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Who Invented The Hiv Vaccine

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who invented the treatment for hiv/ aids?

who invented a treatment for hiv/aids? what year was it discovered?why is it important? who was invovled in the discovery? what was the first treatment invented?...
Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

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Stanford University, School of Medicine
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Resistant Before Invention

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hiv vaccine

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National Association of People With AIDS

Time Names Orasure Home HIV Test One of "Best Inventions of the Year 2012"

Congratulations are in order to OraSure Technologies, whose in-home OraQuick HIV test has been named by Time magazine as one of the best inventions of the year . As the in-home test neared final FDA approval, concerns were expressed that some users... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Time Magazine Ranks OraQuick In-Home HIV Test Among Best Inventions of 2012

Time magazine has chosen OraSure Technologies Inc.'s over-the-counter HIV test as one of its "Best Inventions of 2012." The OraQuick test detects HIV antibodies through saliva samples in 20 to 40 minutes and is sold at retail locations. OraQuick... Read more »
Lambda Legal

Inventing "AIDS Exceptionalism"

Today's public health fundamentalists charge that "AIDS exceptionalism" coddles people with HIV while threatening overall public health. These critics insist that sound public health policy dictates using mandatory testing and names reporting to... Read more »
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Seventh Annual HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Emphasizes Need for Vaccine, Appreciation for Vaccine Trial Participants

Tuesday marks the seventh annual HIV Vaccine Awareness Day , which aims to "emphasiz[e] how today's science may produce tomorrow's ultimate weapon against AIDS," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Guthrie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ,... Read more »
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MORE GOOD NEWS! Therapeutic Vaccine Is Working!

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Dr. David Ho: "It's terrific. I would say full speed ahead for this particular research program."

The results "are extremely encouraging and what many of us had hoped we's see when the trial started," echoed Dr. Robert Schooley.

"There's still a long... Read more »

HIV Vaccine Scam

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies
(article courtesy of RedFlagsDaily.com)

I told you so. I told you so in the scientific literature. I told you so on the internet. I told you that an HIV vaccine would never work.

This week, the long-awaited results from an independent trial of the... Read more »

HIV vaccine in the making

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Read this article below and someone explain a couple of things to me..i am a health care professional, and part of my job is HIV/AIDS education. during my trainin on HIV i was told and (i teach this as well to my students) that people can't get HIV... Read more »

Vaccine Question..

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
I understand they are working on a hiv vaccine but from what understand about vaccinations is that they create antibodies to protect you from the virus. A HIV vaccine would make you hiv positive would it not? Why would anybody want to take a shot... Read more »

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