Kenya

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• First results from Oxford-Nairobi vaccine trials

  Julian Meldrum | 08 September 2001

  The first results from clinical trials now taking place in Oxford and Nairobi were presented on Friday at the AIDS Vaccine 2001 conference in Philadelphia. The talk was given by ...

• Merck announces vaccine success

  Keith Alcorn | 03 April 2001

  Merck researchers have announced promising results in animal studies of a new HIV vaccine approach based on using the common cold virus as a vehicle to introduce specific HIV genes ...

• HIV infects men and women differently, throwing up new vaccine hurdle

  Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

  HIV is infecting men and women with different viral variants, according to researchers from the University of Washington, presenting a new challenge for vaccine developers. Whilst men are infected with ...

• Bottle feeding cuts HIV risk for babies

  Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

  A two year study of mothers and babies in Kenya has found that formula feeding of babies born to HIV-positive mothers reduces the risk of infant seroconversion by almost half ...

• Pressure builds for drug price cuts as Durban kicks off

  Keith Alcorn | 05 March 2001

  The Thirteenth World AIDS Conference opened today in Durban, South Africa with an intensification of calls for developing countries to be allowed to open up drug production to competition so ...

• Risks of breastfeeding not confined to HIV transmission

  Anna Poppa | 05 March 2001

  According to a study involving HIV-positive women in Nairobi, maternal survival may be adversely affected by breastfeeding their newborn baby compared to bottle feeding. In a large randomised, controlled trial ...