AIDS Vaccine Week articles from May 2004

AIDS Vaccine Week archives from May 2004

Epitope mimic for human HIV-neutralizing antibody 2G12 synthesized.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have synthesized a template-assembled oligomannose cluster as an epitope mimic for human HIV-neutralizing antibody 2G12. According to published research from the United States, "The...

HIV synthetic peptide-cocktail prevents SHIV transmission.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An HIV synthetic peptide-cocktail prevented SHIV transmission in rhesus macaques. "An effective vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) should not only protect from infection and...

Antibodies that recognize HIV coreceptor-binding site on gp120 studied.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists describe the structural basis of tyrosine sulfation and V[subscript]H-gene usage in antibodies that recognize the HIV type 1 coreceptor-binding site on gp120 in a recent issue of the...

Attenuated SIV vaccine provides early protection against viral infection.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vaccination with attenuated simian immunodeficiency virus provided early protection against pathogenic viral infection at a mucosal challenge site. "Atraumatic application of attenuated...

Low-dose mucosal SIV challenge has same kinetics as high-dose challenge.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Repeated low-dose mucosal simian immunodeficiency virus SIVmac239 challenge results in the same viral and immunological kinetics as high-dose challenge. According to published research from the...

Nasal vaccine controls SHIV viremia and disease progression in primates.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IL-2-augmented DNA-modified vaccinia virus Ankara nasal vaccination controlled simian/human immunodeficiency virus viremia and disease progression in nonhuman primates. According to recent research...

Minnesota's new HIV cases drop to 20-year low.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Minnesota reported only 266 new HIV cases last year, the lowest number of new cases in 20 years, the state Health Department said. The department reported the 13% decline in the virus that causes...

China offers free AIDS tests and treatment for the poor.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- China on April 14, 2004, began offering free AIDS tests to anyone who wants one and free treatment for infected people who can't afford it, amid growing official urgency about stopping the spread of the...

Arkansas plans waiting list for HIV drugs.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Arkansas plans to reinstate a waiting list for HIV patients who need help paying for medications. Through a federal grant, the state can only assist 460 patients and demand is expected to surpass...

Pharmaceutical company to make AIDS drug widely available.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A year after launching the first drug in a new class of AIDS medications, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. says it has overcome shortages of its hard-to-manufacture Fuzeon and is making it widely available. ...

Court won't hear McDonald's AIDS discrimination case.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Ohio Supreme Court on April 14, 2004, refused to hear an appeal of a ruling that overturned a $5 million verdict won by a former McDonald's restaurant manager who claimed he was discriminated...

Pneumococcal vaccine not useful in HIV patients responding to HAART.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The 23-valent pneumococcal vaccine does not offer additional protection against pneumonia in HIV-infected patients who have an immunological response to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). ...

Antibodies and CD8+ T cells contribute to immunity to adenovirus vectors.
May 3, 2004... 2004 MAY 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neutralizing antibodies and CD8+ T lymphocytes both contribute to immunity to adenovirus serotype 5 vaccine vectors. According to a study from the Netherlands and the United States, "The high...

Neutralizing HIV epitopes available in newly-infected patients.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neutralizing HIV epitopes are available in newly-infected patients. According to published research from the United States, England, and Zambia, "Heterosexual transmission accounts for the majority...

Vaccine allows for infection control in macaques exposed to SHIV.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Priming B cell-mediated anti-HIV envelope responses by vaccination allows for the long-term control of infection in macaques exposed to a R5-tropic SHIV. "The potential of vaccine-elicited anti-HIV...

Biopharma company offers up to 4,000,000 shares of common stock.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GenVec, Inc., (GNVC) announced that it is offering, through Stonegate Securities, Inc., as placement agent, to sell up to 4,000,000 shares of its common stock for $3.15 per share, prior to commissions,...

California investigators urged to inspect porn industry.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- An HIV outbreak in the pornography industry has prompted a request for the state to regulate movie sets and perhaps require condoms, a move that some say would force the multibillion-dollar business...

