HIV-AIDS AWARENESS

Image via Wikipedia To spread awareness about HIV/AIDS and the usage of condoms mainly among the most vulnerable section – truck drivers and their attendants, a van christened ‘Ustad Condom Van’ was introduced in the city Tuesday. The van which will move across the city for the next 27 days is part of a condom promotion awareness programme, initiated by the union territory’s State AIDS Control...

University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid in the presence of semen, trapping AIDS virus particles in a microscopic mesh so they can't infect vaginal cells. University of Utah bioengineer Patrick Kiser analyzes polymers used to ...

A congregation of nuns in this city are helping HIV-positive people fight discrimination and earn a living. Through their Abundant Charity Day-care Center, the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, with the help of Loikaw diocese, provides food, medicine and clothing to HIV/AIDS patients and their children. The center also helps patients with livelihood skills. Monica, a 29-year-old ethnic ...

A research team may have broken the stubborn impasse that has frustrated the invention of an effective HIV vaccine, by using an approach that bypasses the usual path followed by vaccine developers. By using gene transfer technology that produces molecules that block infection, the scientists protected monkeys from infection by a virus closely related to HIV—the simian immunodeficiency virus, or ...

EVERY minute, six people are infected with HIV - the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS. (See http://www.iavi.org/Pages/home.aspx) And in the 28 years since scientists identified the virus, it has become one of the most devastating pandemics ever recorded in human history. With more than 25 million lives lost since 1981, the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, which will be ...

A potential treatment for HIV may one day help people who are not responding to Anti-Retroviral Therapy, suggests new research published April 1 in The Journal of Immunology. Scientists looking at monkeys with the simian form of HIV were able to reduce the virus levels in the blood to undetectable levels, by treating the monkeys with a molecule called D-1mT alongside Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)...

Antiretroviral drugs are medications for the treatment of infection by retroviruses, primarily HIV. Different classes of antiretroviral drugs act at different stages of the HIV life cycle. Combination of several (typically three or four) antiretroviral drugs is known as Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART).. For more information about the topic Antiretroviral drug, read the full ...

Antiviral editing enzymes like Apobec3G have been involved in an ancient genome defense strategy in primates. (Graphic courtesy of Public Library Of Science) Published this week on-line in PLoS Biology, Sara Sawyer, Michael Emerman, and Harmit Malik investigate the genetic roots of the battle for evolutionary advantage between HIV-type viruses and the hosts they infect. What they find is ...

A team of Nigerian scientists led by Dauda Oladepo of the International Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) has discovered CD4 Lymphocyte baseline for testing HIV/AIDS patients in Nigeria, the Vanguard newspaper reported on Tuesday. CD4 is used for monitoring and enrolling HIV patients for retroviral therapy, but before the discovery, scientists had argued that the ...

HIV/AIDS continues to dramatically affect people all over the world despite preventive measures such as educational awareness and testing programs and treatment initiatives such as drug research and development. Even in the United States, where government funding, medical technology, and education would seemingly defeat this disease, the epidemic continues. According to the United States Center ...

HIV and AIDS are the biggest health threats mankind has ever faced.Image via WikipediaThat is according to the World Health Organisation, which describes the global HIV epidemic as "the fastest growing threat to human development today."You wouldn’t think so if you’re one of the lucky ones living in a wealthy developed nation. The developed world has been lulled into a false sense of security ...

About the DayMarch 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Office on Women's Health is the lead for this day. The 2009 theme is "HIV is Right Here at Home".The FactsIn 2005, women represented 26 percent of new AIDS diagnoses, compared to only 11 percent of new AIDS cases reported in 1990. Most women are infected with HIV through ...

HIV/AIDS is on the rise among women both in Canada and around the world. HIV/AIDS was once considered a disease that affects mainly men who engage in sexual activity with other men. But, the face of AIDS is changing. Intravenous drug users, and heterosexuals run the same risks of contracting HIV/AIDS as anyone else, if they are not careful.The percentage of reported AIDS cases in Canada among ...

Active oxygen or medical ozone is a form of oxygen molecule which contains large excess of energy which it also uses to kill HIV, viruses bacteria and germs on contact. Active oxygen / medical ozone also kills HIV and viruses by using the by products formed when it mixes with bodily fluids. At low concentration i.e. therapeutic concentration, omnivir active oxygen / medical ozone is a colourless ...

For information about Food and Drug Administration-approved HIV-related clinical trials being conducted throughout the United States, contact the AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service. 1-800-TRIALS-A (1-800-874-2572)1-888-480-3739 (TTY/Deaf Access)http://www.actis.org/ For federally approved treatment guidelines on HIV/AIDS, contact the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service. ...

NIAID-supported investigators are conducting an abundance of research on HIV infection, including developing and testing HIV vaccines and new therapies for the disease and some of its associated conditions. Investigators are testing 29 HIV vaccines in people, and are developing or testing many drugs for HIV infection or AIDS-associated opportunistic infections. Researchers also are ...

Because no vaccine for HIV is available, the only way to prevent infection by the virus is to avoid behaviors that put a person at risk of infection, such as sharing needles and having unprotected sex. Many people infected with HIV have no symptoms. Therefore, there is no way of knowing with certainty whether a sexual partner is infected unless he or she has repeatedly tested negative for ...

When AIDS first surfaced in the United States, there were no medicines to combat the underlying immune deficiency and few treatments existed for the opportunistic diseases that resulted. Over the past 10 years, however, researchers have developed drugs to fight both HIV infection and its associated infections and cancers. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a number of drugs...