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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.
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.
Arapahoe Community College will be joining citizens from around the world in the fight against sexually transmitted diseases on Dec. 1.
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.Now, scientists at the University of Michigan have determined the atomic-level, three-dimensional structure of a SEVI precursor known as PAP248-286 ...
Although much work remains to be done, a United Nations global reporting system on HIV/AIDS has already yielded an "unequaled wealth of data" on progress toward meeting UN targets for responding to the global HIV epidemic. An update on the development of the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS) global reporting system appears in a special supplement to JAIDS: Journal of ...
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Patricia Nalls finds it difficult to sit quietly by and listen to government officials jabber on about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the District of Columbia.
It started out with an e-mail I received early last week. LifeShare, the local community blood services group, e-mailed me to inform me about a shortage of blood.
According to the World Health Organization, AIDS is the leading cause of death among women between the ages of 15 and 44. Originally, health officials thought HIV and AIDS mostly affected homosexual men. However, women have always suffered from the disease, too.
Researchers describe molecular reasons for the failure of some AIDS vaccines
An artistic undertaking Saturday in Royal Oak will benefit Steppin' Out, the nonprofit behind the AIDS Walk Detroit, and Stitches -- A Doll Project. The latter collects dolls crafted by women living with HIV/AIDS. The event will display some of the dolls and include a silent auction of locally produced art and gifts as well as a screening of the documentary based on the project, "No Day Promised ...
The San Rafael Public Library will host an informational meeting Dec. 7 on joining the Peace Corps. In honor of World AIDS Day, the information session will include a discussion on how volunteers are confronting the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF)’s newest billboard campaign to promote HIV testing -- now on display throughout Los Angeles -- features a life-sized bull, complete with tail and horns, along with the slogan “No Judgemental Bullsh*t” and the website freeHIVtest.net. (PRWeb Nov 18, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/AHF/HIV_Testing_Campaign/prweb3224474 ...
