Free AIDS drugs slash death rate in Malawi study (Reuters)
Official says Russia 'not ready' for tough HIV steps (AP) AP - Russia is "not ready" to adopt measures that could prevent thousands of people from getting infected with the virus that causes AIDS, the country's chief public health officer said Monday. Russia must grab chance to beat AIDS epidemic: U.N. (Reuters)
Adverse effects of HIV therapy differ by race, sex (Reuters) Reuters - Among patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, initiating antiretroviral therapy, there are significant differences in specific adverse events according to sex and race, but not in the overall rate of adverse events, death from any cause, or treatment withdrawal rates because of drug toxicity, new research indicates. HIV infections hit record in Singapore (AFP)
Researchers Tackle HIV From a New Angle (HealthDay) HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- Most drugs aimed at suppressing HIV target proteins lying on the virus itself, but new research suggests that focusing on the human host's immune cells might work even better. Singapore sees more HIV infections in 07 (AP) AP - Singapore recorded 422 new HIV infections last year, the highest number in a single year since records started in 1985, the city-state of 4.5 million people said Tuesday. Study shows promising new approach to thwart HIV (Reuters)
Human protein could help AIDS fight: study (AFP)
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AFP - Distributing free anti-HIV drugs in a district of AIDS-ravaged Malawi helped cut the death toll by 10 percent within eight months, according to a study published on Saturday by The Lancet.
Reuters - Providing free AIDS drugs to people in
northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating
a recent ramp-up in treatment in poor parts of rural Africa,
researchers said on Friday.
Reuters - Russia will undo good progress in
combating HIV/AIDS and miss the chance to stem the epidemic if
it does not offer more help to people who inject themselves
with drugs, U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot said on Saturday.
AFP - The number of HIV cases in Singapore hit a record last year, figures monitored on Wednesday said.
Reuters - Researchers have pinpointed a
protein in a key human immune system cells needed for the AIDS
virus to infect them, and found that turning it off can greatly
slow down the deadly virus.
AFP - A human protein could offer new hope in the fight against HIV/AIDS by offering scientists a way to attack the virus and avoid problems with drug resistance, according to a US study released Monday.
