Category: HIV / AIDS

“New HIV/AIDS Funding Data,” Statehealthfacts.org: Statehealthfacts.org recently added updated national- and state-level data on HIV/AIDS federal funding for fiscal year 2006. The data, which were collected in partnership with the

Physicians, HIV-positive people and nongovernmental organizations in India recently sent a memo to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that called on him to ensure India’s participation in the international drug purchasing facility UNITAID, IANS/Indiainteracts.com reports (Raman, IANS/Indiainteracts.com, 10/3).

While the hallmark of HIV/AIDS used to be excessive weight loss, people with the virus now are becoming overweight and even obese right along with the rest of America, suggests research being presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). Excess weight loss known as wasting was once a telltale sign of HIV/AIDS. However, in a study of more than 600 HIV-positive people treated at two U.S.

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene on Wednesday announced that the city will join CDC’s national campaign to promote HIV/AIDS awareness and education, the Baltimore Sun reports.

The development of an HIV vaccine is hindered by the rapidity with which the virus mutates. A new resource available to vaccine developers is a cryobank of frozen virus specimens collected from all over the world. A mobile laboratory will soon be collecting specimens in Africa.Researchers the world over have been in hot pursuit of the HI virus since 1984, desperately seeking a vaccine so far in vain.

Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full (traditional) approval of Aptivus(R) (tipranavir) capsules. The FDA granted accelerated approval to APTIVUS in June 2005; accelerated approval is a regulatory process that expedites the approval of therapies for serious or life-threatening illnesses.

Malawi’s National AIDS Commission in November or December is planning to launch a pilot project in Zomba, Malawi, that will provide HIV/AIDS testing to individual households, Bizwick Mwale, executive director of NAC, said on Friday, Malawi’s Nation reports.

About two-thirds of HIV-positive people in the U.S. might be overweight or obese, “mirroring” the total U.S. population, according to a study released Thursday at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America in San Diego, the

“New Research and its Implications for Policy and Practice,” International AIDS Society: The report summarizes key research findings presented at the 4th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in July in Sydney, Australia.

Cambodian Premier Hun Sen on Wednesday at a graduation of health students in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, said that a Population Services International public service advertisement encourages people to have sex rather than to use condoms to prevent HIV, Xinhua/People’s Daily reports.