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Latest news about HIV and Aids
Rapid treatment best for infants infected with HIV: study (CBC via Yahoo! Canada News)
Treating babies infected with HIV rapidly with drug treatments dramatically reduces their risk of death, according to a study that has already prompted officials to recommend immediate treatment.
20 Nov 2008, 10:28 am | click here for more
Early HIV Treatment Best for Babies (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Early HIV Treatment Best for Babies Category: Health News Created: 11/20/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 11/20/2008
20 Nov 2008, 2:26 pm | click here for more
Rapid care 'cuts baby's HIV risk' (BBC News)
Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating disease, research shows.
19 Nov 2008, 7:14 pm | click here for more
Higher Risk Of Certain Cancers Being Recorded In HIV-Positive People (Medical News Today)
Physicians in the U.S. are reporting a higher risk for certain types of cancers -- such as liver, head, neck and lung -- in people living with HIV/AIDS, raising concerns that a cancer epidemic is imminent in the population, the Baltimore Sun reports.
20 Nov 2008, 12:15 pm | click here for more
25,000 Americans don't know they have HIV (UPI)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Nearly 60,000 people in the United States were infected with HIV and some 25,000 are unaware of their infection, a forum on HIV research said Thursday.
20 Nov 2008, 11:30 am | click here for more
Summit on HIV testing and 'the neglected US epidemic'; audiobriefing 12 p.m. EST, Thurs., Nov. 20 (EurekAlert!)
( Forum for Collaborative HIV Research ) The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, an independent public-private partnership, will convene some 300 leading HIV researchers, health care providers and policymakers to examine the state of the US epidemic, and the critical role of routine testing in HIV prevention, treatment and care. Barriers will be identified and a national plan of action will be ...
20 Nov 2008, 11:18 am | click here for more
Living, years later, with HIV (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
It's easy for most of us to forget that, not too long ago, an AIDS diagnosis meant certain death. Sue Kehler remembers. She was one of dozens of people, mainly extras, in the 1993 film Philadelphia who had the disease or were HIV positive. She may be the only one left.
20 Nov 2008, 4:06 am | click here for more
Despite national guidelines, private insurers, ER, federal and state agencies fail to routinely test for HIV (PhysOrg)
While the U.S. AIDS epidemic simmers largely unnoticed by most Americans, a failure to widely implement routine HIV testing continues to fuel its spread, HIV researchers and experts said today. Almost 60,000 Americans were infected with HIV last year, and, nationwide, 50-to-70 percent of new sexually transmitted infections are spread by people who do not know they are infected. Guidelines issued ...
20 Nov 2008, 1:10 pm | click here for more
Despite national guidelines, private insurers, ER, federal and state agencies fail to routinely test for HIV (EurekAlert!)
( Forum for Collaborative HIV Research ) The Forum for Collaborative HIV Research convened a national summit on Nov. 19-21, at which some 300 leading HIV researchers, health care providers, and policymakers shared new data on the advances and barriers to early, routine HIV testing, considered a key to slowing the US epidemic which now encompasses more than 1.1 million Americans living with HIV.
20 Nov 2008, 11:18 am | click here for more
Early HIV Treatment Best for Babies (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finalizes research that changed guidelines around the world regarding when HIV-infected babies should begin drug therapy.
19 Nov 2008, 4:02 pm | click here for more