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Low levels of innate immune activation and high levels of gut antibodies may protect people from HIV

Several research papers published in the last month have reported strong correlations between specific immune responses and protection against HIV infection or its effects. These include

Published
24 August 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Infant feeding
A compound in breast milk may help to protect infants from HIV transmission

An international team of researchers has found that certain bioactive components found in human milk, called human milk ologosaccharides (HMOs) appear to help reduce the risk of HIV transmission from an HIV infected mother to her breast-fed infant. A study found that mothers whose milk contained high levels of HMOs were less liekly to transmit HIV to the babies. The HMOs appear to work by promoting growth of protective bacteria in the babies' diegestive systems.

Published
16 August 2012
From
EurekAlert
How transmission occurs
Bacterial vaginosis is associated with higher risk of female-to-male transmission of HIV

Previous research has shown that bacterial vaginosis can increase a women's risk of becoming infected with HIV as much as sixty percent. Our study is the first to show that the risk of transmitting HIV is also elevated.

Published
27 June 2012
From
Eurekalert Inf Dis
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
HIV Destroyed And Its Oral Transmission Blocked By Breast Milk In Humanized Mouse

"This study provides significant insight into the amazing ability of breast milk to destroy HIV and prevent its transmission," said J. Victor Garcia, PhD, senior author on the study and professor of medicine in the UNC Center for Infectious Diseases and the UNC Center for AIDS Research. "It also provides new leads for the isolation of natural products that could be used to combat the virus."

Published
16 June 2012
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
HIV prevention policy
Inexpensive Female Genital Schistosomiasis Prevention Could Help Reduce Women's Risk Of HIV Infection

Women affected by female genital schistosomiasis have a three- to four-fold increase in the risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS, but a low-cost drug called praziquantel may prevent FGS and therefore also serve as a low-cost AIDS prevention strategy if it is administered annually to African girls and women.

Published
10 April 2012
From
Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Many men with undetectable HIV in blood still have low levels in their semen, studies find

A study of 101 gay men at the Fenway Health HIV clinic in Boston, USA (Politch) has found that a quarter of men with undetectable

Published
02 April 2012
By
Gus Cairns
Sexual transmission
Infection with M. genitalium may double African women's HIV risk

A common sexually transmitted bacterial infection more than doubles the risk of HIV infection in African women, reports a study in the March issue of AIDS.

Published
09 March 2012
From
News Medical
Microbicides
Developing a New Weapon Against HIV

Deborah Anderson is developing an innovative approach to AIDS prevention, supplementing the body’s own immune system with novel antibodies grown in tobacco plants. If it works, her system will offer not only a cheap and powerful new weapon against AIDS, but also insights into stopping the spread of viruses from the common cold to the deadly Ebola virus.

Published
30 January 2012
From
Boston University Today
HIV and criminal law
Infectious specialist debunks HIV myths in criminal case

An Illinois man faces three felonies, including transmission of HIV, after police said he bit an officer's thumb, but HIV is unlikely, a doctor says.

Published
30 November 2011
From
UPI
What is HIV?
Rare HIV, Group N, Reported Outside Cameroon

A man in France who recently travelled to Togo has been diagnosed with a rare type of HIV-infection - Group N. This is the first time this type of HIV-infection has been detected outside Cameroon. The infection is considerably more similar to the virus type discovered in chimpanzees than to other human type viruses.

Published
25 November 2011
From
Medical News Today
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