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In a move that could lead to a new milestone in the worldwide AIDS epidemic, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration has for the first time backed a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people.
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A university professor in Italy is under investigation for teaching and directing studies which deny any link between the HIV virus and AIDS. This has caused public outcry and has triggered an inquiry by the University of Florence.
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For those who suffer from the irritating, itchy skin disease they may actually have the genetic variants required to be protected from the effects of HIV.
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Johnson & Johnson researchers may have just found a vaccine against AIDS. Working with the U.S. military, J&J injected this newly created vaccine into monkeys who had been infected with the animal form of AIDS.
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London -
A vaccine offering protection from the HIV virus, the cause of AIDS, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical trials in humans.
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Vancouver -
The British Columbia Health Ministry is requesting that all sexually active adults be tested for HIV at their next doctor, lab, or hospital visit to identify and treat any undetected cases of the virus.
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London -
U.K. health officials are now investigating the Nigerian Evangelical preacher Pastor T.B. Joshua, after allegations that he has been advising his HIV positive followers to stop taking their medications and rely exclusively on the "power of prayer."
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Ottawa -
After 48 hours of withholding critical information, Dr. Isra Levy, Ottawa's chief medical officer of health, released details of the clinic that put thousands of patients at risk of contracting HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.
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People took to the streets on Sunday to help raise money for AIDS charities. This year marks the 27th anniversary of the walk.
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Condoms are back in the news again, this time for a novel reason; one campaigning organisation is calling for them to be made compulsory for porn stars. The shocking truth about condoms though is that they don’t work.
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Foreign nationals are to be offered free treatment for HIV on the NHS under plans backed by the government.
A controversial film shows now in Egypt about patients living with HIV
The HIV treatment Truvada has been shown to help prevent infection.
 The country's top court is hearing the case of two HIV-positive people who did not disclose their medical condition to their sexual partners.
Scientists have shown how some cells in the body can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building blocks of life.
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University of Western Ontario researcher working on the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine.
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