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A community portal about HIV with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a condition in humans in which the immune... [more]

A community portal about HIV with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is a retrovirus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Previous names for the virus include Human T-Lymphotropic Virus-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus .

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World AIDS Day 2009

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World AIDS Day is Tuesday December 1, 2009. Let's remember the epidemic is not over. It might be easy to go on believing that the crisis is over because many in the Western World have been "saved" with life-saving drug treatments; but, there is still no cure and people still die from the disease, not only in under-developed countries but also right here in the U.S. It is still important to practice safer sex each and every time, not only to protect yourself but also to protect others. You can be part of putting an end to the spread of HIV and AIDS. Think ... Read Full Story

Caribbean sees drop in HIV, AIDS cases

From:   www.afp.com
The number of people with HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean is on the decline, but more must be done to contain the disease, a senior official said Monday, on the eve of a regional meeting on the ailment. The ninth annual general meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) is to be held on the island of Grenada from October 28 to 30. The Guyana-based PANCAP unit of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) headquarters said the region recorded 17,000 new infections last year compared to 20,000 the previous year. PANCAP also said there were 11,000 deaths compared to 14,000 during the same ... Read Full Story

Full results show AIDS vaccine is of modest help

From:   www.ap.org
Fresh results from the world's first successful test of an experimental AIDS vaccine confirm that it is only marginally effective and suggest that its protection against HIV infection may wane over time. Yet the findings are exciting to scientists, who think that blood samples from the trial may show how to make a vaccine that does a better job. The results also hint that the vaccine may work better in the general population than in those at higher risk of infection, such as gay men and intravenous drug users. It was the first time an AIDS vaccine was tested mostly in heterosexuals at average ... Read Full Story

Review confirms AIDS vaccine may have worked

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors who surprised the world of AIDS research with a study showing a vaccine prevented some HIV infections released details of their findings on Tuesday and said careful review showed they held up. Full details of the study, which showed the experimental vaccine prevented nearly one-third of infections among 16,000 ordinary Thai volunteers, were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. "That's a validation of the results," said Dr. Jerome Kim, a U.S. Army colonel at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Maryland, who helped lead the trial. Kim and colleagues will present details to a meeting of ... Read Full Story

Scientists glean lessons from stalled AIDS vaccine

PARIS (Reuters) - Merck and Co's failed AIDS vaccine may not have worked, but it probably did not raise the risk of infection either, doctors said on Tuesday. Data analyzed after the large clinical trial was stopped in 2007 contradict earlier findings that suggested some groups, such as uncircumcised men, may have been more vulnerable to infection if they got the vaccine, Dr. Susan Buchbinder of the San Francisco Department of Public Health told an AIDS vaccine conference. Merck's STEP trial involved 3,000 people in South America, the United States, Canada and Australia. Researchers were not only dismayed that it appeared to do no ... Read Full Story
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Global HIV Infections Down 17 Per Cent
A new report shows that global new HIV infection rates have fallen by 17 per cent and suggests that HIV prevention programmes are making a difference beyond the natural course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 2009 AIDS epidemic update was released on Tuesday by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) at a press conference in Shanghai.  
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HIV infection accused found dead
The man accused of deliberately infecting people with the HIV virus has been found dead in his prison cell.Glenn Richard Albert Mills was due to appear in Auckland District Court today but the hearing did not go ahead.A source...  
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Zambian gov't engages musicians in HIV/AIDS fight
A SENIOR Zambian government official has said music could be used as a very important tool for transmitting messages on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care and support, the Zambian News and Information Service (ZANIS)...  
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HIV Infection Among Injection-Drug Users — 34 States, 2004–2007
HIV Infection Among Injection-Drug Users — 34 States, 2004–2007 Source: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (CDC) Since the peak of the HIV epidemic among IDUs in the late 1980s, HIV incidence among IDUs has decreased by nearly 80% (2). Despite that overall decline, IDUs continue to represent a substantial proportion of persons with new HIV diagnoses. [...]  
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Africa: HIV Infections Decline Slowly In Sub-Saharan Region The rate of new HIV infections has slowly declined in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region remains the area of the world most heavily hit by the epidemic and it accounts for nine of every 10 new infections among children. These are among the findings of this year's "AIDS Epidemic Update," jointly published by the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health...  
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