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Experts Gathered For UNAIDS, WHO Meeting Recommend Follow-Up Studies Of ARV-Containing Microbicide Gel Start Soon Experts gathered at a joint meeting of UNAIDS and the WHO last week called for two additional clinical trials to test the effectiveness and safety of a microbicide vaginal gel containing the antiretroviral tenofovir, which previous studies have shown reduces the risk of HIV transmission in women who used it before and after sex by 39 percent, PANA/Afrique en ligne reports (9/5)...
Funding Roadblocks Stall Progress On Vaginal Microbicide To Fight HIV Donors have not committed enough money to move forward with two studies needed to confirm the efficacy of a vaginal microbicidal gel infused with the antiviral drug tenofovir to prevent HIV transmission in women, the New York Times reports...
Switching To Nevirapine May Be Beneficial For Some HIV-Infected Children Who Have Achieved Viral Suppression HIV-infected children in South Africa who were exposed to the drug nevirapine at birth (used to help prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission) and then received a protease inhibitor (PI) for viral suppression achieved lower rates of viremia (virus in the blood stream) if they were switched to nevirapine, compared to children who continued on the PI-based regimen, according to a...
Are White Homosexual Men Still Taking Too Many HIV Risks? Risky sexual behavior among members of a subset of the gay community is still adding to the spread of HIV. Research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases has found that young white homosexual men have an important contribution in the local spread of HIV...
Road-Map Agreed For Confirmatory Trials Of Promising Microbicide Two further clinical trials are planned to confirm a vaginal gel which has shown potential in reducing the risk of HIV. The results of the first trial of the gel, which were announced in July at the XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna, must be confirmed before the product can be made available for general use...
Recent Releases In Global Health Lancet Editorial Makes Recommendations For Health-System Strengthening "There is strong consensus in the global health community, among donors, recipient countries, and policy makers, about the need for health system strengthening in low-income and middle-income countries," write the authors of a Lancet Comment...
VOA News Examines U.S. Global Health Initiative VOA News examines President Barack Obama's $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI), noting the initiative's emphasis on cost-effective strategies to improve child- and maternal-health as well as programs to fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria...
AVAC Calls For Speedy Funding Of Critical Microbicide Follow-Up Studies AVAC issues a call to action to donors, policy-makers, researchers and advocates to ensure that critical follow-up studies to the landmark CAPRISA 004 microbicide trial receive the economic and political support needed to move forward as quickly as possible...
A Scientific Breakthrough On How HIV Takes Control Of Cell Division Dr. Eric A. Cohen, Director of the Human Retrovirology research unit at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM), and his team published yesterday, in the online open-access journal PLos Pathogens, the results of their most recent research on the role of the Vpr protein in HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and AIDS (acquired autoimmune deficiency syndrome)...
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