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...
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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...
The legitimacy of Circumcision or male genital modification has been often hotly debated in all societies especially in the US and UK. Circumcision is part of the ritual followed by adherents of certain religions and the process is not illegal any where...
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...
Do you know, among all US cities, Washington D.C has the highest rate of AIDS?! It has been reported by city health officials, released on Monday. People living in Washington are not being tested for HIV and come up with the infection at advanced...
Already struggling with HIV for decades, trying to snatch life from the deadly ailment, the sub-Saharan Africans now have yet another monster to fight away -- tuberculosis.
The region being undoubtedly the most affected by the virus, inhabited by...
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...
Everything, if goes fine, may be, then researchers would be too near destroying HIV/AIDS, as Dr Indrani Sarkar’s PhD thesis provides key to open up the secret for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV...
The extensive research projects undergoing on AIDS worldwide have though yet not established any charming hopes for the AIDS patients, but, such efforts do obviously have not gone wasted. Scientists have found that protease inhibitors (PIs), a common...
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