Copyright (c) 2008 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/1409 AIDS/HIV en-us Thu, 15 May 2008 18:38:07 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/1409 http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080515/hl_afp/safricamilitarycourthealthaids afp/20080515/safricamilitarycourthealthaids AFP Thu, 15 May 2008 18:38:07 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080515/hl_afp/safricamilitarycourthealthaids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080515/capt.cps.nep10.150508203612.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=f1BX4yexDH9CLeqjL3HyJw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="South African soldiers disembark at Bujumbura airport, 2001. The South African military's blanket exclusions of HIV positive members is not medically justified and ignores government policy, lawyers for service personnel union told a court Thursday.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The South African military's blanket exclusions of HIV positive members is not medically justified and ignores government policy, lawyers for service personnel union told a court Thursday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080515/hl_afp/safricamilitarycourthealthaids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080515/capt.cps.nep10.150508203612.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=f1BX4yexDH9CLeqjL3HyJw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="South African soldiers disembark at Bujumbura airport, 2001. The South African military's blanket exclusions of HIV positive members is not medically justified and ignores government policy, lawyers for service personnel union told a court Thursday.(AFP/File/Pedro Ugarte)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080515/ap_on_re_us/hiv_positive_suspect ap/20080515/hiv_positive_suspect AP Thu, 15 May 2008 10:32:27 GMT AP - An HIV-positive man convicted of spitting into the eye and mouth of a Dallas police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080515/hl_hsn/studysupportspopularhivdrugregimen hsn/20080515/studysupportspopularhivdrugregimen HealthDay Thu, 15 May 2008 03:46:25 GMT HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- The largest study of its kind supports the use of a popular three-drug regimen for HIV patients and suggests a cocktail of two classes of drugs is a good alternative. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080514/hl_nm/worldbank_aids_dc nm/20080514/worldbank_aids_dc Reuters Wed, 14 May 2008 18:05:13 GMT Reuters - The World Bank on Wednesday unveiled a four-year strategy to fight HIV/AIDS in Africa that shifts focus from emergency response to long-term development. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/hl_afp/healthaidsafricamalawi afp/20080509/healthaidsafricamalawi AFP Fri, 09 May 2008 23:09:35 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/hl_afp/healthaidsafricamalawi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndc88.100508010910.photo00.photo.default-512x383.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=yYT4LCgFeAD2TZ0Qc1L0yQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="A doctor at a private clinic in the Zingwangwa Township, Blantyre speaks with his patient. Distributing free anti-HIV drugs in a district of AIDS-ravaged Malawi helped cut the death toll by 10 percent within eight months, according to a study published on Saturday by The Lancet.(AFP/File/Stringer)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Distributing free anti-HIV drugs in a district of AIDS-ravaged Malawi helped cut the death toll by 10 percent within eight months, according to a study published on Saturday by The Lancet.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080509/hl_afp/healthaidsafricamalawi"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080509/capt.cps.ndc88.100508010910.photo00.photo.default-512x383.jpg?x=130&y=97&q=85&sig=yYT4LCgFeAD2TZ0Qc1L0yQ--" align="left" height="97" width="130" alt="photo" title="A doctor at a private clinic in the Zingwangwa Township, Blantyre speaks with his patient. Distributing free anti-HIV drugs in a district of AIDS-ravaged Malawi helped cut the death toll by 10 percent within eight months, according to a study published on Saturday by The Lancet.(AFP/File/Stringer)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080508/hl_nm/aids_malawi_dc nm/20080508/aids_malawi_dc Reuters Thu, 08 May 2008 23:19:09 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080508/hl_nm/aids_malawi_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_08t191812_450x301_us_aids_malawi.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=yQmV1QYYfa3NX7w2VLNyPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="People carry HIV/AIDS prevention posters n Njoloma village, Malawi, August 27, 2006. (Eldson Chagara/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Providing free AIDS drugs to people in northern Malawi has slashed adult mortality rates, vindicating a recent ramp-up in treatment in poor parts of rural Africa, researchers said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080508/hl_nm/aids_malawi_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080509/2008_05_08t191812_450x301_us_aids_malawi.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=yQmV1QYYfa3NX7w2VLNyPQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="People carry HIV/AIDS prevention posters n Njoloma village, Malawi, August 27, 2006. (Eldson Chagara/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080505/ap_on_he_me/russia_hiv ap/20080505/russia_hiv AP Mon, 05 May 2008 20:54:17 GMT AP - Russia is "not ready" to adopt measures that could prevent thousands of people from getting infected with the virus that causes AIDS, the country's chief public health officer said Monday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080503/wl_nm/russia_aids_dc nm/20080503/russia_aids_dc Reuters Sat, 03 May 2008 16:42:34 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080503/wl_nm/russia_aids_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080504/2008_05_04t162152_450x311_us_russia_aids.