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What are the chances of an individual in Britain contracting HIV or developing AIDS?

Being Positive, a two-part investigative Open University/BBC series for BBC Three, examines the nature of the virus, how it works and the history of the development of HIV drug treatments. Part one, Dead Unlucky and part two, Dead Lucky, showing on BBC Three on Thursday, July 29th and Thursday August 5th at 9.30pm follow the stories of people who have been infected.

20 Jul 2004

Russian scientists incorporate HIV antigen into a tomato

Russian scientists are currently creating a pleasant and harmless vaccine, and edible one at that. So far, they managed to incorporate the protein gene – HIV antigen in tomatoes. The research is supported by International Science and Technology Center.

19 Jul 2004

Two-thirds of the nearly 40 million people living with HIV today are workers

At the XVth International AIDS Conference (Bangkok 11-16 July), the AIDS programme of the International Labour Office (ILO) is launching a new report on "HIV/AIDS and work: global estimates, impact and response". Franklyn Lisk, Director of the ILO Global Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work talks about the ILO report and the expanded response of the ILO to AIDS in the workplace.

17 Jul 2004

AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Abbott Laboratories have agreed to work together on enhanced AIDS prevention

The agreement resolves the two lawsuits brought by AHF against Abbott over the company's price increase for its HIV/AIDS drug, Norvir® (ritonavir).

17 Jul 2004

Colin Powell, "we have continuously called on China to end its program of coercive abortion"of coercive abortion"

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell sent a report to Congress July 16 on China's birth limitation policy and the United Nations Population Fund's assistance to China.

17 Jul 2004

Sonia Gandhi and Nelson Mandela urge world leaders to make stronger efforts to reduce the stigma that surrounds HIV/AIDS

“I have seen people who have lost jobs and who have been ostracized, and the orphans not adopted because of stigma, and I have seen people fading away in front of their helpless families,” said Gandhi. She asked those who have the power to act and think of those affected not as HIV/AIDS patients, but as men, women, children, brothers, sisters.

17 Jul 2004

UNAIDS India has launched a new website on HIV/AIDS in India

As the XV International AIDS Conference currently on in Bangkok brings global attention on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, UNAIDS India has launched a new website on HIV/AIDS in India.

17 Jul 2004

Online database of AIDS-related protein structures

Researchers who are either developing drug treatments for AIDS or studying the virus that causes the disease have a new resource - an online database of AIDS-related protein structures just unveiled for public use by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

16 Jul 2004

U.S. led initiative will provide small business loans to support people with AIDS

A new U.S.-led initiative aims to reduce the "stigmatization" of people living with HIV/AIDS by associating HIV-positive people with successful businesses and encouraging cooperation between those with the disease and others in the community.

15 Jul 2004

Research team developing new defenses against plague and smallpox

Using a federal biodefense grant, a Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center team will try to develop new approaches to immunizing people against the plague and smallpox, two of the most feared potential agents of bio-terrorism.

15 Jul 2004

International pharmaceutical industries and governments are failing to develop and produce AIDS medicines

International pharmaceutical industries and governments are failing to develop and produce AIDS medicines and diagnostic tools suited to children, claimed Médecins Sans Frontières at the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok.

15 Jul 2004

New guidelines for antiretroviral drugs to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children

The World Health Organization has published new guidelines underlining the effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs to prevent the transmission of HIV from seropositive mothers to their children.

15 Jul 2004

Action against HIV/AIDS that does not confront gender inequality is doomed to failure

Action against HIV/AIDS that does not confront gender inequality is doomed to failure, according to a report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund.

15 Jul 2004

Some physicians express a sense of fatalism about HIV prevention

UCSF researchers have found that some physicians express a sense of fatalism about HIV prevention and this belief - that changes in sexual risk behavior by their HIV-positive patients are unlikely - is hindering the provision of prevention counseling services in publicly-funded clinics.

15 Jul 2004

Latest findings on HIV pathogenesis at AIDS Conference in Bangkok

At the XVth International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation (LIR), will present his laboratory’s latest findings on how aberrant immune activation underlies HIV pathogenesis.

15 Jul 2004

Quality HIV/AIDS treatment eased through extended agreement about lowest-priced drugs and diagnostics

During the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, IDA ARV Procurement Services BV and Clinton Foundation announced the agreement that enables developing countries to purchase high-quality AIDS medicines and diagnostics at the lowest available prices.

15 Jul 2004

Priorities on dealing with the big 3 infectious diseases - HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria

The author of a Viewpoint article published online by THE LANCET argues for a renewed public-health effort to tackle so-called ‘neglected diseases’ which continue to have serious impact in less-developed countries.

13 Jul 2004

Drugs and crime are important, yet often neglected factors in the evolution of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

The Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa, is participating in the Bangkok International AIDS Conference.

13 Jul 2004

AIDS Healthcare Foundation targets GSK over voluntary licensing of its AIDS drug patents in South Africa

At the international AIDS conference in Bangkok, AIDS Healthcare Foundation hosted a peaceful protest against British multinational pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline over its voluntary licensing of its AIDS drug patents in South Africa.

13 Jul 2004

36.5 million people of working age have HIV

What's more, the ILO estimates that in the absence of increased access to treatment, the number of workers lost due to HIV/AIDS will have increased to 48 million by 2010 and 74 million by 2015, making HIV/AIDS one of the biggest causes of mortality in the world of work.

13 Jul 2004

HIV News and Research

What are the chances of an individual in Britain contracting HIV or developing AIDS?

Russian scientists incorporate HIV antigen into a tomato

Two-thirds of the nearly 40 million people living with HIV today are workers

AIDS Healthcare Foundation and Abbott Laboratories have agreed to work together on enhanced AIDS prevention

Colin Powell, "we have continuously called on China to end its program of coercive abortion"of coercive abortion"

Sonia Gandhi and Nelson Mandela urge world leaders to make stronger efforts to reduce the stigma that surrounds HIV/AIDS

UNAIDS India has launched a new website on HIV/AIDS in India

Online database of AIDS-related protein structures

U.S. led initiative will provide small business loans to support people with AIDS

Research team developing new defenses against plague and smallpox

International pharmaceutical industries and governments are failing to develop and produce AIDS medicines

New guidelines for antiretroviral drugs to prevent the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children

Action against HIV/AIDS that does not confront gender inequality is doomed to failure

Some physicians express a sense of fatalism about HIV prevention

Latest findings on HIV pathogenesis at AIDS Conference in Bangkok

Quality HIV/AIDS treatment eased through extended agreement about lowest-priced drugs and diagnostics

Priorities on dealing with the big 3 infectious diseases - HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria

Drugs and crime are important, yet often neglected factors in the evolution of the HIV/AIDS pandemic

AIDS Healthcare Foundation targets GSK over voluntary licensing of its AIDS drug patents in South Africa

36.5 million people of working age have HIV

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