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FDA warns of heart problem with HIV drug combo (Reuters)

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that HIV drugs Invirase and Norvir might lead to an abnormal heart rhythm when used in combination, according to preliminary data the agency is reviewing. ...

read more Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday that HIV drugs Invirase and Norvir might lead to an abnormal heart rhythm when used in combination, according to preliminary data the agency is reviewing. read more Fri Mar 2010

Scientists urge rethink on "narrow" health goals (Reuters)

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Reuters - Families in some poor nations are trapped in cycles of illness and poverty as authorities fail to tackle chronic health problems or meet goals on child health and tuberculosis, scientists said on Tuesday. ...

read more Reuters - Families in some poor nations are trapped in cycles of illness and poverty as authorities fail to tackle chronic health problems or meet goals on child health and tuberculosis, scientists said on Tuesday. read more Fri Mar 2010

Failure to aid drug users drives HIV spread: study (Reuters)

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Reuters - More than 90 percent of the world's 16 million injecting drug users are offered no help to avoid contracting AIDS, and governments that ignore them risk a spiraling public health crisis, drugs experts said on Monday. ...

read more Reuters - More than 90 percent of the world's 16 million injecting drug users are offered no help to avoid contracting AIDS, and governments that ignore them risk a spiraling public health crisis, drugs experts said on Monday. read more Fri Mar 2010

Uzbekistan jails AIDS advocate over work: activists (AFP)

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
AFP - An AIDS activist in Uzbekistan has been sentenced to seven years in prison for writing a brochure that authorities said would promote antisocial behaviour, activists said Thursday. ...

read more AFP - An AIDS activist in Uzbekistan has been sentenced to seven years in prison for writing a brochure that authorities said would promote antisocial behaviour, activists said Thursday. read more Fri Mar 2010

Pfizer pneumonia shot helps HIV-infected patients (Reuters)

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Reuters - Results of a trial of Pfizer's Prevnar 7 vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis showed on Wednesday that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in HIV-infected adults in Africa. ...

read more Reuters - Results of a trial of Pfizer's Prevnar 7 vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis showed on Wednesday that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in HIV-infected adults in Africa. read more Fri Mar 2010

Philippine bishops demand ban on condom ads (AFP)

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AFP - Bishops in the predominantly Catholic Philippines called for a total ban on condom advertisements on Wednesday as an ongoing tussle over contraceptives flared again. ...

read more AFP - Bishops in the predominantly Catholic Philippines called for a total ban on condom advertisements on Wednesday as an ongoing tussle over contraceptives flared again. read more Fri Mar 2010

Philippines HIV cases spike to record in January (Reuters)

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Reuters - The Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January -- a national high -- and the country's health secretary said on Thursday she would seek more public funds to distribute condoms among high-risk groups. ...

read more Reuters - The Philippines diagnosed 143 people with HIV in January -- a national high -- and the country's health secretary said on Thursday she would seek more public funds to distribute condoms among high-risk groups. read more Fri Mar 2010

Health Highlights: March 3, 2010 (HealthDay)

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HealthDay - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: ...

read more HealthDay - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay: read more Fri Mar 2010

Sidibe, Goosby Meet With Leaders In Nigeria To Promote Country's Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
During a joint visit to Nigeria this week, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe and Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. global AIDS coordinator, encouraged the country to ramp up its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, Pana/Afrique en ligne reports... ...

read more During a joint visit to Nigeria this week, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe and Ambassador Eric Goosby, U.S. global AIDS coordinator, encouraged the country to ramp up its efforts to fight HIV/AIDS, Pana/Afrique en ligne reports... read more Fri Mar 2010

WHO AFRO Delegation Travels To U.S. To Discuss Health Care Collaboration

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Luis Gomes Sambo, the WHO's regional director for Africa, "is in the U.S. this week" for meetings with senior health officials and development agency representatives to discuss collaborating on health, the New Times/allAfrica.com reports. During his trip, Sambo will meet with Mirta Roses, ...

read more Luis Gomes Sambo, the WHO's regional director for Africa, read more Fri Mar 2010

Gene-Based Stem Cell Therapy Specifically Removes Cell Receptor That Attracts HIV

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 - a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need - from human cells. Individuals who naturally lack the CCR5 receptor have been found to be essentially resistant to HIV... ...

read more UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 - a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need - from human cells. Individuals who naturally lack the CCR5 receptor have been found to be essentially resistant to HIV... read more Fri Mar 2010

