Confirmatory viral load reduces HIV treatment switches fourfold in 6-country African study
All our news, features and news selected from other sources. Our weekly round-up of HIV news. Our news coverage and bulletins in six languages from the 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2011).
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World AIDS Day – Tears for those lost


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Get informed about AIDS – HIV! Awareness and Prevention are the key to fighting the disease. Remember those lost and don’t turn your back to those suffering… Read more...

HIV/Aids Awareness session at Hanoiet Village, Red Sea State


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These HIV/Aids sessions are an important component of SOS Sahel UK’s "Recovery & Rehabiliation Programme" in the Red Sea State, Sudan. Read more...

GeoVax Trial Results Establish A New Benchmark For Preventative HIV Vaccine Model
GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTCQB/OTCBB: GOVX) announced the publication of the results of preclinical testing of a simian prototype of its 2nd generation HIV/AIDS vaccine. The article, titled “Prevention of Infection by a Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor Co-Expressing DNA/Modified Vaccinia Ankara Simian Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccine,” will appear in the July 1 issue of The Journal of …
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Aids: A tale of tragedy and hope
On June 5 1981 epidemiologists reported a baffling event: five young gay men in Los Angeles, all previously healthy, had fallen ill with pneumonia.
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HIV / AIDS Awareness Class, School No. 43, Erebuni, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / UNICEF Armenia Read more...

Mymetics Realizes Successful Phase I Study With Its Innovative HIV Vaccine MYM-V101
Mymetics Corporation, a pioneer in the development of vaccines that use the human mucosal system, the body’s first line of defense, to prevent transmission of infectious diseases, announced today that its innovative HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1) vaccine proved to be safe and well tolerated and demonstrated a high level of immunogenicity in a Phase I trial involving 24 healthy women …
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Sudan: WES Governor – Stop the HIV/Aids Workshops, Build Centres
The governor of Western Equatoria state (WES) visited four HIV/AIDS centres in the Yambio county on 17 May, assuring sufferers that they remain members of the community.
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The men who gave Aids to rural China
In Gu Changwei’s star-studded new film, Love for Life, a beautiful Aids sufferer, Qinqin, explains how she sold her blood to buy expensive shampoo. “Another girl in the village had it,” she says, shrugging. “I wanted my hair to be as shiny as hers.” Qinqin now suffers from the “fever”, a mysterious illness sweeping the region following a visit from a “blood merchant”, with whom the villagers had …
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Winnipeg man accused of exposing his mother to HIV in a sexual assault
An HIV-positive Winnipeg man is accused of exposing his mother to the virus that causes AIDS by sexually assaulting her while she was passed out.
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