Microbicide Trials Network

Today, we commemorate the 5th annual National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.  Yesterday, I had the opportunity to participate in a briefing held by the National Alliance for State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) and the HHS Office on Women’s Health with important leaders in Congress.  The event highlighted how the domestic epidemic is affecting women and how much we need to ...

Elsevier, the world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, released a special issue of the journal Antiviral Research (www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01663542), marking the 25th anniversary of antiretroviral drug development.

InterMune, Inc. today announced that it has submitted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking approval to market pirfenidone for the treatment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) in the European Union (EU). Currently, there are no EMA-approved treatments for IPF in the EU.

Two of India's most controversial moves to combat HIV/AIDS -- legalizing homosexuality and the plan to introduce sex education in schools -- has found support from Dr Helene Gayle, Barack Obama's chief adviser on HIV/AIDS.

Lusaka — Tempers flared in the Zambian parliament on Wednesday 24th when legislators quizzed the country's health minister to issue a statement regarding the failed microbicide clinical trials in which 46 women volunteers contracted HIV and AIDS virus.

Several studies are examining whether periodic use of antiretroviral drugs in various forms -- including pills and vaginal or rectal gels -- can prevent HIV transmission during high-risk sexual encounters, according to researchers at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, the Washington Post reports. Some ongoing studies are assessing "pre-exposure prophylaxis" with ...

The quest for a cream or gel to prevent AIDS infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market, scientists say.

The global extent of the HIV pandemic is one of the great failures of modern science. While the identity of the virus that causes Aids has been known since 1983, and its discoverers have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, it has not yet proved possible to stop it from spreading.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The quest for a cream or gel to prevent AIDS infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market, scientists say.

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

Source: Reuters * Pfizer's Selzentry works in monkey experiment * Gels without HIV drugs may not work By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The quest for a cream or gel to ...

The quest for a cream or gel to prevent AIDS infection has narrowed to using powerful HIV pills that are already on the market, scientists say.

Two presentations at the 17 th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) investigated the use of the CCR5 inhibitor maraviroc (licensed as Celsentri or Selzentry for HIV treatment) as a possible vaginal and rectal microbicide.

Community oncologists, practice administrators (PAs), executive directors (EDs), and clinical staff interested in learning the most important aspects to be aware of when selecting the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system most appropriate for your particular practice are invited to attend a free webinar at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST) on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010.

Shemberg Corporation, the country's largest carrageenan producer, is asking the government to impose restrictions on seaweed exports in order to assure availability of its raw materials. Shemberg Chairman Benson U. Dakay, who is also Seaweed Industry Association of the Philippines (SIAP) President, disclosed that because of low seaweed production, Shemberg's carrageenan output is currently down ...

Los Angeles Times Examines China's Health Care Overhaul The Los Angeles Times examines China's transition to "Western-style privatized medicine" through the government's "$124-billion overhaul, chiefly to improve service in rural areas." The article details the efforts of a woman from Inner Mongolia to get care in Beijing for her ailing father and looks at climbing health care costs and the ...

A team of scientists, led by a virologist from the University of California, San Diego's Center for AID Research (CFAR), has discovered the origin of strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among men who have sex with men. The study, which may be important in developing prevention strategies for HIV, will appear in Science Translational Medicine on February 10, 2010.

The Los Angeles Times examines China's transition to "Western-style privatized medicine" through the government's "$124-billion overhaul, chiefly to improve service in rural areas." The article details the efforts of a woman from Inner Mongolia to get care in Beijing for her ailing father and looks at climbing health care costs and the growing "black market for medical care" (Pierson, 2/11).