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Y! Health HIV & AIDS News
Y! Health HIV & AIDS News, updated continuously.

• Most study participants understand research goals (Reuters)

  Posted on 4 Jul 2008 at 10:29 am
  Reuters - People who take part in clinical trials often do so out of a desire to advance scientific knowledge and to help others, a new international study demonstrates.
  

• Tongue-Driven Device Aids Handicapped (HealthDay)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 3 (HealthDay News) -- A tongue drive system that enables severely disabled people to operate powered wheelchairs and to perform other tasks has been developed by engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
  

• Freeze-Dried Formula May Block HIV Virus in Breast Milk (HealthDay)

  Posted on 3 Jul 2008 at 11:47 pm
  HealthDay - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- In developing countries where breast-feeding is a necessity, and HIV is rampant, the risk of disease transmission through breast milk might be reduced if infants were first fed a freeze-dried formula full of good bacteria that could capture and potentially destroy the deadly virus.
  

• S.African addicts turn to AIDS medication to get high (AFP)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 1:07 pm
  AFP - South African AIDS patients in Durban are under siege from drug addicts who rob them of their antiretroviral treatment to get high, the provincial health department said Wednesday.
  

• Bush urges Congress to pass AIDS funds (Reuters)

  Posted on 2 Jul 2008 at 12:29 pm
  Reuters - President George W. Bush urged Congress on Wednesday to approve funds to fight AIDS in Africa and other countries, and said the issue was high on his agenda for a Group of Eight summit in Japan next week.
  

• Death Rates for HIV Patients Decrease Dramatically (HealthDay)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 11:46 pm
  HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 1 (HealthDay News) -- Death rates for HIV-infected people lucky enough to get their hands on antiretroviral medications have decreased dramatically since the introduction of these drugs in 1996, new British research shows.
  

• Anti-retroviral drug cocktails slash AIDS deaths: study (AFP)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 6:39 pm
  AFP - Anti-retroviral drug therapy has slashed AIDS death rates in the first five years after infection to equal the normal death rates in developed countries, scientists said Tuesday.
  

• People with HIV living longer, study shows (Reuters)

  Posted on 1 Jul 2008 at 4:25 pm
  Reuters - People with HIV in the developed world are no more likely to die in the first five years following infection than men and women in the general population, British researchers said on Tuesday.
  

• Political will helping India's AIDS battle: U.N. (Reuters)

  Posted on 30 Jun 2008 at 11:13 am
  Reuters - A strong political will was stimulating India's fight against AIDS, raising hopes of controlling its spread in the country with the world's third-largest caseload, the U.N.'s AIDS agency said on Monday.
  

• NYC urges docs to do routine HIV testing on adults (AP)

  Posted on 27 Jun 2008 at 2:19 am
  AP - Health officials are trying to persuade doctors to offer HIV tests to nearly every patient in a New York City community hit harder than most by AIDS.