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World AIDS Day Question: How Close Are We to a Cure?

(Nov. 30) -- Wednesday is World AIDS Day, where people around the world rally to raise funds and awareness to combat the still-potent global pandemic. But 30 years after the auto-immune disease surfaced in Central Africa, there remains no cure and no vaccine. In western countries, drug cocktails that include...

Scientists Find Parts of Protein That Stops HIV in Monkeys

(Aug. 24) -- It's been more than 25 years since scientists discovered HIV, the retrovirus responsible for causing AIDS. Since then, there have been advances in treatment that help slow the spread of the virus, promising leads toward stopping it entirely, but still no cure. Now, out of Loyola University, a potential...

Federal Report: HIV Among US Poor Matches Rates in Developing Countries

(July 19) -- HIV is so pervasive in the poorest urban regions of America that infection rates match those of developing countries, where the condition is endemic among the general population. That's the startling conclusion of a new report, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and presented at...

HIV Antibodies: Experts Foresee Vaccines, and a Long Wait

(July 9) -- A team of American scientists has announced a milestone finding that could spur the development of effective vaccines to prevent HIV/AIDS. As AOL News reported Thursday, two antibodies that neutralize 91 percent of HIV strains have been discovered by researchers with the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine...

Discovery Helps Researchers Close In on HIV Vaccine

(July 8) -- American scientists are touting a major stride toward a vaccine that can ward off HIV, after finding two key proteins that neutralize 91 percent of the virus' 190 strains. The team of researchers with the National Institutes of Health's Vaccine Research Center hopes the antibody discovery can spur successful...

Background on hiv prevention

HIV prevention refers to practices done to prevent the spread of HIV. HIV prevention practices may be done by individuals to protect their own health and the health of those in their community, or may be instituted by governments or other organizations as public health policies.

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