Survival Significantly Improved By Combined Drug Therapy To Treat TB And HIV

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) during tuberculosis therapy significantly reduced mortality rates by 56 percent in a randomized clinical trial of 642 patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis... ...

read more Initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) during tuberculosis therapy significantly reduced mortality rates by 56 percent in a randomized clinical trial of 642 patients co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis... read more Fri Mar 2010

Stem Cell Therapy Removes Cell Receptor That Attracts HIV

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need from human cells. Individuals who naturally lack the CCR5 receptor have been found to be essentially resistant to HIV... ...

read more UCLA AIDS Institute researchers successfully removed CCR5 a cell receptor to which HIV-1 binds for infection but which the human body does not need from human cells. Individuals who naturally lack the CCR5 receptor have been found to be essentially resistant to HIV... read more Fri Mar 2010

News Outlets Examine Development Of Low-Cost Diagnostic Tool, Infectious Disease Surveillance

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
CNN examines the work of a Harvard University chemistry professor to "shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that's the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny." According to George Whitesides, who created a prototype of the inexpensive paper "chip," the technology could be u ...

read more CNN examines the work of a Harvard University chemistry professor to read more Fri Mar 2010

Health Policy Research Roundup: Length Of Hospital Stays, Analyses Of Obama's Reform Proposals

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Archives Of Internal Medicine: Hospital Cost Of Care, Quality Of Care, And Readmission Rates - This study compares patients treated for pneumonia and congestive heart failure (CHF) and finds that high-cost hospitals don't always deliver better care... ...

read more Archives Of Internal Medicine: Hospital Cost Of Care, Quality Of Care, And Readmission Rates - This study compares patients treated for pneumonia and congestive heart failure (CHF) and finds that high-cost hospitals don't always deliver better care... read more Fri Mar 2010

Also In Global Health News: Rwandan Nurses; AIDS 2010; Uzbek AIDS Advocate; Child Mortality In Mozambique; Meningitis Belt

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Rwandan Nurses To Give ART To Expedite Delivery Rwanda's Ministry of Health will soon give nurses the authority to give antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive patients, IRIN reports... ...

read more Rwandan Nurses To Give ART To Expedite Delivery Rwanda's Ministry of Health will soon give nurses the authority to give antiretroviral therapy (ART) to HIV-positive patients, IRIN reports... read more Fri Mar 2010

Also In Global Health News: Potential Roundworm Treatment; Opposition To Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill; Low-Cost Toilets; ARV Treatment During Emergencies

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Bacterial Protein Kills Intestinal Roundworms In Mice, Could Lead To Human Treatment Researchers have discovered that a "bacterial protein used in a common pesticide kills intestinal parasitic roundworms in mice," which may pave a way for treatment in humans, Nature News reports (Fang, 3 ...

read more Bacterial Protein Kills Intestinal Roundworms In Mice, Could Lead To Human Treatment Researchers have discovered that a read more Fri Mar 2010

UNAIDS Takes Action To Empower Women And Girls To Protect Themselves From HIV

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
UNAIDS, together with celebrated artist and activist for women and HIV, Annie Lennox, has launched an Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (2010 - 2014), which has been developed to address gender inequalities and human rights violations that continue to pu ...

read more UNAIDS, together with celebrated artist and activist for women and HIV, Annie Lennox, has launched an Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (2010 - 2014), which has been developed to address gender inequalities and human rights violations that continue to pu read more Fri Mar 2010

Study Finds Most HIV Prevention, Treatment, Care Efforts Overlook IDUs

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
A systematic review of HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users (IDUs) throughout the world, published Monday in the journal Lancet, found that international efforts to fight the disease are largely overlooking this population, the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Hera ...

read more A systematic review of HIV prevention, treatment and care for injecting drug users (IDUs) throughout the world, published Monday in the journal Lancet, found that international efforts to fight the disease are largely overlooking this population, the Australian Associated Press/Sydney Morning Hera read more Fri Mar 2010

Mosaic Vaccines Show Promise In Reducing The Spread Of HIV

Categorie : HIV / AIDS
Two teams of researchers - including Los Alamos National Laboratory theoretical biologists Bette Korber, Will Fischer, Sydeaka Watson, and James Szinger - have announced an HIV vaccination strategy that has been shown to expand the breadth and depth of immune responses in rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monk ...

read more Two teams of researchers - including Los Alamos National Laboratory theoretical biologists Bette Korber, Will Fischer, Sydeaka Watson, and James Szinger - have announced an HIV vaccination strategy that has been shown to expand the breadth and depth of immune responses in rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monk read more Fri Mar 2010

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