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Two studies show that drugs used to treat AIDS can be used to prevent HIV infection, too

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By David Brown - Jul. 13 (News Report) - Two new studies done in three African countries have shown for the first time that AIDS drugs taken daily can cut by more than half a person’s chance of becoming infected with HIV through heterosexual intercourse.

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Double whammy for HIV

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Nature - By Cassandra Willyard - Jan. 19 (News) - RNA dynamic duo curbs infection in mice

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Circumcision helps stop cancer-causing virus, study finds

Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Jan. 07 (News) - Researchers have documented yet another health benefit for circumcision, which can protect men against the AIDS virus, saying it can protect their wives and girlfriends from a virus that causes cervical cancer.

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Thousands on HIV drugs desperate amid budget woes

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Michelle R. Smith - Dec. 16 (News Report) - Cash-strapped states are cutting back on a program that provides free medicine to people with HIV, leaving thousands of patients to wonder where their drugs will come from and stirring fears of a return to the days when an AIDS diagnosis meant certain death.

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Obama Administration to Unveil National Strategy to Reduce HIV Infections

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Karen Travers - Jul. 12 (News) - Daily NationObama Administration to Unveil National Strategy to Reduce HIV InfectionsABC News (blog)The Obama administration plans to announce its national strategy Tuesday to reduce the annual number of HIV infections in the United States and improve ...Obama Administration Plans National Strategy To Combat HIV/AIDSCalifornia HealthlineDetails of Obama's New HIV Strategy PlanHULIQNew strategy for fighting HIV infections and AIDSThe Associated PressOn Top Magazine?-MedPage Today?-EDGE Bostonall 322 news articles??

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Advance in Quest for HIV Vaccine

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Mark Schoofs - Jul. 09 (News) - In a significant step toward an AIDS vaccine, U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered.

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Economy Hurts Government Aid for H.I.V. Drugs

Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Kevin Sack - Jul. 01 (News Report) - The weak economy is crippling the government program that provides life-sustaining antiretroviral drugs to people with H.I.V. or AIDS who cannot afford them. Nearly 1,800 have been relegated to rapidly expanding waiting lists that less than three years ago had dwindled to zero.

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At Front Lines, AIDS War Is Falling Apart

Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - May. 10 (Special Report) - Uganda is the first and most obvious example of how the war on global AIDS is falling apart.

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Insurer targeted HIV patients to drop coverage

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Murray Waas - Mar. 18 (News Report) - Insurance companies have long engaged in the practice of "rescission," whereby they investigate policyholders shortly after they've been diagnosed with life-threatening illnesses. But government regulators and investigators who have overseen the actions of Assurant and other health insurance companies say it is unprecedented for a company to single out people with HIV.

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Bush birth control policies helped fuel Africa's baby boom

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Shashank Bengali - Dec. 15 (News Report) - At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.

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For First Time, AIDS Vaccine Shows Some Success in Trials

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - Sep. 25 (News Report) - A new AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand has protected a significant minority against infection, the first time any vaccine against the disease has even partly succeeded in a clinical trial.

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A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Marilynn Marchione, Michael Casey - Sep. 24 (News Report) - For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result. Recent failures led many scientists to think such a vaccine might never be possible. The World Health Organization and the U.N. agency UNAIDS said the results "instilled new hope" in the field of HIV vaccine research, although researchers say it likely is many years before a vaccine might be available.

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Antibodies found that prevent HIV from causing severe AIDS

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Thomas H. Maugh II - Sep. 04 (News Report) - Crucial to the discovery is the fact that the antibodies target a portion of HIV that researchers had not considered in their search for a vaccine. Moreover, the target is a relatively stable portion of the virus that does not participate in the extensive mutations that have made HIV able to escape from antiviral drugs and previous experimental vaccines.

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Study Finds Chimps Die From Simian AIDS, Dispelling Widely Held Belief

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Lawrence K. Altman - Jul. 23 (News) - For the first time, scientists have shown that chimpanzees in the wild become sick and die from the simian version of AIDS. The finding upsets a widely held scientific belief that chimpanzees, the closest relatives to humans, can get the virus that causes simian AIDS but without harm.

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To Fix Health Care, Some Study Developing World

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Amy Dockser Marcus - Jul. 02 (News Report) - When doctors running the AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham wanted to increase the number of patients who showed up for treatment, they turned to an unusual place for help: southern Africa.

