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Feb 19th, 2009
This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) released new HIV incidence data. The CDC released its 2007 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report and the NYC DOHMH released its semiannual HIV Epidemiology & Fields Services report.
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Feb 13th, 2009
In a new article published in the New England Journal of Medicine on February 12, 2009, the authors report a case of HIV being cured. Cured meaning there is no detectable traces of HIV in the patient's blood.
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Feb 13th, 2009
Providing a synthetic form of the immune system protein interleukin-2 to HIV-infected individuals already taking combination antiretroviral therapy boosts their numbers of CD4+ T cells, the key white blood cells destroyed by HIV, but fails to reduce their risk of HIV-associated opportunistic diseases or death compared with combination antiretroviral therapy alone.
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Feb 10th, 2009
Researchers in Africa and the US have developed an antimicrobial vaginal gel that shows much promise for halting the spread of HIV. The gel, known as PRO 2000 has been found to be thirty percent effective for preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases in clinical trials.
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Feb 5th, 2009
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients with heart disease or diabetes have a higher risk for subsequent coronary events than HIV patients without heart disease or diabetes.
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Feb 3rd, 2009
Today, a woman diagnosed with HIV filed a complaint against Chile before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an international human rights body, charging that the government failed to protect her from being forcibly sterilized at a state hospital immediately after she gave birth.
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Feb 2nd, 2009
The New York State Health Department is urging anyone who has had sexual contact with Nassau County resident Robert Musmacker, who has told authorities he is infected with HIV, to be tested for HIV, other sexually transmitted diseases.
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Jan 29th, 2009
Georgia’s African-American population is urged to get tested for HIV and know their status on February 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD).
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Jan 17th, 2009
IRIN News examined the stigma and discrimination faced by HIV-positive people in Iraq.
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Jan 14th, 2009
Uganda's Ministry of Health announced that it had enough antiretroviral drugs in stock for 2009, relieving fears that the country was facing a shortage of the drugs.
