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GeoVax Labs Granted Allowance By FDA To Start Phase 1 Clinical Trial For HIV/AIDS Therapeutic Vaccine

GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GOVX), a biotechnology company that creates, develops, and tests innovative HIV/AIDS vaccines, is now allowed by the FDA (US
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Also In Global Health News: Asia's 'Double Burden'; Guinea Worm Eradication; ARV, Antibiotic Treatment; Sierra Leone's Medical Workers; More

Asians Facing 'Double Burden' Of Disease, Health Experts Warn During a two-day healthcare conference in Asia, health experts ...
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State Roundup: Romney On Mass. Care, Kansas Rx Costs, Colorado Insurance Costs

The Boston Globe, on former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney's reaction to the new federal health law: "The former governor, who has been mentioned as a ...
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Daily Nation Examines Fundraising Efforts In Kenya To Support Patients Living With HIV/AIDS

The Daily Nation examines efforts underway in Kenya to raise money for patients living with HIV/AIDS who are in need antiretroviral (ARV) therapy... ...
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Predictors Of Loss Of Hepatitis B Surface Antigen In Patients Co-infected With HIV And HBV

Co-infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) poses a treatment challenge. In Western Europe and the United States, chronic HBV infection ...
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Affordable Antibiotic Halves The HIV Death Rate On Treatment, DART Trial Shows

A safe, cheap and widely available antibiotic could save the lives of thousands of people starting anti-retroviral treatment for HIV in Africa and other developing ...
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Wall Street Journal Examines Fundraising Efforts By GAVI, Global Fund

The GAVI Alliance and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria "on Friday began an effort to raise as much as $24 billion ...
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UNAIDS Executive Director Calls For Continued Investment In HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment And Removal Of Travel Bans

During a meeting of lawmakers from 150 countries in Bangkok, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe on Sunday warned that the global economic crisis could reverse ...
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Computer Models Could Personalize Medicine To Prevent Pandemics

What makes some viral infections fatal and others much less severe is largely a mystery. It is thought that a part of the variability can ...
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Expert Available For Comment: CMS To Cover Injections For HIV-Associated Facial Lipoatrophy

In a landmark decision, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced it will now cover the use of FDA-approved dermal fillers for ...
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Windsor Rosewood Care Center To Provide Individuals With HIV/AIDS Equal Access To Nursing Home Care

The Windsor Rosewood Care Center, LLC (WRCC), located in Contra Costa County, Calif., has agreed to provide individuals with HIV/AIDS equal access to its skilled ...
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High Rate Of HIV Among Men Who Have Sex With Men In China

Increasing rate of HIV/STD disease is being reported among 'men who have sex with men' with high risk behaviors in Africa and Asia, according to ...
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State HIV Programs Face Cuts, CDC Notes High Prevalence In Young African-Americans, Gay Men

NPR's Shots blog: "As states struggle with budget shortfalls, many are looking to trim costs by chopping health spending. And funding for HIV/AIDS programs has ...
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Recent Releases In Global Health

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Article Examines Relationship Between Malnutrition, HIV Progression In Sub-Saharan Africa "Sub-Saharan Africa is affected by ...
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Event Addresses How TV Can Raise Awareness Of Global Health Issues

At an event in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday sponsored by the Hollywood, Health & Society (HH&S) program of the University of Southern California, panelists discussed ...
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Africa Not On Track To Halve Poverty By 2015, Economic Commission For Africa Head Says

U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Executive Secretary Abdoulie Janneh said the global economic downturn will keep Africa from meeting the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) ...
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New Data Demonstrate SMARTube Technology May Provide Basis For Creation Of An Index To Estimate The Rate Of Spread Of HIV In High-Risk Populations

New data presented at the Center for Disease Control (CDC)-sponsored 2010 HIV Diagnostics Conference suggests that an assay based on SMARTubeā„¢ technology may prove useful ...
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Civil Society Groups Urge G8 To Follow Through With AIDS Funding Commitments

"Civil society organisations from around the world on Wednesday made a coordinated appeal to the Canadian government to help pressure the Group of Eight (G8) ...
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World TB Day Coverage: Lesotho, Armenia, Drug Resistance, HIV Coinfection

"To mark World [Tuberculosis] Day on Wednesday, Medecins Sans Frontieres [MSF] drew attention to Lesotho, which has the world's third-highest prevalence of HIV ... and ...
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Medicare Roundup: Changes From Health Reform, Payments For HIV Patients

USA Today: "Perhaps the biggest factor in whether your Medicare costs will rise or fall depends on your Medicare plan. There are two: a traditional ...
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