HIV/AIDS Stories
- Most doctors hesitate to begin a conversation with their deathly ill patients about what the final days will look like; this is especially true when a patient’s ethnicity is different than a doctor’s own.
- An HIV outbreak in southeastern Indiana related to abuse of intravenous prescription drugs has jumped by 24 cases in the past week.
- A nonprofit foundation administering HIV services sued after paying employees to find patients that tested positive.
- An experimental immunotherapy, which uses neutralizing antibodies, dramatically reduced the amount of HIV present in a patient's blood.
- HIV is like a computer worm, researchers say, in how it spreads through the body using two separate attack methods: via the bloodstream and directly between cells.
- Dr. Janet Iwasa, a researcher at the University of Utah, gives an easy to understand explanation of why it's taking so long to find a cure for HIV despite scientists knowing that one does indeed exist.
- HIV-1 begins replicating in the brain as early as four months after infection.
- Indiana's governor authorized the short-term use of a needle-exchange program recommended by federal health officials to combat a worrisome outbreak of HIV infections.
- Early stage HIV may not be as highly infectious as previously believed, with researchers calculating acute phase hazard as nine times less than the most frequently used estimate.
- Promising clinical trials indicate researchers are closer to reducing the spread of HIV.
- The FDA has approved the continuation of human trials on a possible functional cure for HIV and AIDs patients.
- March 10 is National Women and Girls’ HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a time to reflect on the ways we can help our fellow females battle this disease.