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'Transport Infrastructure' Determines Spread of HIV Subtypes in Africa, Study Finds
December 4, 2012 — Road networks and geographic factors affecting "spatial accessibility" have a major impact on the spread of HIV across sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new ... > full story -
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Antiretroviral Treatment for HIV Reduces Food Insecurity, Study Finds
December 4, 2012 — Can treatment with modern anti-HIV drugs help fight hunger for HIV-infected patients in Africa? Starting antiretroviral therapy for HIV reduces "food insecurity" among patients in Uganda, suggests a ... > full story -
Electrically Spun Fabric Offers Dual Defense Against Pregnancy, HIV
November 30, 2012 — Electrically spun cloth with nanometer-sized fibers show promise as a cheap, versatile platform to simultaneously offer contraception and prevent ... > full story -
Cancer Drug Shows Promise in Eradicating Latent HIV Infection
November 29, 2012 — Breakthrough drugs help people to live longer with HIV, but more research is needed for an actual cure. One challenge involves eradicating the virus when it is latent in the body. New research ... > full story -
IUDs Don't Cause Pelvic Inflammatory Disease in Women, Experts Say
November 20, 2012 — The risk of developing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) following insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD) is very low, whether or not women have been screened beforehand for gonorrhea and ... > full story -
Novel HIV Vaccine Strategy Developed
November 19, 2012 — Scientists have developed a genetically-engineered vaccine strategy to prevent HIV infection that targets the outer layers of body structures that are the first sites of contact with the ... > full story -
Interventions Needed to Promote Healthy Behaviors Among Perinatally HIV-Infected Youth
November 8, 2012 — As youth infected at birth with HIV reach adolescence and young adulthood, a new study underscores the need to promote healthy behaviors as some of these young people become sexually ... > full story -
Cell Damage Caused by Use of Certain Personal Lubricants Does Not Increase HIV Risk, Lab Study Finds
November 7, 2012 — The use of certain water-based, over-the-counter personal lubricants can dry out and irritate vaginal and rectal tissue, but does not appear to increase susceptibility to HIV, according to a ... > full story -
When Parasites Catch Viruses: Viral Symbiont of a Protozoan Parasite Increases Virulence to Human Host
November 7, 2012 — A protozoan parasite causing an STD that affects a quarter of a billion people yearly is fueled in part by its own viral symbiont. Antibiotics that simply kill the parasite are not the ... > full story -
Unexpected Bottleneck Identified in Spread of Herpes Simplex Virus
November 5, 2012 — New research suggests that just one or two individual herpes virus particles attack a skin cell in the first stage of an outbreak, resulting in a bottleneck in which the infection may be vulnerable ... > full story
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