http://discussaids.com Discuss Aids and Aids Treatment Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:00:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A recent comparison of proposed national alcohol policies in Lesotho, Malawi, Uganda, and Botswana shows that the drinks industry has assumed a significant and detrimental role in designing national alcohol policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. The policy drafts point to the alcohol industry's preferred version of a national alcohol policy, which ... http://discussaids.com/2010/03/drinks-industry-supplanting-government-role-in-alcohol-policies-in-subsaharan-africa/ News Category Menu HIV / AIDS >Categories A-B Abortion Acid Reflux / GERD ADHD Aid / Disasters Alcohol / Addiction / Illegal Drugs Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's / Dementia Anxiety / Stress Arthritis / Rheumatology Asbestos / Mesothelioma Asthma Autism Back Pain Bio-terrorism / Terrorism Biology ... http://discussaids.com/2010/03/opinions-future-of-pepfar-family-planning/ Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the AIDS disease. Led by Matthias J. Schnell, Ph.D., director of the Jefferson Vaccine Center, the researchers found that a rabies virus-based vaccine administered to monkeys protected against the simian equivalent of the HIV virus (SIV). The ... http://discussaids.com/2010/03/further-progress-toward-aids-vaccine/ Scientists seeking to understand how to make an AIDS vaccine have found the cause of a major roadblock. It turns out that the immune system can indeed produce cells with the potential to manufacture powerful HIV-blocking antibodies - but at the same time, the immune system works equally hard to ... http://discussaids.com/2010/03/induction-of-antibodies-that-block-hiv-prevented-by-biological-catch22/ The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Kuvin Center for the Study of Infectious and Tropical Diseases has received a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research into visceral leishmaniasis in Ethiopia. The project will be led by Prof. Alon Warburg, a vector biologist working at the Institute ... http://discussaids.com/2010/03/research-on-leishmaniasis-in-ethiopia-benefits-from-5-million-grant-to-hebrew-u/ Michael Saag, M.D., director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Center for AIDS Research and a renowned leader in the establishment of best practices for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) treatment, has been installed as chair of the board of directors of the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA). HIVMA is ... http://discussaids.com/2010/03/uab-aids-center-director-installed-as-chair-of-hiv-medicine-association/ A scientist who is helping to treat thousands of people living with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa was awarded the Royal Society Pfizer Award at a ceremony last night (27 October). Dr Linda-Gail Bekker's research looks at how TB epidemiology has changed in the HIV era. ... http://discussaids.com/2009/11/african-scientist-wins-award-for-hiv-and-tb-coinfection-research/ Federal health officials are preparing to study the "test and treat" strategy in an effort to curb the spread of HIV in high-incidence communities, the New York Times reports. The three-year study will focus on Washington, D.C., where as many as 5% of adults are HIV-positive, and the Bronx, which ... http://discussaids.com/2009/11/federal-officials-to-study-new-strategy-to-boost-hiv-testing-treatment/ Two Yale School of Medicine physicians have been awarded a $4.1 million research grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study a new pharmacological treatment for newly released HIV-positive inmates with alcohol dependence who are transitioning back into the community. The U.S. prison population is disproportionately ... http://discussaids.com/2009/11/yale-physicians-receive-41-million-grant-to-study-new-treatment-for-alcoholdependent-hivpositive-inmates-transitioning-back-into-society/ Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment. Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device. ... http://discussaids.com/2009/11/cell-phones-become-handheld-tools-for-global-development/