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The President will welcome President Jakaya Kikwete of the United Republic of Tanzania to the White House on August 29, 2008, for a meeting and lunch.

GeoVax Labs, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GOVX), an Atlanta based, publicly traded biopharmaceutical company specializing in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, provided an operational update on the company's progress towards entering Phase 2 preventative human clinical trial testing and plans to proceed into therapeutic human trials with its AIDS vaccine. Five successful human trials evaluating GeoVax AIDS vaccines have previously been reported.

Aggressive programs to treat HIV-positive people using highly active antiretroviral therapy could reduce the number of new hiv cases by as much as 60%, according to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, Toronto's Globe and Mail reports. For the study, Julio Montaner, head of the

The results of a new study are being published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and it relates different issues dealing with the AIDS epidemic and drugs that...

Friday, June 27th. is recognized as national hiv Testing Day across the US. Agencies around the country are offering free HIV testing for all who want to know their status....

Unfortunately, HIV is not as easily diagnosed as you would think. Understandably, people who think they may have been infected are afraid; they are afraid to see a doctor and...

HIV drug manufacturer Roche Laboratories has updated the package insert for its protease inhibitor Invirase (saquinavir) to warn of possible drug interactions. The possible interactions include:Invirase can cause a significant...

Vaginal microbicides currently in clinical trials may be the only weapon that will protect women against infection from HIV.

The Black aids institute "may have come up with a strategy that could make a difference" and "help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS" in the black community, Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mary Mitchell writes.

Babies having babies. Sexually transmitted infections. Abstinence or comprehensive sex education.