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Instead of infiltrating breaks in the skin, HIV appears to attack normal, healthy genital tissue in women, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study that offers new insight into how the AIDS virus spreads.They said researchers had assumed the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, sought out breaks in the skin, such as a herpes sore, in order to gain access to immune system cells deeper in the tissue.
Australian gay and bisexual men who have not recently tested for HIV often believe that they have not taken enough risks to justify a test or that the psychological impact of a positive diagnosis would be too great,
In many parts of the world, patients with HIV arrive at a clinic not because they're sick with HIV, but because they are sick with tuberculosis. As VOA's Rose Hoban reports, some new research is revealing the best |
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Rare abacavir liver side-effects reported
Two cases of liver toxicity caused by the anti-HIV drug abacavir (Ziagen, also in the combination pill Kivexa) have been reported in the November 30th edition of AIDS. Both cases involved young women who changed their HIV treatment to include abacavir. Tests showed that neither of the women was allergic to abacavir.
The risk of HIV transmission during oral sex is very low, but not zero, conclude researchers from Imperial College and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the December 2008 issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology.
A Canadian-U.S. research team has discovered a way to rejuvenate key virus-killing immune cells that become "exhausted" after a person is infected with HIV.The scientists hope their work could lead to a whole new approach to therapy
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An American HIV sufferer living in Berlin has been living free of the virus for nearly two years following a bone marrow transplant that used stem cells from a donor with natural genetic resistance to AIDS.
A media campaign featuring a mobile phone ringtone that sings "condom condom" has pushed up sale of the contraceptive by 85 million in six months, India's AIDS control body said Friday.
An adenovirus-based vaccine prevented six out of six monkeys from developing an animal equivalent of AIDS, according to findings published this month in Nature. The authors of the study believe that vaccine approaches based on adenovirus vectors still have potential to prevent or control HIV infection,
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