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ELISA Kits for Diagnosis User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 17 September 2008 ELISA is the acronym for Enzyme- Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay, also known as EIA, and represents the fastest and surest way of diagnosing different infectious diseases in humans, animals and plants. Read more...   A New Way To Promote Safe Sex User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 21 August 2008 Canadian youths aged 18 – 30, are now being encouraged online to practice safer sex and get HIV tested. The Internet makes for just the right hang out for the young people where most of them can be found listening to music and more. Read more...   XVII International AIDS Conference: 4 Precious Initiatives User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 13 August 2008 The XVII International AIDS Conference held at the Mexico City, from Aug. 3 through Aug. 8 days was an exquisite forum for sharing and showcasing of ideas from international experts. It also saw the launch of different invaluable initiatives by different organizations. Read more...   INSTEAD SCIENCES, INC.Announces Plans For Launch Of MICROBICIDE EXPECTED To Prevention STD’S & H User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 02 July 2008 LA JOLLA, CA (March 24, 2008)- Today, Instead Sciences, Inc. Read more...   Condoms, HIV and AIDS Prevention User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 27 May 2008 HIV and AIDS remains a major medical difficulty in this day and age. Therefore, if you are sexually active, it is meaningful for you to make sure that you engage in safe sex techniques ... always. Read more...   University Of Washington Institute For Health Metrics To Host Conference On Improving Calculation Of User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 About 300 public health officials and researchers from around the world gathered on Wednesday for a two-day conference aimed at improving methods for collecting, analyzing and disseminating global health data, including info on HIV/AIDS, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. Read more...   Researchers Call For Improvements In Trial Design To Test Biomedical Interventions To Prevent HIV User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 It is "imperative to prioritize the identification and implementation of more effective behavioral and nonvaccine biomedical interventions" to prevent HIV, as well as to "design, fund and conduct these trials in ways that give them the best chance of success," Stephen Lagakos, professor of... Read more...   China's Industry, Commerce Administration Launches Program To Increase HIV Prevention, Education Ser User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 China's State Administration for Industry and Commerce, with support from the China AIDS Roadmap Tactical Support Project, has begun to train leaders at private companies on HIV prevention and awareness to educate employees and other members of the community about the disease, Xinhua/China View... Read more...   Members Of Canadian HIV/AIDS Group Delayed In Boarding Flight After Security Guard Deemed Them Healt User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 Members of an HIV/AIDS support group based in Prince George, Canada, last week were delayed in boarding a flight at the Prince George Airport after an airport security guard allegedly said they were health risks to other passengers, Toronto's Globe and Mail reports. Read more...   Uganda's HIV/AIDS Policies Overlook Young Children, Study Says User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 Uganda's policies on HIV/AIDS overlook young children living with or affected by the disease, according to a study released on Wednesday by the African Capacity Building Foundation and Makerere University's Economic Policy Research Centre, New Vision/AllAfrica.com reports. Read more...   More Companies Are Creating Programs To Help Alleviate Worldwide HIV/AIDS Epidemic, The Conference B User Rating: / 0 Friday, 11 April 2008 Major companies are creating a wide variety of programs to help employees deal with the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to a report released today by The Conference Board, the global business research and membership organization. Read more...   ADAP Waiting Lists Nearly Eliminated, Kaiser Family Foundation, NASTAD Survey Says; Challenges Remai User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 10 April 2008 The number of people on waiting lists to receive HIV/AIDS-related medications through AIDS Drug Assistance Programs dropped from 571 in March 2007 to 3 in March 2008, a survey of state and territorial ADAPs released Thursday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Alliance of State and... Read more...   Canadian Prisons Contributing To Spread Of HIV, Researchers Say User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 10 April 2008 About 15% of incarcerated drug users at correctional facilities in the Canadian province of British Columbia reported using injection drugs during their incarceration, causing concern that prisons are contributing to the spread of HIV in Canada, according to one of 2 lately released studies... Read more...   Group Launches Web Site Offering Support, Advice To Children Affected By HIV/AIDS In Vietnam User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 10 April 2008 A group of HIV/AIDS advocates lately launched a Web site that offers support and advice to children living with or affected by HIV/AIDS in Vietnam, the VNS/Vietnam News reports. Read more...   