Topic: National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases
Held every year on Dec. 01, the twelfth anniversary of World AIDS Day 2010, is placing the emphasis on universal access to HIV and AIDS treatment for everyone. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is doing just that by highlighting ...
NIH's NIAID-sponsored Study Finds Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Concept Effective Among Men who Have Sex with Men. A daily dose of an oral antiretroviral drug, currently approved to treat HIV infection, reduced the risk of acquiring HIV infection by 43.8 percent among men who ...
Science will be hosting a live Q&A on this study at 3 p.m. At the end of the trial, 36 out of 1251 people who received a pill that contained a combination of two anti-HIV drugs, tenofovir and emtricatbine (co-formulated as Truvada ...
Science will be hosting a live Q&A on this study at 3 p.m. At the end of the trial, 36 out of 1251 people who received a pill that contained a combination of two anti-HIV drugs, tenofovir and emtricatbine (co-formulated as Truvada ...
For decades now, the discovery of an HIV antibody that could potentially be used to fight AIDS, hopefully as a vaccine, had been a significant, if not seemingly overly optimistic, hope for the world. By being able to attach to the CD4 ...
A decade ago, this week, scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Institute for Genomic Research announced they had decoded the genetic information inside Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease (STD) syphilis. ...
What is HIV HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. This virus causes AIDS. AIDS might be transmitted from a person to other through blood, sexual contact with the affected person etc. It might get transmitted to the infant through the mother during ...
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 ...
The world AIDS forum set aside rows about politics and funding on Tuesday, as delegates cheered South African scientists who announced a breakthrough in the quest for a vaginal cream to protect women from HIV.In a packed hall in Vienna, researchers, policymakers ...
A breakthrough test of a vaginal gel to protect women against HIV unleashed a wave of optimism at the world AIDS conference on Tuesday after two days of rows over funding.Hearty applause broke out in the main hall of the Vienna congress ...
From Around the Web
Video Gallery
-
NIAID image Film
NIAID (the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) asked ...2009-04-14 -
A Conversation with the National Institute ...
On October 26, 2010, the National Institute of Allergy and ...2010-10-28 -
NIAID Recruitment Image Film
NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health, asked Point7West ...2009-05-23
