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 [...]

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 [...]

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 largest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Scientists at London have been granted 2 million pounds for a research that could save the time, effort and money of HIV infected patients around the globe. The scientist will develop a finger prick blood testing high tech gadget. The device will have mechanical sensors that will immediately warn the infected person if they need [...]

According to records, AIDS kills 3,000 people a week in Zimbabwe. One million Zimbabweans under 15 years are AIDS orphans. 140,000 children are directly affected. The disease is said to affect one in 10 adults in the country. In comparison, cholera has killed 4,000 people since August. These figures are an indication of how hyped [...]