All Entries in the "AIDS Awareness" Category
Valerie Jarrett on Ending HIV/AIDS in the United States
Last month, fourteen-time Grammy Award-winning artist and HIV advocate Alicia Keys introduced EMPOWERED, an ongoing public information campaign to reach women in the U.S. about HIV/AIDS. At the launch event in Washington, D.C. at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett spoke both personally and professionally about how this disease affects us [...]
YOUNG LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The National AIDS Memorial Grove Young Leaders Scholarship Program (YLSP) recognizes, supports and encourages the educational efforts of young people committed to active roles of public service and leadership in the struggle against HIV/AIDS. YLSP is open to current high school seniors and college undergraduates who have demonstrated an active commitment to fighting AIDS (for [...]
Government-Backed Group Calls for Universal HIV Testing of Adults
For the first time, a federally convened panel of experts is recommending HIV testing for all adults based on evidence that early detection of the virus could lead to more effective treatment of infection. Nearly 1.2 million Americans are living with HIV and about 5o,000 become newly infected with the virus every year, according to [...]
Nanoparticles loaded with bee venom kill HIV
JOSHUA L. HOOD, MD, PHD Nanoparticles (purple) carrying melittin (green) fuse with HIV (small circles with spiked outer ring), destroying the virus’s protective envelope. Molecular bumpers (small red ovals) prevent the nanoparticles from harming the body’s normal cells, which are much larger in size. Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy [...]
New technique to deliver life-saving drugs to the brain
In a study published in the April 16 issue of Nature Communications, researchers from Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine describe a revolutionary technique they have developed that can deliver and fully release the anti-HIV drug AZTTP into the brain. Madhavan Nair, professor and chair, and Sakhrat Khizroev, professor of electrical and computer engineering and [...]
The Big Push to Defeat AIDS, TB and Malaria
Every era offers something special. I think the most special thing about our current time is the incredible opportunity that scientific advances have provided in the field of global health, giving us the ability to completely control highly dangerous infectious diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The recent progress is breathtaking. If we can [...]
Better care from doctors who are culturally aware
HIV patients from ethnic minorities receive better quality of care from doctors and other primary healthcare professionals who are the most competent at caring for patients from diverse backgrounds – those who are “culturally competent.” These patients also tend to manage both their treatment and condition better, according to a new study by Somnath Saha [...]
Rethinking HIV: After Five Years of Debate, a New Push for Prevention
After decades of focusing almost exclusively on treating HIV, public health experts are now considering a new approach, moving to establish more effective prevention strategies to curb spread of the disease. Recent tests show that anti-HIV drugs that can hamper the growth of the virus responsible for AIDS may also prevent progression of the disease [...]
Survival gene may be key to controlling HIV and hepatitis
The gene, called Arih2, is fundamental to the function of the immune system – making critical decisions about whether to switch on the immune response to an infection. Its discovery has implications for the treatment of chronic overwhelming infections, such as HIV, that ‘exhaust’ and switch off the immune system, as well as for chronic [...]
Plasmonic nanosensors developed for sophisticated HIV detection test
Two researchers from the Imperial College London, United Kingdom have succeeded in developing and testing a state-of-the-art HIV detection test. The duo says the test is 10 times more sensitive than other methods used to identify this disease, and it is inexpensive. The potential to bring this innovative technique to market is strong, providing a [...]
