Posts Tagged ‘AIDS’

HIV patients: suffering from accelerated aging due to HIV/AIDS drug cocktail

Monday, November 16, 2009 13:54 By GSerrano

The administering of the drug cocktail presently used to combat HIV/AIDS shows proof that ‘middle-aged sufferers have symptoms of HIV-negative 80-year-olds.’ Medical findings show that accelerated aging is tied to HIV/AIDS medicines. ‘The aging population of Americans with HIV/AIDS is in a much different spot than those infected before the drug cocktail was introduced in [...]

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Why the Swine Continues to Hog Limelight?

Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:43 By Madhuri Katti

The swine is in the news these days thanks to the swine flu which is spreading fast globally across various countries. The Swine flu getting attention in developed countries is understandable.  Not many killer diseases or killing living conditions stalk people there. But it getting attention in developing nations and even under developed countries is [...]

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A new HIV is coming to get you

Monday, August 3, 2009 5:36 By NARUTO

Researchers of the University of Rouen, in France, identified a new variant of the virus HIV, cause of Aids, apparently transmitted to the humans by gorillas.
The new variant was identified in a 62 years woman from Cameroon, in the west of Africa. The patient doesn’t demonstrate signs of having developed Aids, they affirm the researchers.
According [...]

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AIDS vaccine research: a decline in funding for the first time since 2000

Friday, July 24, 2009 20:36 By GSerrano

According to the 5th Annual Report of the HIV Vaccines and Microbicide Resource Tracking Working Group, investments in biomedical HIV prevention R&D have dropped for the first time since 2000. It is a ‘research field altered by changing scientific priorities and likely influenced by the global financial downturn that began in 2008.’ USA, the largest [...]

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Chimpanzees do develop AIDS, study debunks previous thought

Friday, July 24, 2009 10:37 By GSerrano

It was generally thought that apes acquire the infection but do not have the syndrome. A new study reveals that simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) bears the same results as when the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) develops into full-blown AIDS.
A study published in the latest edition of the journal nature dismantles the theory that African primates [...]

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New AIDS Vaccine Awaiting Human Trials

Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:32 By Rajeev Saxena

In the battle to combat the AIDS and HIV, scientists at the Canadian University of Western Ontario have come up with an all new HIV/AIDS vaccine, known as SAV001H that would help millions, if approved by authorities.
In collaboration with Sumagen Canada, a subsidiary of the Korean pharmaceutical company, the   SAV001H vaccine was designed and developed [...]

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The WHO is asked to condemn homeopathy for HIV cure

Saturday, June 20, 2009 9:50 By GSerrano

There is a certain ‘Java Herbal Pill’ which claims “to help HIV/AIDS sufferers get their CD4 back to normal number through a few weeks use. This depend on the condition of their HIV/AIDS phase and if the sufferers also have had any opportunistic reactions.”
This herbal medicine comes in powder, pill, and liquid forms, and promises [...]

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Bill Gates tells fellow billionaires they’ll enjoy giving away their wealth

Friday, June 12, 2009 23:38 By GSerrano

Bill Gates’ charitable organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is what occupies most of the billionaire’s time, interest, and focus these days. The organization is very much involved in healthcare, especially the access to it by the poorest nations on earth. Since stepping down from the day to day operations of Microsoft, he has involved himself with such [...]

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Sexual Abuse of Girls: A Grim Picture

Sunday, May 17, 2009 22:21 By GSerrano

Across the globe, 150 million girls under 18 years are victims of sexual violence. Many of these young people suffer from Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs), difficulty sleeping, depression, and alcohol consumption habit. Being children of the communities where they belong, their parents, guardians, relatives, and neighbors bear the primary responsibility over the fate of these [...]

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The Truth About Third World

Thursday, May 14, 2009 5:21 By GSerrano

The term Third World should not be based on any political or economic criteria. Whose arbitrary criteria are those, anyway? But there may be common characteristics today, post-Cold War, among so-called ‘Third World’ countries.
The aggregate term ‘Third World’ has come to mean:
1. The demand and receipt of foreign aid (more aptly called Western aid). Some [...]

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