According to a new research the AIDS virus entered the United States via Haiti, probably arriving in just one person in about 1969, earlier than first believed. After the virus, HIV-1, entered the U.S., it flourished and spread worldwide.
The...
Archive - October 2007
Ascending
Descending
After speaking to many Americans, I got the impression that according to them, AIDS virus originated in Africa. Specifically, the virus was carried to the U.S. by an Haitian immigrant.
This is what Michael Worobey, an evolutionary biologist based...
When more than 3,000 people volunteered to try an experimental vaccine, little did that know they would have to be haunted with the ghosts of HIV looming large not just this Halloween, their entire lives too.
Researchers delivered shocking news...
A quarter- century wisdom that the progression of HIV to AIDS is driven chiefly by the 'viral load', that is the amount of HIV in the blood has been challenged by a new finding, published last Sunday in the journal Nature Immunology.
According to...
AIDS is one threat that the whole world is fighting with. One of the mot affected areas, South Africa, seems to be losing its battle with HIV and AIDS, in spite of the whole layout of strategies and ongoing treatments. The death rates have been...
An overall decrease in the number of HIV infections in year 2006 has not brought a sigh of relief for Thailand's health ministry. The fact that has sparked panic in the health department is that married people are accounting for 40 per cent of new...
Science now seems close to winning the war against AIDS, as FDA approves of a new drug which has a different course of action as compared to the already existing ones. The new drug, known as 'Isentress' acts upon the HIV virus in a different manner...
No matter how many vows we make to annihilate AIDS from the world-map; how much we fuel our fight against it, and how loudly we talk in favor of AIDS-afflicted people; the fact remains standstill - despite many efforts - we haven’t been able to...
A latest study shows that the majority of U.S. states prevent the doctors from testing their patients for HIV on a regular basis. It seems like these states are not in a hurry to change things.
So, they are clearly violating a Federal health...
HIV/AIDS situation continues to worsen in China with 18,543 new cases of this disease looming out just in the first half of this year. Shockingly, if this goes on spiraling like this then none can stop the prediction, claiming China to have 10 million...
Fresh Comments