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Feb '06
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Bogus Letter Seeks Recipient's Sexual History
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In the Casper, Wyoming, area, someone has mailed at least one official-looking letter claiming that health authorities are seeking information on the recipient's sexual history. |
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Feb '06
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Nigeria to Free HIV-Infected Prisoners Under Plan to Halve Prison Population
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The Nigerian Cabinet has approved a plan to free HIV-positive inmates and others with terminal diseases in a bid to cut the country's prison population by half. |
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Feb '06
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Supplement Helps Lipoatrophy?
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A dietary supplement called NucleomaxX restored modest amounts of arm and leg fat in people with lipoatrophy who were taking AZT or d4T at the same time, Dr. Jussi Sutinen
reported at the Seventh International Workshop on Adverse Drug Reactions and Lipodystrophy in HIV, in Dublin, Ireland. |
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Jan '06
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Second CCR5 Inhibitor Study Halted
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Schering Plough announced that it has halted a phase II study of vicriviroc, its experimental CCR5 antagonist, in treatment-naďve patients owing to early viral load rebound in the patients receiving the drug. |
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Jan '06
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Bishops Urge Sexual Ignorance
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The four Roman Catholic bishops of Massachusetts are calling for a change in state law that would make sex education an elective course rather than a requirement. |
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Jan '06
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Average Canadian Has Sex 108 Times a Year
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According to the 2005 Global Sex Survey by condom maker Durex, Canadians engage in sex on average 108 times a year, compared to the global norm of 103 times. |
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Jan '06
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Condoms Plan for Taxi Passengers
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Pending approval from Edinburgh City Council's licensing committee, a plan to provide taxi passengers with free condoms could go into effect as early as January. A US-based company has provided Festival City Cars, which has a fleet of 220 taxis, with 5,000 condoms to hand out. |
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Jan '06
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New Kaletra Okayed
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The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new formulation of Kaletra. |
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Jan '06
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How HIV Attacks Brain
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As drug therapies improve, many HIV/AIDS patients are living longer. |
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Jan '06
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Skin Drug Not for HIV Patients
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Drug maker Biogen and the US Food and Drug Administration said Amevive, a skin drug manufactured by the biotechnology company, should not be used in patients with HIV. |
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Jan '06
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Condoms Protect Against Herpes
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In a new study of more than 1,800 adults at high risk of genital herpes, those who reported usually using condoms were one-quarter less likely to test positive for herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) than those who did not. |
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Jan '06
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Promising New Drug
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The Houston-based biotechnology firm Tanox Inc. reported encouraging results from an ongoing Phase II safety and efficacy study of its intravenous HIV entry inhibitor drug TXN-355. |
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Dec '05
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ACLU Targets Abstinence-Only Programs
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The American Civil Liberties Union said it will urge officials in 18 states to reject abstinence-only sex-education programs. |
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Dec '05
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Valproic Acid, Anyone?
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A novel study, conducted by Ginger Lehrman, involving valproic acid was inspired by two observations. |
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Dec '05
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Bedroom Gymnastics Down Under
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Condom maker Ansell said it will provide 60,000 condoms and 60,000 units of lubricant for the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games, March 15-26. |
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Dec '05
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Time to Take Your Pills...
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Johns Hopkins University Division of Infectious Disease researchers found that a pocket-sized device helps ensure that HIV patients with slightly impaired memory comply with their medication regimens. |
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Dec '05
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HIV-druginteractions.org
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Need a quick resource regarding a possible drug interaction? HIV-druginteractions.org is a reference site maintained by the University of Liverpool and geared toward HIV medical professionals and researchers. |
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Nov '05
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Arnold OKs HIV Transplant Bill
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed legislation that would prohibit insurance companies from denying coverage of organ transplants to HIV-positive patients. |
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Nov '05
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Liver Risks Halt Drug Trial
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC announced that it had halted safety and efficacy trials of an HIV medication after two of the 250 treatment-naďve trial patients developed severe liver toxicity. |
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Nov '05
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Oral Sex Prevalent Among Teens
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Just over half of US teenagers ages 15-19 have engaged in oral sex, a proportion that increases with age to about 70 percent for those ages 18-19, according to a report released by CDC's National Center for Health
Statistics (NCHS). |
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Nov '05
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Treatment Prevents HIV Transmission
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Effective anti-HIV treatment has significantly reduced the sexual transmission of HIV amongst steady heterosexual couples, according to the results of a Spanish study. |
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Nov '05
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Senator Santorum: Let Whores Die
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Public health groups and conservatives have split over a two-year-old congressional mandate that denies overseas US AIDS funds to "any group or organization that does not have a policy explicitly opposing prostitution
and sex trafficking." Though the pledge was initially required of international recipients, it was extended to US-based groups this spring. |
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Nov '05
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Drug Combination Fails
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Gilead Sciences Inc. has announced that a second attempt at combining its HIV drug Truvada into a single pill with Bristol-Myers Squibb's Sustiva failed, delaying an application for Food and Drug Administration approval until next year. |
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Nov '05
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Prison Rape Panel Hears Victims' Chilling Accounts
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The second in a nationwide series of meetings of the Congressional National Prison Rape Elimination Commission, this one in San Francisco, heard personal testimony and policy recommendations to stem prison rapes from
rape survivors, state and federal lawmakers, police and prison officials, and mental health experts. |
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Nov '05
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Promise in Treating Hidden HIV Infection
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In a recent preliminary study, the anticonvulsant drug valproic acid was used to awaken dormant HIV, providing hope for an eventual treatment to eradicate it from the body. |
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Oct '05
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Surprising Attitudes Towards HIV Vaccine
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A survey of US adults found that while most believed an HIV vaccine is the best hope for controlling the global epidemic-- and that it was personally important to support HIV vaccine research-- the majority were still
reluctant to support a friend or family member's participation in such trials. |
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Oct '05
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Coming Soon: Two-Tablet, Twice-Daily Dosing
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Fixed-dose lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra) is widely used in treatment-naive patients and, especially, in treatment-experienced patients. |
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Oct '05
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'Down Low' Coverage
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At the recent meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists in Atlanta, members debated whether coverage of men living on the "down low"-- engaging in relationships with women while secretly having sex with
men-- is a public service or a salacious distraction from other issues-- such as unemployment, education, and homophobia-- facing the black community. |
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Oct '05
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Efavirenz Reduces Plasma Levels of Popular Statins
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Managing the dyslipidemia that accompanies antiretroviral therapy is complicated by drug-drug interactions among several major HIV and lipid-lowering therapies. |
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Sep '05
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Symptoms From Sustiva Not Always Time-Limited
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Although efavirenz (Sustiva) has been known to cause neuropsychiatric disturbances, studies to date have focused on the majority of patients for whom these symptoms are
self-limited, rather than on the minority for whom they may continue unabated for months to years. |
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