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Doctors announce that one HIV patient is free from infection due to a complex treatment that included stem cell transplantation resistant to the virus. The American Timothy Ray Brown, who lives in Germany, is being called the “Berlin patient” after spending three years free of the virus that causes AIDS in his body. His case is the result [...]

The number of HIV infected patients over 50 years of age more than doubled in the UK in seven years. Experts say the survey, released at an AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, stressed the need to practice safe sex, regardless of age. In 2000, cases of HIV among people over 50 years came to 299 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Seven years later, [...]

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 [...]

Diseases usually have unpronounceable scary scientific names, sometimes even humorous un-sexy names, and bring to mind pictures of strange bacteria that we faintly remember having studied in a long ago biology class. Not often though would the mention of a disease bring to mind the image of a well-known person. Dirk Silz, creative director at Das Committee [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 to “kill [...]

After decades of hugely-funded researches, HIV still does not have a vaccine, rendering the disease still incurable and ever so life-threatening. The light may now be shining at the end of the tunnel, though. Researchers have decided to skirt the usual process in vaccine development. In other words, they have discovered that to create a vaccine for [...]