A North Carolina company, in collaboration with Birmingham's Southern Research Institute, has developed a high-speed screening process to identify new compounds for treating the virus that causes AIDS.
Trana Discovery, based in Cary, N.C., said its new process will allow pharmaceutical companies to screen "vast libraries of compounds" to identify those that interrupt the lifecycle of HIV. Trana said the technology has the potential to discover new classes of medicines for the treatment of HIV that may overcome resistance mechanisms associated with current therapies.
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Pregnant women with HIV have lower risk of progressing towards AIDS
Their findings suggested that "the complex set of immunologic changes" that occur during pregnancy may be interacting as a benefactor with the combination drug therapy.
"After using statistical modelling methods to adjust for differences between women, including their age, health and response to therapy, the researchers found that 'pregnant women did better,'" said Timothy Sterling, M.D., the study's senior author and associate professor of Medicine.
In the developing world, previous studies, had reported higher levels of complications and deaths among pregnant women who suffered AIDS.
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"After using statistical modelling methods to adjust for differences between women, including their age, health and response to therapy, the researchers found that 'pregnant women did better,'" said Timothy Sterling, M.D., the study's senior author and associate professor of Medicine.
In the developing world, previous studies, had reported higher levels of complications and deaths among pregnant women who suffered AIDS.
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Councillors Warned On HIV/Aids
The councillor for Pece division, Charles Okwakalwak, sounded the warning during a one-day workshop on HIV/AIDS at the workplace. The workshop, which took place at Gulu Sunset Hotel, was organised by the Alliance of Mayors Initiative for Community Action on AIDS.
Okwakalwak said although it was the council's obligation to meet such burial expenses, it would better to save the money for more developmental projects.
He said HIV/AIDS had adversely affected the economy, with large sums of money going into paying gratuity of civil and public servants who die of AIDS.
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Okwakalwak said although it was the council's obligation to meet such burial expenses, it would better to save the money for more developmental projects.
He said HIV/AIDS had adversely affected the economy, with large sums of money going into paying gratuity of civil and public servants who die of AIDS.
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HIV-positive youth educate peers in Delray Beach
It was the first time 11-year-old Avencia Pierre met someone infected with HIV. She knows it won't be the last.
"In life there will be people you meet who have HIV," the Delray Beach resident said Thursday. "It's not anything to be afraid of."
Pierre, along with about 50 other youths at the Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club in Delray Beach, spent their day off for Rosh Hashana listening to speakers from Treasure the Children Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to HIV education. read more
"In life there will be people you meet who have HIV," the Delray Beach resident said Thursday. "It's not anything to be afraid of."
Pierre, along with about 50 other youths at the Naoma Donnelley Haggin Boys & Girls Club in Delray Beach, spent their day off for Rosh Hashana listening to speakers from Treasure the Children Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to HIV education. read more
Indian doc develops enzyme that can destroy HIV
Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.
Indrani and a team of scientists have developed an enzyme called Tre. Tre is a custom enzyme capable of detecting, recognising and destroying HIV, much like a pair of molecular scissors.
"In laymans terms, it's an engineered enzyme which recognises sequences in the HIV genome that is duplicated, integrated virus and by the process of recombination, it cuts out the virus from the genome," says she.
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Indrani and a team of scientists have developed an enzyme called Tre. Tre is a custom enzyme capable of detecting, recognising and destroying HIV, much like a pair of molecular scissors.
"In laymans terms, it's an engineered enzyme which recognises sequences in the HIV genome that is duplicated, integrated virus and by the process of recombination, it cuts out the virus from the genome," says she.
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Jury Finds Accused Child Rapist Guilty In HIV Case
A man accused of raping a 15-year-old boy and exposing him to HIV was found guilty on two of the three charges he faced.
Michael McElderry took the stand in his own defense in a Rutherford County courtroom Wednesday.
The jury found him guilty of criminal exposure to HIV and guilty of aggravated statutory rape. However, it was a hung jury on the charge of rape.
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Michael McElderry took the stand in his own defense in a Rutherford County courtroom Wednesday.
The jury found him guilty of criminal exposure to HIV and guilty of aggravated statutory rape. However, it was a hung jury on the charge of rape.
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South Africa: Ruben Sher, Pioneer of Aids Treatment in Country, Dies At 78
Prof Ruben Sher, one of the first South African doctors to identify the threat of HIV/AIDS, died earlier this week of complications following surgery for a faulty pacemaker. He was 78.
Sher, an immunologist , first found out about HIV during a visit to the US in 1982, when the disease was cutting a swathe through the gay community. At the time HIV was largely unknown in SA , but Sher believed it was already present.
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Sher, an immunologist , first found out about HIV during a visit to the US in 1982, when the disease was cutting a swathe through the gay community. At the time HIV was largely unknown in SA , but Sher believed it was already present.
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