October 24, 2015 FDA recommends ending lifetime ban on blood donation by gay, bisexual men Federal health officials are recommending an end to the nation's lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men, a 31-year-old policy that many medical groups and gay activists say is no longer justified.
October 23, 2015 First self-injectable HIV antibody may prevent virus transmission The first self-injectable HIV antibody, PRO 140, has a 98 percent success rate in reducing the virus in HIV patients’ blood, according to results released Tuesday from a Phase 2b clinical trial of the drug.
October 23, 2015 Bristol-Myers says HIV drug gets FDA incentives Bristol-Myers said Tuesday that federal regulators will help speed up development for one of its experimental HIV drugs.
October 23, 2015 Critics slam Egypt’s 'miracle cure' for HIV, hepatitis C A doctor for the Egyptian Army announced last week that their military had invented a “miracle” machine that can detect and cure both HIV and hepatitis C – a claim that has been met with skepticism.
October 23, 2015 Study finds gorilla origins in half of human AIDS virus lineages Revealing new details about the origins of AIDS, scientists said on Monday half the lineages of the main type of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1, originated in gorillas in Cameroon before infecting people, probably via bushmeat hunting.
October 23, 2015 Appalachia gripped by hepatitis C epidemic, bracing for HIV Patton Couch shook his head and clenched his teeth, recounting the night four years ago when he plucked a dirty needle from a pile at a flophouse and jabbed it into his scarred arm.
October 23, 2015 India set to run out of critical free drug for HIV/AIDS program India could run out of a critical medicine in its free HIV/AIDS drugs program in three weeks due to bureaucratic bungling, a senior government official said, leaving more than 150,000 sufferers without life-saving drugs for about a month.
October 23, 2015 Only three in 10 Americans have HIV under control, government report says Just 30 percent of Americans living with HIV have the virus in check, putting others at risk of infection, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.
October 23, 2015 HIV pandemic's roots traced back to 1920s Kinshasa Bustling transport networks, migrant labor and changes to the sex trade in early 20th-century Congo created a "perfect storm" that gave rise to an HIV pandemic that has now infected 75 million people worldwide, researchers said on Thursday.
October 23, 2015 HIV patients should start treatment immediately, WHO says The World Health Organization (WHO) has revised its HIV guidelines to recommend that anyone who tests positive for the virus that causes AIDS should be treated immediately.