RealNetworks founder pledges $1.5 million to fight AIDS.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser wants to make venture capital work for the world of philanthropy. He is donating $1.5 million to help fight AIDS in Rwanda, where genocide ravaged the country a...

Study shows HIV-positive teens were not aware of risks and delayed treatment.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Few of the 59 HIV-positive Georgia teenagers in a study were aware of the risk of being sexually active and some were not treated for months after their diagnosis, federal officials said April 20,...

There is hope among grim facts with AIDS.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Despite grim facts about the spread of AIDS last year, a leader of a global AIDS program said there is hope, pointing out that most nations list the virus on political agendas, bringing resources that...

UNICEF says project in Rwanda registers high acceptance rate.
May 10, 2004... 2004 MAY 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A pilot project in Rwanda on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV infection has registered a high rate of acceptance and has helped improve the chances of HIV positive mothers giving birth to HIV...

Company presents data on its therapeutic vaccine approach for HIV infection.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Lipid Sciences, Inc., (LIPD) announced that preclinical data for its viral immunotherapy platform was presented at the Keystone Symposium, HIV Vaccine Development: Progress and Prospects. The data...

FDA-approved study launched to treat AIDS patients in virologic failure.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Advanced Biotherapy, Inc., (ADVB) announced the launch of a phase I U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)-approved clinical trial to initially treat antiretroviral drug-resistant AIDS patients with an...

Wild-type CCR5 confers HIV-1 cross-clade resistance.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists describe risk associated HIV-1 cross-clade resistance of whole peripheral blood mononuclear cells from exposed uninfected individuals with wild-type CCR5. According to a study from the...

CTL ontogeny and viral escape have implications for HIV vaccine design.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) ontogeny and viral escape have implications for HIV vaccine design. According to recent research published in the journal Trends in Immunology, "The protective role of...

Components of HIV vaccine are recognized by T-helper cells.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Minor components of a multi-envelope HIV vaccine are recognized by type-specific T-helper cells. "HIV has thus far evaded control by vaccines, in part due to the high diversity among viral...

IL-15 may be beneficial for AIDS immunotherapy.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Interleukin-15 (IL-15) may be beneficial for AIDS immunotherapy. According to recent research published in the journal Trends in Immunology, "The current antiretroviral therapy has improved the...

Neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 tat antigen characterized.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have characterized neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 tat antigen. According to a study from France, "The human immunodeficiency virus...

Gays worry Michigan legislation may let doctors refuse treatment.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some gays are worried that a package of bills passed in April 2004 by the Michigan House could allow healthcare providers to refuse them treatment on ethical, moral, or religious grounds, unless they...

Scientists identify molecules that turn on long-term memory in immune system.
May 17, 2004... 2004 MAY 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have identified two molecules (TL and CD8aa) that cooperate to trigger immune cells to develop into long-lived memory cells to fight recurring...

Lymphocytes in transgenic mice are resistant to viral infection.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Intraepithelial lymphocytes in HIV-1P18-110-specific T-cell receptor transgenic mice are resistant to viral infection. According to recent research published in the journal Biochemical and...

Immune efficiency correlates with specific targeting.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Immune efficiency correlates with specific targeting. According to recent research published in the Journal of Virology, "An understanding of the relationship between the breadth and magnitude of...

Monocyte-derived macrophages of acetyleysteamine analogues synthesized.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have synthesized human monocyte-derived macrophages of N-(N-acetyl-L-cysteinyl)-S-acetyleysteamine analogues with potent antioxidant and anti-HIV activities. "We synthesized a series of...

T-helper response to viral antigens correlate with SHIV immunity.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Qualitative T-helper responses to multiple viral antigens correlate with vaccine-induced immunity to simian/human immunodeficiency virus (SHIV) infection. According to a study from an international...

TNFerade maker reports net loss of $5.6 million in first quarter.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- GenVec, Inc., (GNVC) announced financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004. GenVec reported a net loss of $5.6 million compared to a net loss of $5.2 million in the comparable...

