AIDS Weekly

HIV/AIDS Assisted Reproduction - PCR detects low HIV-1 RNA in semen preparations used for assisted reproduction

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - HIV antigen/antibody ELISA is a sensitive and specific alternative confirmatory test

HIV/AIDS Lipodystrophy - Growth hormone replacement improves fasting lipid kinetics in HIV lipodystrophy syndrome

HIV/AIDS Research - HIV-1 reverse transcriptase mutants resistant to NNRTI do not adversely affect DNA synthesis

HIV/AIDS Reservoir - Chimpanzee subspecies Pan troglodytes troglodytes is natural HIV-1 reservoir

Biomedical Engineering - Northwestern gets Gates Grant for medical diagnostics in developing countries

Business Update - Four studies affirm significance of Monogram's Trofile HIV co-receptor tropism assay

Business Update - GenVec vaccine technology enters first HIV human clinical trials at Vaccine Research Center at NIH

Business Update - Medical Services receives approval for HIV, TB, hepatitis C test kits in Russian Federation

Cancer Therapy - CYP24 inhibition might open new paradigm for Vitamin D therapy

Drug Abuse - Case management intervention facilitates entry from needle exchange program into drug abuse program

HIV/AIDS Anemia - Maternal and neonatal vitamin A supplementation does not affect hemoglobin or anemia

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - HIV diagnostic test performance in developing countries evaluated

HIV/AIDS Diagnostics - Rapid assay measures entry of diverse enveloped viruses including HIV and rabies

HIV/AIDS Epidemiology - HIV hazard rates estimated from cross-sectional HIV prevalence data

HIV/AIDS Gene Therapy - Method to select and expand cells after HIV vector transduction has been developed

HIV/AIDS HAART - HAART increased survival among HIV/AIDS patients in Spain between 1981-2001

HIV/AIDS HAART - HAART-induced maintenance of adaptive immunity related to protection from HIV-induced mortality

HIV/AIDS HAART - Placental transfer of lopinavir/ritonavir determined

HIV/AIDS Healthcare - Clinics established outside New Orleans cared for HIV outpatients after Hurricane Katrina

HIV/AIDS Healthcare - Predictors identified for losses to follow-up among HIV-infected patients

HIV/AIDS Herpesvirus - High prevalence of multiple human herpesviruses in saliva from HIV/AIDS patients exists

HIV/AIDS Infection -  Candida-induced epithelial cell cytokine production low in HIV+ patients

HIV/AIDS Prevention - AIDS groups say South Africa health minister should resign, response to epidemic slow

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Human immunodeficiency virus importins function as nuclear transport receptors

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Initiative for condom distribution in California prisons seeks to combat rising HIV/AIDS infections

HIV/AIDS Prevention - Novel strategies for preventing perinatal HIV transmission are focus of review

HIV/AIDS Public Health - African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships supports HIV control in Botswana

HIV/AIDS Research - Researchers discover that gut tissue is a major reservoir harboring HIV

HIV/AIDS Research - Study results of two-drug regimen show sustained viral suppression in treated HIV patients

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Geron presents data on HIV/AIDS drug candidate at the XVI International AIDS Conference

HIV/AIDS Therapy - Serono announces results from trial of recombinant human growth hormone for HIV patients

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Hairpin RNAs targeting retroviral integration suppress HIV-1

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - HIV-based vector expresses antiviral shRNA against HIV-1 replication

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - MLV(HIV-1) pseudotype vector induces HIV-1-specific immune responses

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Swedish HIV vaccine study reveals over 90 percent of subjects developed immune response

HIV/AIDS Vaccine - Vical initiates trial of prime-boost vaccine for disease prevention in HIV-infected patients

Healthcare Education - Columbia College tackles hard social questions via Critical Encounters Initiative

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C in HIV-coinfected patients responds to combination therapy

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus-specific CD8 cell costimulation is impaired by HIV coinfection

Hepatitis C Virus - Hepatitis C virus/HIV-coinfection is influenced by virus genotype

Kidney Disease - Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis lesions originate from parietal epithelial cells

Malaria Therapy - Monthly sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine was effective against malaria in HIV-positive pregnant women

Parasitology - New study examines how the body's T cells react to parasitic diseases

Pneumonia - PCR superior to immunofluorescence for diagnosing Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia

Vector Development - Entry route does not affect integration site selection for HIV envelopes