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Bush Announces Request for $30B, Five-Year Extension of PEPFAR

...ile millions more are contracting this preventable virus every year." Natasha Bilimoria -- executive director of the Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria -- said that PEPFAR "has made a lifesaving difference to millions of people suffering from HIV/AIDS around the world". Me...

Surge in Cancer Incidence in Asia Feared

...tis B infections. A vaccine guarding against the virus has been available since the early 1980s and is routinely given to children in Western countries, but it is still not reaching large swaths of the Asia-Pacific. Some experts worry it could take years before the new vaccine for the sexually transmit...

Indonesian Teenager Dies of Bird Flu

...king the death toll in the nation worst hit by the virus to 79, a health ministry official said Friday. ...the most common form of transmission of the deadly virus to humans, experts say. "She became the 79th victim to die," the doctor said. The virus is wides...

Man Contracts Deadly Bird Flu Virus in Vietnam

...old man tested positive for the H5N1 strain of the virus early this week after being admitted to the Institute of Tropical Medicine in Hanoi, a doctor there told AFP. The doctor, who asked not to be named, said the victim had been admitted on May 19 and was now in a stable condition. The daily Lao Dong...

Treatment Outcomes of Patients With HIV and Tuberculosis

...do not distinguish between those infected with the virus that causes AIDS and those who are uninfected in terms of the optimum length of treatment when using rifamycine. Standard 6-month therapy may be insufficient to prevent relapse in patients with HIV, said Dr. Nahid. The TB relapse rate for HIV-inf...

Gene Therapy a Better Alternative to Viagra Please

...The gene therapy used comprised the herpes simplex virus as a carrier and either a gene called GDNF, or one called neurturin, which both help promote nerve growth. Rats treated with the gene therapy showed significant recovery and were able to regain normal penile function after four weeks. ED, often ref...

Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...s -- GVAX(TM) cancer immunotherapies and oncolytic virus therapies. Ongoing clinical trials include Phase 3... leukemia, and a Phase 1 trial of CG0070 oncolytic virus therapy for bladder cancer. Cell Genesys continues to hold an equity interest in its former subsidia...

Gay Gang in Netherlands Lures, Rapes and Infects Fellow Homosexuals With HIV/AIDS

...ly said the very idea of infecting others with the virus excited them. Our mission is to promtoe unprotecte...gup about condoms could be destroyed only when the virus is rampant and everyone reconciles himself to that, one of the arrested has been quoted as saying. ...

HHS Buys Next Generation Smallpox Vaccine

...ne contains a highly weakened form of the vaccinia virus that cannot replicate in humans. The MVA vaccine could be used in immunocompromised individuals, of whom there are an estimated 10 million in the U.S. In the event of a possible smallpox outbreak, the 20 million doses (the vaccine is being tested wit...

Scientists Discover How HIV Escapes Cells

...ns have discovered that the Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) exploits a pre-existing transport system to leave one infected cell, and infect new ones. Published in Plos Biology, the new findings counter the prevailing belief that HIV and other retroviruses can only leave and enter cells by virus-spec...

Health Ministers Meeting on Polio Eradication Today

...ecember 2006. The ministry plans to control the virus from circulating during its peak season of September-November. Last year, the first round of polio vaccination had started in April, while this year, the campaign was launched in January itself. Stepping up their campaign, the government launched ...

New Smallpox Vaccine Contract: Five Years in the Making

...concern that terrorists might acquire the smallpox virus and purposely release it. In Denmark, the biopha... side effects and complications caused by the live virus in the vaccine. Bavarian Nordic's new, patented vaccine, Imvamune(R) is based on the Modified Vacc...

Humans Could Face Greater Bird Flu Risk, Indonesia Warns

...al. "We found a new indication that the bird flu virus is transmitted easily (to humans) now. Previously a high intensity (of contact) with the virus was needed to enable contamination of the victims," he said. He did however caution that more rese...

Every Child Needs to Be Vaccinated to Lead India into a Polio Free Future - Ramadoss

... Immunization Activities (SIAs), so that the polio virus does not get a chance to re-establish its circulation. Besides the Minister of State for Health & Family Welfare, Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi, Health Ministers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Uttranchal, Maharashtra, Delhi, Haryana and Gujarat and senior offi...

Rescheduled: Aerial Mosquito Treatment for Philadelphia

...ntrol and Prevention, all residents in areas where virus activity has been identified are at risk of gettin...re have been no confirmed human cases of West Nile virus in Pennsylvania this year. Individuals can take a number of measures around the home to help elimina...

Bird Flu Reappears in Malaysia

...alaysian capital, officials said Wednesday. The virus was confirmed late Tuesday night in chickens in th... being sent to surrounding areas to check for more virus outbreaks but none had so far been detected, he said. "We hope it will remain that way," Kamarudin...

Notion Behind Spread of Flu Epidemic may Not Hold True for the Tropics

...easonal epidemics arise from the tropics where the virus persists all year round," Miller said. The team suggested that weather may determine how the disease travels south from the Equator. "More delicate experiments are definitely needed to tease apart the complex relationships being uncovered here. Thi...

AIDS Incidence in India Far Lower Than Previously Estimated New Study

...c more like that of the United States, in that the virus circulates mostly within high-risk groups. In Indias case, these are prostitutes and their clients especially truckers; men who have sex with men; and people who inject drugs, especially in the northeast, on the borders with Myanmar. That is exact...

APEC Agree to Share Bird Flu Samples

...ers agreed Friday to share samples of the bird flu virus to help develop effective vaccines, setting aside... since 2003. Indonesia refused to share bird flu virus samples with foreign laboratories last December in a dispute over intellectual property rights. Whil...

Georgia Hit With African Swine Fever: FAO

...ods," the FAO said in a statement, adding that the virus may have entered Georgia through imported frozen or processed pig meat. Georgia reported outbreaks at the end of April, and some 20,000 of the Caucasus country's half a million pigs have been slaughtered....

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