Aug. 8, 2016 Whether an HIV-positive man has met cultural expectations of masculinity might impact how much stigma he experiences, according to a new ...
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Aug. 1, 2016 Researchers are finding a way to regulate chronic toxoplasmosis, one of the most common parasitic diseases worldwide. This research also has important implications for ...
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July 29, 2016 People living with HIV who naturally produce broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) that may help suppress the virus have different immunological profiles than people who do not, researchers report. ...
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July 28, 2016 Scientists have made an interesting discovery, which may help fight chlamydia infection -- one of the most widespread STDs in the world. A series of experiments have shown that certain proteins are ...
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July 27, 2016 Maternal HIV infection influences the microbiome of their HIV-uninfected infants, new research suggests. These findings may account for some of the immunological and survival differences seen these ...
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July 25, 2016 The first case of Alzheimer's disease diagnosed in an HIV-positive individual has been documented. The finding in a 71-year-old man triggers a realization about HIV survivors now reaching the ...
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July 21, 2016 A better understanding of HIV latency is the key to eradicating the virus, researchers write in a new article. Worldwide, 37 million people are living with HIV. A cure has proved elusive due to viral ...
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July 21, 2016 Although antiretroviral therapy (ART) can reduce the amount of HIV in the blood to an undetectable level in most chronically infected people, it cannot eliminate reservoirs of HIV that persist in ...
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July 19, 2016 The first steps towards developing a vaccine against an insidious sexual transmitted infection (STI) have been ...
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July 18, 2016 Investigators have discovered that cells from HIV-infected people whose virus is suppressed with treatment harbor defective HIV DNA that can nevertheless be transcribed into a template for producing ...
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July 18, 2016 For HIV-infected mothers whose immune system is in good health, taking a three-drug antiretroviral regimen during breastfeeding essentially eliminates HIV transmission by breast milk to their ...
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July 18, 2016 Anti-HIV medications suppress the viral load of people living with HIV and provide durable protection against heterosexual transmission found. Researchers found a 93 percent reduction of HIV ...
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July 18, 2016 New evidence is shedding new light on why young women in South Africa have high rates of HIV ...
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July 15, 2016 Recently discovered potent antibodies can be used to generate a specific type of cell called chimeric antigen receptors, or CARs, that can be used to kill cells infected with HIV-1, new research ...
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July 14, 2016 Researchers have identified cells that provide 'safe houses' for the human immunodeficiency virus during antiretroviral therapy. HIV needs to be "housed" in a cell, a safe haven, ...
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July 13, 2016 The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is safe and efficacious across a wide age range of women, new research shows. The international study found that it protects against HPV infection in women ...
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July 13, 2016 Laboratory tests using cells from HIV patients who had successfully undergone ART showed ImmTAV treatment could remove up to 85 percent of latently infected cells. When ImmTAV was paired with latency ...
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July 13, 2016 Scientists have discovered that the human sugar-binding protein galectin-9 potently reactivates latent HIV stores and renders infected cells visible to the immune system for eradication in patients ...
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July 12, 2016 A new study has assessed the effect of structured patient navigation (care coordination with case management) interventions with or without financial incentives to improve HIV-l viral suppression ...
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July 12, 2016 Among nearly 900 serodifferent (one partner is HIV-positive, one is HIV-negative) heterosexual and men who have sex with men couples in which the HIV-positive partner was using suppressive ...
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