AIDS Vaccine Week articles from April 2004

AIDS Vaccine Week archives from April 2004

High-mannose-type oligosaccharides bind to human antibody 2G12.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- High-mannose-type oligosaccharides bind to human antibody 2G12, which has implications for HIV-1 vaccine design. According to a study from the United States, "Human antibody 2G12 broadly...

Returning to work is difficult for men with HIV/AIDS.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Men with HIV/AIDS may have a hard time returning to work after a period of unemployment, even if their health is improving, a new study said. A variety of barriers keep these men from re-entering...

Vaccine development helps drive company's 25% revenue increase in 2003.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GenVec, Inc., (GNVC), announced financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2003. For the year ended December 31, 2003, GenVec reported a net loss of $21.3 million or $0.65...

Canada's Foreign Minister says AIDS crisis has become a human rights issue.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The worldwide AIDS epidemic is developing into an international human rights crisis, Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham said March 17, 2004. Graham, who was in Toronto for the official opening of...

Ohio AIDS center to close due to dwindling donations.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An AIDS organization that helps patients and their families in northwest Ohio is closing after 15 years because of dwindling financial support. David's House Compassion will close April 1. "Our...

U.N. plan to treat HIV/AIDS sufferers endangered by lack of money.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An ambitious plan to cut AIDS deaths in developing countries is in danger because governments have failed to come forward with funding for an important part of the operation, U.N. officials and...

AIDS awareness educators reach out to secretive gay Arab community.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- They may have arranged the Arabian Nights party, complete with loud Arabic dance music and flickering lights, but Chris Ayoub and David Ponsart came to the Ferndale bar mainly to spread a message of...

AIDS prevention programs get $47 million infusion from Gates Foundation.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on March 15, 2004, donated $47 million to private agencies carrying out AIDS prevention programs in India, a senior foundation official said. The money will...

NIH grant to fund drug development for multidrug-resistant HIV.
April 5, 2004... 2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Chimerix, Inc., a biotechnology company developing orally available, targeted medicines for the treatment of smallpox, multidrug-resistant HIV and hepatitis virus infections, has been awarded a Phase I...

Media coverage of HIV/AIDS decreasing, but focus on global epidemic increasing.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Are the media experiencing "AIDS fatigue"? A new Kaiser Family Foundation study examining 22 years of news coverage finds that overall media coverage is decreasing, while the amount of coverage of the...

AIDS vaccine to be tested on humans.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers for the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Medical School said they will begin human testing of an AIDS vaccine which attacks aggressively the virus that causes the disease. The...

Biotech company reports 2003 net loss of $11.0 million.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Lipid Sciences, Inc., (LIPD) reported results for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2003. Lipid Sciences is a development-stage biotechnology company engaged in the research and...

AIDS conference to mobilize leaders to get drugs to the needy.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- This year's International AIDS Conference will attempt to mobilize political will to effectively distribute new medicines to combat the deadly disease, a conference organizer said March 22, 2004. ...

African delegates meet to plan joint response to AIDS pandemic.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Representatives from four HIV-plagued African countries gathered in Maputo, Mozambique, on March 23, 2004, to discuss a common strategy against the pandemic that is ravaging the continent. "The...

More government, community involvement needed to tackle Asia AIDS epidemic.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- International AIDS experts urged Asian governments and communities on March 24, 2004, to step up efforts to stop the deadly disease from spreading in the region. "We don't need just doctors. We...

U.N. report: AIDS threatens China's progress in living standards.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Environmental damage, rising HIV infection rates and growing urban poverty are threatening improvements in China's living standards, the United Nations said in a report released March 25, 2004. ...

HIV rates rising among the elderly.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Happily involved in a relationship with a flirtatious, handsome man, Alice Renwick gave little thought to the possibility of contracting HIV. At 65, Renwick, an infection control nurse at a...

Pacific islands face rapidly expanding HIV epidemic.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Pacific Island countries have a unique opportunity to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS before it is too late. "Although HIV prevalence levels remain low, we must not underestimate the size of the...

Gates Foundation provides $47 million for AIDS programs in India.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donated $47 million to private agencies carrying out AIDS prevention programs in India, a senior foundation official said. The money will help significantly...

AIDS care group sues drug company for false advertising.
April 12, 2004... 2004 APR 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A private AIDS care provider has filed a lawsuit against pharmaceutical giant Abbott Laboratories, accusing the company of false advertising for saying that state Medicaid programs would not be...

