AIDS Weekly

HIV Vaccines - Setback for British Biotech's Therapeutic AIDS Vaccine

HIV Vaccines - Tat-Based HIV Vaccine Proposed

HIV Vaccines - Weak Anti-Gag Antibodies Associated with Rapid CD4 Decline

AIDS Therapies (Cytolin) - FDA Clears Human Testing of Nontoxic AIDS Treatment

AIDS Therapies (IL-2) - Therapy Doubles CD4⁺ T-Cell Counts in HIV People

Blood Banking (International-Asia) - China Silent on Discovery of HIV in Over-the-Counter Blood Product

Blood Banking (Legal Issues) - Most HIV Infected Hemophiliacs Accept Companies' Settlement

Epidemiology (HIV) - AIDS Slowing, But Not Among Women and Blacks

HIV Testing - Study Questions Effort To End Anonymous Testing

HIV Testing (Legal Issues) - Judge Upholds Arbitrator Ruling in HIV Home Test

HIV Vaccines (Clinical Trials) - Interim Results of HGP-30 AIDS Vaccine Study Announced

Industry News (Joint Venture) - Agreement Signed To Develop Topical Microbicide Against HIV

International (Europe) - Clinical Trial in Spain Announced Using Remune

Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - Disease No Longer Discriminates against HIV Negative Women

Kaposi's sarcoma (Treatment) - Pregnancy Hormone Derived from Urine Stops KS

Psychosocial - Depression Linked to Increased Death Risk Among HIV⁺ Gay/Bisexual Men

TB/HIV Coinfection - Big Jump in Acquired-Resistance Tuberculosis Due to HIV Infection

TB/HIV Coinfection - Immunosuppression May Be More Significant Than Foreign Birth in Extrapulmonary TB

TB/HIV Coinfection - Unusual TB Presentation Probably Underreported in HIV⁺

Transfusion (Clinical Trials) - Multicenter Study Should Yield Data on Transfusion Practices for HIV⁺

Vectors (Development) - HIV-Based Lentiviral Vector Sustains Efficient Gene Expression In Vivo

Vectors (Development) - Manipulation of Recombinant Rabies Virus Pseudotypes Specifies Cell Targeting

Antiviral Drug Development - "Fusion Inhibitors of Paramyxoviruses Predicted by Computerized Antifusion Searching Technology (C.A.S.T.)."

Disease Associations - "Bartonella Infections in the Immunocompromised Host: Microbiology, Reservoirs and Vectors."

Disease Associations - "Late HIV Diagnosis and Failure to Receive Chemoprophylaxis, Against Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia."

Drug Development (Antiviral) - "Effects of C- and N-Terminal Deletion on Antiviral and Ribosome-Inactivating Activities of Pokeweed Antiviral Protein (PAP-I)."

Epidemiology - "Seroprevalence of Viral Hepatitis (A, B, C, DELTA, E), HIV-1-2, HTLV-I and CMV in a STD Clinic In Paris."