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US Aid Cuts Halt HIV Vaccine Research In South Africa, With Global Impact
Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward limiting one of history's deadliest pandemics. Then the email arrived.
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Donald Trump's Foreign Aid Cut Risks Causing 14 Million Deaths: Study
More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.
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Why We Still Need A Cure For HIV Despite Powerful Treatments
Over the past three decades there have been amazing advances in treating and preventing HIV.
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Magic Mushrooms And Mental Health: What Brain Scans Reveal
Researchers investigated the brain activity changes caused by psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.
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New "Vaccine-Like" HIV Drug Could Cost 1,000 Times Less Than Current Price
A new "vaccine-like" HIV drug that currently costs over $40,000 per person a year could be made for as little as $40, researchers estimated on Tuesday.
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Scientists Edit HIV Out Of Cells, Paving The Way For A Potential Cure
The University of Amsterdam presents early HIV research at a medical conference, emphasising it's a "proof of concept," not a cure.
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Sydney's Former HIV Epicentre Now Close To Ending Transmission: Researchers
The Inner Sydney district, once the epicentre of Australia's HIV epidemic, is very close to becoming the first place in the world to reach the UN's target for ending transmission of the virus, researchers said.
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Early-Stage HIV Vaccine Shows Positive Results In Human Trials: Study
In a phase 1 research, 97% of patients had immune system activity in response to the vaccine.
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"Spike In Monkeypox Cases Will Not Lead To HIV": Scientist At Top Medical Body
A top scientist of the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology on Monday stated that the rising Monkeypox cases will not lead to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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HIV+ Man, Also Battling Cancer, "Cured" Of Both After Complex Procedure In US
AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person has been "cured" of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients also battling cancer may be little comfort for the tens of millions living with the virus worldwide.
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In A First, Woman Reported Cured Of HIV After Bone Marrow Transplant
A US patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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New "Highly Virulent" Strain Of HIV Discovered In The Netherlands
Oxford researchers announced Thursday the discovery of a highly virulent strain of HIV that has been lurking in the Netherlands for decades, but because of the effectiveness of modern treatments, is "no cause for alarm."
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30-Year-Old Woman Whose HIV Vanished Gives Hope For AIDS Cure
All signs of HIV have disappeared in a young woman who was diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS in 2013, researchers said, raising hopes that she may be one of a handful of people worldwide who has permanently fought off the infection.
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HIV "Significant" Risk Factor For Severe COVID-19: World Health Organisation
HIV is a "significant" risk factor for severe Covid-19, the World Health Organization said in research published on Thursday that showed a major increase in deaths among patients who have the virus that causes AIDS and are hospitalised with Covid.
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Never Saw Anything Like Covid: Indian-Origin Professor Behind HIV Research
World-renowned South African Indian-origin academic Prof Hoosen Mahomed 'Jerry'' Coovadia has described the COVID-19 pandemic as something he has never seen in a career of over six decades.
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US Aid Cuts Halt HIV Vaccine Research In South Africa, With Global Impact
Just a week had remained before scientists in South Africa were to begin clinical trials of an HIV vaccine, and hopes were high for another step toward limiting one of history's deadliest pandemics. Then the email arrived.
-
Donald Trump's Foreign Aid Cut Risks Causing 14 Million Deaths: Study
More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.
-
Why We Still Need A Cure For HIV Despite Powerful Treatments
Over the past three decades there have been amazing advances in treating and preventing HIV.
-
Magic Mushrooms And Mental Health: What Brain Scans Reveal
Researchers investigated the brain activity changes caused by psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms.
-
New "Vaccine-Like" HIV Drug Could Cost 1,000 Times Less Than Current Price
A new "vaccine-like" HIV drug that currently costs over $40,000 per person a year could be made for as little as $40, researchers estimated on Tuesday.
-
Scientists Edit HIV Out Of Cells, Paving The Way For A Potential Cure
The University of Amsterdam presents early HIV research at a medical conference, emphasising it's a "proof of concept," not a cure.
-
Sydney's Former HIV Epicentre Now Close To Ending Transmission: Researchers
The Inner Sydney district, once the epicentre of Australia's HIV epidemic, is very close to becoming the first place in the world to reach the UN's target for ending transmission of the virus, researchers said.
-
Early-Stage HIV Vaccine Shows Positive Results In Human Trials: Study
In a phase 1 research, 97% of patients had immune system activity in response to the vaccine.
-
"Spike In Monkeypox Cases Will Not Lead To HIV": Scientist At Top Medical Body
A top scientist of the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology on Monday stated that the rising Monkeypox cases will not lead to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
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HIV+ Man, Also Battling Cancer, "Cured" Of Both After Complex Procedure In US
AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person has been "cured" of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients also battling cancer may be little comfort for the tens of millions living with the virus worldwide.
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In A First, Woman Reported Cured Of HIV After Bone Marrow Transplant
A US patient with leukemia has become the first woman and the third person to date to be cured of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant from a donor who was naturally resistant to the virus that causes AIDS, researchers reported on Tuesday.
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New "Highly Virulent" Strain Of HIV Discovered In The Netherlands
Oxford researchers announced Thursday the discovery of a highly virulent strain of HIV that has been lurking in the Netherlands for decades, but because of the effectiveness of modern treatments, is "no cause for alarm."
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30-Year-Old Woman Whose HIV Vanished Gives Hope For AIDS Cure
All signs of HIV have disappeared in a young woman who was diagnosed with the virus that causes AIDS in 2013, researchers said, raising hopes that she may be one of a handful of people worldwide who has permanently fought off the infection.
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HIV "Significant" Risk Factor For Severe COVID-19: World Health Organisation
HIV is a "significant" risk factor for severe Covid-19, the World Health Organization said in research published on Thursday that showed a major increase in deaths among patients who have the virus that causes AIDS and are hospitalised with Covid.
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Never Saw Anything Like Covid: Indian-Origin Professor Behind HIV Research
World-renowned South African Indian-origin academic Prof Hoosen Mahomed 'Jerry'' Coovadia has described the COVID-19 pandemic as something he has never seen in a career of over six decades.
