Research Links Abacavir Hypersensitivity Reactions In HIV To Attacks By Body's Own Immune System
2012-05-24 01:00:00
Potentially severe hypersensitivity reactions to the anti-HIV drug abacavir occur through an autoimmune mechanism, resulting from the creation of drug-induced immunogens that are attacked by the body's immune system, according to a study published online by the journal AIDS, official journal of the International AIDS Society...

Reduced Glycerin Anti-HIV Product For Both Vagina And Rectum - Tenofovir Vaginal Gel
2012-05-22 09:00:00
An anti-HIV gel developed for vaginal use has been reformulated to make it safer to use in the rectum. Researchers from the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) found that tenofovir gel was less harmful to the lining of the rectum and just as effective in protecting cells against HIV. The study is published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. Charlene Dezzutti, Ph.D...

Anti-HIV Product For Both Vagina And Rectum Using Reduced Glycerin Formulation Of Tenofovir Vaginal Gel
2012-05-20 00:00:00
A change in the formulation of tenofovir gel, an anti-HIV gel developed for vaginal use, may make it safer to use in the rectum, suggests a study published online this week in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy...

AIDS Relief Program Intensity Linked To Lower Death Rates
2012-05-16 14:00:00
The May 16 edition of the Global Health themed issue of JAMA reveals a larger drop in all-cause adult mortality in those African countries with more intense operation of the AIDS relief program PEPFAR. The article's background information states: 'The effect of global health initiatives on population health is uncertain. Between 2003 and 2008, the U.S...

Truvada For HIV Prevention Plus Behavioral Strategies
2012-05-16 00:00:00
A drug that has been shown to prevent HIV infection in a significant number of cases must be combined with behavioral approaches if the U.S. health care establishment is to succeed in reducing the spread of the virus, according to the American Psychological Association...

Tenofovir Safe For HIV-Positive Pregnant Mothers
2012-05-15 14:00:00
Tenofovir, the anti-HIV drug, is safe to use during pregnancy according to a new study published in PloS Medicine. The researchers, led by Diana Gibb from the MRC Clinical Trials Unit in London, UK, found that the drug does not increase the risk of kidney problems, birth defects or growth abnormalities in infants born to HIV-positive women in Africa...

People With HIV/AIDS May Be More Prone To Sudden Cardiac Death
2012-05-15 03:00:00
What is the connection, if any, between sudden cardiac death and people with HIV/AIDS? And can that knowledge help prolong their lives? In a comprehensive, 10-year UCSF study, researchers found patients with HIV/AIDS suffered sudden cardiac death at a rate four times higher than the general population...

What Is AIDS? What Is HIV?
2012-05-13 14:00:00
AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a disease caused by a virus called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The illness alters the immune system, making people much more vulnerable to infections and diseases. This susceptibility worsens as the disease progresses...

HIV Prevention Pill Receives FDA Panel Support
2012-05-11 08:00:00
On Thursday, a panel of outside experts that advises the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) voted to support approval of the daily pill Truvada to prevent HIV in healthy people...

Innovative Model Of Safer Indoor Sex Work Spaces Promote Health And Safety Of Street-Based Sex Workers
2012-05-11 01:00:00
Safer indoor sex work spaces provide important and potentially life-saving benefits to sex workers including reduced exposure to violence and HIV and improved relationships with police, according to a study published by the Gender and Sexual Health Initiative of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE) and the University of British Columbia (UBC)...

Preventing Spread Of HIV And TB In African Prisons
2012-05-10 00:00:00
In order to reduce HIV and TB in African prisons, African governments and international health donors should fund criminal justice reforms, experts from Human Rights Watch say in this week's PLoS Medicine...

New Insight On Known Link Between A Woman's Exposure To Violence And Sexual Risk-Taking
2012-05-10 00:00:00
Women who have experienced multiple forms of violence, from witnessing neighborhood crimes to being abused themselves, are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, according to a new report in the Psychology of Violence...

Early Elevated HIV Infection Risk In Some Step Study Participants Confirmed By Study
2012-05-09 01:00:00
A long-term follow-up analysis of participants in the Step Study, an international HIV-vaccine trial, has confirmed that certain subgroups of male study participants were at higher risk of becoming infected after receiving the experimental vaccine compared to those who received a placebo...

Lyrica (pregabalin) No Good For Diabetes Or HIV Associated Neuropathic Pain
2012-05-04 14:00:00
Lyrica (pregabalin) failed in two separate human trials to reduce neuropathic pain linked to diabetes or HIV, said makers Pfizer today. One of the trials - Phase III HIV neuropathy - was stopped early because no benefits were found in an interim analysis on 246 patients out of a planned 416...

Women In Resource-Poor Countries Can Flash-Heat Breast Milk To Inactivate HIV
2012-05-04 01:00:00
An international team led by UC Davis researchers has found that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa could successfully follow a protocol for flash-heating breast milk to reduce transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- the virus that causes AIDS -- to their infants...

Compliance By African-Americans To HIV Therapy Problematic, Untreated Depression Makes It Worse
2012-05-04 01:00:00
African-Americans with HIV are much less likely to adhere to drug therapy than others with the disease, according to a University of Michigan study. Moreover, untreated depression may greatly hinder adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all low-income, HIV-infected patients, regardless of race...

Cell Therapy Shows Promise In Fight Against HIV
2012-05-04 00:00:00
UC Davis Health System researchers are a step closer to launching human clinical trials involving the use of an innovative stem cell therapy to fight the virus that causes AIDS...

Study Addresses Long-Standing Debate About Funding Imbalances For Global Diseases
2012-05-04 00:00:00
While the battle against HIV/AIDS attracts more donor funding globally than all other diseases combined, it has not diverted attention from fighting unrelated afflictions - such as malaria, measles and malnutrition - and may be improving health services overall in targeted countries, according to a study on Rwanda published in the May 2012 edition of the American Journal of Tro...

Decade-Long Study Of HIV Patients Finds Gene Therapy Safe, Lasting
2012-05-04 00:00:00
HIV patients treated with genetically modified T cells remain healthy up to 11 years after initial therapy, researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine...

Infant Size, Birth Weight Not Affected By Anti-HIV Drug Use During Pregnancy
2012-05-03 02:00:00
Infants born to women who used the anti-HIV drug tenofovir as part of an anti-HIV drug regimen during pregnancy do not weigh less at birth and are not of shorter length than infants born to women who used anti-HIV drug regimens that do not include tenofovir during pregnancy, according to findings from a National Institutes of Health network study...