News tagged with health aid
A world first: Vaccine helps prevent HIV infection
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an encouraging development, an investigational vaccine regimen has been shown to be well-tolerated and to have a modest effect in preventing HIV infection in a clinical trial involving ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Sep 24, 2009 |
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WHO: AIDS leading cause of death, disease in women
(AP) -- In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 09, 2009 |
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African men who have sex with men are ostracised from HIV services
(PhysOrg.com) -- Men who have sex with men (MSM) in sub-Saharan Africa are a hidden, stigmatised group which suffers from a high burden of HIV infection without access to appropriate public health provision, ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jul 20, 2009 |
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AIDS: Vaccine shows positive results in small trial - researchers
An HIV vaccine tested in Tanzania has shown positive results in preliminary trials and may provide better protection than a promising Thai vaccine unveiled on September 24, Swedish researchers said Monday.
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Researchers question evidence linking overlapping sexual partners and African HIV rates
Contrary to conventional wisdom, scientific evidence proving that overlapping multiple sexual partners — concurrency — drives the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is actually quite limited, Brown University researchers ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Call for AIDS denialists to be held accountable
Despite irrefutable proof that HIV treatments have proven benefits, AIDS denialists continue to deny their value. In a paper just published online in Springer's journal AIDS and Behavior, Professor Myron Essex and Dr. Pr ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 19, 2010 |
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Huge decline in HIV rates in Zimbabwe driven by fear of infection, says study
The big drop in the numbers of people infected with HIV in Zimbabwe is because of mass social change, driven by fear of infection, according to an international study reported today in the journal PLoS Medicine. The scient ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources
The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 29, 2010 |
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