Copyright 2010 Medical News TodayLatest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day.http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/sections/hiv-aids/admin@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Admin)editors@medicalnewstoday.com (MNT Editors)en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xnxhttp://mnt.to/f/3xnxGeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GOVX) (the "Company"), an Atlanta-based, biopharmaceutical company developing human vaccines for diseases caused by HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and other infectious agents, provided an update on its vaccine trials progress...HIV / AIDS Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xjmhttp://mnt.to/f/3xjmA new study of children in Ukraine has found that for the growing number of HIV-infected children, the quality of care and the relationship between children and their caregivers play an important role in their development...HIV / AIDS Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xkXhttp://mnt.to/f/3xkX Lancet Study Examines Childbirth Practices, Outcomes In Asian Countries A Lancet study examines childbirth practices and the relationship between these practices and maternal and perinatal outcomes in nine Asian countries, as assessed by a WHO global survey...Pregnancy / Obstetrics Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xkLhttp://mnt.to/f/3xkL "Two Republican congressmen who help oversee billions of dollars for people with AIDS are asking the federal government for an accounting of fraud and mismanagement complaints leveled against AIDS programs nationwide," The Washington Post reports. "Reps. Joe L. Barton (Tex.) and Greg Walden (Ore.) sent a letter Thursday to the U.S...HIV / AIDS Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xhthttp://mnt.to/f/3xhtThe Mintaka Foundation for Medical Research in Geneva announced today that the Wellcome Trust, London, has awarded it approximately CHF 4,500,000 to meet the remaining costs of bringing its flagship product, an anti-HIV microbicide known as 5P12-RANTES, to a first safety trial in the clinic. Every year, there are millions of new infections from HIV...HIV / AIDS Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xh4http://mnt.to/f/3xh4U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a congressional resolution condemning an anti-gay bill before Uganda's parliament, "calling it an attack on human rights and an obstacle to battling HIV/AIDS," Agence France-Presse reports...Sexual Health / STDs Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xfBhttp://mnt.to/f/3xfBOn the twentieth anniversary of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) research unit's presence in Uganda, Director Heiner Grosskurth looks back on the changing landscape of research into HIV/AIDS at the commemorative scientific symposium in Entebbe today...HIV / AIDS Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xf3http://mnt.to/f/3xf3A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has identified two compounds that act on novel binding sites for an enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS...HIV / AIDS Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xd7http://mnt.to/f/3xd7 GSK Head Discusses Company Interest In NTDs The Associated Press features a Q&A with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) CEO Andrew Witty, who "is pushing to sell more products in fast-growing 'emerging markets' such as Brazil, Russia, India and China" while simultaneously "increasing efforts to bring medicines for tropical diseases to the poorest countries, at minimum profit...Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xd3http://mnt.to/f/3xd3The African Union (AU) Summit concluded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday with newly elected AU chairman Bingu Wa Mutharika, of Malawi, encouraging African leaders to make agriculture and food security a top priority, Angola Press reports (2/2). "Mr...Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3xd6http://mnt.to/f/3xd6 NPR's "Morning Edition" examines how global family planning fits into the Obama administration's global health policy. "The administration has already restored funding for the United Nations Population ... Fund, which for eight years received no U.S. support. And in his first week, President Obama lifted an executive order that existed in the Reagan and Bush administrations that prohibited U.S...Sexual Health / STDs Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x9dhttp://mnt.to/f/3x9d President Barack Obama's FY 2011 budget request for global health totals $9.6 billion and includes funding for global health activities within the State Department, USAID and HHS, the Wall Street Journal reports. "That compares with $8.8 billion enacted for fiscal 2010," according to the newspaper (McKay, 2/1)...HIV / AIDS Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x8Vhttp://mnt.to/f/3x8VThe following summarizes selected women's health-related blog entries. ~ "Dem Lawmaker: Strong Likelihood of Using Reconciliation To Pass Health Bill," Jordan Fabian, The Hill's "Blog Briefing Room": Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y...Women's Health / Gynecology Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x7Zhttp://mnt.to/f/3x7Z Results from clinical trials conducted in Tanzania show that a new vaccine against tuberculosis, Mycobacterium vaccae (MV), is effective in preventing tuberculosis in people with HIV infection...Tuberculosis Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x8bhttp://mnt.to/f/3x8bSuneva Medical, a privately-held aesthetic medical device company, announced that two clinical studies suggest Artefill may be a safe, effective, long-term treatment option for age-related and HIV lipoatrophy patients...Cosmetic Medicine / Plastic Surgery Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x6Thttp://mnt.to/f/3x6TThe development of antibiotics gave physicians seemingly miraculous weapons against infectious disease. Effective cures for terrible afflictions like pneumonia, syphilis and tuberculosis were suddenly at hand. Moreover, many of the drugs that made them possible were versatile enough to knock out a wide range of deadly bacterial threats...HIV / AIDS Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x7jhttp://mnt.to/f/3x7jHealth and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today the appointment of 24 new members to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA). The PACHA's chair, Dr. Helene Gayle, was appointed in August 2009...HIV / AIDS Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x6thttp://mnt.to/f/3x6tA new study weighs in on the controversy over sex education, finding that an abstinence-only intervention for pre-teens was more successful in delaying the onset of sexual activity than a health-promotion control intervention. After two years, one-third of the abstinence-only group reported having sex, compared to one-half of the control group...Sexual Health / STDs Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x5Ghttp://mnt.to/f/3x5G "The Obama administration is expected to propose in its fiscal 2011 budget Monday new funding to combat preventable and tropical diseases, malnutrition and other conditions afflicting the world's poor, as part of a strategy to broaden its approach to global health," the Wall Street Journal reports...HIV / AIDS Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x5Khttp://mnt.to/f/3x5KAn experimental vaccine was found to reduce the rate of tuberculosis infections in patients living with HIV, "the first time a shot has been shown to reduce cases of the most common AIDS-related cause of death in poor nations," Bloomberg reports (Bennett, 1/29). Tuberculosis accounts for up to one-third of AIDS deaths worldwide, CBC News reports...Transplants / Organ Donations Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x5Phttp://mnt.to/f/3x5P Key Retrovirus Enzyme Grown In Lab A study published on Sunday in the journal Nature has shed light on the enzyme integrase, "which is found in retroviruses like HIV and is a target for some of the newest HIV medicines," Reuters reports...HIV / AIDS Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x54http://mnt.to/f/3x54The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced on January 29 that non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, a rare, but serious, liver disorder, has been reported in some HIV patients taking Videx/Videx EC (didanosine). Videx is an antiretroviral medicine first approved by the FDA in 1991. Videx EC is a delayed-release version of Videx approved in 2000...HIV / AIDS Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x32http://mnt.to/f/3x32Investigators from Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) have reported results of a clinical trial showing that a new vaccine against tuberculosis, Mycobacterium vaccae (MV), is effective in preventing tuberculosis in people with HIV infection...Tuberculosis Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3x34http://mnt.to/f/3x34Researchers have made a breakthrough in HIV research that had eluded scientists for over 20 years, potentially leading to better treatments for HIV, in a study published in the journal Nature. The researchers, from Imperial College London and Harvard University, have grown a crystal that reveals the structure of an enzyme called integrase, which is found in retroviruses like HIV...HIV / AIDS Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:00:00 PSThttp://mnt.to/f/3wZwhttp://mnt.to/f/3wZwUNAIDS strongly applauds today's announcement by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to invest USD 10 billion into research and development of vaccines over the next 10 years. The announcement, made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, is a welcome step forward in commitment to vaccine research, however large gaps in funding for the research and development of vaccines still remain...HIV / AIDS