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Dr. Fauci on innovative HIV vaccine initiative awards: “There are fundamental questions that remain unanswered”

Researchers at 14 institutions will explore new approaches to designing a vaccine against HIV with awards that are part of an anticipated four-year, $34.8 million initiative, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced today. Interview with Tony Fauci of NIH on the new HIV vaccine funding initiative.

Published
22 August 2012
From
Science Speaks
Vaccines
Lower seminal viral load and hints of long-term viral control seen in Thai HIV vaccine recipients

Men who received the Thai RV144 vaccine who nonetheless became infected with HIV had lower viral loads in their semen than men who received placebo, a new analysis

Published
17 August 2012
By
Gus Cairns
TB vaccine
BCG vaccination causes immune activation of CD4 T-cells in infants

BCG vaccination, routinely given at birth to protect from tuberculosis (TB), causes an immune-activation of CD4 T cells, the HIV target cells, according to a South African

Published
31 July 2012
By
Lesley Odendal
Finance and funding
Editorial: The Long, Uphill Battle Against AIDS

The international AIDS conference in Washington has already made two points clear. There is no prospect that scientists will any time soon find the ultimate solutions to the AIDS epidemic, namely a vaccine that would prevent infection with the AIDS virus or a “cure” for people already infected with the virus. Even so, health care leaders already have many tools that have been shown in rigorous trials to prevent transmission of the virus, making it feasible to talk of controlling the epidemic within the foreseeable future. The only question is whether the nations of the world are willing to put up enough money and make the effort to do it.

Published
29 July 2012
From
New York Times
The search for a cure
Imagine a World Without AIDS

The beginning of the end of AIDS? The article with that title jumped out at me last week, as I did my weekly table-of-contents scan of The New England Journal of Medicine. I wasn’t prepared for the flood of emotion that overcame me. The beginning of the end? Could it really be?

Published
29 July 2012
From
New York Times
Injecting drug use
NIDA grants $5 million to pursue combo anti-heroin and HIV vaccine

It sounds like a fantasy, but researchers are making headway in the development of an effective, safe and easily manufactured combination anti-heroin/HIV vaccine.

Published
26 July 2012
From
Science Speaks
Finance and funding
Hillary Clinton: US will not back down on fight to beat Aids

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton pledged at first international Aids conference in America for two decades that the Obama administration would do whatever it takes to end the HIV epidemic.

Published
24 July 2012
From
The Guardian
HIV prevention policy
AIDS 2012: Bill Gates skeptical of ending AIDS anytime soon

The world’s biggest AIDS conference has returned to the U.S. – to a city with HIV infection rates comparable to some African nations – after 22 years of ‘separation’ due to the US government’s ban against HIV-infected visitors. Bill Gates, at a plenary talk today, joined the minority of skeptics questioning rallying cries suggesting the end of the AIDS epidemic is in sight.

Published
24 July 2012
From
Humanosphere
New and experimental HIV treatments
TAG/i-base 2012 Pipeline Report - HIV/HCV/TB

On the eve of the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C., a new report by HIV i-Base (U.K.) and Treatment Action Group (TAG) (U.S.) reveals the deepening gulf between new scientific advances that make it possible to prevent, treat, and in some cases cure people living with HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and tuberculosis (TB), and access to these where they are most needed.

Published
21 July 2012
From
Treatment Action Group
Outcomes and prognosis
Mild HIV type slows development of AIDS and makes new preventive treatments possible

A new study has opened the way for new approaches to slowing the development of AIDS in HIV-1-infected patients. It is hoped that this could lead to better treatment methods and preventive measures to combat HIV and AIDS.

Published
20 July 2012
From
Science Daily
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