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World AIDS Day Question: How Close Are We to a Cure?
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 30) -- Wednesday is World AIDS Day, where people around the world rally to raise funds and awareness to combat the still-potent global pandemic. But 30 years after the auto-immune disease surfaced in Central Africa, there remains no cure and no vaccine. In western countries, drug cocktails that include anti-retrovirals can manage AIDS and reduce levels of the HIV virus to undetectable amounts, but small, self-replicating viral reservoirs remain in patients' immune systems. Properly medicated HIV-positive people can now live relatively normal lives, but eliminating the virus entirely ...
Porn Actor Tests HIV-Positive; Some Filming Halted
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- Another porn actor in California's lucrative adult film industry has tested positive for the AIDS virus, leading two companies to halt production. The positive HIV test was confirmed to the Los Angles Times by the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, a clinic in Sherman Oaks that serves the porn industry. Jennifer Miller, a counselor at the clinic, would not disclose the person's gender or employers. "We are quarantining and testing all exposed partners to the individual," Miller told the Times. Two of the industry's largest companies, Vivid Entertainment and Wicked ...
U.S. Pledges $4 Billion to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, but Shortfall Remains
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyThe Obama Administration Tuesday announced a $4 billion, three-year commitment to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The amount is 38 percent increase over the last three years and the first time that the U.S. has given a three-year grant over a year-to-year pledge. "Our pledge allows needed grants to save lives," Eric Goosby, the U.S. Global AIDS coordinator, told reporters on a conference call this morning. Goosby called the grant a "challenge to others to do their share," noting that the United States provides one-third of the money for the Global Fund. The ...
UN Report: AIDS Spreading Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 20) -- AIDS is spreading in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, especially among marginalized youth, according to warnings from United Nations advocates at this week's International HIV/AIDS Conference in Vienna. Rates of HIV in the region, which includes Russia and Georgia, have been climbing for much of the past decade. The illness afflicted about 1.5 million people in 2008, according to the U.N. That represents a 66 percent increase over seven years. "Eastern Europe and Central Asia are the only parts of the world where the HIV epidemic remains clearly on the rise," reads the ...
Federal Report: HIV Among US Poor Matches Rates in Developing Countries
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 19) -- HIV is so pervasive in the poorest urban regions of America that infection rates match those of developing countries, where the condition is endemic among the general population. That's the startling conclusion of a new report, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and presented at this week's International AIDS Conference in Vienna. The report is the first federal assessment of the powerful connection between poverty and HIV. Researchers evaluated 9,000 Americans living in some of the country's poorest neighborhoods, spanning 23 cities. Among those ...
White House Announces HIV/AIDS Strategy: 'Aggressive but Realistic'
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyThe country's first National HIV and AIDS Strategy, announced Tuesday, focuses on reducing the number of new infections, increasing access to care for people living with HIV, and reducing HIV-related health disparities. Melody Barnes, director of the Domestic Policy Council, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sibelius unveiled the plan. Developed over 15 months, it fulfills one of President Barack Obama's campaign promises and shows a renewed White House commitment to gay rights issues. However, the plan received mixed reviews from advocacy groups. An estimated 1.1 million ...
Obama to Unveil New Plan for Combatting HIV, AIDS
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 13) -- President Barack Obama is announcing a new national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS aimed at helping reduce the number of infections and providing those living with the virus high-quality care free from stigma or discrimination. The strategy calls for reducing the rate of new HIV infections by 25 percent over the next five years, and for getting treatment to 85 percent of patients within three months of their diagnosis. Administration officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and domestic policy chairwoman Melody Barnes, were to ...
HIV Antibodies: Experts Foresee Vaccines, and a Long Wait
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(July 9) -- A team of American scientists has announced a milestone finding that could spur the development of effective vaccines to prevent HIV/AIDS. As AOL News reported Thursday, two antibodies that neutralize 91 percent of HIV strains have been discovered by researchers with the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center. An unidentified man, dubbed Donor 45, naturally produced the antibodies. If scientists can isolate the area of the virus they target, it might be possible to create a vaccine that would prompt the human body to create the two proteins, VRC01 and VRC02. ...
Government Panel Considers Lifting Ban on Gay Blood Donors
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyA decades-old ban that prevents men who have had sex with other men from donating blood could soon be lifted, or at least relaxed, as a federal panel meets to reconsider the regulation. Established in 1985, in the midst of a surging HIV/AIDS crisis, the law prohibits blood donation by any man who, since 1977, has had intercourse with another man. Since 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reviewed the ban twice, without changing it. But under renewed pressure from advocacy groups, politicians and blood donation organizations, the government's Health and Human Services Advisory ...
Researcher: We Can Eliminate HIV/AIDS in 40 Years
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe Holy Grail of AIDS research has long been the development of a vaccine to halt the spread of the virus. But what if, using only the medicines we already have right now, we could eliminate AIDS within the next 40 years? According to Dr. Brian Williams, an AIDS researcher for the South African Center for Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis, it is possible -- we just need to think bigger. On the surface, the strategy is disarmingly simple: New antiretroviral HIV/AIDS drugs aim to slow the spread of the disease by keeping the concentration levels of the virus in the body low, which also ...
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