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Women with HIV too often unseen: US advocate
Jul 25, 2012 (AFP)
As a black American woman with HIV, Linda Scruggs said Wednesday that she represents a group that is disproportionately affected by the pandemic and must get mo...
Mobile phones help bolster Uganda's fight against HIV
Jul 25, 2012 (AFP)
Stella Nayiga clutches her mobile phone as she describes the messages that she received punctually every morning and evening for over a year, reminding her to t...
AIDS cure may have two main pathways: experts
Jul 24, 2012 (AFP)
Investigators are looking into two main paths toward a cure for AIDS, based on the stunning stories of a small group of people around the world who have been ab...
Researchers unveil promising TB drug cocktail
Jul 23, 2012 (AFP)
Researchers reported progress Monday with an experimental drug cocktail that killed a record 99 percent of TB bacteria in two weeks and costs a fraction of exis...
'No excuse' for not turning tide on AIDS: expert
Jul 22, 2012 (AFP)
Science has given the world "no excuse" to resist bold action against the spread of the 30-year AIDS pandemic, said a top US expert at the opening of the Intern...
Scientists urge fresh push for AIDS cure
Jul 19, 2012 (AFP)
International scientists on Thursday urged a new push for a cure to AIDS, saying the three-decade epidemic is outpacing medications to curb it. The seven-step s...
Botanical compound could prove crucial to healing influenza
Jul 19, 2012 (SPX)
Building on previous work with the botanical abscisic acida, researchers in the Nutritional Immunology and Molecular Medicine Laboratory (NIMML) have discovered...
End of AIDS pandemic in sight: US expert
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
Three decades into the AIDS pandemic an end to new infections is in sight, according to Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infe...
HIV drugs reach 8 million in needy countries
Jul 18, 2012 (AFP)
More than eight million people -- a record number in low- and middle-income countries -- are now taking antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV, according to data rel...
Genetically engineered bacteria prevent mosquitoes from transmitting malaria
Jul 17, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have genetically modified a bacterium commonly found in the mosquito's midgut and found that the par...
South Africa recalls 500,000 HIV test kits: ministry
Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)
South Africa is recalling 500,000 HIV test kits it ordered from a South Korean company despite a World Health Organisation (WHO) warning over inconclusive resul...
Taiwan finds H5N1 virus in birds smuggled from China
Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)
Dozens of pet birds smuggled from southern China into Taiwan tested positive for the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus and were destroyed, Taiwanese authorities said ...
UNAIDS welcomes US approval of drug to stop HIV
Jul 17, 2012 (AFP)
The UN agency tasked with fighting AIDS on Tuesday welcomed the decision by the United States to allow the use of an HIV prevention pill for the first time. The...
US approves first-ever pill for HIV prevention
Jul 16, 2012 (AFP)
The first-ever daily pill to help prevent HIV infection was approved Monday by US regulators for use by healthy adults who are at risk for getting the virus tha...
Hand, foot and mouth disease kills 112 in China in June
Jul 15, 2012 (AFP)
A Chinese province urged parents Sunday to seek immediate treatment for children showing symptoms of hand, foot and mouth disease after official figures showed ...
Hopes high as AIDS conference returns to US
Jul 14, 2012 (AFP)
A cure for AIDS remains a distant prospect but a host of drug treatments and other advances have fueled fresh hope that new human immunodeficiency virus infecti...
Drugs 'arsenal' could help end AIDS: WHO
Jul 14, 2012 (AFP)
Thirty years into the AIDS epidemic, a cure remains elusive but a growing arsenal of drugs could someday help end new infections, the World Health Organization'...
Pills to prevent HIV raise many questions: studies
Jul 11, 2012 (AFP)
Various trials examining the use of anti-retroviral drugs in healthy heterosexuals as a way to prevent HIV have shown drastically different results, research sh...
Keeping the flu away
Jul 11, 2012 (SPX)
San Diego State University researchers at the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center may have found the secret to helping the immune system fight off the flu before...
Embattled Sahel facing deadly cholera outbreak
Jul 10, 2012 (AFP)
The conflict in Mali could turn a cholera outbreak that has already killed 60 people in the Sahel this year into a serious regional epidemic, the UN children's ...
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