HIV-AIDS AWARENESS

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 ...