AIDS activists receive human rights award.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- For some, romance can lead to AIDS. But one young woman from Nigeria found the love of her life through the HIV they both carried. On May 5, 2004, AIDS activist Yinka Jegede-Ekpe, along with three...

Fourth porn actor in California tests positive for AIDS virus.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A fourth pornography actor has tested positive for the AIDS virus in an outbreak that has prompted Southern California's adult-movie industry to halt production, according to an organization that tests...

HCV prevalence parallels HIV increase Africa.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- HCV prevalence parallels HIV increase Africa. "A world overview of HIV and hepatitis B and C virus (HBV and HCV) infections shows strong parallels in the distribution of generalized epidemics....

HUD gives $400 million to NYC for housing development.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has provided New York City with more than $400 million to construct and rehabilitate low-income housing and to help house the homeless and...

South Africa's government faulted for surging AIDS deaths.
May 24, 2004... 2004 MAY 24 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sindiswa Moya has already buried her boyfriend because of AIDS. Now the former police officer battles for her own life. In an open letter to President Thabo Mbeki, Moya made a desperate plea for...

CTL ontogeny and viral escape have implications for HIV vaccine design.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) ontogeny and viral escape have implications for HIV vaccine design. According to recent research published in the journal Trends in Immunology, "The protective role of...

Wild-type CCR5 confers HIV-1 cross-clade resistance.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists describe risk associated HIV-1 cross-clade resistance of whole peripheral blood mononuclear cells from exposed uninfected individuals with wild-type CCR5. According to a study from the...

Components of HIV vaccine are recognized by T-helper cells.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Minor components of a multi-envelope HIV vaccine are recognized by type-specific T-helper cells. "HIV has thus far evaded control by vaccines, in part due to the high diversity among viral...

IL-15 may be beneficial for AIDS immunotherapy.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Interleukin-15 (IL-15) may be beneficial for AIDS immunotherapy. According to recent research published in the journal Trends in Immunology, "The current antiretroviral therapy has improved the...

Neutralizing antibodies against HIV-1 tat antigen characterized.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have characterized neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against human immunodeficiency virus type 1 tat antigen. According to a study from France, "The human immunodeficiency virus...

Role of therapeutic vaccines for the control of HIV-1 reviewed.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists review the role of therapeutic vaccines for the control of HIV-1 in a recent issue of the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. According to recent research from England, "The recent...

Virus-like particles rich in HIV-1 envelope gp120 developed.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have developed virus-like particles rich in HIV-1 envelope gp120. "In order to improve the immunogenicity of HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins, we have fused gp120 to a carrier protein,...

Vaccine maker reports 170% increase in total revenues during first quarter.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Novavax, Inc., (NVAX) announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004. Total revenues for the first quarter ended March 31, 2004, rose 170% to $3.2 million compared to...

Experts say hunger and AIDS create vicious cycle in Africa.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hunger and AIDS have trapped millions of Africans in a spiral of sickness and death, experts told the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "AIDS and hunger interact," said James Morris,...

Many adult movie performers released from voluntary HIV quarantine.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nineteen adult movie performers have been removed from a voluntary quarantine list almost a month earlier than expected following an HIV outbreak that shook the multibillion-dollar porn industry and...

Nebraska sees slight decrease in new AIDS cases, HIV numbers remain the same.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The number of new AIDS cases reported in Nebraska last year was down slightly from 2002, while the number of new HIV cases remained the same, state health officials said. Sixty new AIDS cases were...

Annan to contact Libyan government over death sentences for six health workers.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he plans to contact the Libyan government "at a high level" about the death sentences for five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor convicted of infecting...

Libyan protesters burn American flag to denounce U.S. criticism of AIDS trial.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nearly 1,000 Libyans marched and burned an American flag to protest U.S. criticism of death sentences for 5 Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children...

Higher rates of trauma increase urban American Indian women's risk for HIV.
May 31, 2004... 2004 MAY 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Urban American Indian women endure extremely high rates of physical and sexual trauma and, as a result, may engage in risky behaviors that place them at high risk for becoming infected with HIV,...