Pillboxes help HIV-positive stick to drug regimens
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NEW YORK  - HIV-positive patients who use pillbox organizers to help keep track of their medications can reduce their risk of progressing to AIDS, a new study shows.
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TWO generic drugs made by the Indian company Cipla for treating HIV/AIDS have been reinstated to the World Health Organisation&#39;s (WHO&#39;s) recommended list six months after being removed, an official said yesterday.
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In an effort to make medication regimens easier for HIV-positive patients, two drug companies have announced plans to collaborate on the first all-in-one, one-a-day pill to treat the infection.
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IBADAN, Nigeria -- Crude paintings of women and rows of dimly lit bedrooms make clear the purpose of a shabby building just off a main road in this sprawling city. But for the next year, this brothel will have another function as well: testing a drug that could help stop HIV infections before they begin.
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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, potent...
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The world's leading drugmakers are  racing to be first to market with a new kind of pill that can  block the AIDS virus before it enters human cells, experts said  on Wednesday.
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Statins, which are used to treat high cholesterol, may also fight HIV, a study suggests.
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A key anti-HIV/AIDS drug distributed in  Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if  they ignore doctors' orders on how to take the pills, medical  officials said on Monday.
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Two competing pharmaceutical companies say they are going to work together to develop the first once-a-day pill to treat HIV - the virus that causes AIDS.
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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HIV can dodge destruction by powerful antiretroviral drugs by hiding out in the testicles, scientists say.
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Researchers have hit on what may be an inexpensive way to prevent death from infections in children with HIV until anti-retroviral drugs become affordable in the developing world.
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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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Cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins given to HIV-positive people &quot;suppressed the virus&quot; and replenished CD4+ T cells, &quot;two key measures of health&quot; among HIV-positive people, researchers from the Spanish Council for Scientific Research in Madrid, ...
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An HIV-positive pregnant woman enrolled in a NIH study examining the ability of the antiretroviral drug nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission died of liver failure that likely was caused by the drug.
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Scientists believe they are a step closer to understanding how to block the transmission of HIV.
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Over the next few months, officials in two US cities and several other countries will begin testing whether a popular AIDS drug can protect healthy people against HIV infection.