Aids

swaziland's AIDS orphans exploited for cheap labour

Posted by Justonehumbletruthseeker

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Gates Foundation to Finance Search for H.I.V. Vaccine

Posted by Billbar from New York Times

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded more than a quarter of a billion dollars today to researchers in 19 countries to speed the lagging development of an H.I.V. vaccine. The grants are the largest private investment in making such a vaccine, the foundation said. They represent a significant shift in emphasis, to large-scale collaborative projects instead of small teams of researchers working independently.

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HIV patients get first once-a-day pill

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

Shouldn't the Bush administration promote condom usage given how expensive the treatment for HIV is? The wholesale price of the new pill will be $1,150 for a 30-day supply, or the same as for Truvada and Sustiva when purchased separately.

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Chimp poop reveals AIDS' origins

Posted by Billbar from Reuters

Researchers who picked up and analyzed wild chimp droppings said on Thursday they had shown how the AIDS virus originated in wild apes in Cameroon and then spread in humans across Africa and eventually the world.

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Answer to AIDS Mystery Found Behind Bars

Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

Why did blacks, in little more than a dozen years, become nine times as likely as whites to contract a disease once associated almost exclusively with gay white men? the surge in black AIDS patients, particularly among women, since the early 1980s closely tracked the increase in the proportion of black men in America's prisons.

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AIDS virus hits blacks harder in US

Posted by Billbar from Reuters

A study of detailed data from 33 states shows that of 156,000 new cases of HIV infection between 2001 and 2004, 51 percent were in non-Hispanic blacks -- although blacks made up just 13 percent of the population in those states.

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Religious Groups Get Chunk of AIDS Money

Posted by Billbar from Yahoo News!

President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly one-quarter of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggressively pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use.

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