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Study: After 30 years, Americans still lack HIV understanding

25 percent thought one could get HIV by sharing a drinking glass with some one with HIV, 45 percent say they’d be uncomfortable having their food prepared by someone who is HIV‐positive, 36 percent with having an HIV‐positive roommate, 29 percent having their child in a classroom with an HIV‐positive teacher, and 18 percent working with someone with HIV.

Published
18 July 2011
From
Michigan Messenger
Drug interactions and pharmacokinetics
Varying efficacy of HIV drug cocktails explained

A new mathematical model of HIV-fighting drugs reveals the biology beneath the varying success of such treatments. 

Published
13 July 2011
From
Science News
How HIV causes disease
SIV-resistant monkeys close the gates to viral infection

Sooty mangabeys, a type of African monkey, can survive infection by SIV, a relative of HIV, and not succumb to AIDS. Researchers have now identified a way some of sooty mangabeys' immune cells resist infection: they close the gates that SIV and HIV use to get into the cell. The findings may lead to strategies to help HIV-infected individuals cope better with infection. The results are published online in the journal Nature Medicine.

Published
27 June 2011
From
Eurekalert HIV
Vaccines
New Math in HIV Fight

Scientists using a powerful mathematical tool previously applied to the stock market have identified an Achilles heel in HIV that could be a prime target for AIDS vaccines or drugs.

Published
21 June 2011
From
Wall Street Journal
How HIV causes disease
HIV damages B-cells as well as T-cells: new treatment targets identified

The signature effect of HIV infection, and the cause of AIDS, is disruption of the T-lymphocyte branch of the immune system and in particular the destruction of

Published
10 June 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Outcomes and prognosis
Tropism impacts on virological success of first-line HIV therapy

HIV tropism has a significant impact on the virological success of first-line antiretroviral therapy, a Spanish study published in the July 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious

Published
08 June 2011
By
Michael Carter
History of HIV and AIDS
30 years of AIDS: remembering how it began - from those who were there

Sunday June 5 sees the 30th anniversary of the first reports of the disease that later came to be known as AIDS. At the time no one

Published
03 June 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
How HIV causes disease
Studies solve mystery of 'HIV-Negative AIDS'

Sixty people who had claimed they were suffering from a mysterious infectious condition dubbed "HIV-Negative AIDS" have been cleared of the disease, but 48 of them tested positive for several types of pathogens.

Published
09 May 2011
From
AsiaOne
New and experimental HIV treatments
Gold-based drug shows promise in clearing HIV reservoir in monkey study

A gold-based drug already used for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis significantly reduced the reservoir of viral DNA and the population of long-lived HIV-infected memory CD4+ cells in a

Published
20 April 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
How HIV causes disease
How TRIM5 fights HIV

Thanks to a certain protein, rhesus monkeys are resistant to HIV. Known as TRIM5, the protein prevents the HI virus from multiplying once it has entered the cell. Researchers from the universities of Geneva and Zurich have now discovered the protein's mechanism, as they report in Nature. This also opens up new prospects for fighting HIV in humans.

Published
20 April 2011
From
Eurekalert HIV
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