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New York Times joins calls for enquiry into polio vaccine's role in HIV epidemic

The New York Times has thrown its weight behind growing calls for a serious scientific enquiry into the role of CHAT oral polio vaccine in

Published
05 March 2001
By
Keith Alcorn
HAART & pre-term birth issue reappears in Durban

New data from The European Collaborative Study presented at the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban yesterday suggest that women who receive protease inhibitor-based combination

Published
05 March 2001
By
Anna Poppa
Prestigious US journal publishes attack on early HAART: is US tide turning?

Indications that US clinicians may be re-thinking previously aggressive approaches to antiretroviral therapy have been strengthened by the publication of one of the strongest attacks

Published
05 March 2001
By
Keith Alcorn
Poppers may aid tumour growth

Poppers, also known as butyl nitrite and amyl nitrite, may aid tumour growth in mice, according to a report in Toxicology Letters last month. Dr

Published
05 March 2001
By
Anon
Terrence Higgins Trust launches anti-homophobia media campaign

The Terrence Higgins Trust, the UK's largest HIV/AIDS charity, has launched a national advertising campaign called "It's prejudice that's queer" to encourage individuals to

Published
05 March 2001
By
Keith Alcorn
Lipodystrophy picture becoming more complex, not less

A special one day meeting at the recent Geneva 12th World AIDS conference heard that the body fat changes and metabolic disorders emerging in people

Published
05 March 2001
By
Anon
Negotiated safety not leading to upsurge of HIV in Australia

Gay men who engage in unprotected anal intercourse with a regular partner, who they believe to be HIV-negative, are not at increased risk of HIV

Published
05 March 2001
By
Megan Nicholson
Injections may improve facial wasting

Facial fat loss on HAART may be cosmetically improved with injections of a substance called polylactic acid, according to French researchers who tested the treatment

Published
05 March 2001
By
Keith Alcorn
Mother to baby transmission falls to 2% in UK

Mother to baby transmission of HIV has fallen dramatically in the UK, according to a survey published in the British Medical Journal today. Transmission has

Published
05 March 2001
By
Keith Alcorn
Trial suggests nonoxynol-9 not an effective microbicide

An international trial of the spermicide nonoxynol-9 has concluded that it is ineffective in protecting women from HIV transmission. Microbicides are chemical substances - in

Published
05 March 2001
By
Robert Fieldhouse

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