The government of The Gambia gave the most senior United Nations official in the country 48 hours to leave the country starting Friday, following remarks she made criticising Gambian President Yahya Jammeh?s widely-publicised cure for HIV/AIDS.
Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:GILD) announced the completion of a Phase II clinical trial of GS 9137, a novel oral HIV integrase inhibitor.
On 22 February 2007 the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion, recommending to grant a marketing authorisation for the medicinal product Sebivo, 600 mg, film-coated tablet intended for treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in adult patients.
The phase I clinical trials for an AIDS vaccine,which began on February_8, 2005 at the National Aids Research Institute (Nari) here, have been completed, with researchers confirming that the “whole exercise went off smoothly without any safety concern”, reported by Times of India.
In UK increasing numbers of gay men are requesting a vaccine – HPV vaccine – which protects against a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cervical, penile and anal cancers, reported by Cancer Research UK.
HIV prevention research was responsible for the recent revelation that male circumcision can play an important role in protecting men from infection with the deadly virus.
Approval of Focetria, an immune enhancing pandemic influenza vaccine, would allow for more rapid response in the event of influenza pandemic.
Male circumcision significantly reduces the risk of acquiring HIV in young African men, according to a study led by University of Illinois at Chicago professor of epidemiology Robert Bailey.
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have found that people employed in chimpanzee-focused research and tourism in a park in western Uganda are exchanging gastrointestinal bacteria — specifically Escherichia coli — with local chimpanzee populations. And some of the E. coli strains migrating to chimps are resistant to antibiotics used by humans in Uganda.
Research led by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) may link viruses that have been considered harmless to chromosomal instability (CIN) and cancer.