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Vol. 2, No. 23, 22 November 2002
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From Science:
HISTORICAL ESSAYS:
Discovering the cause of AIDS
by Stanley B. Prusiner.
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A history of HIV discovery
by Luc Montagnier.
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The early years of HIV/AIDS
by Robert C. Gallo.
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Enhanced: Prospects for the future
by Robert C. Gallo and Luc Montagnier.
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Hot News:
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Viral escape common with AIDS vaccine that relies on CTL response. While short-term protection from SIV was achieved in rhesus monkeys vaccinated with a gag DNA vaccine, most of the animals eventually failed to control the virus.
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HIV-1 superinfection: bad news again for vaccine development. HIV-1 superinfection can occur in spite of a strong and broadly directed virus-specific CD8+ T-cell response to the initial virus.
Nature 420, 434, 28 November 2002 [Read more]
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AIDS Epidemic Update 2002. The comprehensive new update on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic was issued by UNAIDS and WHO, in advance of the upcoming 1 December commemoration of World AIDS Day.
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HIV testing among pregnant women—United States and Canada, 1998-2001. The U.S. CDC has reviewed three different prenatal HIV testing approaches and their association with prenatal HIV antibody testing rates.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 51(45), 1013, 15 November 2002 [Read article]
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Latest News Headlines:
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Million in U.S. saved from HIV. BBC News. November 22, 2002
| AIDS is leading killer of South African women, government study finds. Nando Times. November 22, 2002
| HIV rebounds for some on drug cocktail. Yahoo! News. November 22, 2002
| New HIV vaccine tested In Orlando. Yahoo! News. November 22, 2002
| Is testing for HIV without consent justifiable?. BMJ commentary. November 22, 2002
| China launches clean needle scheme. BBC News. November 21, 2002
| Charges filed over tainted blood. Boston Globe. November 21, 2002
| Needle-exchange arrests called wrong. New York Times. November 21, 2002
| Immune Response warns of possible bankruptcy. New York Times. November 21, 2002
| Researchers: Expectant fathers should get HIV test. Yahoo! News. November 21, 2002
| University of South Carolina receives $5.2 million grant for HIV prevention. USC news. November 21, 2002
| A deadly passage to India. Newsweek. November 21, 2002
| Indian sex educators tackle AIDS. BBC News. November 20, 2002
| Vietnam HIV carriers estimated to exceed 154,000 by end of year. San Francisco Chronicle. November 20, 2002
| HIV 'rebounds' in nearly half on anti-AIDS drugs. Yahoo! News. November 20, 2002
| Drug adherence checks called essential to HIV care. Yahoo! News. November 20, 2002
| Companies urged to continue HIV drug safety studies. Yahoo! News. November 20, 2002
| South Africa in drive for HIV vaccine. Financial Times. November 20, 2002
| HIV patients forget to take drugs. BBC News. November 19, 2002
| Prevention: new ideas on bleach and needles. New York Times. November 19, 2002
| French clinic may have put hundreds at HIV risk. Yahoo! News. November 19, 2002
| What AIDS means in a famine (opinion). New York Times. November 19, 2002
| HIV groups reach beyond borders. New York Times. November 18, 2002
| Syringe exchange programmes lower HIV risk. Lancet science & medicine. November 18, 2002
| Trendy condoms, serious medicine. New York Times. November 18, 2002
| India: AIDS prevention workers say police harass them as crisis spirals. San Francisco Chronicle. November 17, 2002
| AIDS in Asia — The continent's growing crisis. San Francisco Chronicle. November 17, 2002
| Women's low status spreads HIV in India. San Francisco Chronicle. November 17, 2002
| Africa bloc wants to produce cheap AIDS drugs. Yahoo! News. November 16, 2002
| AIDS activists, Roche cross swords over drug prices. Yahoo! News. November 16, 2002
| Advanced Biological Laboratories launches HIV LogiCare. ABL SA release. November 15, 2002
| AIDS drug deal 'within reach'. BBC News. November 15, 2002
| When it comes to AIDS, parental honesty has its limits. Yahoo! News. November 15, 2002
| 'Opt-out' HIV tests could reach more pregnant women. Yahoo! News. November 15, 2002
| HHS creates unified HIV/AIDS and STD advisory committee. HHS release. November 15, 2002
| Health Canada to accept proposals for safe drug-injection sites. Miami Herald. November 14, 2002
| Against the odds, company works on AIDS vaccine. Yahoo! News. November 14, 2002
| New HIV vaccine holds promise of global effectiveness. NIH News release. November 14, 2002
| U.K. warns on African HIV/AIDS. Financial Times. November 13, 2002
| PowderJect to start human trials of new HIV vaccine in 2003. PowderJect release. November 13, 2002
| Rutgers wins $11 million in NIH grants to study AIDS drugs, how proteins work. Newsday. November 13, 2002