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HIV co-discovers Gallo and Montagnier unite to push for renewed focus on HIV/AIDS: Scientific American Blog

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Coco Ballantyne - May. 18 (News Report) - As the world frets about the swine flu virus, the scientists credited with discovering HIV urged governments and international organizations to redouble their commitment to the battle against AIDS.

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HIV's undercover route to infection : Nature News

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Nature - By Erika Check Hayden - Apr. 30 (News Report) - HIV enters human cells through a more complicated route than was previously believed, scientists report today. The work, led by biophysicist Gregory Melikyan of the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, has implications for drug treatments that aim to block the virus's entry into cells.

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5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - By Brian Vastag - Apr. 09 (Special Report) - In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs. The theory: focusing on treatment and prevention instead of jailing users would decrease the number of deaths and infections.

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Global Update - Aids Relief - U.S. Initiative Is Found to Reduce Deaths From AIDS, but Not New Cases, in Africa

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Donald G. McNeil - Apr. 06 (News Report) - The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the $15 billion program begun by the Bush administration in 2003, cut the AIDS death toll in its African target countries by more than 10 percent, but did not prevent new cases, according to a new study.

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DC's rising AIDS rate 'worse than West Africa'

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - By Robert Bazell - Mar. 16 (News Report) - A new report issued by the Department of Health Monday on Washington, D.C.'s AIDS epidemic has set off alarm signals in the nation's capital.

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When Ironies Make Perfect Sense

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Science - By Anne Sasso - Feb. 27 (Special Report) - Traveling to California to find yourself is a '60s cliché. But for Gina Wingood, a professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia, the trip to Berkeley, California, where she attended graduate school, set the course for the rest of her life. She found her life's work: designing AIDS-intervention programs for African-American women. She tapped into a hidden vein of solidarity with her black sisters that transcended her white-immersion upbringing and economic status. And she met the man who would become her closest scientific collaborator and her husband.

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Black Women's Health: 4 Ways to Boost It

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

U.S. News & World Report - By January W. Payne - Feb. 23 (Special Report) - Two new publications, The Black Woman's Guide to Healthy Living and the American Cancer Society's report "Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans," shine a spotlight squarely on black women's health. And for good reason: They're more likely than white women to succumb to top killers. African-American women are 35 percent more likely to die from heart disease, for example, according to the National Women's Health Information Center. African-Americans overall don't get the same level of heart disease care as whites because they don't undergo the same tests and treatments.

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Vietnam Battles HIV Epidemic with U.S. Aid

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Lam Thuy Vo - Dec. 24 (Special Report) - Though much of the Bush Administration's foreign policy has proved polarizing, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which is supporting the Vietnamese effort, has drawn widespread praise.

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Doctor gets 30 years in Medicare fraud case

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - By Jay Weaver - Dec. 18 (News Report) - Insisting she was not guilty of Medicare fraud, a convicted Miami physician sobbed Wednesday as she begged a federal judge for mercy. Instead, she got a 30-year prison sentence. U.S. District Judge Federico Moreno hammered Dr. Ana Alvarez-Jacinto, 54, with one of the stiffest punishments ever for a Medicare fraud offender. She was convicted in October of writing phony prescriptions at a clinic for HIV patients in an $11 million scam against the nation's health insurance program. Moreno said his stiff sentence was meant in part as a ''deterrent'' to Medicare fraud perpetrators in Miami-Dade County, recognized as the nation's capital of healthcare corruption. Alvarez-Jacinto's 30-year sentence dwarfs the average sentence -- 2 ½ years, according to the U.S. attorney's office in Miami. She likely will spend the rest of her life in prison because there's no parole in the federal system.

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More indigenous Guatemalans turn to sex work, stoking HIV fears

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Miami Herald - Nov. 28 (News Report) - ''They've come here more and more because they can earn four, five, even 10 times what they could make in other jobs,'' said Dr. Marco García, who runs a nearby clinic offering free HIV/AIDS tests and treatment. The clinic is treating more indigenous women than ever, he said. In the waiting room, a handful of Maya women, small children in tow, waited for medical treatment on a recent morning. ``They realize the risks of contracting diseases, but prostitution pays.''

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