Seeking to take the battle against AIDS to rural and semi-urban areas, the health ministry is finalising the preparation for flagging off a train that will reach out to 60,000 villages across the country.
Manchester United stars Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand and Dong Fangzhuo took time out of the club?s Far East Tour for a meeting with three children whose lives have been affected by HIV/AIDS and have suffered from stigma and discrimination as a result.
A major breakthrough in HIV research by Murdoch?s Professor Simon Mallal has opened up a new era in personalised medicine. Professor Mallal spoke at the International AIDS Society bi-annual conference on 25 July.
Current research demonstrates that the tonsils may possess the necessary factors to act as a transmission site for the spread of HIV. The related report by Moutsopoulos et al, “Tonsil Epithelial Factors May Influence Oropharyngeal Human Immunodeficiency Virus Transmission,” appears in the August issue of the American Journal of Pathology.
Carnegie Mellon University scientists have made an important discovery that aids the understanding of why HIV enters immune cells with ease. The researchers found that after HIV docks onto a host cell, it dramatically lowers the energy required for a cell membrane to bend, making it easier for the virus to infect immune cells.
Large number of employees of Indian industry are vulnerable to HIV, noted by the World Bank. India’s private sector stands to gain by supporting interventions aimed at preventing the virus from spreading at the workplace and in local communities.
Hundreds of thousands of babies around the world are born each year with HIV–more than half a million in 2006 alone. Caring for these children is complicated by the fact that their immune systems are not fully developed in the first year of life, which makes them especially susceptible to rapid HIV disease progression and death.
The International AIDS Society (IAS) convened and facilitated a meeting between Act Up-Paris and Abbott in Sydney, Australia.
Two new studies emphasize the importance of delivering measles and influenza vaccines to HIV-infected individuals. Both studies are published in the August 1 issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases, now available online.
An international collaboration between European, Australian and American researchers has unveiled some of the genetic mysteries explaining why some people naturally keep HIV levels almost undetectable, whereas others quickly lose control of the infection.