Archive for the 'HIV/AIDS medicines' Category

New Anti-AIDS pill under development

Scientists are developing an anti-AIDS pill that can be taken before sex and prevent transmission of the deadly disease.
The successful development of such a treatment would be controversial because it raises ethical questions about the circumstances in which the pill should be taken.
Experts in the disease, which claimed two million lives last year, are involved [...]

AIDS vaccines don’t justify hopes

AIDS vaccine researchers are worried about the future of their field after learning an experimental HIV vaccine not only does not work, but just might make recipients more susceptible to infection with the AIDS virus!
They are worried about their volunteers and the future of AIDS vaccines in general. And they are worried because they cannot [...]