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Main Category: Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Also Included In: HIV / AIDS Tropical Diseases British researchers on Monday requested the WHO 'publicly condemn homeopathy as a treatment for serious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria,' amid growing concern that some patients are dying as a result of choosing homeopathy over ...

Main Category: HIV / AIDS Also Included In: IT / Internet / E-mail Article Date: 03 Jun 2009 - 3:00 PDT International development charity Teaching-aids At Low Cost has launched the 10th edition of its e-TALC CD.

THE number of known HIV/Aids cases in Indonesia has almost tripled since 2005, Aids commission head Nafsiah Mboi said on Wednesday.

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Green tea may be the key to effective anti-HIV vaginal gels, new studies suggest.

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Researcher Matthew Smith says that hyperactivity was not viewed as a medical condition until the late 1950's, when school environments and education expectations changed.

Resource Center of Dallas helps those who lose their jobs make often-expensive COBRApayments that keep insurance in place.

Background: Little is known about immunovirological treatment outcomes and adherence in HIV/AIDS patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) treated using a simplified management approach in rural areas of developing countries, or about the main factors influencing those outcomes in clinical practice. Methods: Cross-sectional immunovirological, pharmacological, and adherence outcomes were evaluated in all patients alive and on fixed-dose ART combinations for 24 months, and in a random sample of those treated for 12 months. Risk factors for virological failure (>1,000 copies/mL) and subtherapeutic antiretroviral (ARV) concentrations were investigated with multiple logistic regression. Results: At 12 and 24 months of ART, 72% (n=701) and 70% (n=369) of patients, respectively, were alive and in care. About 8% and 38% of patients, respectively, were diagnosed with immunological failure; and 75% and 72% of patients, respectively, had undetectable HIV RNA (1,000 copies/mL) were poor adherence,

The Washington, D.C. HIV/AIDS Administration (HAA) will increase its HIV-related media efforts targeting those at risk for the virus amid a recent finding by the agency that 3% of the district's residents are living with HIV/AIDS, the