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2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting Opens in Kigali, Rwanda

The 2007 HIV/AIDS Implementers' Meeting opened on June 16 in Kigali, and is expected to draw over 1,500 delegates from around the world.

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Facts you need to know about reproductive health

Like most women, you pass along important health tips to your family and friends. That's why the FDA's Office of Women's Health and the Federal Citizen Information Center have put together the free Reproductive Health Kit for you. It features valuable information on sexually transmitted diseases that every woman can use and share with her loved ones.

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Many children of HIV-positive parents are not in their custody

A new joint study by UCLA and the Rand Corp. shows that more than half of children with an HIV-infected parent are not consistently in that parent's custody.

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How religion can help HIV/AIDS patients

After a University of Cincinnati (UC) study revealed that people living with the HIV virus felt alienated by their churches following diagnosis, researchers began to explore the feelings of religious leaders and congregations about the illness.

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HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy

Leading HIV experts are alarmed that the government of The Gambia is encouraging citizens living with HIV to stop taking antiretroviral medications in order to try an unproven herbal remedy. The HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) calls on President Yahya Jammeh to cease his unproven claims that the treatment "cures" AIDS.

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Surge in Senior HIV Survivors Prompts New Treatment Studies

Many patients diagnosed with HIV in the 1980s and 1990s have survived and now are entering their golden years. AIDs cases among the over-50 crowd reached 90,000 in 2003, and according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will account for half of all HIV/AIDS cases in the United States by 2015.

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Australian PM criticised over HIV immigration comments

Australia's Prime Minister John Howard has been criticised for saying people who are HIV positive should not be allowed to emigrate to Australia.

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U.S. Official Promotes Media On Tajikistan Trip

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Evan Feigenbaum is in Tajikistan to meet with government officials, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported.

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Participation in Worldwide AIDS Initiative

Researchers at Rush University Medical Center have been selected to participate in a collaborative initiative to develop a simple, affordable and rapid test to measure the immune systems of people infected with HIV/AIDS in developing countries.

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Chemistry professor's article sparks new HIV/AIDS knowledge

The decade-long research that chemistry professor Thomas Bell has invested in received an important boost recently when one of Bell's articles made the list of the 100 most influential publications in the HIV/AIDS research field for 2006. The research looks into the development of an extremely effective HIV/AIDS-fighting compound

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New way to treat devastating fungal infections

Devastating blood-borne fungal infections that can be lethal for HIV/AIDS, cancer, and organ transplant patients may be treated more successfully, thanks to a new drug delivery method developed by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

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Scientists develop and distribute new tuberculosis vaccine

Bioengineers and public health researchers at Harvard University have developed a novel spraying method for delivering the most common tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, providing a new low-cost and scaleable technique that offers needle-free delivery and greater stability at room temperature than existing methods. The process could one day provide a better approach for vaccination against TB and help prevent the related spread of HIV/AIDS in the developing world.

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