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Baby born with HIV reported to be clear of virus after urgent treatment
A baby born with HIV may have been cleared of the virus after doctors gave her treatment for the infection within hours of her birth. Doctors gave the baby's mother anti-HIV drugs during labour to cut the risk of passing her HIV on, and began treating the baby four hours after she was born in suburban Los Angeles last April.
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HIV protection gel 'a step closer'
A gel that can be used by women after sex to protect against HIV is a step closer, according to researchers. Drugs applied three hours after infection could protect female monkeys from a type of HIV, US scientists said. The findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, could lead to new ways to fight HIV, which is continuing to spread globally.
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As a doctor, I’d rather have HIV than diabetes
One of the most feared diseases in the world is now, for British doctors, a manageable chronic condition. It’s a triumph we’re oddly scared to talk about
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The AIDS-Shaming of Magic Johnson
The sheer volume of bile spewing from the mouth of the Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, is staggering. But just as awe-inducing, and stomach-churning, is the unrestrained breadth of its variety, which makes putting the offenses in order — if one were inclined to — nearly impossible.
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Teenager Creates New HIV Test
A faster, cheaper way to test for HIV is always exciting, but when the test is created by a 15 year old high school student it's not surprising that people are taking notice. The majority of HIV infections occur in regions where access to testing labs is difficult, to say the least.
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How the diseased and destitute are forced to carve out a grim existence in the sewers of Eastern Europe
Once dubbed 'The Paris of the East', Romanian capital Bucharest is a city teeming with ornate architecture, Baroque palaces and tree-lined boulevards. But beneath its mansions and squares lies a second city that no tourist gets to see - an underground kingdom of outcasts and drug addicts living in the city's vast network of sewers. Here, everyone is HIV-positive and a quarter have TB, yet they are left to rot in the darkness, huddling against heating pipes and snorting glue to stay warm.
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Drug-resistant HIV pandemic is a 'real possibility', expert claims
A new HIV pandemic is “a real possibility”, one of the world’s leading authorities on infectious disease has said, warning that a rise of drug resistant strains of the virus could “reverse progress made since the 1980s” in combating the disease.
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Computing a Cure for HIV
HIV/AIDS has caused an estimated 36 million deaths, according to the World Health Organization, and remains a major menace worldwide. Today approximately 35 million people are living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including more than 1 million individuals in the United States.
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HIV re-emerges in 'cured' US girl
A baby girl in the US born with HIV and believed cured after very early treatment has now been found to still harbour the virus.
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W.H.O. Says All Men Who Have Sex With Men Should Take Antiretroviral Drugs
Warns of 'exploding epidemics' of HIV among gay men. The World Health Organization has suggested for the first time that all men who have sex with men should take antiretroviral medicine, warning that HIV infection rates among gay men are exploding around the world.
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India caps price of 108 more medicines; drugmakers to take hit
India has capped the prices of more than 100 drugs used to treat diseases ranging from diabetes to HIV, a move likely to hit the profit margins of drug firms such as Sanofi SA, Abbott Laboratories and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. The drug pricing regulator's decision, aimed at improving affordability, was slammed by the drugmakers in India, where prices of generic drugs sold are already low compared with international markets.
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Scientists Can Now Cut HIV Out of Human DNA
HIV is a sneaky virus. Its MO involves integrating its own genes into your DNA, so that even as antiretrovirals hold everything in check, HIV lurks quietly inside your cells. Now scientists have found a way to edit the virus straight out of the human genome—a potential cure for even latent infections.
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'Exciting' drug flushes out HIV
Scientists say they have made an "exciting" step towards curing HIV by forcing the virus out of hiding.
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Gates Foundation awards $25 million to HIV vaccine research
Oregon researchers developing a vaccine that has shown promise in preventing HIV infection in primates said on Wednesday they have been awarded a $25 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Oregon Health & Science University scientists, in announcing the award, said they hope to develop a vaccine that not only prevents the HIV virus from infecting people exposed to it, but also eliminates the virus from those already infected.
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Doctor treats Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia - seemingly successfully
A doctor in rural Liberia inundated with Ebola patients says he's had good results with a treatment he tried out of sheer desperation: an HIV drug. Dr. Gobee Logan has given the drug, lamivudine, to 15 Ebola patients, and all but two survived. That's a 7% mortality rate. Across West Africa, the virus has killed 70% of its victims.
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Aids: Origin of pandemic 'was 1920s Kinshasa'
The origin of the Aids pandemic has been traced to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists say. An international team of scientists say a "perfect storm" of population growth, sex and railways allowed HIV to spread.
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How Lessons From the AIDS Crisis Can Help Us Beat Ebola
As a new Ebola case is diagnosed in the U.S., learning from lessons of the past can point the way to beating this outbreak.
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HIV: Genetic Mutation Leads to Two Men Being 'Spontaneously Cured' of Virus
The genetic mechanism that allowed two men to be "spontaneously cured" of HIV has been discovered by scientists. The researchers, from France's Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), said the two patients they studied were not unique and the phenomenon of being cured of HIV is the result of an evolutionary shift between some humans and the virus.
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HIV evolving 'into milder form'
HIV is evolving to become less deadly and less infectious, according to a major scientific study. The team at the University of Oxford shows the virus is being "watered down" as it adapts to our immune systems. It said it was taking longer for HIV infection to cause Aids and that the changes in the virus may help efforts to contain the pandemic.
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