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New "Vaccine-Like" HIV Drug Could Cost 1,000 Times Less Than Current Price
A new "vaccine-like" HIV drug that currently costs over $40,000 per person a year could be made for as little as $40, researchers estimated on Tuesday.
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Injection Twice A Year 100% Effective In HIV Treatment: Study
A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection.
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4 Children Become HIV Positive After Blood Transfusion In Nagpur, 1 Dies
The Food and Drugs Department (FDA) has also started a preliminary investigation into the case.
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Omicron-Like Variants Could Be Stifled By AIDS Treatment Programs: Report
South Africa should boost the provision of antiretroviral drugs for millions of people infected with HIV to potentially reduce the chance of new Covid-19 variants to emerge, scientists said.
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2nd HIV Patient Whose Body Rid Itself Of Virus Identified By Scientists
The world's second HIV patient whose body appears to have rid itself off the virus without the use of antiretroviral drugs has been identified, scientists said on Tuesday.
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IIT Madras Researchers Working On New Way To Develop More Effective Drugs Against HIV-AIDS
The research team has found that introducing electrostatic interaction sites on potential drug molecules can enhance the efficacy of antiviral drugs against the HIV virus.
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IIT Madras Researchers Working On Effective Drugs Against HIV/AIDS
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, are engaged in developing a new idea that can pave the way for effective treatment of HIV/AIDS, a senior professor said on Thursday.
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HIV Treatment Has No Benefit For Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients: Study
A combination of antiviral drugs usually used to treat HIV has no beneficial effect in patients hospitalised with COVID-19, a peer-reviewed study said on Monday, confirming the initial results of a large-scale randomised trial of the drug.
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Life-Saving HIV Drugs Risk Running Out As COVID-19 Hits Supplies: WHO
More than a third of the world's countries say they are at risk of running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because of disruptions to supply lines and other problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
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WHO Stops Hydroxychloroquine, HIV Drug Trials Among COVID-19 Patients: Report
The World Health Organisation on Saturday has stopped its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination of HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir for the treatment of hospitalised COVID-19 patients after they failed to reduce the death rate, Al Jazeera reported.
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World Day Against Drug Abuse: UN Says, "Better Knowledge For Better Care"
World drug abuse day 2020: Around 35.6 million people across the world are victims of drug abuse according to the World Drug Report 2020, which is published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Young adults and teenagers account for the largest share of those using drugs and most of them suffer from HIV, Hepatitis C and other related di...
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WHO Testing Interim Data From COVID-19 Trial On HIV Drugs
The World Health Organization is looking at interim data from its large multi-country trial of the combination of HIV drugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir to treat COVID-19 patients, the UN agency's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Thursday.
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Cover Drug Addicts, Sex Workers Under Social-Protection Schemes: Health Ministry
The Health Ministry has sought the inclusion of vulnerable groups such as drug addicts, transgender persons and those suffering from HIV/AIDS in the social protection schemes run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, saying they are struggling for livelihood and shelter because of the coronavirus-forced lockdown.
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In Russia, A Black Market For HIV Drug For COVID-19 Treatment
A black market has developed in Russia for an antiviral HIV drug explored as a possible treatment for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, according to sellers, HIV activists and the head of the drug's main Russian producer.
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Coronavirus Patient Treated With HIV Drugs Tests Negative In Kerala
A British national who tested positive for coronavirus and was administered HIV antiretroviral drugs has now tested negative, doctors at the Ernakulam Medical College Hospital in Kochi, Kerala, said today.
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New "Vaccine-Like" HIV Drug Could Cost 1,000 Times Less Than Current Price
A new "vaccine-like" HIV drug that currently costs over $40,000 per person a year could be made for as little as $40, researchers estimated on Tuesday.
-
Injection Twice A Year 100% Effective In HIV Treatment: Study
A large clinical trial in South Africa and Uganda has shown that a twice-yearly injection of a new pre-exposure prophylaxis drug gives young women total protection from HIV infection.
-
4 Children Become HIV Positive After Blood Transfusion In Nagpur, 1 Dies
The Food and Drugs Department (FDA) has also started a preliminary investigation into the case.
-
Omicron-Like Variants Could Be Stifled By AIDS Treatment Programs: Report
South Africa should boost the provision of antiretroviral drugs for millions of people infected with HIV to potentially reduce the chance of new Covid-19 variants to emerge, scientists said.
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2nd HIV Patient Whose Body Rid Itself Of Virus Identified By Scientists
The world's second HIV patient whose body appears to have rid itself off the virus without the use of antiretroviral drugs has been identified, scientists said on Tuesday.
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IIT Madras Researchers Working On New Way To Develop More Effective Drugs Against HIV-AIDS
The research team has found that introducing electrostatic interaction sites on potential drug molecules can enhance the efficacy of antiviral drugs against the HIV virus.
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IIT Madras Researchers Working On Effective Drugs Against HIV/AIDS
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, are engaged in developing a new idea that can pave the way for effective treatment of HIV/AIDS, a senior professor said on Thursday.
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HIV Treatment Has No Benefit For Hospitalised COVID-19 Patients: Study
A combination of antiviral drugs usually used to treat HIV has no beneficial effect in patients hospitalised with COVID-19, a peer-reviewed study said on Monday, confirming the initial results of a large-scale randomised trial of the drug.
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Life-Saving HIV Drugs Risk Running Out As COVID-19 Hits Supplies: WHO
More than a third of the world's countries say they are at risk of running out of life-saving AIDS drugs because of disruptions to supply lines and other problems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
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WHO Stops Hydroxychloroquine, HIV Drug Trials Among COVID-19 Patients: Report
The World Health Organisation on Saturday has stopped its trials of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine and combination of HIV drug lopinavir/ritonavir for the treatment of hospitalised COVID-19 patients after they failed to reduce the death rate, Al Jazeera reported.
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World Day Against Drug Abuse: UN Says, "Better Knowledge For Better Care"
World drug abuse day 2020: Around 35.6 million people across the world are victims of drug abuse according to the World Drug Report 2020, which is published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Young adults and teenagers account for the largest share of those using drugs and most of them suffer from HIV, Hepatitis C and other related di...
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WHO Testing Interim Data From COVID-19 Trial On HIV Drugs
The World Health Organization is looking at interim data from its large multi-country trial of the combination of HIV drugs Lopinavir and Ritonavir to treat COVID-19 patients, the UN agency's chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan said on Thursday.
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Cover Drug Addicts, Sex Workers Under Social-Protection Schemes: Health Ministry
The Health Ministry has sought the inclusion of vulnerable groups such as drug addicts, transgender persons and those suffering from HIV/AIDS in the social protection schemes run by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, saying they are struggling for livelihood and shelter because of the coronavirus-forced lockdown.
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In Russia, A Black Market For HIV Drug For COVID-19 Treatment
A black market has developed in Russia for an antiviral HIV drug explored as a possible treatment for COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus, according to sellers, HIV activists and the head of the drug's main Russian producer.
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Coronavirus Patient Treated With HIV Drugs Tests Negative In Kerala
A British national who tested positive for coronavirus and was administered HIV antiretroviral drugs has now tested negative, doctors at the Ernakulam Medical College Hospital in Kochi, Kerala, said today.
