Susan Hasty, Publisher
Table of Contents . . . July 7th, 1997
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Conference Coverage (SPIRAT/NCDDG-HIV) - Combined Gene Therapy Would Make Cells Invulnerable to HIV
Conference Coverage (SPIRAT/NCDDG-HIV) - Gallo Team Isolates Anti-HIV Factors From Pregnancy Hormone
Conference Coverage (SPIRAT/NCDDG-HIV) - Intrakines Knock Out Cellular HIV Co-Receptors
Conference Coverage (SPIRAT/NCDDG-HIV) - Promising Early Results from CD4 Reconstitution Trial
Conference Coverage (SPIRAT/NCDDG-HIV) - T-Cell Homeostasis Seen As Key to Immune Regeneration
AIDS Education (Behavior) - UN Expert: Message Should Be Aimed at Men
AIDS Therapies - Draft HIV/AIDS Treatment Guidelines Available
AIDS Therapies - Updated Recommendations Published on HIV Antiretroviral Treatment
AIDS Therapies (Combination Therapies) - Largest-Ever AIDS Study Finds Three Drug Cocktail Better Than Two
AIDS Therapies (Rescriptor) - New AIDS Drug Arrives at Pharmacies
AIDS Vaccines - Recombinant Multi-Antigen TBC-3B Vaccine Trial Commences
Co-infection (HIV/MAC) - Ulcers At Injection Site May Be MAC
Diagnostics (HIV) - Empiric Therapy Should Follow Pulmonary Testing in HIV+
Drug Resistance - Nisin Evaluated for Antibiotic-Resistant Infections Treatment
Education - Awards Competition Nominations Sought for HIV/AIDS Programs in the Workplace
Education, Prevention (Health) - Latino and African American Men Sought for HIV Prevention Study
Funding - NIAID Funds Scientists to Study Acute Infection and Early HIV
HIV Testing - AIDS Policy Center Statement on Mandatory Testing
HIV Testing - Confide HIV Service Withdrawn from Market
HIV Testing - Oral HIV Test Available Free at Anonymous Test Sites
HIV Testing - Voluntary Testing Programs Expanded Around The Nation
Hemophilia (Legal Issues) - Ruling Threatens Hemophiliacs' Deal
Industry News (Patents and Technology) - Patent Awarded on Hundreds of HIV/AIDS Immune Antibody Therapies
International (Africa) - AIDS Creating Continent of Orphans
Malawi, Transmission (Health) - Study Shows Antibiotics Could Slow AIDS in Africa
Needle Exchange Programs - About One-Third of AIDS Cases are Associated with Injecting Drug Use
Needle Exchange Programs - Federal Restriction on Needle Exchange Urged To End
Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - FDA Panel Decision To Be Reviewed
Pain Management - Legal Reforms, Medical Education Needed To Improve Care for the Dying
Pathogenesis - Finding Underscores Importance Of Controlling Opportunistic Infections
Pathogenesis - Gene Delays AIDS But Hastens Death
Pediatrics - Study Shows Two-Drug Therapy Helps HIV Children
Pediatrics - Two Drugs Better Than One for Treating Children with Symptomatic HIV
Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Health) - Treatment for Other STDs Should be Part of HIV Prevention
Therapy (TB) - Aminosidine May Be Useful for MDR-TB and M. avium Complex
Transmission - 1,000 Kids Get HIV Every Day
Barbados, Morality (Roles) - Escort Service Divides A Nation
Cyprus, AIDS Transmission (Behavior) - "Irresistible" Fisherman Blames the Woman
Diagnostics (TB) - "ERIC Sequences as Molecular Target in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Genome."
Disease Associations (HIV/Cancer) - "A Review of the Aetiology of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Conjunctiva, with Preliminary Results of a Case-Control Study From Kampala, Uganda."
Epidemiology (HHV-8) - "Evidence that Human Herpesvirus Type 8 Infection Occurs Following Adolescence in the United States."
Epidemiology (Kaposi's Sarcoma) - "Risk Factors for Childhood Kaposi's Sarcoma in Uganda: A Case-Control Study."
Genetics (HIV-1) - "Use of CCR5, Fusin, and CCR3 by Diverse Primary HIV-1 Envelope Glycoproteins."
HIV Gene Therapy - "Anti HIV Genetic Treatment of Antigen-Specific Human CD4 Lymphocytes for Adoptive Immunotherapy of AIDS."
HIV Gene Therapy - "Cell and Viral Regulatory Elements Enhance the Efficacy of an HIV Inhibitory Gene."
HIV Gene Therapy - "Cells Transfected with A Non-Neutralizing Antibody Gene are Resistant to HIV Infection: Targeting the Endoplasmic Reticulum and Transgolgi Network."
HIV Gene Therapy - "Optimization of Retroviral Transduction of Rhesus T Lymphocytes."
Intracellular Immunization (HIV-1) - "A Human T Cell Line Transfected with Single Chain Fv (ScFv) Antibody to HIV p17 Inhibits HIV-1 Replication."
At-Risk Populations - "HIV-Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Characteristics among Homeless or Drug-Recovering Women and Their Closest Sources of Social Support."
Cholestasis - "Cholestasis in Patients with Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome: A Surgeon's Perspective."
HIV Vaccines - "Challenge of Chimpanzees Immunized with a Recombinant Canarypox-HIV-1 Virus."
Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "Open Reading Frame 26 of Human Herpesvirus 8 Encodes a Tetradecanoyl Phorbol Acetate- and Butyrate-Inducible 32-Kilodalton Protein Expressed in a Body Cavity-Based Lymphoma Cell Line."
Kaposi's sarcoma (KSHV) - "The Cyclin Encoded by Kaposi's sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus Stimulates cdk6 to Phosphorylate the Retinoblastoma Protein and Histone H1."
Kaposi's sarcoma (Therapy) - "Clinical and Pharmacokinetic Study of Oral Etoposide in Patients with AIDS-Related Kaposi's sarcoma with No Prior Exposure to Cytotoxic Therapy."
Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior - "An Investigation into Whether Nursing Students Alter Their Attitudes and Knowledge Levels Regarding HIV Infection and AIDS Following a 3-Year Programme Leading to Registration as a Qualified Nurse."
Mycobacterium avium - "Rapid Discrimination of Mycobacterium avium Strains from AIDS Patients by Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis."
Pneumocystis carinii - "Transmission of Pneumocystis carinii from Patients to Hospital Staff."
Prisons (Research) - "HIV Risk Reduction for Incarcerated Women: A Comparison of Brief Interventions Based on Two Theoretical Models."
Sexual Behavior (Research) - "Dominican, Mexican, and Puerto Rican Prostitutes: Drug Use and Sexual Behaviors."
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