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=YH94mjWQ2dWxFRtYNV6UGQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="A Kenyan woman listens to a Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) worker during World AIDS Day in the capital Nairobi December 1, 2005. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Russia will undo good progress in combating HIV/AIDS and miss the chance to stem the epidemic if it does not offer more help to people who inject themselves with drugs, U.N. AIDS chief Peter Piot said on Saturday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080503/wl_nm/russia_aids_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080504/2008_05_04t162152_450x311_us_russia_aids.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=YH94mjWQ2dWxFRtYNV6UGQ--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="A Kenyan woman listens to a Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) worker during World AIDS Day in the capital Nairobi December 1, 2005. (Antony Njuguna/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080430/hl_nm/hiv_therapy_race_dc nm/20080430/hiv_therapy_race_dc Reuters Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:44:06 GMT Reuters - Among patients infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, initiating antiretroviral therapy, there are significant differences in specific adverse events according to sex and race, but not in the overall rate of adverse events, death from any cause, or treatment withdrawal rates because of drug toxicity, new research indicates. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080430/hl_afp/healthaidssingapore afp/20080430/healthaidssingapore AFP Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:38:31 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080430/hl_afp/healthaidssingapore"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080430/capt.cps.nau25.300408093744.photo00.photo.default-512x342.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OqCaXAsAcfnKAOcwXnL1Mw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="This file photo shows a volunteer pinning up ribbons bearing the names of people who died of HIV/AIDS, during a memorial in Singapore. Statistics from the health ministry have shown 422 people newly infected with the AIDS virus in 2007, the highest number in a single year since records began in 1985.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)" border="0" /></a>AFP - The number of HIV cases in Singapore hit a record last year, figures monitored on Wednesday said.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080430/hl_afp/healthaidssingapore"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080430/capt.cps.nau25.300408093744.photo00.photo.default-512x342.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OqCaXAsAcfnKAOcwXnL1Mw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="This file photo shows a volunteer pinning up ribbons bearing the names of people who died of HIV/AIDS, during a memorial in Singapore. Statistics from the health ministry have shown 422 people newly infected with the AIDS virus in 2007, the highest number in a single year since records began in 1985.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080430/hl_hsn/researcherstacklehivfromanewangle hsn/20080430/researcherstacklehivfromanewangle HealthDay Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:47:22 GMT HealthDay - TUESDAY, April 29 (HealthDay News) -- Most drugs aimed at suppressing HIV target proteins lying on the virus itself, but new research suggests that focusing on the human host's immune cells might work even better. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080428/hl_nm/aids_protein_dc nm/20080428/aids_protein_dc Reuters Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:44:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080428/hl_nm/aids_protein_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080429/2008_04_28t170341_450x314_us_aids_protein.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=gZVcPNFc6saPw_kwrhm7Pg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="An Indian health official stores blood samples from sex workers and their clients in a HIV test laboratory in Sonagachi, the red-light district of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata April 24, 2008. (Jayanta Shaw/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Researchers have pinpointed a protein in a key human immune system cells needed for the AIDS virus to infect them, and found that turning it off can greatly slow down the deadly virus.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080428/hl_nm/aids_protein_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080429/2008_04_28t170341_450x314_us_aids_protein.jpg?x=130&y=90&q=85&sig=gZVcPNFc6saPw_kwrhm7Pg--" align="left" height="90" width="130" alt="photo" title="An Indian health official stores blood samples from sex workers and their clients in a HIV test laboratory in Sonagachi, the red-light district of the eastern Indian city of Kolkata April 24, 2008. (Jayanta Shaw/Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080428/hl_afp/ushealthaids afp/20080428/ushealthaids AFP Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:35:10 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080428/hl_afp/ushealthaids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080428/capt.cps.nal03.280408233313.photo00.photo.default-512x398.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=DdI.74tXKE_h845Y7sqqfQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="Aids ribbons. A human protein could offer new hope in the fight against HIV/AIDS by offering scientists a way to attack the virus and avoid problems with drug resistance, according to a US study released Monday.