AIDS Vaccine Week articles from July 2004

AIDS Vaccine Week archives from July 2004

Advocacy group applauds G8 inclusion of AIDS vaccine as agenda item.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) applauded the Group of Eight Industrialized Nations (G8) for including HIV/AIDS - and specifically a preventive vaccine - on the agenda for this year's...

Flagellin fusion proteins induce specific immune responses.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Flagellin fusion proteins as adjuvants or vaccines induce specific immune responses. "Vaccination is the most efficient prophylaxis against a variety of infectious diseases. New vaccination...

Mexican females at higher risk for HIV infection than males.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More likely than Mexican males to have unprotected sex, young Mexican females put themselves at a higher risk for HIV infection. According to research published recently in the journal AIDS...

United States House moves to help AIDS orphans in developing nations.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United States House of Representatives has directed the government to increase its help for orphans and vulnerable children in developing countries and moved to set up a new office concentrating on...

Efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission require both parents.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Tanzanian woman's acceptance of voluntary counseling and HIV testing depends on her perceived value of it to her child, as well as support from her male partner, researchers report. According to...

Limited response to PMTC transmission program in Zimbabwe.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Zimbabwe's efforts to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children is being undermined by a limited response to the initiative, the head of the program, Agnes Mahomva, told a national...

Indiana awards 38 grants to test minorities for HIV.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About one in four people with HIV does not know it, so everyone at risk of contracting it, particularly among blacks, should get tested and receive counseling, Indiana health officials say. HIV...

Sterile needle program eyed in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
July 5, 2004... 2004 JUL 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Defying a state ban, city officials are poised to approve New Jersey's first needle exchange program for intravenous drug users in hopes of stemming what one health official calls an "epidemic" of HIV...

Ugandans knowledgeable about HIV vaccine, willing to participate in trials.
July 12, 2004... 2004 JUL 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A majority of Ugandan study participants are familiar with the benefits of vaccines and are willing to participate in future HIV-preventive vaccine trails, according to a study conducted by researchers...

Faster progression to AIDS after seroconversion in young men in Thailand.
July 12, 2004... 2004 JUL 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A faster progression to AIDS after seroconversion has been recognized in young men in Thailand. According to a study from the United States, "The natural history and progression of HIV-1 infection...

AIDS epidemic threatens decade-old sexual and reproductive health targets.
July 12, 2004... 2004 JUL 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is threatening efforts to achieve sexual and reproductive health goals that are supposed to improve the lives of women and reduce poverty, the head of the United Nations...

President Bush speeds money for HIV-related drugs.
July 12, 2004... 2004 JUL 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- President Bush, on a fund-raising trip to Pennsylvania, said he will commit more money to a program for delivering medications to people with HIV and AIDS. The administration said it would make an...

Companies to develop personalized dendritic-cell vaccines.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Merix Bioscience, a company pioneering therapeutic immunotherapy vaccines, and Kirin Brewery's pharmaceutical division, which is developing therapeutic products for renal disease, cancer, and...

Computer program teaches drug users about HIV.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Injection drug users who studied HIV/AIDS causes and prevention via computer learned more about the disease than users who attended traditional counseling sessions, according to new research. Even...

Eighteen-year-old withstands AIDS, custody battle.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Stephanie Ray, a freckled, redheaded little girl who was born with AIDS and captured the nation's heart with her determination, is almost all grown up. As a young advocate for people with AIDS,...

Vitamins reduce symptoms in Tanzanian pregnant women.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A steady diet of vitamin supplements reduced symptoms of AIDS in a group of Tanzanian women who stayed with the regimen for more than 5 years, according to the U.S. National Institute of Child Health...

Women are encouraged to seek HIV counseling and testing.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- AIDS is the fifth leading killer of women aged 25-44 in the United States and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 180,000 to 280,000 Americans are unaware they are living...

Four Central Asian countries agree to jointly fight AIDS.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Four Central Asian countries and several international organizations agreed to jointly fight the growing threat of an AIDS epidemic in the region. Under the deal, the countries pledged to create...

Mexico HIV services could take bigger hit.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- People who test positive for HIV in the future could end up on a waiting list for services as New Mexico deals with a projected shortfall in the budget for AIDS and HIV programs. The state Health...

South Carolina health agency encouraging HIV tests.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A statewide effort in South Carolina to reach those who don't think of themselves as being at risk for AIDS included free tests at a grocery store here in a community where the majority of the...

Alabama may get funds to help AIDS patients get medicines.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- New federal funds for a program that provides HIV/AIDS medication to low-income people with the disease could help clear Alabama's waiting lists for the drugs, freeing up resources for new patients...

Study shows multivitamins slowed down AIDS virus in African women.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study of HIV-infected African women found that daily doses of multivitamins appear to slow down the disease and cut the risk of developing AIDS in half. The researchers who conducted the study...

Attention to AIDS wanes, but illness is still rampant.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arkansas' leaders are mistaken if they think the epidemic of acquired immune-deficiency syndrome is under control, according to advocates for AIDS support groups. They expressed concern in an...

Justices order new trial over 1995 AIDS death.
July 19, 2004... 2004 JUL 19 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Improper remarks from a defense lawyer triggered a new trial for a Kanawha County, West Virginia, lawsuit filed over the AIDS-related death of an injured coal miner. In a 4-1 ruling, the state...

Mrs. Annan speaks on the AIDS pandemic and women.
July 26, 2004... 2004 JUL 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Poverty and gender inequality are fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa, Nane Annan, the wife of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said. Speaking during a visit to the Kenya Network for Women...

In Southern Africa, over 75% of HIV+ youth are female.
July 26, 2004... 2004 JUL 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The laws guaranteeing equality are in place, the anti-AIDS information is out there, the girls are going to school in ever greater numbers, and yet young women in Southern Africa are becoming infected...

Rights group says Thailand's drug war darkens its anti-AIDS success.
July 26, 2004... 2004 JUL 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Thailand's anti-drug war has driven drug users underground and away from lifesaving HIV prevention services, jeopardizing its anti-AIDS success so far, Human Rights Watch said in a 60-page report. ...

U.N. report states AIDS virus continues to outrun efforts to combat it.
July 26, 2004... 2004 JUL 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The world is losing the race against the AIDS virus, which last year infected a record 5 million people and killed an unprecedented 3 million, the United Nations reported July 6, 2004. The virus...

AIDS group protests state budget's impact on small pharmacies.
July 26, 2004... 2004 JUL 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) held a press conference at AHF's Westside Pharmacy in Los Angeles, CA, to protest proposed cuts to California's budget that seek to cut Medi-Cal's pharmacy budget...