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Fears over 'own goal' HIV vaccine revivedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cold virus used in vaccine may raise HIV infection risk after all (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 17, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

First HIV vaccine trial success confirmedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Further details on the first successful HIV vaccine confirm that it had an effect – although it was very modest (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - October 20, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

What should we make of the HIV vaccine 'triumph'?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
At last, a clinical trial of an HIV vaccine has worked – sort of. New Scientist takes a look at what this means for the worldwide fight against AIDS (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - September 24, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Discovery of HIV's weak spot boosts vaccine questEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Antibodies that bind to a hitherto unknown weak spot on HIV have been found, reviving hopes that a potent vaccine is within reach (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - September 3, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Gel condom to empower womenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Vaginal gel physically captures semen, stopping both HIV and pregnancy (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - August 12, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Gorilla HIV makes leap to humansEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A French woman in Africa has been infected with a new strain of HIV virus similar to those found in wild gorillas (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - August 3, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Brain cells have natural resistance to HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Neurons produce a protein that appears to lock out the virus, raising the possibility of new treatments against the disease (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - July 29, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Nerve cells have natural resistance to HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Neurons produce a protein that appears to lock out the virus, raising the possibility of new treatments against the disease (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - July 29, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Fears over HIV vaccines laid to restEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Concerns that HIV vaccines may actually increase the likelihood of infection have largely been laid to rest – possibly reviving the search for a vaccine (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - July 25, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Chimps can develop AIDS after allEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chimpanzees infected with SIV, the virus that jumped from chimps to humans as HIV-1, can end up with a deadly AIDS-like illness (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - July 22, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Five myths about HIV and AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that HIV causes AIDS, a hardcore group still denies it. We explore five of the most common myths about AIDS (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - June 26, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

AIDS denial: A lethal delusionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Some people refuse to believe that HIV causes AIDS, despite all the evidence that it does – and their conspiracy theory is costing thousands of lives (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - June 22, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Sexual diseases 'rampant' in Californian porn industryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following the revelation that a female performer has tested positive for HIV, experts have called for the Californian porn industry to do more to care for workers' health (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - June 16, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Bill Gates helps fund mass circumcision programmeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Microsoft founder last week injected $50 million into a programme to circumcise up to 650,000 African men – a scheme that should save thousands of lives (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - June 15, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Video game makes HIV awareness funEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new computer game is being deployed in youth centres in Kenya with the goal of encouraging teens to practice safer sex and know the risk of acquiring HIV (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - June 15, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Europe's HIV followed holiday routesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
European strains of the virus have been traced back to northern Mediterranean countries (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - May 20, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

HIV vaccine turns muscle into antibody factoriesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How do you deal with a virus which attacks the immune system that is trying to fight it off? Bypass the immune system altogether, say researchers (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - May 19, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Kill the inflammation, kill the HIV?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A chemical found in vegetable oil seems to protect female macaques from vaginal transmission of the related virus, SIV (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - March 8, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Are we about to eliminate AIDS?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Astonishingly, we could use existing drugs to wipe out HIV, just as we did smallpox. So what's holding us back? New Scientist investigates (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 19, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Big Pharma shows its caring sideEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
GlaxoSmithKline has announced a host of measures to make medicines more available to the world's poor, raising hopes that its rivals will do the same (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 19, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Gene therapy promises one-shot treatment for HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
New treatments that alter the immune system could free those with HIV from a lifetime of drugs (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 18, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

New hopes over elimination of AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After the depressing failure of vaccination research, there is renewed optimism that we've got HIV on the run (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 18, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Could we be about to eradicate AIDS?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Astonishingly, we could use existing drugs to wipe out HIV, just as we did smallpox. So what's holding us back? New Scientist investigates (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 18, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Editorial: New hopes over elimination of AIDSEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After the depressing failure of vaccination research, there is renewed optimism that we've got HIV on the run (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 18, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Could we be about to eliminate AIDS?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Astonishingly, we could use existing drugs to wipe out HIV, just as we did smallpox. So what's holding us back? New Scientist investigates (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 18, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Gene therapy for HIV shows promiseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The virus is suppressed and white blood cells recover, but the cutting-edge therapy is not yet as potent as existing anti-HIV drugs, a large-scale trial reveals (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - February 17, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Charges against Iranian medics weaken global health battleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The jailing of two Iranian doctors could impede relations between researchers in the West and Iran, and threatens global public health (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - January 23, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Stem cell stroke trial brings hopes and challengesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The trial will test one of the big promises of stem cells science, bringing hope to millions, but also poses some tricky technical challenges (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - January 22, 2009 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Human DNA may set off AIDS timebombEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How quickly HIV explodes into AIDS might depend on an individual's DNA, say researchers (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - December 23, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

'Test and treat everyone' to vanquish HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A new calculation suggests testing everyone for the virus and treating those who have it immediately is the fastest way to eradicate HIV (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - December 2, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Safer sex in a pillEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's a risky strategy, but with an AIDS vaccine further off than ever, a pill that could stop people catching the virus has to be worth a try. investigates (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 19, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Safer sex in a pillEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It's a risky strategy, but with an AIDS vaccine further off than ever, a pill that could stop people catching the virus has to be worth a try. Clare Wilson investigates (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 19, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

'Elixir of youth' drug could fight HIV and ageingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A way to rejuvenate immune cells enhances their ability to fight viruses, and could potentially slow the symptoms of ageing (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 14, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

HIV 'cure' won't save sick millionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A German doctor who claims to have "functionally cured" a patient with AIDS has produced great science, but the technique isn't scalable (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 13, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Why HIV "cure" won't save sick millionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A German doctor who claims to have "functionally cured" a patient with AIDS has produced great science, but the technique isn't scalable (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 13, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

HIV "cure" won't save sick millionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A German doctor who claims to have "functionally cured" a patient with AIDS has produced great science, but the technique isn't scalable (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 13, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

HIV 'cure' won't save sick millionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A German doctor who claims to have "functionally cured" a patient with AIDS has produced great science, but the technique isn't scalable (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 13, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Pimped-up T-cells seek out and destroy HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers have used evolution to create immune cells able to destroy HIV far more effectively than the regular cells our body produces (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 12, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Pimped up T-cells seek out and destroy HIVEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers have used evolution to create immune cells able to destroy HIV far more effectively than the regular cells our body produces (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - November 9, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals

Comment: Was Robert Gallo robbed of the Nobel prize?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Two teams announced the discovery of the HIV virus in the early 80s, but only one received the Nobel award this week. What happened? (Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS)
Source: New Scientist - HIV and AIDS - October 7, 2008 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals