Razib over at Gene Expression has an excellent post about cultural issues affecting HIV and circumcision, elaborating on Lindsay's mention here of the limitations of trying to increase circumcision as a way to reduce viral spread: There was a strong...
Posted on August 19, 2006 6:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One catchphrase that permeated the conference this past week was "scaling up." I just want to wrap up my posting here with a brief discussion of what that is, and what that means as far as HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment....
Posted on August 19, 2006 3:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I mentioned yesterday that one way to help prevent new HIV infections is to treat people who are infected with herpes, another sexually-transmittted virus that infects as much as 20% of the population in the United States. That may seem...
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Posted on August 18, 2006 11:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If one thing has been hammered home this week (and, indeed, over the past 25 years) regarding HIV/AIDS, it's that prevention is key. Treatments, while improving, are still a distant second place to preventing primary infection as far as...
Posted on August 17, 2006 2:40 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine contains two articles on AIDS that are available free of charge. The first article, Changing the Paradigm for HIV Testing -- The End of Exceptionalism, goes over content I blogged...
Posted on August 17, 2006 1:15 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Ran across this interesting article in New Scientist on natural resistance to HIV. Researchers are launching a project to discover how certain people, dubbed "elite controllers", are successfully able to fend off the HIV virus without using drugs. More and...
Posted on August 16, 2006 2:30 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
To walk away from the conference findings for just a moment, we had a request for some more basic resources on HIV for those who aren't as familiar with the virus. You'll find some resources on the side in...
Posted on August 15, 2006 8:00 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A blog about the 16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 13-18, 2006.
