Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Blogging has slowed down due to an increased work overload. Today, this intermezzo is provided courtesy of Kaiser Network
In this narrated slide tutorial, Jen Kates, M.A., M.P.A., vice president and director of HIV policy at the Kaiser Family Foundation, defines basic surveillance terms and explains the federal and states’ role ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Earlier in September, peripheries commented on HIV amongst people over 50 and the importance of not excluding them from VCT on the basis that they were too old.
In this week's New York Times, Karen Barrow noted that “Today, because of antiretroviral therapy and an array of drugs to treat both ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Lack of funds and misused thereof are the two main causes of a failing HIV prevention. As noted by Emily Geminder, HIV prevention does not attract as much financial attention as a quest for an HIV treatment, and when funds are committed to prevention, they end up financing interventions that ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Photo courtesy of Polio
Canada/Ontario March of Dimes
In an opinion piece published in The Wall Street Journal, Prof Luc Montagnier co-discoverer with Francoise Barré-Sinoussi of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, proposed “using vaccination against HIV antigens not for prophylaxis, but as additional therapy following a short antiviral treatment”
Following a wave ...
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
The 2008 AIDS Vaccine Conference will be held in Cape Town (South Africa) from the 13 to 16th of October. Preparation for the event as well as a series of meetings and projects explain the gap in posting here, but there will be plenty of opportunities and a very long ...
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