Nigerian State Bans Promotion, Distribution Of Contraceptives, Including Condoms User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 10 April 2008 The Nigerian state of Anambra lately banned the promotion and distribution of what it calls "unnatural" contraceptives, including condoms, IRIN Newsreports. Read more...   NanoViricides Commences HIV Drug Animal Trials User Rating: / 0 Thursday, 10 April 2008 NanoViricides, Inc. (OTC BB: NNVC.OB), said that preliminary animal trials of the Company's HIV therapeutic candidates have begun at a BioSafety Level 3 (BSL-3) Laboratory facility in Boston, MA. The first results are expected before the end of consequent month. Read more...   Uganda Conference Addresses Antiretroviral Treatment Access Among Children User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 World Vision Uganda lately hosted a conference to observe issues surrounding antiretroviral drug access among children in the country, the New Vision/AllAfrica.com reports. Read more...   New York Daily News Examines Queens' Needle-Exchange Program User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 The New York Daily Newson Sunday examined a needle-exchange program in the New York City borough of Queens (Colangelo, New York Daily News, 4/6). The program, administered by the AIDS Center of Queens County, launched in November 2004. Read more...   Chicago Tribune Examines 'Unexpected Challenges' Of Raising HIV-Positive Teens User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 The Chicago Tribune on Sunday examined the "unexpected challenges" that some parents of HIV-positive teenagers face. Read more...   Video Doctor Helps HIV-Positive Patients Reduce Risky Behaviors User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 A computer-based interactive risk assessment and risk reduction counseling program using a video doctor sharply reduces sexual and drug risk behaviors by HIV-positive patients, according to UCSF researchers who developed and tested the intervention. Read more...   Brazil Opens Condom Factory To Reduce Spread Of HIV, Preserve Rainforest User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 The Brazilian government on Monday opened a condom factory in the northwestern state of Acre that will make condoms using rubber from trees in the Amazon rainforest, Reuters reports. Read more...   U.K. Motion Calls On International Development Department To Place Women At Center Of HIV/AIDS Effor User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 About 175 members of Parliament in the United Kingdom have signed a motion that calls on the Department for International Development to place women at the center of its HIV/AIDS strategies worldwide, the Herald Expressreports. Read more...   Study Finds Advances In Estimating HIV Incidence In Epidemics User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 An article published in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine reports on the development and testing of 2 user-friendly methods that use changes in cross-sectional HIV prevalence (the fraction of the population infected with HIV) to estimate HIV incidence (the number of new infections happening... Read more...   ImQuest Scientists Present Important HIV Microbicide Development Results At Microbicides 2008 In Del User Rating: / 0 Wednesday, 09 April 2008 ImQuest scientists Robert W. Buckheit, Jr., Ph.D. and Karen M. Watson, M.S. presented the results of studies performed with products licensed by ImQuest Life Sciences, Inc. Read more...   Letters To Editor Respond To Opinion Piece Addressing AIDS Vaccine Research User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 08 April 2008 The Baltimore Sun on Saturday published 2 letters to the editor written in response to a March 23 Sun idea piece by Homayoon Khanlou and Michael Weinstein of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. Read more...   Kenya To Spend $61M To Increase Antiretroviral Treatment Access, Health Ministry Says User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 08 April 2008 Kenya's Ministry of Health on Sunday in a statement announced that the country will spend about $61 million following year to increase access to antiretroviral drugs, AFP/Yahoo! News reports. Read more...   African Countries Should Increase Funding To Alleviate Health Worker Shortages, Group Says User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 08 April 2008 African countries should increase health sector funding to mitigate worker shortages and prevent deaths from the continent's five leading causes of death, including HIV/AIDS, the African Public Health Rights Alliance said Thursday, Reuters reports. Read more...   VOA News Examines Initiative In Malawi That Provides Assistance To Wives Of Prisoners, Aims To Preve User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 08 April 2008 VOA News on Thursday examined an initiative in Malawi that provides assistance to women whose husbands are in prison in part to prevent the spread of HIV. Read more...   More Than 2M Children Worldwide Living With HIV/AIDS, Report Says User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 08 April 2008 More than 2 million children worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS in 2007, according to a joint report released Thursday by UNICEF, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, Reuters reports (Worsnip, Reuters, 4/3). Read more...   HHS Awards 1.1 Billion Dollars For HIV/AIDS Care, Medications User Rating: / 0 Tuesday, 08 April 2008 HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has announced grants of more than $1.1 billion to provide primary care, medications and services for low-income and underinsured people living with HIV/AIDS. Read more...

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