S.Africa launches biggest AIDS vaccine trial
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South Africa, burdened with one of  the world's major HIV/AIDS epidemics, unveiled plans on  Thursday for its biggest AIDS vaccine trial.
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The National Institutes of Health is launching a human trial to test the safety of an experimental vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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Five-million South Africans, or 11% of the population, are infected with HIV, says a report published today by the Actuarial Society of SA to coincide with World Aids Day.
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South African researchers said on Friday they were encouraged by results from two HIV studies indicating that vaccines might one day be effective in controlling viral levels and even preventing infections.
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For the first time in medical history, scientists have developed a malaria vaccine that has shown promise in a large scale trial conducted in Mozambique.
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31 August 2004 - With women at least twice as likely to become infected with HIV as men when exposed to the virus that causes AIDS - and six times as vulnerable in parts of sub-Saharan Africa - HIV vaccine clinical trials must be geared towards meeting
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hundreds of senior public officials in Africa have recently started vigorous public campaigns to fight AIDS, representing a significant break from more than two decades of relative silence among those in the highest positions.
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A landmark international study involving top South African scientists has unlocked some of the human immune system&#39;s deepest secrets, boosting hopes of developing the world&#39;s first successful Aids vaccine.
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The killer disease AIDS has posed a disastrous threat to South Africa as the annual number of deaths due to AIDS is projected to peak with 487,320 in the year 2008.
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The South African government has vowed to intensify its campaign against HIV/Aids. The campaign will include prevention, treatment and home-based care.
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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa The ruling party in South Africa is launching a blistering attack on US health officials, claiming Africans were treated like &quot;guinea pigs&quot; when they were sent an AIDS drug.
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JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 24 -- South African AIDS researchers have begun warning hundreds of volunteers that a highly touted experimental vaccine they received in recent months might make them more, not less, likely to contract HIV in the midst of one of the world's most rampant epidemics.
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BOMBAY, India  - India, home to the world's second  largest HIV population after South Africa, is set to begin  human trials of a new vaccine against the virus in January, a  research institute said Tuesday.
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South Africans tired of flowers and chocolates might want to give their loved-ones a more practical gift this Valentine's Day -- an AIDS test.
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South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said.
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HIV/AIDS is placing a heavy burden on the elderly in South Africa&#39;s Mpumalanga province, a study by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has revealed.
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A VITAL project to prevent the spread of HIV within the African community has been given almost a quarter of a million pounds.