Doctors May Have Found a Way to Destroy HIV
There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV. “We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by discovering the weak spot of HIV,” Dr. Sudhir Paul of the...
View ArticleA World First: Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV Infection
“For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result.” The good news: The vaccine cut the risk of...
View ArticleUS to Lift Ban on HIV-Positive Travelers
Today is World AIDS Day, and I just found this good news item about the US dropping its travel ban on people with HIV coming into the United States. The full removal of the ban takes effect on January...
View ArticleStem Cell Transplant Accidentally ‘Cures’ HIV
A US cancer patient who received a stem cell transplant has been cured of HIV, said a team of German doctors whose research was published in the peer-reviewed journal Blood on Wednesday. “Our results...
View ArticleMore Families are Adopting HIV-positive Children
The number of U.S. parents undertaking HIV adoptions is surging – from a trickle just five years ago. Most involve orphans from foreign countries, where they faced stigma, neglect and the risk of early...
View ArticleThis $1 Plastic Chip Can Diagnose HIV In 15 Minutes
In Africa, waiting for blood work can take weeks, and many people don’t bother getting their results. A new device could make testing in remote villages a possibility, and that could lead to...
View ArticleGene Therapy Cures HIV in Patient
An early stage trial of an HIV treatment found that the gene therapy reduced levels of the virus and even eliminated it in one patient with a naturally occurring gene mutation. If shown to be safe and...
View ArticleMagic Johnson Thrives 20 Years On as Hero Who Demystified HIV
20 years ago, basketball all-star Magic Johnson stepped to the microphones at a Los Angeles press conference to tell the world he was HIV-positive. Not a single person watching on Nov 7, 1991 thought...
View ArticleHuman Trials for HIV Vaccines Approved by FDA
A vaccine that may prevent HIV has been given the green light by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to begin clinical trials in humans, according to Canadian researchers. The announcement was made...
View ArticleUS Panel Approves Pill to Prevent HIV Infection
“We are in an era now, for the the first time, when we can foresee the end of the AIDS epidemic.” said an expert speaking about the new pill, Truvada, a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people...
View ArticleTwo More Men with HIV Now Appeared to be Cured
Similar to a Berlin patient who was cured of HIV five years ago, two men diagnosed with both HIV and cancer have been seemingly cleared of the virus, raising hope that science may yet find a way to...
View ArticleScientists Say Baby Born With HIV Apparently Cured
A baby, born with the AIDS virus, appears to have been cured scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi, who’s now 2½ and has been off medication for about a year with...
View ArticleEarly Treatment Is Found to Cure 2nd Baby of HIV
When scientists made the stunning announcement last year that a baby born with H.I.V. had apparently been cured through aggressive drug treatment just 30 hours after birth, there was immediate...
View ArticleScientists ‘Delete’ HIV Virus From Human DNA for the First Time
The HIV-1 virus has proved to be tenacious, inserting its genome permanently into its victims’ DNA, forcing patients to take a lifelong drug regimen to control the virus and prevent a fresh attack. In...
View Article50% Success in HIV Vaccine Tests Leads to Human Trials
A new, experimental HIV vaccine is being tested in humans after it completely prevented the disease in half the monkeys it was given to. Drug company Johnson & Johnson is now testing the vaccine on...
View ArticleWorld’s First HIV-to-HIV Liver Transplant Gives Hope to Patients Desperately...
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View ArticleScientists Just Deleted HIV in Mice Using Gene-Editing Technique
Scientists at Temple University successfully removed HIV DNA from living animals, another step forward in their effort to develop a cure for the virus that causes AIDS. The team from the Lewis Katz...
View ArticleFirst Human HIV Vaccine Trial in 7 Years
Scientists in South Africa are to kick off the nation’s largest and most advanced human trial for an HIV vaccine, with results expected in 2020. With 1,000 people being infected with the virus every...
View ArticleIndian Parliament Passes Landmark Equal Rights HIV Bill
India’s parliament has just passed a historic bill that guarantees equal rights for citizens with HIV and AIDS. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and...
View ArticleDoctors May Have Found a Way to Destroy HIV
There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV. “We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by discovering the weak spot of HIV,” Dr. Sudhir Paul of the...
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