financing agency, has approved the establishment of a patent pool for HIV/AIDS medication, a decision AIDS activists say will go a long way in helping poor nations achieve universal access to treatment.
Tibotec Virco Virology BVBA today announced the acquisition of LAB TRACKER⢠HIV, a customized electronic medical record system, from the company Ground Zero Software. LAB TRACKER⢠HIV is a full-service, scalable software platform designed to meet the complex disease-management needs of health care providers who are treating people living with HIV/AIDS.  It facilitates secure data integration ...
A national movement to battle HIV-AIDS in the black community is taking shape in Detroit. The Black Leadership Commission on AIDS of Detroit is pushing for approval of national legislation to improve funding for outreach against AIDS. The Reverend Horace Sheffield the Third is organizing the local effort. He says the $20 billion legislation would target key areas ...
Harlingen resident Alicia Lugo has led the efforts to help out hundreds of children living with or affected by HIV or AIDS in the Valley.
When John Reams of Chandler, Ind., and his domestic partner were diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS about 20 years ago, they thought they were going to die — and soon.When they didn't, the two men decided to go back to work.One has had better luck with that than the other, but both have to live with the high cost of the medications that keep them alive."When I found out (about the ...
Growing concern about HIV/AIDS in the African-American community is bringing together leaders in Detroit today to combat a disease that state health officials said infects blacks at a rate about 10 times higher than whites.
( Rockefeller University Press ) Immune proteins called HLA molecules help to activate killer T cell responses against pathogens. But according to a study that will be published online on Dec. 14 in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, one particular group of HLA molecules cripples this activation, perhaps explaining why HIV-infected individuals who express these HLAs progress to AIDS more ...
Police arrested an Oklahoma City man Saturday on a complaint of engaging in conduct reasonably likely to transmit AIDS or HIV after a woman told officers he had sex with her without telling her he was ...
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