Cream to prevent HIV safe, but not effective: study
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A cream designed to protect women from the AIDS virus did not prevent infection, but it was safe, raising hopes that it might be combined with drugs or other compounds to work better, researchers said on Monday.
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Male circumcision halved a man's  risk of being infected by the virus that causes AIDS in  heterosexual intercourse, according to results of two large  clinical trials in Kenya and Uganda announced on Wednesday.
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A drug that helps prevent babies from catching the AIDS virus at birth can also protect them while nursing, researchers reported on Monday.
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RESEARCHERS have shown that it may be possible to block transmission of the AIDS virus from men to women, it was revealed yesterday.
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MONDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A harmless version of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is being used to hunt down malignant melanoma cancer cells in mice, researchers say.
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The first anti-AIDS vaginal gel to make it through late-stage testing failed to stop HIV infection in a study of 6,000 South African women, disappointed researchers announced Monday.
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Trials showing that male circumcision more than halves the risk of HIV infection are published Friday, giving the seal of approval to calls for circumcision to be cautiously launched as an AIDS prevention strategy.
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Clinical trials of a new microbicide gel designed to help prevent women contracting HIV are stopped.
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A chemical specially designed to thwart how the AIDS virus invades during sex offers scientists a new lead in the long quest for a vaginal gel that women could apply to protect themselves when men don&#39;t use a condom.
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FRIDAY, Sept. 17 (HealthDayNews) -- A new study of people who visited a Colorado sexually transmitted disease clinic found that about half of those who regularly used condoms reported mishaps ranging from breakage to slippage.
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Clinical trials of an anti-virus gel supposed to help protect women against AIDS have been stopped after it was found that those on the treatment were more susceptible to HIV infection, the World Health Organisation said.
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Expectations that circumcision among men would reduce the risk of their female sexual partners becoming infected with AIDS were refuted by a new study.
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The first test of a daily pill to prevent HIV infection gave a tantalizing hint of success, but a real answer must await a larger study due out next year.
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A cheap drug has been discovered which could cut Aids-related deaths in African children by almost half. Tests on the new antibiotic drug in Zambia were so successful that the trial was halted early to make the drug available more quickly.
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Circumcision helps protect men from getting the AIDS virus but may make an already-infected man more likely to infect a woman if he does not let his penis heal completely, researchers said on Tuesday.
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NDORI, Kenya -- Giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women has long been celebrated as one of the few successful tactics in the war against AIDS in Africa. A single pill for a woman in labor, followed by a sip of syrup for her newborn baby, cuts HIV transmission rates by more than half,...
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Circumcising men cuts their risk of being infected with the AIDS virus in half, and could prevent hundreds of thousands or even millions of new infections, researchers said on Wednesday.