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Depot Formulation of Rilpivirine (TMC278) May Offer Months of Sustained Anti-HIV Activity with a Single Injection
"'TMC278 long-acting depot formulation administered in single doses provided prolonged exposure to TMC278 for several months and was well tolerated.' "They added,'"Based on a greater number of injection site reactions with the SC versus the IM route, IM injection was better tolerated than SC (...)
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International AIDS Conference - video interviews
"TheBody.com Presents Video Highlights of Events and Viewpoints From Mexico City." Read more in TheBody.com, August 28, 2008.
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Social factors key to ill health
"The World Health Organization (WHO) has carried out a three-year analysis of the "social determinants" of health. "The report concludes 'social injustice is killing people on a grand scale'. "For instance, a boy living in the deprived Glasgow suburb of Calton will live on average 28 years less (...)
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H.I.V. Is Spreading in New York City at Three Times the National Rate, a Study Finds
"The virus that causes AIDS is spreading in New York City at three times the national rate — an incidence of 72 new infections for every 100,000 people, compared with 23 per 100,000 nationally — according to a study released on Wednesday by the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. "The (...)
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More Than Medicine?
"Results from a new study led by Julio Montaner, MD, the director of the British Columbia Centre for Excellence in Vancouver, and conducted in Canada indicate that providing antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to all HIV-positive people who need it could cut HIV transmission in British Columbia by (...)
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AID FOR AIDS International new website
"AFAI collects HIV medications and supplies that are no longer needed in United States, and then distributes them to needy individuals in Latin America and the Caribbean. AFAI also provides leadership and treatment literacy training. Our educational outreach program targets persons living with (...)
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Examination of a Second Region of the HIV Type 1 Genome Reveals Additional Cases of Superinfection
"HIV-1 superinfection may occur at a rate similar to that of initial infection, raising concerns for HIV-1 vaccine strategies predicated on eliciting immune responses similar to those in natural infection. Because of the high rate of recombination during HIV-1 replication, studies examining (...)
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Puerto Rico and 8 States Lose HIV Surveillance Funding
"Puerto Rico and eight states in the continental United States will no longer receive federal funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) new HIV monitoring system, which found that that annual U.S. infection rate was 40 percent higher than previously estimated, The New (...)
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Medical marijuana dispensers may face crackdown
"Medical marijuana dispensers that operate for-profit likely violate California law, according to guidelines that may encourage local police to join a federal crackdown against the enterprises. "State Attorney General Jerry Brown said Monday that formal cooperatives registered under the state's (...)
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Mass incarceration can explain population increases in TB and multidrug-resistant TB in European and central Asian countries
"We find that each percentage point increase in incarceration rates relates to an increased TB incidence of 0.34% (population attributable risk, 95% C.I.: 0.10–0.58%, P Read more in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, August 26, (...)