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IAS 2009 Newsroom Complete Coverage (August 7, 2009)
In The 5th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, from The Body PRO
IAS Applauds South African Government for Commitment to Dramatically Scale Up HIV Treatment and Urges All Countries to Meet Their HIV/AIDS Commitments (July 31, 2009)
From International AIDS Society
Prepping for a PrEP Trial (July/August 2009)
Why is it so hard to find young people to participate in HIV-related studies? While trying to find an assistant to help recruit young, gay men for a trial of pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis (PrEP), HIV advocate Keith Green may have stumbled on an answer: homophobia.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Protect Yourselves, Ladies (July/August 2009)
Too many women still believe that HIV is a "gay disease," says Enid V´zquez, a staff member for the Chicago HIV/AIDS organization Test Positive Aware Network (TPAN). But it's not just ignorance about HIV that lies behind the growing number of HIV-positive women in the U.S. (especially among African Americans); it's also a matter of empowerment and personal responsibility.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
New Era for Syringe Exchange Programs! No More Abstinence-Only Education!: A Blog Entry by Bonnie Goldman (July 29, 2009)
From The Body
Study Suggests Immune Systems of Untreated HIV-Infected Individuals May Deteriorate Faster Than Previously Thought (July 29, 2009)
From U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
UCSF Researchers Identify New Drug Target for Kaposi's Sarcoma (July 29, 2009)
Researchers believe that engineering a new type of protease inhibitor could prove to be an effective form of KS treatment.
From University of California-San Francisco
Living With Two Diseases: HIV and Alcoholism -- A Blog Entry by Jimmy Mack (July 28, 2009)
"The shame I felt at being gay, coupled with my Catholic upbringing, was the very shame that filled me when I met the only thing that quieted that shame: alcohol."
From The Body
Warning on Body Building Products Marketed as Containing Steroids or Steroid-Like Substances (July 28, 2009)
The FDA has warned the U.S. public to stop using any body building products that claim to contain steroids or steroid-like substances after it received reports of serious liver injury, stroke, kidney failure and pulmonary embolism (blockage of an artery in the lung) among people who took these supplements.
From U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Meeting Seeks to Boost HIV/AIDS Awareness, Support for African-American Women (July 25, 2009)
The Oakland chapter of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women held a day-long conference addressing both HIV prevention and coping with an HIV diagnosis.
In San Francisco Chronicle
Half of Gay Men With HIV in Chicago Don't Know It, Health Officials Say (July 24, 2009)
In The Chicago Sun-Times
Boosted Darunavir Monotherapy Works Well in Two Studies (July 23, 2009)
Ritonavir-boosted darunavir alone maintains HIV suppression in most patients who achieved an undetectable viral load on combination antiretroviral therapy, according to two studies.
From aidsmap.com
HIV Infection and Chronic Drinking Have a Synergistic, Damaging Effect on the Brain (July 23, 2009)
From Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
Tanzania: Wild Chimpanzees Get AIDS-Like Illness (July 23, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Genetic Test Predicts Response to Maraviroc in Treatment-Experienced HIV Patients (July 22, 2009)
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From British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS
How I Fell in Love With an Illegal Alien: A Blog Entry by Thomas DeLorenzo (July 22, 2009)
From The Body
U.S. Organizations Speak Out on Women and HIV to Inform Health Policy and National AIDS Strategy (July 22, 2009)
"Health care systems have largely neglected the complex medical, economic and social realities of HIV-positive women," says Gina Brown of NO/AIDS Taskforce.
From Center for Health and Gender Equity
Why the HIV/AIDS Fight Needs More Passionate Voices: A Blog Entry by Bonnie Goldman (July 22, 2009)
Thoughts on NY State Senator Thomas Duane's impassioned speech on behalf of people living with HIV.
From The Body
HIV's Silent Dangers Make Early HIV Treatment Critical, Expert Says (July 21, 2009)
A discussion about inflammation, early treatment and universal treatment access -- Wafaa El-Sadr, M.D., M.P.H., United States.
In The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, from The Body PRO
African Americans, Women Have Lower Virologic Response Rates in Both Arms of Head-to-Head Antiretroviral Trial (July 20, 2009)
Race and gender may prove to be a more critical factor than we think in virologic response to HIV medications. In the large HEAT study, which compared two first-line HAART regimens, Kimberly Smith, M.D., M.P.H., et al found that in both study arms, fewer African Americans (versus white patients) and females (versus males) achieved a viral load of less than 50 copies/mL.
In The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, from The Body PRO
Female Patients' Stigma, Disclosure Concerns Reduce Their Access to HIV and TB Care in Africa, Study Shows (July 20, 2009)
The lower social status of Ugandan women compared to men is largely to blame for their difficulty in accessing HIV or tuberculosis (TB) care, according to David Kaawa-Mafigiri, Ph.D., M.P.H.
In The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, from The Body PRO
HIV Treatment as Prevention: How Many Lives Could Be Saved? (July 20, 2009)
If every person in sub-Saharan Africa received voluntary, annual HIV testing and started antiretroviral therapy immediately after diagnosis, HIV incidence would drop 95% in 10 years and more than seven million deaths would be averted, according to a theoretical model presented by Reuben Granich, M.D., M.P.H.
