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Nov 4th, 2009
Preliminary data presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America found that the immune systems of HIV patients who are obese do not respond to antiretroviral therapy as well as do those of people of normal weight
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Nov 3rd, 2009
Indiana teenager Ryan White was expelled from school when it was learned that he had contracted HIV/AIDS from treatment of his hemophilia. He died from the disease in April 1990, but his struggle resulted in the Ryan White Care Act passed in August 1990.
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Oct 22nd, 2009
This week, both the Senate and the House of Representatives approved funding of the S.1793 Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS resources Emergency (CARE) Act through the year 2013. The legislation will provide improved healthcare for patients with HIV and AIDS.
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Sep 30th, 2009
More than 4 million people in low- and middle-income countries were receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at the close of 2008.
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Sep 26th, 2009
Researchers have discovered two powerful new antibodies to HIV that reveal what may be an Achilles heel on the virus.
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Sep 26th, 2009
On Sept. 27, the second annual National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we pause to mourn the hundreds of thousands of gay and bisexual men who have died with AIDS, and we strengthen our resolve to end this terrible scourge.
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Sep 25th, 2009
Researcher Donald Francis was surprised this week after decades of work discovered that an AIDS vaccine may help the spread of HIV may actually showed some promise.
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Sep 24th, 2009
In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial.
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Sep 24th, 2009
A research team from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston has come closer in 2009 to creating a new HIV vaccine. The scientist report the creation of the first antigen that induces protective antibodies capable of blocking infection of human cells by genetically-diverse strains of HIV.
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Sep 21st, 2009
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration today announced approval of the Abbott Prism HIV O Plus assay, as a screening tool designed to detect the presence of certain antibodies to HIV.