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Kinda sorta not really therapeutic HIV-1 vaccine (but its still a step in a positive direction)
Posted by ERV on January 7, 2013 Everyone has been wanting to know about this news item: Scientists say vaccine temporarily brakes HIV Therapeutic HIV Vaccine Shows Promise Huge Breakthrough In HIV Research Brings Us Closer To A Vaccine This is the actual paper: A Dendritic Cell–Based Vaccine Elicits T Cell Responses Associated with Control of HIV-1 Replication They did something super…
HIVs controlled by HERVs
Posted by ERV on November 13, 2012 Technically, its the immune response to the HERVs that can control the HIVs, not the HERVs directly. Ive written about the proposed connection between ERVs and HIV a couple times before– Briefly, viruses do lots of things by accident. Things just happen. Sometimes viruses make us blind for no good reason, or give us cancer…
Cheap, easy, and sensitive HIV test? Yes please!
Posted by ERV on November 2, 2012 HIV diagnosis is The Root of most of the problems we have in HIV World. “How can we get more people antiretrovirals?”… How can you give someone antiretrovirals before they have been diagnosed with HIV? “How can we stop HIV transmission to sexual partners?”… Condoms work, but why would you insist people in committed monogamous…
Mega-doses of vitamins *hurt* HIV patients
Posted by ERV on October 17, 2012 An outcome some of you might expect, but for reasons you probably dont expect– Let me tell you the punchline first: Effect of High-Dose vs Standard-Dose Multivitamin Supplementation at the Initiation of HAART on HIV Disease Progression and Mortality in Tanzania, A Randomized Controlled Trial Scientists had a pool of patients (over 3000) with HIV…
HIV-cure-woo alive and well in Africa
Posted by ERV on October 9, 2012 There are some HIV-woo ideas that I cannot believe we are still dealing with in 2012. 1. ‘Condoms dont stop HIV’ – Actually, they do. Really, really well. Better than any ‘prophylactic antiretroviral’ (with no side-effects). Virus cant evolve resistance to condoms. Virus cant swim through the tiny holes in the structure of latex. Condoms…
Science News Update
Posted by ERV on September 21, 2012 Jerome Horwitz, the man who invented AZT, died– Being in the basic virology realm of HIV Research World, I dont always pay as much attention to the clinical side of things as I should. Thus I didnt know about the really interesting history of Jerome Horowitz and AZT. Apparently he invented it as an anti-cancer…
Monkey poop! … and the evolutionary power of HIV
Posted by ERV on September 12, 2012 The story of ‘How we know where HIV-1 came from’ is really cool– A group of researchers went into the jungles of Africa, collected lots of monkey poop, and figured out pretty much the exact colony of chimpanzees that transmitted their SIV into humans, which lead to the HIV epidemic we know today. Those researchers…
Anti-HIV vaginal ring kinda works in macaques!
Posted by ERV on September 10, 2012 I am, in no way, a ‘fan’ of using anti-retroviral drugs in uninfected individuals as a way to prevent HIV. I think its a terrible idea that will result in more drug resistant HIV (already an issue before this idea was implemented) and ridiculous considering everyone who needs anti-retrovirals to live does not have/are losing…
“Unlicensed Acupuncturist intentionally infects patients with HIV” Wait, what?
Posted by ERV on September 3, 2012 This story has been making the rounds online– Unlicensed Acupuncturist intentionally infects patients with HIV Unlicensed Acupuncturist Charged In 16 HIV Infections In Switzerland Swiss acupuncturist charged in 16 HIV infections Swiss “healer” accused of intentionally infecting 16 people with HIV using acupuncture needles – I only have the details you all can see there.…
OMFGWARBLEGARBLE! THERE IS ANOTHER AIDS!
Posted by ERV on August 24, 2012 NOH MAH GAWD!!! Mysterious Disease Leaves Patients With AIDS-like Symptons, But Not HIV Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. [bolding original] Researchers identify rare adult immune disease in Asia…