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Oakland Local readers HIV/AIDS survey results

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Sat, 05/18/2013 - 14:05
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Chart presents timeline of HIV prevention options

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 05:58
The Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog examines a chart, titled "HIV Prevention Options Timeline," which "was part of AVAC Director Mitchell Warren's presentation at a Jhpiego-sponsored" event on Thursday, titled "The Present and the Future of HIV Prevention."
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South Africa: Professor Receives Highest Honour for Aids Work

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Tue, 04/30/2013 - 04:20
[Health-e]On the 27th April 2013 President Jacob Zuma honoured Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Glenda Gray with South Africa's highest honour - the Order of Mapungubwe - for her life-saving research focusing on the mother to child transmission of HIV.
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Wits Faculty of Health Science Professor receives South Africa’s highest honour

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 04/29/2013 - 10:22
MEDIA RELEASE: On the 27th April 2013 President Jacob Zuma honoured Wits Faculty of Health Sciences Professor Glenda Gray with South Africa’s highest honour - the Order of Mapungubwe - for her life-saving research focusing on the mother to child transmission of HIV.
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Study shows mathematical models can help assess effectiveness of HIV intervention combinations

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Tue, 04/16/2013 - 01:11
South Africa is home to the largest HIV epidemic in the world with a total of 5.6 million people living with HIV. Large-scale clinical trials evaluating combination methods of prevention and treatment are often prohibitively expensive and take years to complete.
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Mathematics provides a shortcut to timely, cost-effective interventions for HIV

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 10:43
Mathematical estimates of treatment outcomes can cut costs and provide faster delivery of preventative measures. South Africa is home to the largest HIV epidemic in the world with a total of 5.6 million people living with HIV. Large-scale clinical trials evaluating combination methods of prevention and treatment are often prohibitively expensive and take years to complete. In the absence of such ...
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A shortcut to timely, cost-effective interventions for HIV

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 04/15/2013 - 10:31
South Africa is home to the largest HIV epidemic in the world. Large-scale clinical trials evaluating combination methods of prevention and treatment are expensive and take years to complete. In the absence of such trials, mathematical models can help assess the effectiveness of different HIV intervention combinations, as demonstrated in a new study by Elisa Long and Robert Stavert from Yale ...
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Omaha native Cory Richards worked on women's health policies

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Sun, 04/14/2013 - 02:41
Richards, whose career focused on sexual and reproductive health, died April 4 in Washington, D.C., his home for many years.
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Africa: Biomedical Research Fellowship Aims to Build Capacity in Africa

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Sat, 04/06/2013 - 09:56
[SciDev.Net]Kampala -Two European research bodies are collaborating on a clinical research fellowship scheme to train biomedical students in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the first open call for applications expected later this year.
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Biomedical research fellowship aims to build capacity in Africa

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Fri, 04/05/2013 - 10:03
[KAMPALA] Two European research bodies are collaborating on a clinical research fellowship scheme to train biomedical students in Sub-Saharan Africa, with the first open call for applications expected later this year.
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Reformulated version of anti-HIV gel safe for HIV-negative men and women

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Thu, 04/04/2013 - 02:35
A reformulated version of an anti-HIV gel developed for vaginal use was found safe and acceptable by HIV-negative men and women who used it rectally, according to a Phase I clinical trial published today in PLOS ONE.
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Gel safe and acceptable as approach to preventing HIV from anal sex

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Wed, 04/03/2013 - 17:25
( Microbicide Trials Network ) A reformulated version of an anti-HIV gel developed for vaginal use was found safe and acceptable by HIV-negative men and women who used it rectally, according to a Phase I clinical trial published today in PLOS ONE. The study, led by researchers with the US National Institutes of Health-funded Microbicide Trials Network, tested a reduced glycerin formulation of ...
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Einstein receives $12 million grant to develop device for preventing HIV infection

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Fri, 03/08/2013 - 10:09
( Albert Einstein College of Medicine ) Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have been awarded a $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a drug-impregnated intravaginal ring to prevent HIV infection in women.
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Einstein Receives $12 Million Grant to Develop Device for Preventing HIV Infection

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Thu, 03/07/2013 - 19:49
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have been awarded a $12 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a drug-impregnated intravaginal ring to prevent HIV infection in women.
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VOICE trial's disappointing result poses big questions for PrEP

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 03/04/2013 - 21:07
The failure of one of the largest trials yet conducted of HIV drug-based prevention methods poses questions for how to turn vaginal microbicides and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) into methods people can actually use, the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013) in Atlanta heard today. The VOICE trial randomised 5029
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VOICE trial's disappointing result poses big questions for PrEP

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 03/04/2013 - 14:55
The failure of one of the largest trials yet conducted of HIV drug-based prevention methods poses questions for how to turn vaginal microbicides and oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) into methods people can actually use, the 20th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2013) in Atlanta heard today. The VOICE trial randomised 5029
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Daily HIV prevention approaches didn't work for African women in the VOICE study

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 03/04/2013 - 13:27
( Microbicide Trials Network ) A major HIV prevention trial found daily use of a product was not the right approach for young, unmarried African women. Of three products tested in VOICE -- tenofovir gel, oral tenofovir and oral Truvada -- none was effective among the 5,029 women in the trial; most participants did not use them daily as recommended. Moreover, young, single women were least likely ...
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VOICE Trial Results Underscore Need to Accelerate Development of Additional HIV Prevention Options for Women

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 03/04/2013 - 13:23
PrEP Strategies Remain Valuable Prevention Tool, says AVAC NEW YORK, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Results from a large-scale HIV prevention trial among African women known as VOICE (Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic) provide an urgent reminder that...
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VOICE Trial Results Underscore Need to Accelerate Development of Additional HIV Prevention Options for Women

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Mon, 03/04/2013 - 13:15
PrEP Strategies Remain Valuable Prevention Tool, says AVACNEW YORK, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Results from a large-scale HIV prevention trial among African women known as VOICE (Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic) provide an urgent reminder that products must meet the needs of the people using them. While disappointing, the results lend new urgency and ...
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US budget cuts could jeopardize development of life-saving tools against major killers

Yahoo News - Microbicides - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 13:28
( Burness Communications ) Across-the-board cuts to US R&D programs could have a devastating impact on efforts to develop new drugs for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, the world's first malaria vaccine, and other vital global health products in development, according to a new report from a coalition of nonprofit groups focused on advancing innovation to save lives.
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