Every adult resident of this world have been taught the importance of safe sex in preventing AIDS. The French ad agency TBWA has come up with an interesting advert as a part of the AIDS prevention campaign. The colorful illustration creates an...
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Young gay men in America face an increased danger from AIDS. The situation is worst amongst the black community in the country. These are the finding of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a federal body. It says the incidence of AIDS...
It seems New York city is hell bent on finding the HIV status of all the residents. The recent proposal to test the HIV status of every individual turning up at a clinic or hospital is ample testimony of the trend. However, a lot of practical issues...
AIDS, the word which rings disaster has been included in the report submitted by the International federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, which called on the government and humanitarian agencies to pay more attention to AIDS in their...
AIDS, the killer disease that has orphaned millions of kids and widowed thousands of women may not be a global epidemic as once predicted, according to a WHO expert. Kevin De Cock, the WHO expert is of the opinion that the threat may be confined to...
Approximately 5 to 6 million South Africans are infected with HIV. Nineteen percent of the country’s adult population aged between 15 and 49 carries the deadly virus. Unfortunately, only one-third of the HIV infected South Africans have access to...
The highly aggressive human immunodeficiency virus or (HIV) that is responsible for destroying the body’s immune system has a less aggressive mutant. Researchers at South Africa’s Centre for the AIDS Program of Research discovered the variant of...
Homeopathy is often observed as second fiddle to allopathic treatment and Saturday's workshop in south London that will be attended by 80 homeopaths will be attempting to wipe out that notion. The homeopaths will try and convince the medical world...
After more than a decade of researching better treatments for HIV patients, a new drug had been found in UK to lengthen the life expectancy of the victims. The recent introduction of Pfizer's Celsentri (Maraviroc) is truly helpful for the HIV...
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.
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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.
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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...
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