“Shelters for PLHIV?”

Dear Dr., please tell me where are the shelter homes or hospices for HIV+ persons as my friend is suffering from the disease and needs to be hospitalised to such shelter home at the earliest. Please suggest any in and …

Global AIDS Fight Hits Hurdle Over Funding

Betsy Mckay & Mark Schoofs. Wall Street Journal. May 27, 2011

In advance of a major United Nations meeting on the global AIDS epidemic, public-health leaders face a paradox: New evidence suggests the epidemic can finally be controlled, but that would demand increased spending at a time of severe global budget restraints.

Preliminary estimates show that funding from donor nations to fight AIDS in developing nations actually fell in 2010, the first decline ever in the battle against HIV, which currently afflicts 33 million people world-wide.

“Afraid of getting HIV from swimming pool”

I want to join a swimming tank. Is there any risk of getting HIV infection? I always get cuts on my body due to my profession (Electrcal engineer) and also have pimples on face and armpit. What precaution do I …

USA FDA Approves New J&J HIV Drug

By Jennifer Corbett Dooren

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday approved a new HIV drug made by a unit of Johnson & Johnson. (JNJ).

The drug, Edurant, also known by its generic name rilpivirine, was approved for use in combination with other drugs in treating HIV patients who haven't been previously treated with other drugs.

“HIV from oral sex?”

Dear Doctor, please help me–I am not sleeping very well, always thinking I am in the risk of HIV. I met one girl, but I don’t know if she is a prostitiute or good girl and if she is HIV …

Anti-retroviral drugs ‘help reduce’ HIV transmission

By James Gallagher, Health reporter, BBC News

An HIV-positive person who takes anti-retroviral drugs after diagnosis, rather than when their health declines, can cut the risk of spreading the virus to uninfected partners by 96%, according to a study.

Monkey vaccine ‘effective,’ say researchers

By Neil Bowdler, Science reporter, BBC News

A new vaccine can protect macaques against the monkey equivalent of HIV and could provide a fresh approach to an HIV vaccine, a study suggests.

HIV breakthrough raises hope of vaccine

MELBOURNE University researchers have identified antibodies that fight HIV in a breakthrough that brings closer the ''holy grail'' of developing an effective vaccine against the virus.

A study of 100 people with HIV, recruited from The Alfred hospital and the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, showed the antibodies were so successful in suppressing the virus that it had to mutate around them.

The discovery has raised hope that the antibodies, if introduced to healthy people, could prevent the virus taking hold.

Government urged to pass HIV bill

Express News Service  03 May 2011 10:15:34 AM IST

HYDERABAD: World Vision India, at an interactive session urged the Government of India to pass the HIV Bill in the Parliament at the earliest and to ensure easy access of anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV (PLHIV).