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Malawi launches Nutrition, HIV and AIDs project

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 02/28/2013 - 10:10
President Dr. Joyce Banda Thursday launched the Nutrition, HIV and AIDs project which seek to increase access and utilization of selected services known to contribute to the reduction of the child stunting, maternal and child anemia. With support from the World Bank and the Canadian International for Development Agency (CIDA) the US$103 million (MK38 billion) [...]
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Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation Announces Support for Pediatric HIV Treatment Agreement

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 02/28/2013 - 09:34
Collaboration between Medicines Patent Pool and ViiV Healthcare will save children’s livesWashington, D.C. (PRWEB) February 27, 2013 The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) applauds the collaboration between the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) and ViiV HealthCare to provide a vitally important pediatric HIV medication to millions of children around the world. ViiV Healthcare, a ...
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New resource for HIV-AIDS services goes online

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 02/28/2013 - 04:22
Arizona’s first comprehensive online database of services, providers, physicians, case managers, testing locations and more, and one of the few sites of its kind in the nation, directly connect those
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Development Of Life-Saving Tools Against Major Killers Could Be Jeopardized By US Budget Cuts

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Thu, 02/28/2013 - 03:00
Across-the-board cuts to US R&D programs could have a devastating impact on efforts to develop new drugs for tuberculosis (TB) 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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GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 02/27/2013 - 10:30
LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries. ViiV Healthcare, majority-owned by GSK, is the second research-based pharmaceutical business to sign up to the new Medicines Patent Pool, following a lead set in 2011 by Gilead Sciences ...
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GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 02/27/2013 - 10:28
LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries. ViiV Healthcare, majority-owned by GSK, is the second research-based pharmaceutical business to sign up to the new Medicines Patent Pool, following a lead set in 2011 by Gilead Sciences ...
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GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 02/27/2013 - 10:00
GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rightson children's medicine in a patent pool designed to maketreatments more widely available in poor countries. ViiV Healthcare, ...
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People with HIV struggle to recognize fear

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 02/27/2013 - 08:52
People infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have a harder time than healthy individuals recognizing fear in the faces of others
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Malawi Bureau of Standards proposes research on Aids ‘cure’: Garani Mw 1 herb

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 02/27/2013 - 05:40
Malawi Bureau of Standards (MBS) jointly with other stakeholders, is set to conduct an extensive research on the local discovery of a herbal medicine, GARANI MW1, which is believed to be a cure for the deadly HIV and Aids pandemic. MBS analysed the medicine and the results revealed some compounds that have effects on the [...]
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AIDS Impairs The Ability To Recognize Emotions In Others

Medical News Today - HIV/AIDS - Wed, 02/27/2013 - 04:00
People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a study published in the launch edition of BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Psychology. Reduction in their ability to recognise fear in others is linked to a similar loss in immediate recall, while those with a lower general neurocognitive performance also had a reduced ability to recognise happiness...
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People With HIV Struggle to Recognize Fear

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 20:16
People infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have a harder time than healthy individuals recognizing fear in the faces of others.
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AIDS/HIV Red Tie Night 2013

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 18:35
Today a diagnosis of HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence. But the condition is still serious and the fight...
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Congressman Henry Waxman Meets on Cure for HIV

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 15:31
On January 31st, 2013, a team comprised of leading cure scientists and AIDS support group leaders met with Congressman Henry Waxman in his district office in Los Angeles to address a cure for HIV and the problem of inadequate funding.
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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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TB, HIV UP IN CAVITE

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 05:10
TRECE MARTIRES CITY, Cavite - The number of tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) cases have increased in the area in 2012 as compared to those recorded in previous year, the Cavite Provincial Health Office said yesterday. Dr. George R. Repique, PHO officer, said that there were 243 new HIV-AIDS incidence that were recorded in 2012 and ...
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'deepsou+h': Filmmaker explores HIV/AIDS epidemic in hardest-hit region

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 05:00
After two years of research, driving 13,000 miles across the nation’s Bible Belt and interviewing more than 400 people, Lisa Biagiotti said she was forced to unlearn a lot of what she thought she knew about HIV/AIDS and the South.
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African-Americans face uphill HIV fight

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Tue, 02/26/2013 - 00:01
In New Jersey, African-Americans make up 14 percent of the population but constitute 53 percent of the people living with HIV or AIDS, according to the state Health Department.
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HIV/AIDS activist finds voice on bigger stage

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Mon, 02/25/2013 - 21:16
Sitting at a conference table inside the White House in December, AIDS and HIV activist Stephanie Brown could not have been happier.
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Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day – Education

Yahoo News - HIV/AIDS - Mon, 02/25/2013 - 19:28
As Black History Month comes to a close, Gayle Anderson was live with AIDS Project Los Angeles to remind everyone February 7th was National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), a national HIV/AIDS testing and treatment community mobilization effort designed to …
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