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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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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Unsafe sex main cause of AIDS
Engaging in unsafe sex was found to be the main cause of the proliferation of Human Immuno-Defeciency Virus (HIV) in the entire country since 1984 to 2011.
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Request for HIV/AIDS Grant Proposals


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Pact’s Community REACH Program for HIV/AIDS Activities is pleased to announce a request for applications for RFA 06-A-1, “Providing Comprehensive Care for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (OVC) affected by HIV/AIDS in Haiti”. Read more...

Film on AIDS to be shown in Cairo March 16
CAIRO - A special screening of “A Mirror to the Heart – Breaking the Stigma of HIV/AIDS, is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 16 at First Missionary Baptist Church, 2115 Washington Ave. in Cairo.
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Question by Phil A: How many people have died from influenza( the flu) over the years compared to AIDS?
After reading about the epidemic down Mexico way, I got to thinking that the flu must have killed far more people than AIDS ever did, and I don’t mean just because it has been around longer. So does anyone know the aproximate number of people who have dies from the flu over the years versus the number of people who have died from HIV/ AIDS?
And also how many prople currently die each year from each virus?
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Facing HIV/AIDS exhibit


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