AIDS Weekly

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Canarypox Vaccine Protects Chimps Against Genital HIV Challenge

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Macaque Monkeys' Mucosa Make Magnificent Model

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Mucosal Studies Point To Need For Local Anti-HIV Immunizations

Conference Coverage (Vancouver AIDS Conference) - Vaccine Elicits Serum, Mucosal Antibodies Against All HIV Strains

HIV Vaccines - New Hope for HIV Vaccine: Partial Protection May Be Enough

AIDS Therapies (Didanosine) - Switching to Didanosine from Zidovudine: No Clinical Benefit

AIDS Therapies (Reticulose) - Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA) Human AIDS Trial Underway

Apoptosis - Mechanism Proposed in HIV Infection

Blood Banking (Legal Issues) - Claim Forms Mailed in HIV Class Action Settlement

Blood Banking (Legal Issues) - Principles Agreed Upon for HCV/HIV Compensation Plan

Cachexia (Treatment) - Testosterone Patch Evaluated To Treat Women with AIDS Wasting Syndrome

Conference Coverage (Montreal) - Viral Inactivation Achieved by Heat Treating Crosslinked Hemoglobin

Cytomegalovirus - Scientists Solve Structure of CMV Protease

Education and Prevention - Better AIDS Prevention Teaching Needed

Funding - New York Says $42 Million More Available for AIDS Drug Program

Fungal Infections - Phagocyte Impairment May Explain AIDS Related Infections

Gene Transfer (Hemopoietic Cells) - Transfection Efficiencies Increased By Colocalization on Fibronectin Fragments

HIV (Testing) - Home Tests To Detect HIV on Shelves in Virginia

HIV (Testing) - Nationwide HIV Home Test Maker Launches Web Site

HIV Vaccines - Attenuated AIDS Vaccine Candidate Reported

Integration Inhibitors - HIV Preintegration Complexes Promising for Antiretroviral Development

International (Africa) - AIDS Expected To Orphan One Third of Children in Zimbabwe

Kaposi's sarcoma - France Approves Duanoxome To Treat KS

Obstetrics - Maternal HIV Seropositivity Linked to Small Reductions in Birth Weight

Prophylaxis (Female Condoms) - An Alternative AIDS Prevention Strategy

Prophylaxis (Microbicides) - Spermicide-Coated Condoms Boost Urinary Tract Infections

Support Groups - Medical Students Band Together To Care for AIDS Patients

Blood Products (Transmission) - "The Role of Blood Products in Transmission of Viral Infections in Children with Haemophilia."

Disease Associations - "Incidence of Tuberculosis in a Cohort of HIV-1 Infected Women in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil."

Disease Associations - "Interaction HIV/Tuberculosis in Brazil: The First 15 Years and the Future."

Drug Development (Antiviral) - "In Vitro Selection and Identification of a Novel Mutation in HIV RT Which Confers Resistance to 5-Fluoro Analog of 2',3'-Dideoxy-3'-0xa-4-Thi

Epidemiology (HIV) - "Comparison of HIV-1 Sequences from 1981 with More Current Isolates in the United States Epidemic."

Epidemiology (HIV) - "Course of HIV Infection and AIDS in Ukraine."

Epidemiology (HIV/TB) - "High Incidence of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Falling Prevalence of HIV, Miami, Florida."

Epidemiology (Virus Transmission) - "Hepatitis A, B, C, HIV and CMV Seropositivity Rate in a Cohort of Turkish Haemophiliac Children."