Participants as adherent to using gel with sex as taking a daily pill for HIV prevention.
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Experimental Ebola vaccines well tolerated, immunogenic in phase 2 study
Two investigational vaccines designed to protect against Ebola virus disease were well-tolerated and induced an immune response among 1,000 vaccinated participants in the Phase 2 randomized…
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Zolodrenic acid can prevent early bone loss in HIV patients on antiretroviral therapy
A single dose of the drug zoledronic acid was found to inhibit the bone loss that is common in HIV-infected patients and that is increased during the first two years of treatment with…
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Option B+ to prevent maternal transmission of HIV shows rise in women initiating therapy
The first findings from a study in the Kingdom of Swaziland on a new approach to reduce mother to child transmission of HIV were presented at the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic…
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Vaginal ring reduces risk of HIV by up to 61%
In Sub-Saharan Africa, vaginal rings releasing dapivirine safely reduced the risk of HIV by 61% in women over 25 years who used them consistently.
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Recombinase Brec1 trend-setting for future HIV therapy
Approach demonstrated to work directly on HIV-patient material.Researchers at the Medical Faculty of the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and the Heinrich Pette Institute (HPI), Leibniz…
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Potential "game changer" in fight to protect women from HIV
A vaginal ring that contains an anti-HIV drug to protect women could transform the response to the AIDS epidemic, says a leading international development charity.
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Charlie Sheen's HIV disclosure may reinvigorate awareness, prevention of HIV
Actor Charlie Sheen’s public disclosure in November 2015 that he has the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) corresponded with the greatest number of HIV-related Google searches ever recorded in the…
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Protein structure illuminates how viruses take over cells
Using cutting-edge imaging technology, Salk Institute and Harvard Medical School researchers have determined the structure of a protein complex that lets viruses similar to the human…
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Scientists discover bird blood cell which destroys fatal fungal infection
Scientists have discovered that a specialised white blood cell found in birds can destroy a potentially fatal fungal infection which affects more than one million people every year.
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