In The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, from The Body PRO
If We Can't Overcome HIV Stigma and Discrimination, Access to Care Won't Improve in Africa, Advocate Says (July 20, 2009)
"Right now, we're standing in a sinkhole, with regards to HIV and TB [tuberculosis] treatment" in Africa, said HIV/AIDS advocate Paula Akugizibwe in an eloquent, passionate speech at IAS 2009. "Until we do some serious work, and invest money and time on creating human rights sensitization ... and the imperative of governments to fund this right, then everything else we're doing is essentially self-defeating."
In The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, from The Body PRO
Nevirapine Sports Better Lipid Profile Than Atazanavir, Study Suggests (July 20, 2009)
Patients taking nevirapine may have a lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease than those taking ritonavir-boosted atazanavir, according to a 569-patient study by European researchers. The study found that although nevirapine's efficacy was non-inferior to that of atazanavir, nevirapine appeared to have a more favorable lipid profile.
In Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
The Future of U.S. and Global HIV Research, Policy and Program Implementation (July 20, 2009)
In The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, from The Body PRO
Troubling Trends in American Women With HIV (July 20, 2009)
From Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange
"We're Not Doing Enough," Say Global Leaders on HIV as IAS 2009 Opens (July 19, 2009)
In a wide-ranging, impassioned press conference at the opening of IAS 2009, Hoosen Coovadia, M.D., Vuyiseka Dubula, Stephen Lewis and Julio Montaner, M.D., discuss some of the overarching themes and priorities of this year's conference, many of which focus on a desperate need to renew attention (and funding) to the precarious state of efforts to prevent and treat HIV in resource-poor countries.
In The 5th International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention, from The Body PRO
Advocacy Group Files Suit to Force Condom Use in Adult Films (July 17, 2009)
In Los Angeles Times
DOJ Tells State Licensing Boards and Occupational Training Schools That It Is Illegal to Bar People With HIV (July 17, 2009)
HIV advocacy groups that urged DOJ to issue the guidelines praise the agency for its leadership.
From AIDS Legal Council of Chicago, the American Civil Liberties Union, The Center for HIV Law and Policy, Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders and Lambda Legal
Gilead Sciences, Tibotec to Develop Second Once-Daily HIV Treatment (July 17, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Randomized Controlled Trial Shows Circumcision Does Not Reduce Male-to-Female HIV Transmission (July 17, 2009)
In Kaiser Daily U.S. HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
This Positive Life: An Interview With Sarah (July 15, 2009)
From The Body
A Long-Term Survivor (Summer 2009)
The pioneering MACS cohort.
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In TAGline, from Treatment Action Group
Florida Man Says He Was Denied Hair Transplant Because of HIV Status (July 15, 2009)
In Miami Herald
Innovative Video Game Helps Teach HIV-Positive Teens About Safer Sex (July 15, 2009)
From The Body
Condoms Offer Partial Protection Against Herpes (July 14, 2009)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
amfAR Applauds First Step to Remove Ban on Federal Funding for Syringe Exchange Programs (July 10, 2009)
From amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
HIV/AIDS Update: Isentress (Raltegravir) Indication Extended for the Treatment of HIV-1 Infection in Treatment-Naive Patients (July 9, 2009)
From U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Needle Exchange Programs Find Success in New York City (July 9, 2009)
From KPBS
Thinning Bones a Growing Problem Among People With HIV; HIV and HIV Meds Appear to Be Culprits (July 8, 2009)
The findings add to a growing body of evidence that suggest HIV health care providers and the HIV community should start paying much more attention to bone health.
From The Body
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Lawsuit Against Abbott Laboratories Over Norvir Price Hike (July 7, 2009)
Abbott Laboratories was not taking advantage of its monopoly on HIV "booster" medications to unfairly raise the price of Norvir (ritonavir), a U.S. federal appeals court has ruled.
From Bloomberg.com
IAS Welcomes Delhi High Court Ruling Decriminalizing Sodomy (July 7, 2009)
From International AIDS Society
Obama and HIV: A Blog Entry by Gary Bell (July 7, 2009)
From The Body
A "Cultured" Response to HIV: Probiotics in Yogurt Could Hold Keys to Optimal Gut Health in HIVers (July 6, 2009)
From The Body
Eight Characteristics of Long-Term Survivors of HIV/AIDS: A Blog Entry by Terri Wilder (July 6, 2009)
Includes video interviews of long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS.
From Terri Wilder
Global Economic Crisis Threatens HIV Prevention and Treatment Gains in Poor Countries (July 6, 2009)
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From UNAIDS
Tuberculosis Vaccine May be Fatal for Babies With HIV, WHO Warns (July 2, 2009)
In The New York Times
Why Are People With HIV More Likely to Get Tuberculosis? (July 2, 2009)
From International AIDS Society
Evany Turk (July/August 2009)
A success story.
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Panama Adventure: A Blog Entry by River Huston (July 1, 2009)
From River Huston
Speaking From the Heart (Spring/Summer 2009)
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In The Positive Side, from Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange

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