AIDS Vaccine Week articles from June 2004

AIDS Vaccine Week archives from June 2004

Scientists discover how AIDS opens cell doors.
June 7, 2004... 2004 JUN 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the Salk Institute have discovered a way to view viruses like HIV upon cell entry. Published in the May 18 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this...

HIV replication reduced in cells with zinc finger transcription factor.
June 7, 2004... 2004 JUN 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Primary human cells with a designed zinc finger transcription factor show attenuated HIV-1 replication. "Small molecule inhibitors of human immunodeficiency virus, type 1 (HIV-1) have been...

HIV vaccine trial initiated by U.S. Army based on Therapore technology.
June 7, 2004... 2004 JUN 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Avant Immunotherapeutics, Inc., (AVAN) announced that the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) has initiated a phase I clinical trial to assess the safety and immunogenicity of an HIV vaccine...

State AIDS drug plans offering widely varying benefits.
June 7, 2004... 2004 JUN 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Patients with HIV or AIDS get widely varying government aid for prescription drugs depending on where they live, according to a recently released study. In North Carolina, people who earn more than...

Vaccines for infectious diseases with cutaneous symptoms reviewed.
June 7, 2004... 2004 JUN 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists review vaccines and immunotherapies for the prevention of infectious diseases having cutaneous manifestations in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. ...

Institute receives $3.5 million for AIDS vaccine research.
June 14, 2004... 2004 JUN 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at the Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute (VGTI) and the Oregon National Primate Research Center at Oregon Health and Science University have received a $3.5 million grant from the U.S....

Missed goals, dwindling participation leads Pittsburgh to cancel AIDS walk.
June 14, 2004... 2004 JUN 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Faced with recent declines in participation and missed fund-raising goals, organizers of the Pittsburgh AIDS Walk said this will be the last year for the walk. The Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force blames...

AIDS advocates praise President Clinton's efforts since leaving office.
June 14, 2004... 2004 JUN 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three years after leaving office, Bill Clinton is starting to show AIDS activists the leadership they wanted to see during his presidency. While some of Clinton's work is criticized as "Hollywood"...

Aetna withdrawing lawsuit against Abbott over AIDS drug.
June 14, 2004... 2004 JUN 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aetna is dropping its lawsuit accusing Illinois-based Abbott Laboratories Inc. of seeking a monopoly on AIDS drugs by raising the price of its popular drug Norvir by 400%. The Hartford-based...

Panel hears arguments over cost of AIDS drug.
June 14, 2004... 2004 JUN 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) panel heard sharply differing views May 25, 2004, on whether the government should step in and allow other companies to start making a popular AIDS...

Study suggests double punch could more efficiently kill viruses.
June 14, 2004... 2004 JUN 14 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A study revealing new information about how viral proteins move between cells and alert the immune system suggests that a double-punch approach to vaccine design would make them more effective. ...

Volunteers needed as more AIDS vaccines move into clinical trials.
June 21, 2004... 2004 JUN 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- In a major step forward, the AIDS vaccine field is now moving a large number of experimental AIDS vaccine candidates into human clinical trials around the world, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition...

NIH awards $1.8 million for study on coping with HIV/AIDS.
June 21, 2004... 2004 JUN 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of older Americans living with HIV/AIDS is growing, but many lack access to services that would help them cope with the challenges of the disease: depression, thoughts of suicide, lack of...

Mathematical model used to determine course of HIV infection.
June 21, 2004... 2004 JUN 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A mathematical model has been used to determine the course of HIV infection. "The CCR5-Delta32 allele crucially determines the course of HIV infection and appears to be highly protective against...

Timed ablation of regulatory CD4+ T cells prevents AIDS progression.
June 21, 2004... 2004 JUN 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Timed ablation of regulatory CD4+ T cells prevents AIDS progression in mice. According to scientists from Australia, "Successful immunotherapy of murine AIDS (MAIDS) in C57BL/6J mice based on the...

Improving perceived self-efficacy reduces HIV transmission behaviors.
June 21, 2004... 2004 JUN 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Improving perceived self-efficacy reduces HIV transmission behaviors. "This study examined the impact of changes in self-efficacy over time on HIV-related injection and sex risk behaviors among...

State HIV funding in crisis.
June 21, 2004... 2004 JUN 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A division of the state Health Department wants New Mexico to join 11 other states that have closed enrollment for new clients who can't afford HIV drugs or health insurance. Health Secretary...

G-8 adopts plan to speed HIV vaccine development.
June 28, 2004... 2004 JUN 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Bush administration has won support from its major allies for a proposal to try to accelerate development of a vaccine for the virus that causes AIDS. The endorsement at this year's Group of...

Experts say AIDS prevention and treatment should be integrated to fight epidemic.
June 28, 2004... 2004 JUN 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mistakes made by industrialized nations in dealing with the AIDS epidemic could be repeated in developing countries unless HIV prevention efforts are expanded along with treatment, experts warned. ...

Drugs donated by AIDS patients in U.S.helps prolong lives worldwide.
June 28, 2004... 2004 JUN 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Jose Clemente, who restores artworks in Mexico's capital, has never met Daphne Rivera, a Brooklyn health educator. But medicine donated by Rivera are keeping Clemente alive. From Mexico to...

Cases of HIV-infected newborns decline in New York.
June 28, 2004... 2004 JUN 28 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of newborns infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has reached a record low in New York, 8 years after the state required that mothers be notified if their babies test positive. ...