AIDS Vaccine Week articles from March 2004

AIDS Vaccine Week archives from March 2004

Measles virus expressing HIV proteins induces antibodies to HIV.
March 1, 2004... 2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A single injection of recombinant measles virus vaccines expressing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 clade B envelope glycoproteins induces neutralizing antibodies and cellular immune responses...

Monoclonal antibodies show promise for AIDS vaccines.
March 1, 2004... 2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Monoclonal antibodies show promise for AIDS vaccines. According to a study from the United States, "Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is phylogenetically classified into groups and clades...

Rate in U.S. is approximately 4% per year.
March 1, 2004... 2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An Emory University study estimates that more than 95% of people living with HIV in the United States do not transmit the virus to another person in a year's time. The findings were reported in the...

Geneva-based agency to provide India with funds to prevent AIDS.
March 1, 2004... 2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A Geneva-based fund said February 10, 2004, it was ready to give the Indian government US$26.1 million of assistance pledged toward its efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS. About a year ago, the...

December price hike on AIDS medicine under investigation.
March 1, 2004... 2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Investigators in Illinois and New York are trying to determine if Abbott Laboratories broke the law when it increased the cost of a commonly used AIDS medicine. Attorney General Lisa Madigan's...

Patent granted for EradicAide technology to diagnose, prevent, treat AIDS.
March 1, 2004... 2004 MAR 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Adventrx Pharmaceuticals (AVRX) announced that its collaborators at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have been issued United States Patent number 6,656,471 entitled "HIV-specific...

Studies offer new insight into HIV vaccine development.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mutations that allow AIDS viruses to escape detection by the immune system may also hinder the viruses' ability to grow after transmission to new hosts, scientists at the University of Wisconsin (UW)...

Vaginal infection with influenza A elicits immune response to HIV epitope.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaginal infection with a recombinant influenza A virus elicited mucosal and systemic immune responses to a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 epitope. "The humoral and cellular immune responses in...

HIV-1 trans-activator protein affects pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HIV-1 trans-activator protein exerts multiple effects on the pathogenesis of HIV-1 infection. According to published research from the Netherlands, "The HIV-1 trans-activator (Tat) protein is...

Entropic switch regulates myristate exposure in HIV matrix protein.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Entropic changes regulate myristate exposure in the HIV matrix protein. "The myristoylated matrix protein (myr-MA) of HIV functions as a regulator of intracellular localization, targeting the Gag...

Billions budgeted in South Africa for fight against AIDS.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel unveiled a 369 billion rand (US$56 billion) budget February 18, 2004, that commits billions to the fight against AIDS, crime and poverty in the run-up to...

UN: HIV growth rates in Estonia, Russia and Ukraine among world's fastest.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Russia, Ukraine and the Baltic nation of Estonia have some of the world's fastest HIV growth rates, the United Nations Development Program declared. The world body said one in every 100 adults of the...

Germany launches first HIV/AIDS vaccine trial.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists in Germany launched the country's first test of an HIV vaccine, a yearlong program that will involve up to 50 volunteers and is backed by the New York-based International AIDS Vaccine...

Adiponectin levels linked to lipodystrophy, stavudine treatment.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Low adiponectin levels are associated with lipodystrophy in HIV patients, and are especially common after stavudine treatment. In a recent study, immunologists in Denmark "tested the hypothesis...

Company presents model for a new therapeutic vaccination strategy against HIV.
March 8, 2004... 2004 MAR 8 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Lipid Sciences, Inc., (LIPD) announced that a poster exhibited at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco, California, illustrates that a delipidated retrovirus...

Germany begins its first AIDS vaccine trial, partnering with IAVI.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- German scientists, working as part of an international partnership, are beginning the country's first human trial of a vaccine candidate designed to prevent AIDS. The trial will be conducted at...

Cancer center receives grant for HIV/AIDS vaccine therapy.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Adventrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (AVRX) announced new research to develop next generation EradicAide vaccine therapy. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has received notice of a...

Polycationic nanoparticle formulation enhances HIV env DNA vaccine.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel polycationic nanoparticle formulation enhanced a human immunodeficiency virus env DNA vaccine. "In an effort to develop a more effective DNA immunization strategy for HIV, we synthesized...

Early trial results move investigational CCR5 antagonist to next phase.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results from an early phase clinical trial evaluating a new class of AIDS therapy under development by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in healthy volunteers were presented at the 11th Conference on Retroviruses...

X4 HIV suppresses R5 strains in lymphoid tissue.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- X4 strains of HIV suppress replication of R5 strains in lymphoid tissue through CC chemokine induction. According to recent research from the United States, "In infected individuals, human...

Bush unveils emergency plan in fight against AIDS.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- President Bush unveiled a detailed 5-year, $15 billion emergency plan February 23, 2004, aimed at turning the tide in the global fight against the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The plan, which Bush first...

