Copyright 2008 Medical News Today Latest HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/hiv-aids/ admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin) editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors) en-us Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/114068.php Amid fears that critical AIDS pledges made at previous G8 summits will be reneged at this year's meeting in Japan, over 200 civil society organisations from more than 60 countries have signed a letter to G8 heads of state underscoring the fundamental need to fulfil the promise of universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support by 2010. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/114028.php On July 7, Terrence Higgins Trust and NAM are launching a new pan-London health support service for people living with HIV. The 'HIV Health Support Service' offers one to one or group meetings with a Health Trainer where people can learn more about HIV, treatments and managing their own condition. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113995.php Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a global epidemic threatening the lives of millions of people. Because there is no known cure, prevention of the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), is critical for controlling the disease. The transmitting routes of HIV include breastfeeding, which passes the virus from mothers to infants. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113949.php The Black AIDS Institute "may have come up with a strategy that could make a difference" and "help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS" in the black community, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell writes. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113939.php President Bush on Wednesday called on Congress to quickly reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief ahead of the Group of Eight industrialized nations summit next week in Hokkaido, Japan, Reuters reports. Senate leaders last week sought to bring legislation ( Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113945.php Young people in Angola have a poor record of participation in HIV prevention efforts, including voluntary testing and condom use, according to Antonio Coelho, executive secretary of the Angolan Network of AIDS Service Organisations, Angola Press Agency/AllAfrica.com reports. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113944.php The number of HIV-positive women in Belarus who are forgoing abortions is increasing, Svyatlana Shylava, chief ob-gyn for the country's Ministry of Health, said on Tuesday, BelaPAN reports. According to Shylava, about 176 infants were born to HIV-positive women in 2007, up from 52 in 2000 and six in 1996. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113943.php Altering the gene that produces CCR5 protein on the surface of immune cells using a harmless virus was found to significantly increase resistance to HIV in mice, according to a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Biotechnology, the Press Trust of India reports (Press Trust of India, 7/1). Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113942.php The U.S. embassy in Vietnam on Tuesday announced that President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief will allocate $1.4 million to three HIV/AIDS initiatives in Vietnam, the Thanh Nien News reports. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113941.php USAID on Monday announced that it is donating $7.6 million to provide quality comprehensive care to 8,616 AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in Nigeria, the country's Vanguard reports. Yemi Osilaja -- executive director of Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113983.php On Monday July 7, Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is launching 'Fastest', a new one hour HIV testing service aimed at men who have sex with men in East Sussex. 'Fastest' will run on the first Monday of every month between 17.30 and 19.30 at Hastings Voluntary Action in Priory Street, Hastings. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113791.php In the five years after their diagnosis, people living with HIV in developed countries and receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy are no more likely to die than HIV-negative people, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Reuters reports (Kahn, Reuters, 7/1). Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113797.php Several newspapers recently responded to the decision last week by some Senate Republicans to block consideration of legislation that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Summaries appear below. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113796.php The World Health Organization, Stop TB Partnership, UNITAID and the Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113795.php India has managed to reduce the rate of HIV transmission in some states through increased awareness, resources and legislation, according to a report released Monday by India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Reuters reports. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113794.php Indian generic pharmaceutical company Cipla recently received full FDA approval to sell and market in the U.S. an oral generic version of the antiretroviral drug zidovudine, the Drug Industry Daily reports. Cipla's application for zidovudine was considered under the expedited review provisions of the Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113845.php Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD) announced today that it has added a second HIV/AIDS clinical study location at the Bhvani Hospital in Bihar, India. Aethlon previously disclosed plans to initiate the "first-in-man" clinical study of a medical device to treat the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113792.php Former Pennsylvania Sens. Rick Santorum (R) and Harris Wofford (D), who competed in a "bitter and high-profile" Senate race in the 1990s, are joining together to serve as state co-chairs of ONE Vote '08 -- which aims to bring attention to issues of extreme poverty and global disease, including HIV/AIDS, during the presidential campaign -- the Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113651.php The Miami Herald on Sunday examined efforts of HIV/AIDS advocates and organizations to wage a sometimes "lonely fight" in combating epidemics in African countries where they receive little support. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113650.php Bill Gates on Friday announced that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has approved a three-year, $23 million grant to India's National AIDS Control Organisation to fight HIV/AIDS in the country, the Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113648.php Indian generic pharmaceutical companies Cipla and Matrix Laboratories and the HIV/AIDS advocacy group Delhi Network of Positive People, or DNP+, recently filed an objection to an Indian patent office's decision to give a patent to Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113647.php Product RED on Monday announced that it is launching a digital music service that will give half of the money collected from a $5 per month user fee to the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the New York Times reports. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113646.php The Minneapolis Star Tribune on Sunday profiled Sexpulse, a Web site in development at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health that is the latest strategy to curb a "second wave" of HIV/AIDS cases among young men who have sex with men. According to a recent Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113645.php New HIV/AIDS diagnoses among adults ages 50 and older in Georgia has nearly doubled in the last 10 years, according to recent data from the state Department of Human Resources' Division of Public Health, the Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:00:00 PDT http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/113664.php Children whose immune systems rebound after treatment with potent anti-viral drugs for HIV infection face an increased risk of developing asthma, said a federally funded consortium of researchers led by those from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.