The AIDS Healthcare Foundation banned all Pfizer drug reps from its 14 clinic facilities on Thursday because it believes Pfizer is promoting Viagra in a way that encourages irresponsible use of the drug among crystal meth users.
The Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) today called on UN agencies, major foundations and bilateral aid programs such as PEPFAR, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, to immediately increase funding for the procurement and distribution of female condoms in countries heavily affected by HIV/AIDS, as well as funding for programs that raise public awareness of female condoms and provide education on their use.
The absence of a specific marker in the blood and tissues of certain monkeys may be part of the key to understanding how they can be infected for years with SIV, the primate version of HIV, and never develop AIDS, according to research published by Tulane University pathologist Ivona Pandrea in the scientific journal Blood.
Michel Kazatchkine, France’s ambassador for HIV/AIDS and communicable diseases, was selected to lead a multi-billion-dollar fund the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.
A joint statement released by the health ministry and Abbott to reduce the price of Kaletra in Thailand to increase access to the drug among HIV-positive people who have developed resistance to other antiretrovirals.
Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s government on thursday rejected a report which predicted that up to a quarter of the nation’s population could be infected with HIV/ AIDS by 2020 and up to a million people could die of AIDS and HIV in the Pacific country, reported by People’s Daily Online.
HIV and AIDS could kill more than a third of Papua New Guinea’s adult population within 20 years according to a new study from the Centre for Independent Studies.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine are the first to show that a mouse protein, whose human equivalent is related to defense against HIV-1, inhibits the infection and spread of a mouse tumor virus.
A new study suggests the effects of long-standing, undiagnosed HIV infection are hanging over a generation of adolescents in Zimbabwe, causing organ damage, chronic ill health, stunted growth, and other problems.
A large-scale clinical trial of a candidate HIV vaccine?which previously showed promise in smaller studies in the United States and elsewhere?has now opened in South Africa.