Washington, July 23 : Circumcision in gay men would have little effect on reducing HIV incidence, according to a new US study.
Circumcision is thought to reduce the risk of HIV transmission by removing cells in the foreskin that are most susceptible to infection by the virus.
Clinical trials conducted in Africa have found it reduces the [...]
London, July 22 : In a bid to improve access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV among injecting drug users (IDUs), health providers need to change popular opinion, that portray IDUs as already dead or less than human, and so deserving of less-than-human rights.
The research suggested that health providers must focus less on the individual patient’’s [...]
Washington, July 17 : A researcher at UC Davis has developed a “lab on a chip” device for HIV testing, which is quick and pocket friendly.
Biomedical engineer Prof. Alexander Revzin’s microfluidic device uses antibodies to “capture” white blood cells called T cells that are affected by HIV.
In addition to physically binding these cells the test [...]
Washington, June 30 : Viruses like the HIV undergo several changes in a bid to evade the body’’s immune system but even months later the original version that caused the infection still maintains a presence in the host’’s body, new research reveals.
The study, conducted by scientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center, is based [...]
London, May 27 : Treating HIV-infected persons with antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces HIV transmission to their sexual partners by more than 90 percent, researchers have found.
The study has been published in the Lancet.
“These results are an important finding in the search for effective HIV prevention strategies and the strongest evidence to date that ART might [...]
Washington, May 24 : In a test on monkeys, a vaginal microbicide based on a new type of anti-HIV drug could offer significant protection against infection with a virus similar to HIV, researchers have found.
The study is the first of a gel with an integrase inhibitor, one of the latest additions to the arsenal of [...]
Washington, May 14 : Duke University biomedical engineers have developed an inexpensive and easy-to-use system that allows mothers to give their newborns a potentially life-saving dose of an anti-HIV medication shortly after birth.
This is especially important since such drugs can only be found in clinics or hospitals, which can be days away from an expectant [...]
Washington, May 14 : HIV disease progresses faster in infected individuals who down two or more alcoholic drinks a day, claims a new study.
The study has been published in AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, a peer-reviewed journal published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
The article, entitled “Alcohol Use Accelerates HIV Disease Progression,” clearly demonstrates that frequent [...]
Washington, April 9 : A group of scientists has found a new way by which HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can infect women.
Women are susceptible to HIV, but scientists have been puzzled as to how it finds its way into the female reproductive tract.
Now for the first time, researchers at McMaster University have discovered [...]
Washington, Apr 6 : A set of naturally occurring antibodies that can block one of the key ways the AIDS virus gains entry into certain blood cells has been identified by scientists at Duke University Medical Center.
They say the discovery, published online in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, expands traditional notions about how the immune [...]