(AFP/File)" border="0" /></a>AFP - A human protein could offer new hope in the fight against HIV/AIDS by offering scientists a way to attack the virus and avoid problems with drug resistance, according to a US study released Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080428/hl_afp/ushealthaids"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080428/capt.cps.nal03.280408233313.photo00.photo.default-512x398.jpg?x=130&y=101&q=85&sig=DdI.74tXKE_h845Y7sqqfQ--" align="left" height="101" width="130" alt="photo" title="Aids ribbons. A human protein could offer new hope in the fight against HIV/AIDS by offering scientists a way to attack the virus and avoid problems with drug resistance, according to a US study released Monday.(AFP/File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080428/hl_afp/healthaidsvietnamunheroinmethadone afp/20080428/healthaidsvietnamunheroinmethadone AFP Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:26:06 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080428/hl_afp/healthaidsvietnamunheroinmethadone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080428/capt.cps.nak49.280408212437.photo00.photo.default-512x347.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=fQqibDhTIkbR_MITn8LhZw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="This file photo shows a doctor checking the health of a drug addict as others wait for their turns at a drug addict detoxification center newly-opened in Hanoi. Vietnam has launched a methadone drug substitution programme to help injecting heroin users beat the addiction and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, the United Nations said Monday.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Vietnam has launched a methadone drug substitution programme to help injecting heroin users beat the addiction and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, the United Nations said Monday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080428/hl_afp/healthaidsvietnamunheroinmethadone"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20080428/capt.cps.nak49.280408212437.photo00.photo.default-512x347.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=fQqibDhTIkbR_MITn8LhZw--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="This file photo shows a doctor checking the health of a drug addict as others wait for their turns at a drug addict detoxification center newly-opened in Hanoi. Vietnam has launched a methadone drug substitution programme to help injecting heroin users beat the addiction and reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS, the United Nations said Monday.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080426/hl_hsn/clinicalsymptomsenoughtoswitchdrugregimensforhivpatients hsn/20080426/clinicalsymptomsenoughtoswitchdrugregimensforhivpatients HealthDay Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:47:17 GMT HealthDay - THURSDAY, April 24 (HealthDay News) -- Decisions on switching to a second-line series of drugs for HIV/AIDS patients who are failing the first-line regimen are often made on the basis of sophisticated and expensive lab tests. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080425/wl_csm/opeacecorps csm/20080425/opeacecorps The Christian Science Monitor Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Christian Science Monitor - If the Peace Corps wishes to help in the fight against HIV/AIDS, it needs to send expertise, not just youthful zeal. That was what Ethiopian officials politely told Peace Corps country director Peter Parr when he approached them last summer with a proposal to send a batch of volunteers to work on the pandemic. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/hl_nm/hiv_regimens_dc nm/20080424/hiv_regimens_dc Reuters Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:44:31 GMT Reuters - A review of antiretroviral treatment (ART) regimens initiated in HIV-infected women revealed that nearly half of the regimens were either not specifically recommended for initial ART or were in fact against US HIV treatment guidelines. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/ts_nm/prostitution_dc nm/20080422/prostitution_dc Reuters Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:36:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/ts_nm/prostitution_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080422/2008_04_21t205023_450x295_us_prostitution.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=GmZc7iBgCIf.CuaAZGdXPg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="'Alicia' (R), a Rwandan woman who was brought from Africa to a south London apartment and forced to have sex while her captor collected her earnings, speaks with a member of the Helen Bamber Foundation in central London April 11, 2008. The rise of international sex trafficking is causing many countries to rethink their laws on prostitution and re-examine legal frameworks that for decades have treated the purchase of sex as a social nuisance or 'victimless crime'. Pierdomenico/Files (Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Would the hundreds of men who paid to have sex with "Alicia" have cared if they knew she was being held captive by a trafficker who raped her and pimped her, and that she was infected with HIV?</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/aids/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/ts_nm/prostitution_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20080422/2008_04_21t205023_450x295_us_prostitution.jpg?x=130&y=85&q=85&sig=GmZc7iBgCIf.CuaAZGdXPg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="photo" title="'Alicia' (R), a Rwandan woman who was brought from Africa to a south London apartment and forced to have sex while her captor collected her earnings, speaks with a member of the Helen Bamber Foundation in central London April 11, 2008. The rise of international sex trafficking is causing many countries to rethink their laws on prostitution and re-examine legal frameworks that for decades have treated the purchase of sex as a social nuisance or 'victimless crime'. Pierdomenico/Files (Reuters)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters)