Health News: Southern states shows increase in HIV victims
SEPTEMBER 5. WASHINGTON - The HIV policy came under a huge scrutiny when fresh reports of newer victims were obtained down south. The alarm was triggered by Southern AIDS Coalition; a Birmingham based non profit organization in collaboration with the government. Although the rates of the AIDS victims fell quite steadily in the past five [...]
Health News: Female condoms are still unpopular with women
AUGUST 10. MEXICO CITY - The only option for women to safeguard herself from HIV is female condom. Even then, it is largely ignored by most of them, as female condoms are quite expensive and rarely available.
The number of women affected by HIV in the modern world is considerably more than men. An independent [...]
Health News: A step forward to curb HIV
AUGUST 10. WASHINGTON - A research accomplished by international scientists identified a radical way to suppress the spread of HIV in a considerable manner. The research was conducted on HIV infected mice.
RNA interference was used by the researchers to combat the genes in T-cells. This in turn protected it from virus attacks. They concluded [...]
Health News: Combination HIV drugs give longevity
Researchers say that HIV patients can live an average of 13 more years with the help of cocktails of HIV drugs.
A person who takes the drug combinations known as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) at 20 can expect to live another 43 years, the researchers say in their latest study published in the Lancet [...]
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