According to a study at University of Michigan Medical School published this week, a potent new inhibitor of HIV, derived from bananas, may open the door to new treatments to prevent sexual transmission of HIV.
Scientists have an emerging interest in lectins, naturally occurring chemicals in plants, because of their ability to halt the chain of […]

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A team of scientists at University of California, San Diego’s Center for AID Research (CFAR), has discovered the origin of strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among men who have sex with men.
According to principal investigator Davey Smith, MD, MAS, doctors must know the mechanisms by which HIV uses human sex to spread, if they […]

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Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, UCLA, Harvard University, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and Cornell University have teamed up to develop and test a broad-spectrum antiviral compound capable of stopping a wide range of highly dangerous viruses, including Ebola, HIV, hepatitis C virus, West Nile virus, […]

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A Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) study has found that relatively young men with longstanding HIV infection and minimal cardiac risk factors had significantly more coronary atherosclerotic plaques. This condition means some involving serious arterial blockage than did uninfected men with similar cardiovascular risk.
The investigation appearing in the January 2010 issue of the journal AIDS is […]

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News Agency ANI/Times of India reports that a study published Tuesday reveals why men who have been circumcised are less likely to become infected with HIV.
The researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Johns Hopkins University found for the first time that circumcision significantly changes the bacterial community of the penis. Pooling data […]

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Researchers in New York City are reporting that their work reveals a new epidemic of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection among men-who-have-sex-with-men (MSM) who have HIV infection. The same authors have previously reported unusually rapid fibrosis progression due to new HCV in MSM who have HIV infection and now expand on their findings, demonstrating that […]

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New research at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina suggests that sperm - not just semen - can transmit the virus that causes AIDS to immune cells in the body and, in fact, sperm may play a major role in transmission.
Scientists already know that men infected with HIV - the virus that causes AIDS […]

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A recent research published in research in medical journal the Lancet reveals that HIV rates among gay men in some African countries are 10 times higher than among the general male population.
The report said prejudice towards gay people was leading to isolation and harassment, which in turn led to risky sexual practices among gay communities. […]

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Condom still essential for protecting female partner, researchers say
 
 According to recent study that included 922 HIV-infected men in Uganda, circumcision doesn’t lessen transmission of HIV from infected men to women, so condom is still essential for protecting female partner
The men, who were uncircumcised before the start of the study, were randomly selected to undergo immediate […]

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A recent study at the San Francisco Department of Public Health in the US, looking at social and sexual mixing between ethnic groups in men who have sex with men, concluded that preferences in the race of sexual partners influenced by subtle racism may perpetuate HIV-related health disparities.
Black gay men have less choice when it […]

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