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AIDS Drugs Prevent Sexual Transmission Of HIV In Gay Men
A European study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples who had sex without condoms - where one partner had HIV and was taking antiretroviral drugs to suppress it - has found the treatment can prevent sexual transmission of the virus.
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HIV Treatment May Take A Toll On The Brain: Study
Antiretroviral drugs have been life-changing therapies for HIV patients, but they can have significant side effects including neuronal degeneration, which can be manifested as forgetfulness, confusion and behavioural and motor changes, says a study.
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UK Court Says State Health System Can Fund Preventative HIV Drug
A high court judge ruled on Tuesday that an HIV pill to prevent infection can be funded by the state health service in England, in a victory for AIDS campaigners who have been calling for its widespread use.
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CEO Martin Shkreli Says Securities Fraud Charges Are 'Baseless'
Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceuticals entrepreneur vilified for jacking up the price of a life-saving AIDS drug, said on Saturday that unrelated securities fraud allegations that resulted in his arrest this week were "baseless and without merit."
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Life-Saving Pill That Had Its Price Hiked To $750 Now Has A $1 Competitor
Turing Pharmaceuticals chief executive Martin Shkreli found himself in the middle of a media firestorm last month as he adamantly defended his company's 4,000 percent drug price hike as "altruistic."
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Drug Engineered From Bananas Could Fight AIDS: Study
A substance found in bananas and carefully edited by scientists could lead to drugs that may fight off a wide range of deadly viruses, including AIDS, hepatitis C and influenza, a new study has claimed.
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Drastic Acceleration of HIV Fight Needed to Stop AIDS Resurgence
The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the AIDS virus, the United Nations and disease experts said on today.
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AIDS Crisis Brewing in Crimea and East Ukraine: UN
A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN's AIDS envoy said today.
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18 die in India due to lack of AIDS drugs
Eighteen impoverished Indians with AIDS died in one district in western India in the last two months because the nearest state supply of free drugs is hundreds of kilometres away.
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HIV drug compliance related to social support & age
Younger age, lack of social support and complex regimens contribute to poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV patients.
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WHO approves AIDS drug combination
The World Health Organisation has approved the use of a three-in-one combination AIDS treatment pill under a new plan to rush antiretroviral (ARV) medicines to three million people in developing countries.
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New anti-AIDS drug developed in China
Oct. 27th,2000 (PTI) - China was the third country after the United States and Spain to produce the anti-AIDS drug Stavudine. It has now developed a cheaper version of the same drug which will cost two-thirds the US market price of the drug. A Chinese news agency reported that a lot of companies had already placed huge orders for the drug. The dru...
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AIDS Drugs Prevent Sexual Transmission Of HIV In Gay Men
A European study of nearly 1,000 gay male couples who had sex without condoms - where one partner had HIV and was taking antiretroviral drugs to suppress it - has found the treatment can prevent sexual transmission of the virus.
-
HIV Treatment May Take A Toll On The Brain: Study
Antiretroviral drugs have been life-changing therapies for HIV patients, but they can have significant side effects including neuronal degeneration, which can be manifested as forgetfulness, confusion and behavioural and motor changes, says a study.
-
UK Court Says State Health System Can Fund Preventative HIV Drug
A high court judge ruled on Tuesday that an HIV pill to prevent infection can be funded by the state health service in England, in a victory for AIDS campaigners who have been calling for its widespread use.
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CEO Martin Shkreli Says Securities Fraud Charges Are 'Baseless'
Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceuticals entrepreneur vilified for jacking up the price of a life-saving AIDS drug, said on Saturday that unrelated securities fraud allegations that resulted in his arrest this week were "baseless and without merit."
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Life-Saving Pill That Had Its Price Hiked To $750 Now Has A $1 Competitor
Turing Pharmaceuticals chief executive Martin Shkreli found himself in the middle of a media firestorm last month as he adamantly defended his company's 4,000 percent drug price hike as "altruistic."
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Drug Engineered From Bananas Could Fight AIDS: Study
A substance found in bananas and carefully edited by scientists could lead to drugs that may fight off a wide range of deadly viruses, including AIDS, hepatitis C and influenza, a new study has claimed.
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Drastic Acceleration of HIV Fight Needed to Stop AIDS Resurgence
The global HIV epidemic could see a resurgence in just five years without a drastic acceleration in efforts to prevent and treat the AIDS virus, the United Nations and disease experts said on today.
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AIDS Crisis Brewing in Crimea and East Ukraine: UN
A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN's AIDS envoy said today.
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18 die in India due to lack of AIDS drugs
Eighteen impoverished Indians with AIDS died in one district in western India in the last two months because the nearest state supply of free drugs is hundreds of kilometres away.
-
HIV drug compliance related to social support & age
Younger age, lack of social support and complex regimens contribute to poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy among HIV patients.
-
WHO approves AIDS drug combination
The World Health Organisation has approved the use of a three-in-one combination AIDS treatment pill under a new plan to rush antiretroviral (ARV) medicines to three million people in developing countries.
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New anti-AIDS drug developed in China
Oct. 27th,2000 (PTI) - China was the third country after the United States and Spain to produce the anti-AIDS drug Stavudine. It has now developed a cheaper version of the same drug which will cost two-thirds the US market price of the drug. A Chinese news agency reported that a lot of companies had already placed huge orders for the drug. The dru...
