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UNITAID and WHO on Tuesday released a Landscape report that gives projections of the demand for and supply of HIV rapid diagnostic tests for self-testing and summarizes the emerging market landscape for this approach with the World AIDS Day slated on Wednesday. The World AIDS Day is meant to unite people around the world in the fight against HIV/AIDS. A ...

Researchers across the U.S. have discovered a method to check the duplication of the commonest form of HIV virus at a crucial moment when the infection is just beginning to mature in the body. The research has hinted at a possible new component of human immunity against HIV -1 that could also be a possible new approach for a HIV ...

New research by scientists shows that orderly immunizations adapted with different phases of immune responses could be the key to a HIV vaccine. The researcher’s 25-year-old aim was to design a vaccine that would prompt the body to generate antibodies that would in return attach themselves to the HIV virus and fight them, preventing infection. Scientists at The Rockefeller University, ...

Seven major pediatric research discoveries since 1975 which helped prevention and treatment strategies that have saved millions of lives worldwide were presented on Sunday, April 26 at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting at the San Diego Convention Center. “Today, we often take these research discoveries for granted,” said Tina Cheng of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Pediatric ...

A new device to identify antibodies for HIV and syphilis has been developed by scientists at Columbia University in New York, which can be used as an accessory to smartphone plugged into the audio jack for tests ten times faster and at far less cost. Priced $34, the device called dongle can perform all mechanical, optical and electronic functions of ...

HIV virus that causes AIDS was different from other viruses known since the very immune cells that these vaccines aim to increase may have already been affected by the virus, effectively making the entire process futile, says a new study. This reason has been cited for the unique challenge that scientists faced in developing an HIV vaccine fore more than ...

The rapid evolution of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and widespread access to antiretroviral therapy are slowing down the ability of the virus to cause AIDS, finds a study which involved over 2,000 women in Africa. “Factors that influence the virulence of HIV are of direct relevance to ongoing efforts to contain, and ultimately eradicate, the HIV epidemic,” researchers from University ...

One of the largest IT Parks in the country, Technopark, will put its might behind global efforts to fight HIV/AIDS. The techies in the companies are all prepared to spread awareness and hope with a series of programmes organised on World AIDS Day, which is on December 1. On the day, commemorated as Red Ribbon Day, over 46,000 employees at ...

Ahead of World AIDS Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) stated that an estimated 1.1 million human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections among children under the age of 15 have been prevented between 2005 and 2013. According to data released by the UNICEF on Friday, new HIV infections among children have declined by about 40 percent between 2009 and 2013, ...

If you are done with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, pull up your shirts for the HIV Shower Selfie Challenge. Reality TV star and AIDS activist Jack Mackenroth has launched the HIV Shower Selfie Challenge to help raise money for Housing Works, a New York-based non-profit organisation fighting to end AIDS and homelessness globally by 2030. Mackenroth has partnered up ...