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Health & Wellness News tagged with AIDS/HIV

Renewed Hope for An AIDS Vaccine
Health & Wellness  (tags: research, study, AIDS/HIV, vaccine )

Katie
- 35 days ago - scientificamerican.com
Despite questions, the Thailand trial spreads optimism.The long search for an AIDS vaccine has produced countless false starts and repeated failed trials, casting once bright hopes into shadows of disenchantment.
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Action Alert..Re-Authorize the Ryan White Act - Care for People Living With HIV/AIDS
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AIDS/HIV, disease, illness, death, prevention, protection, uninsured, petition, treatment, medicine )

Dee
- 114 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Ryan White, an Indiana teenager with hemophilia who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion, courageously fought widespread AIDS-related discrimination before his death in 1990.
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New HIV Strain Discovered in Woman From Cameroon
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, AIDS/HIV, New Strain, simian virus, disease, illness, humans, wild gorillas, discovery, study, research, warning )

Dee
- 140 days ago - abcnews.go.com
A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus...
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Male Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk: No Further Evidence Needed, According To Review
Health & Wellness  (tags: AIDS/HIV, Body-Mind-Spirit, circumcision, death, disease, healthcare, investigation, medicine, prevention, protection, research, risks, safety, science, study, warning )

Kit
- 249 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Circumcision may help to protect against HIV by removing cells in the foreskin to which the virus is specifically attracted. Called Langerhans cells, they display receptors that enable HIV entry. Previous non-randomised studies investigated the....
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Indians More Prone to HIV-AIDS Than Others, Says Study
Health & Wellness  (tags: AIDS/HIV, genetics, study, India, Indians, genetic protection, genetic profile, population, news, health, protection, prevention )

Dima
- 604 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
A monumental study on genetic profile of the country's population has revealed that majority of Indian do not have natural protection against HIV/AIDS. The known protective marker - rs333 - in the CCRS gene is virtually absent in the Indian population.
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Some People May Transmit Weaker AIDS Virus
Health & Wellness  (tags: AIDS/HIV, study, research, health )

Marty
- 640 days ago - newsdaily.com
People with a genetic variation that slows down HIV may also be causing a mutation to the AIDS virus that makes it less potent if transmitted to others, researchers said on Friday
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Indian Health Service :: Statement By Robert McSwain, Acting Director, Indian Health Service, Regarding National Native HIV/AIDS
Health & Wellness  (tags: Native Americans, AIDS, AIDS/HIV, death, disease, health, prevention, risks )

Chakwaina
- 641 days ago - sev.prnewswire.com
American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are ranked third in the nation in the rate of AIDS diagnosis compared to all other races and ethnicities.
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