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Candidate AIDS vaccine passes early test
Jul 24, 2017 (AFP)
Tested in 393 people in the United States, Rwanda, Uganda, South Africa and Thailand, the drug "raised antibody responses in 100 percent of vaccine recipients,"...
Women with HIV in Cameroon still stigmatised
Jul 24, 2017 (AFP)
Blandine is HIV positive. But the waiting is not for her -- it is to find out whether her one-year-old girl also has the human immunodeficiency virus. A few min...
Swaziland halves world's highest HIV infection rate
Jul 24, 2017 (AFP)
The country -- where one in three adults is infected with the AIDS-causing virus -- has vastly expanded public programmes to test people for HIV infection and p...
S.African girl, 9, is third child with HIV remission: study
Jul 24, 2017 (AFP)
The child was given a ten-month course of anti-AIDS medicine until she was one year old, then taken off the drugs as part of a medical trial. Eight years and ni...
Headway on AIDS threatened by funding slowdown
Jul 23, 2017 (AFP)
If adopted by Congress, the 2018 Trump budget could deprive some 830,000 people, mostly in Africa, from life-saving anti-AIDS drugs, according to calculations b...
Paris spotlight on latest in AIDS science
Jul 21, 2017 (AFP)
In their 36-year battle, researchers have always come up short against the virus' guerrilla tactics -- hiding out in human cells and playing dead only to reemer...
As tide turns, AIDS claimed 1 million lives in 2016: UN
Jul 20, 2017 (AFP)
Not only are new HIV infections and deaths declining, but more people than ever are on life-saving treatment, according to data published ahead of an AIDS scien...
Purdue researcher: We shouldn't eliminate mosquitoes
Jul 11, 2017 (UPI)
Catherine Hill, a professor of entomology at Purdue University, is working on an insecticide that will prevent mosquitoes from transmitting disease without harm...
Scientists piece together extinct horsepox virus, raising biosecurity concerns
Jul 11, 2017 (UPI)
Horsepox has been extinct for some time, and the smallpox virus was declared eradicated in 1980. Although the revived virus cannot infect humans, the breakthrou...
Sri Lanka deploys troops to tackle dengue crisis
Jul 02, 2017 (AFP)
Humid monsoon weather, stagnant water from recent flooding, as well as mounting piles of rotting garbage accumulating in the capital, have combined to create ab...
Africa gets generic version of most effective HIV drug
Jun 28, 2017 (AFP)
The drug, Dolutegravir (DTG) is the anti-retroviral drug of choice for those living with HIV in developed countries, but its high price has put it out of reach ...
Painless patch could replace flu jab: study
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
Equipped with micro-needles, the patches vaccinated against influenza just as effectively as a standard flu jab, they reported in the medical journal The Lancet...
Sri Lanka blames garbage pile-up for record dengue toll
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
Rotting garbage has been piling up in many parts of the capital since the country's main rubbish tip collapsed in April, crushing dozens of homes and killing 32...
Six experts resign from Trump HIV/AIDS panel
Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)
In a letter published Friday in Newsweek, Scott Schoettes said the Trump administration has "no strategy" on AIDS and that he and his five colleagues will be mo...
Warmer climate threatens malaria spread in Ethiopia
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
Most Ethiopians live in the country's highlands, and have long enjoyed natural protection against mosquitoes carrying the malaria-causing parasites Plasmodium f...
Scientists fight mosquitoes, malaria with toxin-infused fungi
Jun 13, 2017 (UPI)
The fungus is not a risk to humans and early test results suggest it is safe for honeybees and other beneficial insects. "In this paper, we report that our most...
Cholera epidemic timeline
Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)
Here are the worst outbreaks around the world in the past ten years: - Haiti: most virulent outbreak - The most virulent outbreak in modern times was in Haiti, ...
Toward an HIV cure: Pitt team develops test to detect hidden virus
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public Health announced in Nature Medicine that they've created a test sensitive enough to detec...
'Freak': meet Cuba's last self-infected HIV punk rebel
May 28, 2017 (AFP)
He is considered the last of the most hardcore members of the "frikis," or "freaks," as the communist island's unique breed of hippy-punk dropouts is known. Bey...
Stars dig deep at charity Cannes AIDS gala
May 26, 2017 (AFP)
The annual amfAR Foundation for AIDs Research gala dinner late Thursday at the luxury Eden Roc hotel just along the French Riviera at Cap d'Antibes saw celebrit...
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