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- New Oxford Study Reveals the Origins of HIV Wed, 8 Oct 14, 3:00amA new study published in Science has traced the origins of the HIV-1 group M pandemic to 1920s Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
- Creating a Public School in One of Malawi’s Poorest Communities Tue, 19 Aug 14, 5:30amMalawi is one of the poorest countries, and the vast majority of children have been orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Education has been severely lacking in that region, but there's a group that's making a massive difference....
- Experimental HIV Prevention Injections are 100% Effective in Monkeys Thu, 6 Mar 14, 2:47amImage via Shutterstock New studies conducted on monkeys show that an antiretroviral injection called GSK744 could provide protection against HIV infection in humans...
- Luvvies for hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty and lazy groupthink Mon, 5 Aug 13, 11:27pmThe story so far: Caitlin Moran (yes, all right: I know lots of you claim never to have heard of her, but she's a bestselling author on both sides of the Atlantic and one of our most fluent and entertaining columnists) has...
- Study Finds that Nanoparticles Loaded with Bee Venom Can Kill HIV Tue, 12 Mar 13, 2:59amPhoto via Shutterstock A cure for HIV has eluded scientists since the virus was first discovered in the early 1980s, but researchers at Washington University believe that bee venom could provide a successful treatment. The...
- HIV-Infected Child from Mississippi is Cured, Scientists Say Tue, 5 Mar 13, 12:19amPhoto via Shutterstock A young girl from Mississippi who was most likely infected with HIV in utero has been cured of the disease, scientists reported at a conference over the weekend...
- More shameless conspiracy theory from the ‘Skeptical Science’ smear quest team Wed, 6 Feb 13, 2:44amYou’ve all heard of a religious “grail quest“, I submit what we have here is an ongoing religious “smear quest”. The cartoonist (John Cook, purveyor of the laughably named “Skeptical Science”)...
- Climate Change: Bigger health threat than AIDS, malaria Thu, 7 Apr 11, 10:00amUPDATE: Holy moly. Dr. Richard North over at the EU Referendum points to this, (screencap below) which makes Ric’s article (further below) look tame. Add this to what’s going on in the AMA, and it looks like a...
- iPod-Sized HIV Detector to Bring Affordable Testing to Rural Communities Sat, 3 Apr 10, 3:39amRight now it’s difficult, if not impossible, to quickly detect HIV in patients living in impoverished countries. That may all change soon, though — researchers at a California outfit called the Palo Alto Research...