We Can (Kinda) Prevent Drug Users from Getting HIV
Researchers call it pre-exposure prophylaxis, and other than completely abstaning from shooting up it represents one of our best chances of fighting transmission of the disease.
Articles tagged "hiv"
Do We Live in a Post-Cure World?
A second person was cured of HIV. Now what?
Sorry, Hippies: Sexual Liberation Began in the 1950s Thanks to Penicillin
A new study suggests that curing syphilis, not popularizing the pill, was what first got things cookin'.
Packaging Nature in Just the Right Way To Kill HIV Dead
The development of highly active anti-retroviral treatment (HAART) for HIV in the '90s is widely credited with turning a certain and excruciating doom into a chronic illness. Nowadays, instead of futilely fighting off opportunistic infections as a pa…
With Two More Men HIV-Free, Are We Close to Curing AIDS?
Researchers are full of good news this week. Bookended by one study presented at the 19th Annual International AIDS Conference and another published in Nature showing significant progress towards a cure for HIV, the case of two American men who appea…
This New HIV Vaccine Might Look Irrelevant, but Maybe That's Because You're a First-World Straight Dude
This week the FDA approved for the very first time an HIV vaccine. It's called Truvada and costs $10,000 a year (about $30 a day) and appears less effective than condoms in its preventative mission; in a trial published last week, researchers found i…
A New Vaccine Is Stopping Monkey HIV in Its Tracks
If 2012 is to be _the_ year of AIDS victory, where the virus comes crumbling down at the hands of medicine and giant brains in lab coats, we're off to a fantastic start. A vaccine tested on monkeys has been found to be 80-percent effective in protect…
Living Well By Eating Rotten: An Interview with Sandor Katz, the AIDS-Surviving Fermentation Fetishist
Sandor Katz on the benefits of DIY fermentation.
How Gamers Are Fighting AIDS (and Winning): Q+A
I haven't actually figured out how to play the puzzle game, "Foldit":http://fold.it/ yet, but since the announcement that players of the game cracked the elusive structure of one of enzymes key in the HIV virus--a giant step in AIDS research--the gam…
We're On Some Kind of HIV Ass-Kicking Roll This Week
Later today we'll have an interview up with part of the research team responsible for this week's big announcement that gamers battling a puzzle game called Foldit, which lets players collaborate/compete in the predicting of structure of protein mole…
Ones and Zeros: Earth's Two Moons, a Net Neutrality Weapon, and Belly Button Bacteria
_Obama turns officially old, and other news._
HIV: 30 Years of Sadness and Terror, and Maybe Some Hope
Thirty years ago last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease control published a landmark paper defining HIV. In 1981, the virus was a terrifying unknown that seemed to killed more and more sorts of people--first the gay community, then IV drug-users, he…
