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AIDS/HIV Article Index
HIV Vaccine Trial Begins
(16 May 2002)
A vaccine that dramatically slowed the reproduction of the AIDS virus in laboratory monkeys is now to be tested on healthy, non-infected human subjects...
Manganese Blocks HIV Replication
(29 April 2002)
Scientists have found that simply increasing manganese in cells can halt HIV's unusual ability to process its genetic information backwards, providing a new way to target the process's key enzyme driver...
HIV Can Serve As Opportunity For Positive Change
(8 April 2002)
A new study suggests that many HIV-positive individuals believe that their infection and its life-threatening consequence served as a personal milestone that positively changed many aspects of their lives...
HIV/AIDS Could Trigger Economic Downfall
(11 March 2002)
With 20% of the population HIV positive, Mozambique education faces a bleak future with not enought teachers and too many students at home caring for sick relatives...
Condoms Dramatically Reduce Spread Of HIV In Thailand
(1 February 2002)
Public health efforts in Thailand have successfully reduced the sexual transmission of HIV and AIDS, but the transmission of the disease through drug injection is increasing...
Unsterile Needles The Origin Of AIDS?
(15 January 2002)
Could a relatively harmless monkey virus called Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) have mutated into the deadly AIDS virus as a result of the repeated use of unsterilized hypodermic needles...
Herpes Increases Risk Of HIV
(28 November 2001)
Most people who have genital herpes are unaware that the infection dramatically increases their risk of acquiring HIV...
HIV Therapy May Encourage Unsafe Sex
(14 November 2001)
Some gay and bisexual men believe AIDS therapy reduces the risk of transmitting the virus to sexual partners leading to an increase in unprotected sex...
Stress Accelerates HIV And Hinders Antiretroviral Drugs
(1 November 2001)
Research on the molecular mechanisms linking stress and HIV reveals that stress enables HIV to spread more quickly and prevents antiretroviral drugs from restoring immune system function...
Alcohol, Sex And AIDS
(16 October 2001)
A little-known link between injection drug use and heterosexual transmission of the virus that causes AIDS may be alcohol consumption. Now, a new study examines what role alcohol consumption may play among drug injectors who have unsafe sex...
New Mechanism For Supressing HIV
(8 October 2001)
Studies have shown that Peptide-T � a synthetic compound of amino acids � can suppress HIV by preventing the virus from entering healthy human cells...
Early Therapy For HIV Promising
(17 September 2001)
A HIV treatment using a high potency, three-drug combination treatment given in the earliest stages of HIV infection may preserve or enhance a patient�s immunity against HIV...
HIV Infection From Oral Sex Is Rare Event Says Study
(3 September 2001)
A study by researchers found the probability of HIV infection through unprotected receptive oral sex with a man to be statistically estimated as zero...
Why Some HIV Patients Shun Treatment Completely
(18 August 2001)
HIV-positive patients from rural areas may shun life-extending medical treatments rather than risk breaches of confidentiality, according to a new study...
No Effective Treatment For Mutating HIV
(10 August 2001)
New medications are urgently needed for individuals who have drug-resistant HIV, and academia, industry and government must work together to bring them into the clinic, urge AIDS researchers...
How Safe Is Oral Sex?
(6 August 2001)
A new study shows how infected breast milk and semen overcome the body's natural saliva defense against oral HIV transmission�
Lubricant Reduces HIV Transmission
(24 July 2001)
Researchers in Texas have found what could prove to be a slick new weapon in the battle against AIDS. Experiments indicate that three over-the-counter sexual lubricants inhibit HIV production by more than a thousand-fold when mixed with virus-infected seminal fluid...
Minor Mutations In HIV Virus Have Major Impact
(20 July 2001)
In what could be a setback for HIV vaccines currently in development, researchers say that HIV can mutate in order to hide from an immune attack, and, once these mutations occur they persist...
Antioxidants May Prevent HIV Dementia
(14 May 2001)
Antioxidant drugs may help prevent the effects of HIV on the brain, according to a preliminary study using cell cultures...
Positive Data On Vaccine To Combat HIV
(12 April 2001)
Researchers today announced positive pre-clinical data for a HIV vaccine that is designed to directly address the problem of viral mutation...
Depression And Anxiety To Blame For Fatigue In HIV Patients
(26 March 2001)
Rather than the disease itself, a combination of depression and anxiety could be responsible for HIV positive patients' excessive tiredness...
Electronic "Mother" For HIV Patients
(19 March 2001)
A portable device that's "a cross between a pager and your own mother" can, within half a year, lead to a significant drop in the amount of virus HIV patients carry in their blood...
New AIDS Vaccine Prevents Disease In Monkeys
(10 March 2001)
A multiprotein AIDS vaccine has prevented the development of AIDS in monkeys infected with a highly virulent analogue of HIV seven months after vaccination...
New Approach To AIDS Treatment
(20 December 2000)
A naturally-occurring protein in blood prevents the AIDS virus from reproducing and from being spread to healthy cells...
New HIV Vaccine Study
(11 December 2000)
Researchers are testing a new HIV vaccine to determine if it is safe and whether it induces an immune response in the body...
Interrupted Therapy For HIV
(28 November 2000)
Regular holidays from HIV drugs may help the immune system control the virus on its own, at least in monkeys...
Immune System Can Control HIV
(28 September 2000)
A research team has shown that HIV-infected individuals who begin antiviral therapy during the earliest stages of their infection eventually can stop taking drugs and keep the virus under control with their immune systems alone...
No AIDS-Related Viruses Found In 1950's Polio Vaccine
(14 September 2000)
New findings provide strong evidence to refute the theory that an oral polio vaccine administered to people in the Belgian Congo in the late 1950s provided the route of transmission for HIV from chimpanzees to humans...
AIDS Virus Targets The Gut
(24 August 2000)
Unprotected oral and anal sex with an infected partner holds a greater risk than previously believed...
Antiretroviral Drugs Do Not Prevent Sexual Transmission Of HIV
(19 August 2000)
Antiretroviral therapy for HIV patients can be a double-edged sword. Investigators showed that while the drugs can greatly reduce the amount of infectious HIV in semen (viral load), a substantial percentage of men may still be able to transmit the virus sexually...
Syphilis Increases Transmission Of HIV
(6 August 2000)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is more easily transmitted to or from people with syphilis. This knowledge could lead to treatments to slow progression of the disease...
Denial Speeds Progression Of HIV To AIDS
(2 August 2000)
New research shows that men infected with HIV will more rapidly develop AIDS if they use strategies of denial to cope with the disease threat...
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