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A key question at this week's AIDS Conference: Who will pay the worldwide costs of treatment?

A roundup of news from the International AIDS Conference taking place this week in Washington.

27 Jul 2012

Lymphoma drug dislodges hidden virus in HIV patients

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published pioneering research showing that a drug used to treat certain types of lymphoma was able to dislodge hidden virus in patients receiving treatment for HIV.

27 Jul 2012

First Edition: July 27, 2012

Today's headlines include reports about a new effort launched by the Obama administration and insurers to fight health care fraud.

27 Jul 2012

HIV drug resistance: an interview with Dr. Silvia Bertagnolio

Sexual intercourse is the major mode of HIV transmission. HIV may also be transmitted through sharing of needles or contaminated blood products (although this is rare).

27 Jul 2012

Viewpoints: AIDS spread in U.S. South; Abortion opponents battle in Ariz.; GOP's costly effort to kill health law

More than 30 years into the AIDS epidemic, a combination of safe-sex education and a new generation of pharmaceuticals has left many Americans convinced that HIV/AIDS is a problem that has been, if not solved, at least addressed. But that's certainly not true in the American South, which accounts for nearly 50% of all new HIV infections in the United States.

27 Jul 2012

Bone marrow transplant eradicates traces of HIV in men

Two men with longstanding HIV infections no longer have detectable HIV in their blood cells following bone marrow transplants. The virus was easily detected in blood lymphocytes of both men prior to their transplants but became undetectable by eight months post-transplant. The men, who were treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), have remained on anti-retroviral therapy.

27 Jul 2012

Rate of new HIV infections among young U.S. black MSM is high: Study

The rate of new HIV infections among black men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States, particularly younger men, is high and suggests the need for prevention programs specifically tailored to this population, according to initial findings from the HPTN 061 study.

27 Jul 2012

HPTN study results show additional benefits of early ART in HIV clinical outcomes

Study results released today by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) show additional benefits of early antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV clinical outcomes.

27 Jul 2012

Recent release: Blog examines faith-based response to HIV/AIDS

In a post in KPLU's "Humanosphere" blog, journalist Tom Paulson discusses the role of faith-based organizations in the response to HVI/AIDS, writing, "PEPFAR is mentioned in perhaps every other speech here at the International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2012, as one of those game-changers. Infrequently, some folks also mention, usually just in passing, something like the 'contributions of the faith-based community.'

27 Jul 2012

Chevron announces PMTCT partnership to combat mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa

Chevron announced today at the 2012 International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) a partnership initiative with Pact, the Business Leadership Council (BLC), mothers2mothers and the Global Fund to aggressively combat crisis-level mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria, Angola and South Africa.

27 Jul 2012

Gilead Sciences second quarter total revenues increase 13% to $2.41 billion

Gilead Sciences, Inc. announced today its results of operations for the quarter ended June 30, 2012.

26 Jul 2012

Recent release: France to launch financial transactions tax to help fund Global AIDS response

"A new tax on financial transactions is set to launch in France in August, and could generate billions of dollars to help fund the global fight against HIV/AIDS," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports.

26 Jul 2012

UNITAID to invest more than $140M to evaluate point-of-care HIV diagnostics, monitoring in Africa

International medicines financing mechanism UNITAID said on Monday it "will invest more than $140 million to evaluate point-of-care [PoC] HIV diagnostic and monitoring technology in seven African countries," PlusNews reports.

26 Jul 2012

First Edition: July 26, 2012

Today's headlines include coverage of findings from a new study that indicate Medicaid may help people live longer.

26 Jul 2012

Study shows potential for histone deacetylase inhibitors to eradicate latent HIV infection

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today the publication of a study in the July 26 issue of the leading scientific journal Nature that provided early evidence for the use of a drug to dislodge reservoirs of hidden virus in patients receiving treatment for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

26 Jul 2012

AIDS 2012 plenary speakers call for innovative financing, continued research for HIV cure

Speakers at Tuesday's plenary session at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. highlighted the challenges that lie ahead in the response to HIV/AIDS and discussed potential solutions, ABC News reports.

26 Jul 2012

Obama skipping AIDS conference; Black community still bearing high burden of the disease

For all the dignitaries on the schedule at the International AIDS Conference this week in Washington, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates and former President Bill Clinton, it's the absence of one that has activists talking. With the conference being held in the U.S. for the first time in 22 years, President Barack Obama is out of town campaigning and raising money for his re-election. His only presence is a 50-second cameo in a three-minute video welcoming delegates.

26 Jul 2012

PlusNews interviews Global Fund director of country programs

In 2010, after allegations of fraud among some fund recipients in several countries, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria convened "an independent, high-level panel to review its financial controls and how grant money is spent," and the Fund "is now implementing the panel's recommendations," PlusNews reports.

26 Jul 2012

Vienna Declaration launches ad campaign calling on U.S. presidential candidates to end 'war on drugs'

As delegates gathered for the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) this week in Washington, D.C., "supporters of the 2010 Vienna Declaration, which urges governments to write evidence-based drug policies," launched an ad campaign calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney "to stop the spread of AIDS by ending the so-called 'war on drugs,'" the Globe and Mail reports.

26 Jul 2012

AIDS activists march in Washington, India to protest marginalization of sex workers, drug users

"AIDS activists gathering in Washington, D.C., and Kolkata, India, this week have denounced conditions attached to U.S. global AIDS funding, which they say have damaged the response to the epidemic by further marginalizing sex workers -- among those hardest hit" by the epidemic, the Guardian reports.

26 Jul 2012

HIV News and Research

A key question at this week's AIDS Conference: Who will pay the worldwide costs of treatment?

Lymphoma drug dislodges hidden virus in HIV patients

First Edition: July 27, 2012

HIV drug resistance: an interview with Dr. Silvia Bertagnolio

Viewpoints: AIDS spread in U.S. South; Abortion opponents battle in Ariz.; GOP's costly effort to kill health law

Bone marrow transplant eradicates traces of HIV in men

Rate of new HIV infections among young U.S. black MSM is high: Study

HPTN study results show additional benefits of early ART in HIV clinical outcomes

Recent release: Blog examines faith-based response to HIV/AIDS

Chevron announces PMTCT partnership to combat mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa

Gilead Sciences second quarter total revenues increase 13% to $2.41 billion

Recent release: France to launch financial transactions tax to help fund Global AIDS response

UNITAID to invest more than $140M to evaluate point-of-care HIV diagnostics, monitoring in Africa

First Edition: July 26, 2012

Study shows potential for histone deacetylase inhibitors to eradicate latent HIV infection

AIDS 2012 plenary speakers call for innovative financing, continued research for HIV cure

Obama skipping AIDS conference; Black community still bearing high burden of the disease

PlusNews interviews Global Fund director of country programs

Vienna Declaration launches ad campaign calling on U.S. presidential candidates to end 'war on drugs'

AIDS activists march in Washington, India to protest marginalization of sex workers, drug users

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