Recent News
Sep 1, 2009
CDC considering universal male baby circumcision to curb AIDS?
In the late 19th century, Victorian-era doctors described the male foreskin as a “source of serious mischief.”
Jul 20, 2009
Canadian AIDS researcher's ‘crazy' crusade gains support
The controversial notion of treatment as prevention has suddenly become one of the hottest issues in the science of the disease.
May 22, 2009
Effect of HIV Drugs Questioned
The effect of drugs, being taken to treat HIV, on the ability of a South African woman, who died last year on a North Otago dairy farm, to do her job will be looked into by southern region coroner David Crerar.
May 11, 2009
ERs offer HIV tests in bid for prevention
After three days of a nasty cough and persistent headache, a 42-year-old man recently visited San Francisco General Hospital's emergency room, expecting to leave with a flu diagnosis.
May 6, 2009
'Out of the box' ideas on AIDS research
UW scientists at University Research Park search for a vaccine while trying to understand the many mysteries of HIV.
Apr 29, 2009
Awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS begins
The Obama administration began a five-year, $45 million media blitz yesterday to spark awareness about HIV infection and AIDS...
Apr 17, 2009
Glaxo and Pfizer create new HIV drug company
Pharmaceutical giants GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Pfizer Inc. will pool resources to create a new company to develop and sell HIV medicines, leveraging a small investment into the No. 2 market position.
Apr 4, 2009
HIV-1 protease inhibitor induced oxidative stress
Researchers at the Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana have discovered that the HIV-1 protease inhibitors (PIs), such as nelfinavir included in highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 patients, induce deleterious effects on insulin secretion mediated through the oxidative stress pathway.
Mar 23, 2009
How HIV prevention has defied science
Fifteen years ago, the answer to slowing the AIDS epidemic seemed so simple.
Hundreds of chemicals were known to destroy the AIDS virus in a test tube. The idea was to find one that would work in a vaginal lubricant so that no-chafe sex would also be safe sex.
Mar 9, 2009
Scientists allege fraud in 1984 HIV/AIDS papers.
Thirty-seven legal, medical and research professionals have sent a letter to the journal Science, asking it to officially retract the original four papers making the case for HIV as the cause of AIDS. According to the letter's authors, widespread evidence has now emerged that the studies were not only poorly carried out, but that their results were falsified.
Feb 18, 2009
The Exploitation of AIDS.
The Aids scare was one of the most distorted, duplicitous and cynical public health panics of the last 30 years.
Nov 25, 2008
Indonesian province plans microchip implants for AIDS patients.
Lawmakers in Indonesia's remote province of Papua have thrown their support behind a controversial bill requiring some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with microchips — part of extreme efforts to monitor the disease.
Oct 2, 2008
South African health minister makes AIDS top priority.
South Africa’s new health minister Barbara Hogan vowed on Thursday to make Aids a top priority, after years of controversy over her predecessor’s unconventional support for treatments like beetroot and garlic.
Aug 12, 2008
Why Some Infected With HIV Remain Symptom Free Without Antiretroviral Drugs
AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins say they have compelling evidence that some people with HIV who for years and even decades show extremely low levels of the virus in their blood never progress to full-blown AIDS and remain symptom free even without treatment, probably do so because of the strength of their immune systems, not any defects in the strain of HIV that infected them in the first place.
Jul 3, 2008
A myth that kills. AIDS industry feeds on fear.
The Senate is near to passing a massive $50 billion Emergency Plan for HIV/ AIDS Relief - a bill whose priorities are based on myth, just like virtually all anti-AIDS efforts worldwide.
Jun 8, 2008
Threat of world AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals over, report admits.
A 25-year health campaign was misplaced outside the continent of Africa. But the disease still kills more than all wars and conflicts
Jan, 2008
What is the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief?
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, also known as PEPFAR, is a five-year, $15 billion American Government initiative to combat the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Sep 22, 2007
Merck's Experimental AIDS Vaccine Fails
In a disappointing setback, a promising experimental AIDS vaccine failed to work in a large international test, leading the developer to halt the study. Merck & Co. said Friday that it is ending enrollment and vaccination of volunteers in the study, which was partly funded by the National Institutes of Health.
May 5, 2007
Shadow of Doubters: AIDS deniers are flying in the face of more than 25 years of scientific research, with devastating effect, writes Ruth Pollard.
The deaths of many thousands in the developing world should weigh heavily on their souls. Driven by delusions, misguided ideology and in some cases profit, their scientifically unfounded claims have provided an excuse for governments to deny life-saving medications to millions in need. But the real effect of AIDS deniers - those who insist HIV does not exist or that it is a harmless virus - risks being measured in the countless deaths of men, women and children.