Consensus Builds For Universal HIV Testing

Nancy Shute — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:05:00 +0000

Everybody needs an HIV test, at least once.

That's the verdict from the U.S.

Failure Of Latest HIV Vaccine Test: A 'Huge Disappointment'

Richard Knox — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:27:00 +0000

The largest current study of an AIDS vaccine, involving 2,500 people, is being stopped.

After an oversight committee took a preliminary peek at the results this past Monday, they concluded there was no way the study would show that the vaccine prevents HIV infection.

Nor would the vaccine suppress the wily virus among people who get infected despite being vaccinated.

So they pulled the plug on HVTN-505, as the study is called.

Oklahoma Dentist May Have Exposed Thousands To Disease

Korva Coleman — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 16:02:00 +0000

Oklahoma's health department is contacting some 7,000 patients of Tulsa-area dentist Dr. W. Scott Harrington to warn them they may have been exposed to "blood-borne viruses."

Officials are urging former patients to get screened for hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV after an investigation of Harrington's office found rusty instruments in use and evidence of unsanitary practices.

In Honduras, Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Music And Theater

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 08:43:00 +0000

In the village of Corozal in Honduras, men ready boats for fishing excursions and boys play soccer on a beach lined with thatched huts.

On a sandy lot next to the town's main street, two teenage boys begin playing drums while women sing. For centuries, this has been the signature sound of celebration for the Garifuna, an Afro-Caribbean people on the Atlantic coast of Central America. Now this music has an additional purpose: to prevent HIV.

As people arrive to hear the drumming, the musicians become actors in a play.

More Patients Keep HIV At Bay Without Antiviral Drugs

Richard Knox — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:57:00 +0000

Just last week AIDS researchers were excited about a Mississippi toddler whose blood has remained free of HIV many months after she stopped getting antiviral drugs – what doctors call a "functional cure."

Now French researchers confirm they've found 14 adults whose immune systems are apparently controlling HIV without medication.

HIV-AIDS

Consensus Builds For Universal HIV Testing

Failure Of Latest HIV Vaccine Test: A 'Huge Disappointment'

Oklahoma Dentist May Have Exposed Thousands To Disease

In Honduras, Fighting HIV/AIDS Through Music And Theater

More Patients Keep HIV At Bay Without Antiviral Drugs