Assays with extended incubation phases needed to monitor HIV vaccine trials.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first generation of candidate HIV-1 vaccines can induce antibodies able to neutralize primary isolates in assays with extended incubation phases. According to published research from Belgium,...

HIV-1 infection blocked via CCR5 and CXCR4 receptors.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HIV-1 infection was blocked via CCR5 and CXCR4 receptors by acting in trans on the CCR2 chemokine receptor. "The identification of chemokine receptors as HIV-1 coreceptors has focused research on...

NIH grant to be used to develop novel anti-HIV therapeutics.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aphios Corporation has been awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Advanced Technology phase I grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the U.S....

FDA accepts IND for unique HIV vaccine.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- CytRx Corporation (CYTR), Advanced BioScience Laboratories (ABL) and the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) announced that the HIV vaccine formulation developed by the University of...

"Somatic hypermutation" hypothesis for HIV R5-X4 switch proposed.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Somatic hypermutation in HIV genes may play a key role in AIDS progression. "During AIDS, the acquisition of mutations in the HIV-1 gp 120 envelope glycoprotein leads to the switch from primary R5...

Mutation rates of HIV genomes clarified.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel technique may provide a more accurate picture of HIV mutation and its effects on viral fitness. In a recent study from North Carolina, the "[m]utation rates of human immunodeficiency virus...

IL-15 levels elevated in patients with discordant response to treatment.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IL-15 levels are elevated in HIV patients with a discordant response to treatment. A "discordant response to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) occurs when CD4 T-cell counts are stable or...

Scavenger function of CCR5Delta32 protein involved in protection from HIV.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Coreceptor scavenging helps protect against HIV infection in individuals with the CCR5Delta32 mutation. "CCR5Delta32 is a loss-of-function mutation that abolishes cell surface expression of the...

Ability of HIV LysRS to bind tRNA determines virion packaging efficiency.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The tRNA binding ability of HIV LysRS determines the efficiency of virion packaging. "The major human tRNA[superscript]Lys isoacceptors, tRNA1,2[superscript]Lys and tRNA3[superscript]Lys, are...

AIDS virus is vulnerable in initial stage of infection.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In individuals newly infected with HIV, the virus that establishes infection is susceptible to inactivation by antibodies from the transmitting partner, according to a recent study by researchers at...

Biology, not behavior, could explain reduced risk of HIV for circumcised men.
April 19, 2004... 2004 APR 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Research from India suggests that circumcised men could be more than six times less likely than uncircumcised men to acquire HIV infection. The study also shows how the explanation for this...

Finding epitopes of HIV-1 that induce protective antibodies remains a challenge.
April 26, 2004... 2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Identifying epitopes of HIV-1 that induce protective antibodies remains a challenge. According to recent research published in the journal Nature Reviews Immunology, "During the past 20 years, the...

MVA-HIV-1 nef vaccine elicits T-helper cell responses in HIV patients.
April 26, 2004... 2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Therapeutic vaccination with MVA-HIV-1 nef elicits Nef-specific T-helper cell responses in chronically HIV-1 infected individuals. "Vaccination is currently considered as an additional therapeutic...

HIV finds new way to play hide and seek.
April 26, 2004... 2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The deadly virus HIV can mutate to prevent display of its components to immune cells, thus concealing itself from the body's surveillance system and resulting in faster progression to AIDS, report...

Cheaper AIDS drugs to be available in U.N.-supported nations.
April 26, 2004... 2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Former President Bill Clinton's foundation said April 6, 2004, that the special drug prices it has obtained for HIV/AIDS sufferers in some countries are being extended to all poor nations covered by...

Grant benefits Nevada AIDS program.
April 26, 2004... 2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A $6.4 million grant to continue the state's AIDS Drug Assistance Program has been received by the Nevada Health Division. The grant will allow the state to provide drug treatment to people...

CDC grants $21 million to enhance HIV prevention in communities of color.
April 26, 2004... 2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Regional and national organizations dedicated to preventing HIV in communities of color will receive $21 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The awards go to 27...

HIV education efforts neglect partner reduction.
April 26, 2004... 2004 APR 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Without multiple sexual partnerships there would be no global AIDS pandemic, yet partner reduction is still overlooked in most HIV prevention programs, argue researchers. Interest has been growing...