Anti-HIV drugs have reduced death rates by nearly 40 percent since combination therapy was introduced in 1996, boosting their life expectancy by some 13 years, a study says. It is the biggest-ever assessment into the effectiveness of highly active antiretroviral therapy — the triple cocktail of drugs that suppress, but do not eradicate, the human […]
Dutch Court Rules UN Enjoys Absolute Immunity
It decides it has no jurisdiction to hear a lawsuit against the organisation brought by survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. By Simon Jennings in The Hague Judges at the District Court in The Hague this week granted absolute immunity to the United Nations in a lawsuit brought against it by relatives of the victims […]
Significant Progress on Universal Access to Antiretroviral drugs, ARVs.
The Internatinal AIDS Society, IAS, has commended governments, civil society and United Nations, UN, agencies for the significant progress on universal access to antiretroviral drugs, ARVs. By the end of 2007, over 30 per cent of people in need of ARVs, an estimated three million people, were on antiretroviral therapy, ART, in low and middle-income […]
Questions Surround HPV Vaccine Gardasil
Posted by Kara McDonough to FindingDulcinea Gardasil, a vaccine approved by the FDA in 2006, is between 90 and 100 percent effective at protecting against some strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) that cause cervical cancer, according to pharmaceutical company Merck, which produces the vaccine. But Dr. Diane Harper, an expert on HPV and one of […]
Is Watermelon Viagra’s competitor ?
Adam’s fruit! Eves delight! Can watermelon be Adam’s fruit? Something like this, is what the recent news has thrown open the interests of millions of health concious people around the world. The news is going round in the press about the good effects of watermelon which has viagra like effects on the human body. This is certainly […]
Engineered White Blood Cells to Protect from HIV Infection
In an encouraging research, a 23-member team of scientists, at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia USA, have been able to create HIV-resistant white blood cells. Using a technique called ‘tweaking’, scientists have been able to tweak CCR5 molecules from the surface of white blood cells, modify a gene in the CD4 T cells of these […]
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