| Gene therapy undergoes a reevaluation. Los Angeles Times. November 12, 2002
| From sunscreen to HIV screens. Philadelphia Inquirer. November 12, 2002
| Many HIV patients change meds due to side effects. Yahoo! News. November 12, 2002
| Indian state's new AIDS campaign. BBC News. November 12, 2002
| Eurasia: the next wave of AIDS. Financial Times. November 12, 2002
| India looks askance at Bill Gates' HIV/AIDS grant. Yahoo! News. November 12, 2002
| Gates on India AIDS mission. BBC News. November 11, 2002
| As AIDS spreads, India struggles for a workable strategy. New York Times. November 11, 2002
| Potential AIDS preventive doubles as a contraceptive. Los Angeles Times. November 11, 2002
| Slowing the spread of AIDS in India (opinion). New York Times. November 11, 2002
| India rejects U.S. government warning on spread of HIV/AIDS. Yahoo! News. November 9, 2002
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| NeuroAIDS: Acute meningoencephalitis and meningitis due to primary HIV infection. British Medical Journal. (Posted: November 22, 2002) | | The burden of infectious disease among inmates of and releasees from US correctional facilities. American Journal of Public Health. (Posted: November 18, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: Feedback between glial tumor necrosis factor-alpha and gp120 from HIV-infected cells. Neuroimmunomodulation. (Posted: November 18, 2002) | | Vaccination of macaques with long-standing SIVmac251 infection. Journal of Immunology. (Posted: November 18, 2002) | | Inhibition of HIV-1 infection by small interfering RNA-mediated RNA interference. Journal of Immunology. (Posted: November 18, 2002) | | Containment of simian immunodeficiency virus infection in vaccinated macaques. Journal of Immunology. (Posted: November 18, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: HIV-related neuropathology, 1985 to 1999: Rising prevalence of HIV encephalopathy. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Enhanced immune responses after DNA vaccination with combined different envelope genes. Virology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: Characterization of an in vitro rhesus macaque blood-brain barrier. Journal of Neuroimmunology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Tat induces nitric-oxide synthase in human astroglia. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Beyond Cr-51 release: new methods for assessing HIV-1-specific CD8(+) T cell responses. Clinical and Experimental Immunology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Amino acid deletions are introduced into the V2 region of gp120. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | A dominant block to HIV-1 replication at reverse transcription in simian cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Differences between T cell epitopes recognized after immunization and after infection. Journal of Immunology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: Human brain parenchymal microglia express CD14 and CD45 and are productively infected by HIV-1. Brain Pathology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Capture and transfer of SIV by macaque dendritic cells is enhanced by DC-SIGN. Journal of Virology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Antigenic properties of the HIV transmembrane glycoprotein during cell-cell fusion. Journal of Virology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Virus population homogenization following acute human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection. Journal of Virology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: Regulation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase expression in SIV-infected monkey brains. Journal of Virology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | HIV risk behaviors among African American men who self-identify as heterosexual. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | The HLA class II transcriptional activator blocks the function of HIV-1 Tat. European Journal of Immunology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | A consensus sequence from prevalent and incident HIV-1 infections to guide AIDS vaccine development. Virology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Functional discrepancies in HIV-specific CD8(+)s are related to plasma virus load. Journal of Clinical Immunology. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: HIV-related movement disorders: epidemiology, pathogenesis and management. CNS Drugs. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: Reaction time slowing in adults with HIV: Results of a meta-analysis using brinley plots. Brain and Cognition. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Transmission of HIV-1 through breastfeeding among women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | NeuroAIDS: IL-6 and cAMP induce stromal cell-derived factor-1 chemotaxis in astroglia by up-regulating CXCR4. Journal of Biological Chemistry. (Posted: November 12, 2002) | | Efficacy of strategies to reduce mother-to-child HIV-1 transmission in Argentina, 1993-2000. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. (Posted: November 12, 2002) |
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