Topic: Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

Is there a cure for AIDS? Forum lifts a taboo

AFP Global Edition - 568 days ago
Scientists at the world AIDS conference have discussed an idea that had become almost taboo.Can AIDS be cured?The question is being broached in gingerly fashion, given the many false dawns in the nearly three-decade-long war on AIDS.The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which ...
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Better drugs encouraging AIDS complacency: Nobel doctor

AFP South Asian Edition - 1065 days ago
People are forgetting to practise safe sex because they no longer fear dying from HIV/AIDS, says the doctor who won the Nobel prize for helping discover the virus.Treatment advances mean " some people in my country, France, and other Western countries have ...
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Nobel medicine laureate sees progress on AIDS vaccine

AFP Global Edition - 1160 days ago
Luc Montagnier, co-winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Medicine, Saturday stood by his view that a " therapeutic vaccine" for the AIDS pandemic could be created within four to five years. "It is difficult to say, but it is perhaps a ...
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HIV and cancer research win Nobel Medicine Prize

Cosmos - 1220 days ago
Share | French and German scientists credited with the discovery of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced this year.. France's Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier, ...

Nobel winner pessimistic on AIDS vaccine

AP Features - 1221 days ago
A French researcher who won the Nobel Prize on Monday for groundbreaking work on AIDS said the search for a vaccine has been " a succession of failures. "Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, cited with Luc Montagnier for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus, or ...
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