hiv

The last big viral pandemic was HIV back in the 1980s. Despite having effective therapies and it being harder to catch a blood borne / sexually transmitted virus than a respiratory virus we have failed to eliminate HIV and still just under a million people a year die from HIV infection...

In the news yesterday here in Germany is a press release by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) about HIV statistics/estimates for 2014. http://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Service/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2015/08_2015.html The numbers are, quickly: 83,400 people in Germany are HIV-positive 13,200 of...

Governor Mike Pence has declared a medical emergency in Scott County, Indiana which is reportedly the epicenter of an epidemic of HIV cases. All confirmed cases have been related to needle sharing and intravenous drug use of the opioid painkiller Opana, according to Pence. Link below contains a...

Nutjobbery of the highest order. Religious zealots who think god will save them and their kin from disease are a bane to humanity. Mind you, seeing as how god presumably gave these diseases to the people in the first place, perhaps it should be him who has to save them should he so desire...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-04/stem-cell-therapy-wipes-out-hiv-in-two-patients/4798396

This seems an important milestone in the fight against AIDS to me: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130311150951.htm This is what science currently has to offer. The next best thing to a cure. And what do the deniers have to offer...

"Natural medicine" healer charged with maliciously infecting 16 people with HIV Horrific if true Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295140/Swiss-police-storm-flat-arrest-music-teacher-healer-accused-infecting-16-HIV.html#ixzz2NtzaTvVL

How big a role does rape play in HIV statistics in the most heavily influenced countries (South Africa)?

I couldnt think of a better place to come to find some answers. Now to keep things brief, the term "Berlin Patient" when typed into Google will return alot of results on a story of a German man who supposedly is "cured" of the HIV virus. This comes as amazing news to me, and with that news i...

http://www.examiner.com/la-in-los-angeles/truvada-proves-its-effectiveness-at-fighting-hiv

I have a friend. The friend is straight but my friends brother has aids. Yesterday after work I relaxed with a few brews and my friends brother was in the bar. I shook hands with him and I saw all over his arms Karposis sarcoma. The lesions look bad and while I did shake his hand I wondered...

For those who think our current healthcare system is so fantastic: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35910173/ns/health-health_care/

That's the title of a new paper by Edzard Ernst and Michael Baum (Am J Med. 2009 Nov;122(11):973-4). Enjoy!

Combo vaccine reduces risk of HIV infection, researchers say Unfortunately, it's only about one-third effective, but it's a start.

“South Africa’s most respected practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine,” Dr Feroz Osman-Latib, claims to have formulated a tea called “Revivo” for the treatment of HIV – see here and here. Specifically, the main claim is that this concoction has “been proven to reduce HIV viral load and...

Injected with HIV by dad as baby, teen inspires. Amid the stories of hate like the Tillman murder, here was this story of triumph over tragedy. Here's the Project Kindle web page. The Hope Is Vital seems to be multiple sources rather than a single site. There's a blog by that name but it...

http://health.yahoo.com/news/afp/healthusscienceaidstea_20090519184133.html Could green tea prevent hiv-infection? Well, its in the news so it must be true. Still, i have my doubts. And the idea that it could be an alternative preventative for the third world... sounds almost as irresponsible...

The headline for today's Independent This is cool news. But have any working gene therapies been developed yet?

http://www.theperthgroup.com/INTERVIEWS/cjepe.html Anyone know what this group is talking about? An AGW denier is also believer this. Once again, a few, heroic, scientists are out there taking on the deluded majority, and waiting to be called the next Galileo.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/africa/26aids.html?hp According to an Harvard study, a conservative estimate of 365000 people died prematurely of AIDS due to the anti-science, HIV-denying, backwards policy of Mbeki and his infuriating health minister Tshabalala. I'm glad those...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27911541/?gt1=43001 Do any of you read the Lancet regularly? I didn't find a quick link, and don't subscribe. The cost cited was about 3.4 billion a year. For ten years. If a globally resourced initiative were undertaken, my guess is that level of funding might...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113507555.html A doctor has accidentally cured a patient from AIDS, it appears, by transplanting bone marrow from a HIV-resistant donor.

Good news, the vitamin pill seller, Matthias Rath, has dropped his legal case against Ben Goldacre and the Guardian. Not that Rath had a leg to stand on, but as Ben says, there's money in alternative medicine, and some of that money is being used to threaten people who question the claims made...

Can anyone present evidence of the HIV virus outside of theory?

I watched a documentary a few nights ago, entitled We Are Dad, about two gay men, the six kids with HIV/AIDS that no one else wanted that they took into their homes and their hearts, and the family that they created for these children. The first four children that they took in and became...

I keep reading news about mutated strain on virues, which are resistant to anti-biotics: Gene mutation leads to super-virulent strain of TB, finds new study http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/12/08_mutation.shtml The evolution of the virus says it is getting close to getting...

I had to decide where to post this info - was it to be Religion, Politics, Conspiracy Theories, or possibly even Humor? In the end I opted for Science/Medicine. It seems the head of the Catholic Church in Mozambique, Archbishop Chimoio, has accused the West of infecting condoms and...

The Society of Homeopaths will be presenting an HIV/AIDS Symposium in London on December 1st. The speakers will include Harry van der Zee who, after interviewing dozens of cases of AIDS patients treated by Peter Chappell in 2004, claimed that "[homeopathic remedy] PC1 for HIV/AIDS works in all...

Charge added for man "not warning the [rape] victim that he was HIV-positive" Link. So, if he had simply warned her first, that would have lessened the offense? :wackyskeptical:

I've been looking into natural cures for AIDS and HIV recently in order to understand what their effect on these diseases could possibly be. One guy called dr. Matthias Rath sells vitamins that are claimed to help cure HIV. In Randi's commentary about a month ago it was noted that he's a...