Tat-binding surface of CBP KIX domain identified.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The HIV Tat-binding surface of the CBP KIX domain has been identified. "Tat is required for the expression of the HIV-1 genome," scientists in the United States explained. "HIV-1 Tat interacts...

AIDS threat growing throughout Europe.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- AIDS is rapidly spreading in Eastern Europe and is on the rise again in Western Europe because integrated prevention and treatment programs have not been sustained or do not exist. Countries in...

Scientists say monkeys may hold key to preventing HIV infection.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists say they've discovered how some monkeys resist infection with the AIDS virus, a finding that might lead to a treatment that blocks HIV in people. Researchers found that once HIV enters...

Genes involved in murabutide-induced HIV suppression identified.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Genes involved in murabutide-induced HIV suppression have been identified. "The synthetic immunomodulator murabutide has been found to suppress human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1)...

"Universal access" to HIV/AIDS treatment pledged by Europe, Central Asia.
March 15, 2004... 2004 MAR 15 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Citing a health crisis "of unprecedented proportions," 55 European and Central Asian nations vowed to halt the fast-spreading virus that causes AIDS, agreeing on an ambitious agenda of providing...

HIV vaccine antibodies bind more poorly than natural infection antibodies.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Antibodies elicited by vaccines bound to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected lymphocytes at lower levels than did antibodies generated by natural infection. "Binding of antibodies...

SIV promoter exchange creates strain that protects against viral challenge.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Simian immunodeficiency virus promoter exchange results in a highly attenuated strain that protects against uncloned challenge virus. "Among the many simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV)...

Three Maryland groups share part of federal AIDS grant.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Three agencies based in Maryland are among five groups that will receive a $335 million grant from the U.S. government to help combat the spread of the AIDS virus in Africa and Haiti. The grants...

HIV rates high in both rural and urban Central African Republic.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The prevalence of HIV infection is high in both rural and urban areas of the Central African Republic. According to recent research from France, a "sentinel serosurveillance study was conducted in...

China, U.S. launch joint anti-AIDS program.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United States is giving China US$15 million to help fight growing AIDS infections in some of the country's poorest areas under a five-year joint program the two countries announced March 2, 2004....

Dubuque mother and daughter to Africa as AIDS delegates.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A mother and daughter nurse team from Dubuque are two of a 16-member team of medical experts who will travel to South Africa to learn about the country's HIV-AIDS crisis. Katherine and Molly...

More than 11% Alabama AIDS cases among over-50s.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cal McCloskey sat in his apartment, a pale, tan box of two rooms perched on the 11th floor of a Southside complex for senior citizens, his pills laid out on the coffee table. There were two...

Europe, Central Asia countries pledge "universal access" to HIV/AIDS treatment by 2005.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Citing a health crisis "of unprecedented proportions," 55 European and Central Asian nations vowed to halt the fast-spreading virus that causes AIDS, agreeing on an ambitious agenda of providing...

Patent granted for AIDS treatment.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advanced Viral Research Corp. (ADVR) announced that it was issued a United States patent (No. 6,696,422) for the treatment of HIV infections with AVR118 as a combination therapy with other HIV drugs....

Development expert Robert Hecht to join AIDS vaccine nonprofit.
March 22, 2004... 2004 MAR 22 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Dr. Robert Hecht has been appointed senior vice president of public policy at the not-for-profit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI). Hecht, currently a senior official at the World Bank,...

HIV-1 Nef delivery to dendritic cells may stimulate immune response.
March 29, 2004... 2004 MAR 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Delivery of HIV-1 Nef to dendritic cells using an adenoviral vector shows promise as a method to induce an immune response against HIV-1. "The Net gene is a major determinant of HIV-1...

HIV-neutralizing antibody fragment isolated from lupus library.
March 29, 2004... 2004 MAR 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An HIV-neutralizing lupus antibody fragment has been identified. According to published research from the United States, a "single-chain fragment containing antibody V domains (scFv) isolated from...

HIV/AIDS incidence rising faster among women in Mekong region than men.
March 29, 2004... 2004 MAR 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women in some areas of Asia are contracting HIV infection at a faster rate than men. "Lack of attention to women's rights is fueling the HIV epidemic," said Kathleen Cravero, deputy executive...

Worldwide HIV/AIDS cases rising for women.
March 29, 2004... 2004 MAR 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A growing number of the world's new HIV/AIDS cases are women, a "terrifying pattern" that widely used prevention measures are ill-equipped to stop, says U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said. ...

Nigeria's AIDS treatment program back on track.
March 29, 2004... 2004 MAR 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nigeria's AIDS treatment program, hit by drug shortages in recent months, is back on track with drug stocks replenished and local production underway, the Health Ministry said Friday. The program,...

Rape exploits women's increased vulnerability to HIV infection.
March 29, 2004... 2004 MAR 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Across the world, between one-fifth and half of all girls and young women report that their first sexual encounter was forced, exposing them to risk of HIV infection, to which women are more vulnerable...