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The HIV virusAIDS is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the HIV virus. The HIV virus destroys the bodys ability to fight infections. The HIV virus spreads primarily through shared blood. Transmitted under sexual activity or shared needles used by an HIV infected drug user. HIV infected people or people who have AIDS have a weak immune system and their body cannot fight the disease. Early signs include extreme tiredness and fever. During later stages of AIDS, cancer or pneumonia may lead to the AIDS infected death. At the moment are there no cure for AIDS, but there are medications that can keep it somewhat under control by slowing the AIDS virus progress.
 2010-03-12 What women should know about HIV from Dr. Jennifer Gunter San Francisco NewsNot only is the incidence of HIV growing among women and girls, but many have no idea they are infected. Over 1 million people in the United States are living with the human immunodeficiency virus and more than 25 percent of them have no idea that they are actually HIV positive. HIV: What you should know and why you and your daughters should get tested. - Dr. Jennifer Gunter OB/GYN Pelvic Pain Kaiser San Francisco Dept.
2010-03-11 HIV-Infected Cells may Dwell in Bone Marrow TopNews United StatesPeople infected with human immunodeficiency virus who are consuming anti-viral drugs cant get rid of the virus for good. Infected cells will continue to dwell in the body, unnoticed by the immune system and will supply machinery for the dreadful virus to multiply. Antiviral drugs have been effective at keeping the virus at bay. However once the drug therapy is stopped, the virus comes back", Nature quoted senior author of the study Dr Kathleen L. Collins, as saying.
2010-03-10 Bone marrow can harbour HIV-infected cells - Health - Health and Fitness - Life - The Times of IndiaIn people infected with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), the virus that causes AIDS, theres an unsolved problem with current anti-viral drugs. Though life saving, they cannot root the virus out of the body. Infected cells can live on, undetected by the immune system, and provide the machinery for the virus to reproduce and spread. While further studies are needed to demonstrate that stem cells can harbour the HIV virus, the study results confirm that HIV targets some long-lived progenitor cells, young cells that have not fully developed but mature into cells with special immune functions. Researchers have identified a new reservoir for hidden HIV-infected cells that can serve as a factory for new infections. - Health HIV aids bone marrow
2010-03-08 New Vision Online : Traditional leaders join HIV fightThe cultural leaders discussed practices that fuel HIV transmission such as widow inheritance, risky sex during cultural rituals and the low status of women and girls. In a declaration, the leaders pledged to live as community role-models for HIV prevention. They pledged to identify and address cultural barriers that prevent the promotion of HIV prevention and interventions such as the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, infant nutrition, safe male medical circumcision and the correct use of condoms. The New Vision is Ugandas leading daily newspaper. {PAGE_META_DESCRIPTION) - Newspaper newspapers news new vision bukedde etop orumuri rupiny sunday vision national news local news features business news sports crazy kampala transfer exchange uganda africa
2010-03-07 US senators call to end gay blood ban - from Pink News - all the latest gay news from the gay community - Pink NewsMr Kerrys office said that men who had had gay sex since 1977 were barred from donating blood, yet people who had had heterosexual sex with someone known to carry the HIV virus were only banned from donating blood for one year. US senators call to end gay blood ban - all the latest gay news from the UK and beyond to the gay community
2010-03-05 Pfizer pneumonia shot helps HIV-infected patients ReutersBritish researchers who tested the shot in Malawi found it stopped 74 percent of recurrent cases of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in patients infected with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS. LONDON (Reuters) - Results of a trial of Pfizers Prevnar 7 vaccine against a major cause of pneumonia and meningitis showed on Wednesday that it can prevent three out of four cases of re-infection in - Britain Malawi United States Greg Mahlich Kate Kelland Neil French
2010-03-04 Study focuses on nevirapine HIV therapyUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham researchers said despite nevirapine working well to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus, a single dose of nevirapine in infected pregnant women can trigger resistance to some forms of the AIDS-drug cocktail known as combination anti-retroviral treatment. U. S. scientists say women given nevirapine to protect the fetus from HIV should not use that drug for at least a year after childbirth. - Study focuses nevirapine HIV therapy United Press International health science news environmental science medical science technology news latest science earth science Science news tech news astronomy
2010-03-03 CA Pension Funds Express Concern Over Merck AIDS Drug Pricing, Says AHF - MarketWatchContinuing to urge Merck to work with AHF on the issue of Isentress pricing and access, the letter goes on to state: "We support your continued engagement with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) community and believe that it is only through sustained collaboration that a balance can be struck between treatment and affordability of these life saving drugs. " AHF has undertaken several actions to urge Merck to lower the price of Isentress including a recent protest during the 17th Conference of Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in San Francisco on th. The organization has also initiated an innovative advertising campaign which includes vinyl train station banners ads urging, Merck: Do the Right Thing hung from light poles on the train platforms in Whitehouse Station, NJ, Mercks hometown, in an effort to educate Merck employees and other commuters about Mercks AIDS drug pricing and policies. In early January AHF participated in a protest targeting Merck at the J. P. Morgan Investor Healthcare Conference in San Francisco where Merck officials were speaking.
2010-03-02 Failure to aid drug users drives HIV spreadUsers are a neglected population in the fight against AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes it. Users can spread the virus in blood by sharing needles with an HIV-infected person, and pass it on by having unprotected sex. - Aids drug users
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