Copyright 2009 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 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170158.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170158.php UCSF HIV researchers have received two NIH grants of $1 million each to study the use of web-based, patient controlled personal health records to improve health and HIV prevention outcomes for HIV positive patients. Both studies are funded through the federal stimulus bill, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. HIV / AIDS Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170144.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170144.php Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a labeling update for REYATAZ® to include long-term data from the CASTLE Study. The CASTLE Study assessed a once-daily REYATAZ/ritonavir (REYATAZ/r)-based regimen versus a twice-daily lopinavir/ritonavir (LPV/r)-based regimen in previously untreated adult patients infected with HIV-1. HIV / AIDS Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170096.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170096.php During a press conference on Thursday, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warned that the "global economic crisis and calls to commit funds to other health crises" threatened to undermine recent gains in the fight against HIV/AIDS, the Associated Press reports. MSF "says money for other health issues should be given in addition to money for [HIV/]AIDS" (11/5). HIV / AIDS Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170143.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170143.php Researchers at Yale University have developed synthetic molecules capable of enhancing the body's immune response to HIV and HIV-infected cells, as well as to prostate cancer cells. Their findings, published online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, could lead to novel therapeutic approaches for these diseases. HIV / AIDS Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170100.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170100.php A retreat from international funding commitments for AIDS threatens to undermine the dramatic gains made in reducing AIDS-related illness and death in recent years, according to a new report released today by the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). International support to combat HIV/AIDS is faltering, as reflected in significant shortfalls among two of the world's main funding mechanisms for HIV/AIDS. HIV / AIDS Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169921.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169921.php Fierce Mobile reports on the recent announcement that PEPFAR is teaming up with the United Nations Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and Vodafone Foundation to be a founding member of the mHealth Alliance, "a group seeking to bring health services to the most remote corners of the globe using mobile networks and technologies." U.S. IT / Internet / E-mail Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169889.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169889.php UNAIDS welcomes President Obama's announcement of the final rule removing entry restrictions based on HIV status from US policy. The removal of HIV-related travel restrictions in the US overturns a policy that had been in place since 1987. Such restrictions, strongly opposed by UNAIDS, are discriminatory and do not protect public health. HIV / AIDS Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169860.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169860.php Specialists in HIV and in hearing at the University of Rochester Medical Center are teaming up to measure the hearing of people with AIDS. The five-year study is believed to be the first large study of its kind testing the hearing of people with HIV/AIDS and comparing the results with those from people without HIV. The new effort, supported by a $1. HIV / AIDS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169811.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169811.php Pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer on Tuesday formally launched ViiV Healthcare, a company focused on the development of new HIV treatments, Dow Jones Newswires/SmartMoney.com reports (11/3). HIV / AIDS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169810.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169810.php By 2031 developing countries could need an estimated $35 billion to fight HIV/AIDS - three times the amount currently spent, according to a Health Affairs study published Tuesday, the New York Times reports. HIV / AIDS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169795.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169795.php The Office of Minority Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on October 20, 2009 announced the award of nearly $2.5 million to 10 organizations, to support efforts to help improve the capability of community-based organizations for curbing HIV/AIDS Transmission Among High Risk Minority Youth and Adolescents (CHAT). HIV / AIDS Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169698.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169698.php Responding to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and tackling so-called neglected tropical diseases are the focus of the November/December 2009 edition of Health Affairs. The articles, by leading global health experts from around the world, show that although these challenges differ dramatically, rising to meet them could save millions of lives. HIV / AIDS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169665.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169665.php Today, we will publish a rule in the Federal Register announcing that the United States will drop HIV from the list of diseases barring visitors from entering this country, effective Jan. 1, 2010. Though the United States has been a leader worldwide when it comes to ending the stigma of HIV/AIDS, we've been one of only 12 countries who, by their policies, still enable the myth that HIV/AIDS is a threat. HIV / AIDS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169593.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169593.php President Obama on Friday announced the end of a 22-year travel ban against people living with HIV, the New York Times reports. The president previously pledged to eliminate the ban before the end of the year, saying it is "rooted in fear rather than fact. HIV / AIDS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169625.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169625.php Lancet World Report Examines Undernutrition in Afghanistan A Nutrition / Diet Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169622.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169622.php South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday called for a renewed effort in the country's fight against HIV/AIDS, the Star/Independent Online reports. During a HIV / AIDS Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169540.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169540.php Today the United States administration will sign paperwork to overturn the ban on foreign nationals with HIV entering the USA. The ban has been in place since 1987 and will be lifted early next year. On Friday, President Obama announced the repeal of the travel ban, describing the 22-year-old policy as a "decision rooted in fear rather than fact. HIV / AIDS Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169501.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169501.php AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) today lauded President Barack Obama for lifting a 22 year-old ban prohibiting HIV-positive foreigners from traveling to the US. The US was one of only twelve countries with such a travel ban. Obama announced repeal of the ban after signing the legislation renewing the Ryan White CARE Act, the federal law that authorizes the primary source of funding for AIDS care and services nationwide. HIV / AIDS Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169434.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169434.php JAIDS Supplement Focuses On Global Health Systems "Action always leads to reaction, a fundamental law of nature," write the authors of an introduction appearing in a HIV / AIDS Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169402.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169402.php The U.S.' "recent experience with abstinence-only sex education is merely the latest chapter in our long, sometimes ridiculous ... history of efforts to control humankind's most basic drive," Johannah Cornblatt writes in a Newsweek article examining the history of sex education. Organized sex education first gained attention during the urbanization movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s, accordiong to Cornblatt. Sexual Health / STDs Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169406.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169406.php Experts at an HIV/AIDS conference in Russia on Wednesday urged Russian officials to end the country's focus on abstinence as a strategy for curbing the spread of HIV/AIDS and adopt a more comprehensive approach that includes harm reduction programs, the AP/New York Times reports. HIV / AIDS Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169429.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169429.php The New York Times examines the "debate over whether the United States and other rich nations spend too much on AIDS, which requires lifelong medications, compared with diarrhea and the other leading killer of children, pneumonia, both of which can be treated inexpensively." According to the newspaper, "[d]iarrhea kills 1. HIV / AIDS Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169432.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169432.php During the 9th annual general meeting of the Pan Caribbean Partnership on HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) - which kicked off this week in St. George's, Grenada - Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas called on leaders in the Caribbean to maintain their commitment to HIV/AIDS in the face of the global recession, HIV / AIDS Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169379.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169379.php Researchers in New York City are reporting their work uncovering a new epidemic of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) who have HIV infection. These authors have previously reported unusually rapid fibrosis progression due to new HCV in MSM who have HIV infection and now expand on their findings, demonstrating that sexual transmission rather than injection drug use is the route of infection. Liver Disease / Hepatitis Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:00:00 PST http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169314.php http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169314.php The National Institutes of Health has awarded $75 million to Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science and three other historically black institutions to establish a medical research consortium to combat health disparities in minority and underserved populations. Heart Disease