WHO and UNAIDS issued new guidance on informed, voluntary HIV testing and counselling in the world’s health facilities, with a view to significantly increasing access to needed HIV treatment, care, support and prevention services.
New research conducted at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) suggests that it may be possible to develop a vaccine that protects against the myriad strains of the HIV virus.
Roche today announced the agreement of two new technology transfers with local manufacturing companies in Africa — Addis Pharmaceutical Factory in Ethiopia and Varichem Pharmaceuticals in Zimbabwe.
A severe lack of healthcare workers is compromising both quality and availability of HIV/AIDS care in southern Africa, warned international medical relief organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider in the United States and operator of free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia unveiled a public awareness campaign targeting negative direct-to-consumer advertising of HIV/AIDS drugs by pharmaceutical companies.
The Indian Supreme Court dismissed a petition seeking compulsory HIV test for couples entering into a wedlock.
There has been an alarming rise in HIV/AIDS cases in Bihar during the past six years even as the state government has spent crores of rupees to contain the deadly disease.
US President Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is proving effective, according to Alec Mally, counselor to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
A simple method of flash-heating breast milk infected with HIV successfully inactivated the free-floating virus, according to a new study led by researchers at the Berkeley and Davis campuses of the University of California.
Abbott (NYSE: ABT) and Celera (NYSE:CRA), an Applera Corporation business, announced that Abbott has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to market the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 viral load test for use on the company?s m2000? automated instrument system.