Early Arrival: HIV came from Haiti to United States

wugongliang submitted, created time 1 year 2 weeks (www.sciencenews.org)

An analysis of 25-year-old blood samples pushes the arrival of HIV in the United States back to about 1969, 12 years before AIDS was first described by a doctor in Los Angeles. The virus came from Haiti, which served as a Western Hemisphere toehold for the early stages of the epidemic starting in the mid-1960s, according to the analysis.

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Excellent Results Received From GeoVax's Full-Dose HIV/AIDS Vaccine Trial

wugongliang submitted, created time 1 year 2 weeks (www.medicalnewstoday.com)

GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GOVX), an Atlanta based biotechnology company, announced today excellent safety and immunogenicity data from its full-dose HIV/AIDS vaccine human trial which began in September 2006.

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Bird in Marlborough tests positive for West Nile virus

diefish submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (news.bostonherald.com)

According to the state Department of Public Health, the first bird in the state to test positive this year for West Nile virus - a disease sometimes fatal for humans - was found in Marlborough.

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Inhibition of HIV-1 replication by P-TEFb inhibitors DRB, seliciclib and flavopiridol correlates with release of free P-TEFb from the large, inactive form of the complex

Cassidy submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.retrovirology.com)

Initial short term studies with P-TEFb inhibitors demonstrated a dose dependent loss of the large form of P-TEFb within the cell and a concomitant reduction in HIV-1 infectivity without significant cytotoxicity. The findings suggested that inhibitors of P-TEFb may serve as effective anti-HIV-1 therapies. However, longer term HIV-1 replication studies indicated that these inhibitors were more cytotoxic and less efficacious against HIV in the primary cell cultures.

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India's HIV cases highly overestimated, survey shows

annatto submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.reutershealth.com)

The number of people living with HIV/AIDS in India is 2.47 million, less than half of previous official estimates, according to new U.N.-backed government estimates released on Friday.

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Second-Generation HIV Drug Treats Resistant Virus

DanyC submitted, created time 1 year 4 months (www.sciam.com)

Results from a highly anticipated clinical study show that an experimental drug suppressed the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to undetectable levels in people with highly drug-resistant forms of the pathogen. The drug, TMC125 (etravirine), is the first of its kind in nearly a decade and is one of three new drugs capable of treating drug-resistant HIV that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is expected to approve this year.

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