A team of researchers from Abbott Laboratories, the University of Missouri and the Presbyterian Mission Agency have discovered a new strain of HIV. This happened almost 20 years after the first strain was discovered and guidelines for the classification of HIV strains were developed. Will a new discovery save from ...
Scientists from the USA managed to completely remove HIV from the genome of infected laboratory mice using two-stage therapy. The Observer notes that two of the seven experimental rodents were cured. A team of researchers, led by HIV specialist Howard Gendelman and gene editing expert Kamel Khalili, proposed...
Scientists in the United States have developed a comprehensive immunotherapeutic approach to HIV treatment, which allows not only to detect the virus lurking in the patient's immune system, but also to destroy it forever, and this is the first step towards creating a vaccine against HIV. According to the BBC, the results of the experiment ...
An Indiana man who previously faced prison time for failing to tell his sexual partners that he was HIV-positive has done so again—and again pleaded guilty to malicious mischief, St. Joseph County authorities say. 39-year-old Travis Spoor...
The New Jersey Department of Health said more than 3000 patients at HealthPlus Surgical Center in Saddle Brook may have acquired HIV, hepatitis B or C. Officials say patients who received procedures at HealthPlus Surgical Center in Saddle Brook between January 2018 ...
In Wisconsin, in the city of Milwaukee, doctors diagnosed 125 cases of HIV and syphilis - this is one of the largest outbreaks of the disease in the United States, writes the Daily Mail. Of the 125 people, the majority were men who tested positive for...
While there is a trend towards a decrease in the number of HIV-infected in the world, their number is growing rapidly in Russia. In 2016, the annual increase in the number of HIV-infected in this country for the first time exceeded 100 thousand, according to the Berliner Zeitung. For comparison, in Germany the annual growth is ...
New York State Department of Health officials are asking patients at Westchester County clinics - Tomorrow Medicine in White Plains and Mount Kisco - to get tested for HIV, hepatitis B and C, writes NBC New York. Health officials recommend getting tested for anyone who...
On Friday evening, a woman with a shock of bright pink hair stands near the entrance to one of the XNUMX-hour pharmacies in a bustling Moscow district, offering all passers-by plastic bags with clean syringes. Anna Alimova works at the forefront of the growing HIV epidemic in Russia. ...
Abby Landy from Australia discovered HIV infection after reading information about the virus on the Internet after a doctor refused to prescribe her an HIV test, as the risk of contracting the virus for a heterosexual woman in Australia is extremely low. Many people make a similar mistake ...