AIDS Weekly and Law

Gilead Science - Amdoxovir is well tolerated and reduces HIV viral load

Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology, San Francisco - African American children has significantly higher Gag responses than Hispanic children

Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis - Bayer TruGene genotype assay detects and characterizes non-subtype-B HIV-1 strains

Rega Institute, Louvain - Molecular testing determines multiple HIV-1 transmissions in a criminal case

Transgene - Agreement signed for manufacture of AIDS vaccine candidate for clinical trials

AIDS Healthcare Foundation - U.S. AIDS group says latest world AIDS stats cast pall on global efforts

AnorMED, Inc. - Enrollment initiated for HIV patients into XACT study for AMD070, a CXCR4 HIV entry inhibitor

Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Perth - Blood safety can be evaluated by modeling risks of viral transmission

Blood Systems Research Institute, San Francisco - Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of HIV/AIDS pathogenesis

Boehringer Ingelheim Ltd. - Tipranavir resistance phenotype associated with complex genotypic changes in HIV protease

Boston University - Surfactant protein D binds to HIV gp120 and inhibits viral replication

British Natl Inst for Biol Standards & Control - Research add new data to HIV/AIDS vaccines development body of knowledge

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland - Beta-chemokine analogues inhibit HIV-1 in mononuclear cells from HIV/TB coinfected patients

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland - Decreased V delta 2+ T cell function may contribute to increased TB risk in HIV/AIDS

Center Hospital Charles Nicolle, Rouen - Researchers' findings advance HIV/AIDS diagnostics research

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh - Vaccine development for immunosuppressed may be possible

Children's Hospital of Western Ontario - Better tasting medicine needed to treat children with HIV-AIDS

CHUL Research Center - LFA-1 is a key determinant for preferential infection of CD4 cells by HIV-1

Columbia University, New York - Attitudes toward antiviral medications improved, but side-effects remain a concern

Cornell University, New York - Coinfection with HIV and HCV has characteristic features in hepatic steatosis

Cornell University, Weill Medical College, Ithaca - Vaginally delivered SIV-cell fusion inhibitors protect macaques from SHIV infection

CytoDyn, Inc. - Jacob P. Lalezari, MD, at Quest Clinical to lead next trial of new immunotherapy

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle - Cytotoxic T lymphocytes can kill 0.7 to 3 HIV-infected target cells per day

Gladstone Institute of Virology & Immunology, San Francisco - HIV Nef potentiates T cell activation early after TCR engagement

GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals - Institut Pasteur, drug maker to develop AIDS vaccine

GlaxoSmithKlineConta - Study shows HIV patient adherence may improve with fixed-dose combinations

Healthcare Access - Project HOPE tours Africa to mark 15 years of HIV/AIDS efforts, announce new program

Hospital Carlos III, Madrid - Stavudine dose reductions may ameliorate complications without compromising antiviral activity

Hospital La Pitie Salpetriere, Paris - HAART interruptions do not restore antiviral efficacy in pre-treated patients with drug failures

Howard University College of Medicine, Washington - RNA interference directed to CDK2 inhibits HIV-1 transcription

Howard University, Washington - HIV Tat may function as a nuclear regulator of protein phosphatase-1

India National Center for Cell Science - Mitochondrial complex I activity is impaired during HIV-1-induced T-cell apoptosis

Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp - HIV-1 replicative fitness may have decreased since the start of the pandemic

International Partnership for Microbicides - Drug company support is critical to advancing AIDS prevention effort, says Zeda Rosenberg

Johns Hopkins University - Higher hemoglobin levels are associated with better quality of life in HIV/AIDS

Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health - Parental HIV infection markedly increases the incidence of orphanhood in Uganda

Mahidol University, Bangkok - HIV-1 subtypes CRF01_AE and B' can be genotyped by heteroduplex mobility assay and peptide ELISA

Massachusetts General Hospital East - Cellular immune selective pressures drive individual and global HIV-1 evolution

Medical School, Pisa - Pharmacokinetics of antivirals varies during the first weeks of life

Medical Services International Inc. - Diagnostic test company receives additional orders for VScan HIV test kit from China