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SAN BERNARDINO - The Bent Not Broken Inspired Community Players and Friends will present, "You Passed Me By," a production that focuses on educating the community about AIDS and HIV prevention.
Shouldn’t you be positive that you’re negative? As a part of a four day celebration for AIDS awareness, Jackson County Health Department and BASIC of NWFL Inc. will be hosting a free HIV testing day Monday, Nov. 30 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Chipola College. The testing will be in the health science building, lobby D.
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 19 (IRIN PlusNews) - In less than seven months South Africa will host the world's biggest single sporting event - the FIFA World Cup. The chance to reach millions of local and visiting football fans presents a golden opportunity, not only for the country's business and tourism sectors, but also for its efforts to combat HIV/AIDS.
Central Coast HIV/AIDS Services is participating in an all day celebration to raise awareness, and remembrance, for World AIDS Day on Tuesday, Dec. 1.
More than half a million people in the U.S. have died from HIV infection , and more than a million currently live with the virus, but a relative handful of people infected with HIV never get treatment for it and never get sick from it. The immune systems of this small population--perhaps 50,000 Americans--somehow control the virus for long periods of time. Of course, there is typically a bell ...
London, England (AHN) – A recent paper in an AIDS journal reveals a large proportion of pregnant Ugandan women are going out of their way not to be HIV tested. By not adopting prevention is the best cure the women are increasing the risk of mother-to-child transmission. Health officials say mother-to-child transmission of HIV can be [...]
Since the discovery in 2007 that a component of human semen called SEVI boosts infectivity of the virus that causes AIDS, researchers have been trying to learn more about SEVI and how it works, in hopes of thwarting its infection-promoting activity.
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) –The White House Office of National AIDS Policy chose Jackson to host an HIV/AIDS town hall meeting Monday night. The community discussion allowed Mississippians to give feedback that will be included in a national strategy to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
There was a time when contracting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, was widely considered a death sentence. But, with the development of effective antiretroviral drugs used to offset the effects of the disease and extend the lives of those who are infected, much of the fear surrounding HIV/AIDS has diminished, and there are many people who think that because of the area they live in or the groups ...
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention. Yet even though cheap tools could prevent and cure both diseases, they kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each a year globally - more than HIV and malaria combined.
In late October, President Obama signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 into law.
Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. Yet they kill an estimated 3.5 million kids under 5 each a year globally - more than HIV and malaria combined.
Zyomyx, Inc., a leader in chip-based bioanalysis technologies, today announced that its readerless CD4 point-of-care technology was selected by Imperial College London's CD4 Initiative as the best-performing POC test method for measuring CD4 T-cell count in HIV/AIDS patients.
JOHANNESBURG, 21 November 2009 (IRIN) - South Africans are dying younger and in greater numbers, and HIV/AIDS is to blame, according to a report released this week by the South African Institute of Race Relations.
A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease. Researchers have highlighted the poor quality of published studies that evaluate the accuracy of diagnostic tests for three major killer infectious diseases. The new study suggests that diagnostic studies on TB, malaria and HIV commercial tests had low quality and were poorly reported.
PORT ST. LUCIE — VGTI Florida Scientific Director Rafick-Pierre Sékaly has won a five-year, multimillion-dollar grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for his HIV eradication research.
