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| GeoVax Labs, Inc. Begins Enrollment At Final Site For Preventative Vaccine; Next Step Is To Submit IND Application For Therapeutic Vaccine To FDA GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GOVX) (the \"Company\"), an Atlanta-based, biopharmaceutical company developing human vaccines for diseases caused by HIV-1 (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and other infectious agents, provided an update on its vaccine trials progress... |
| Quality Of Caregiver Relationship Is Crucial For HIV-Infected Children A new study of children in Ukraine has found that for the growing number of HIV-infected children, the quality of care and the relationship between children and their caregivers play an important role in their development... |
| Recent Releases In Global Health Lancet Study Examines Childbirth Practices, Outcomes In Asian Countries A Lancet study examines childbirth practices and the relationship between these practices and maternal and perinatal outcomes in nine Asian countries, as assessed by a WHO global survey... |
| Congressmen, Citing Reports Of Fraud, Seek Accounting For AIDS Funding \"Two Republican congressmen who help oversee billions of dollars for people with AIDS are asking the federal government for an accounting of fraud and mismanagement complaints leveled against AIDS programs nationwide,\" The Washington Post reports. \"Reps. Joe L. Barton (Tex.) and Greg Walden (Ore.) sent a letter Thursday to the U.S... |
| $4.25 Million For HIV Research In Geneva The Mintaka Foundation for Medical Research in Geneva announced today that the Wellcome Trust, London, has awarded it approximately CHF 4,500,000 to meet the remaining costs of bringing its flagship product, an anti-HIV microbicide known as 5P12-RANTES, to a first safety trial in the clinic. Every year, there are millions of new infections from HIV... |
| U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Resolution Condemning Uganda's Anti-Gay Bill U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a congressional resolution condemning an anti-gay bill before Uganda's parliament, \"calling it an attack on human rights and an obstacle to battling HIV/AIDS,\" Agence France-Presse reports... |
| Turning The Tide: 20 Years Of HIV/AIDS Research In Uganda On the twentieth anniversary of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) research unit's presence in Uganda, Director Heiner Grosskurth looks back on the changing landscape of research into HIV/AIDS at the commemorative scientific symposium in Entebbe today... |
| Novel Therapies Could Improve Potency Of Existing AIDS Treatments, Help To Combat Drug-Resistant Virus Strains A team of scientists at The Scripps Research Institute has identified two compounds that act on novel binding sites for an enzyme used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS... |
| Also In Global Health News: GSK's Interest In NTDs; Kenya's Male Circumcision Drive; Dengue Fever; HIV Prevention In Jamaica; Food Shortages In Zimbab GSK Head Discusses Company Interest In NTDs The Associated Press features a Q&A with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) CEO Andrew Witty, who \"is pushing to sell more products in fast-growing 'emerging markets' such as Brazil, Russia, India and China\" while simultaneously \"increasing efforts to bring medicines for tropical diseases to the poorest countries, at minimum profit... |
| New African Union Chair's Focus To Include Food Security; First Ladies Discuss HIV/AIDS The African Union (AU) Summit concluded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Tuesday with newly elected AU chairman Bingu Wa Mutharika, of Malawi, encouraging African leaders to make agriculture and food security a top priority, Angola Press reports (2/2). \"Mr... |
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