British Lab Scraps Experimental Anti-AIDS Gel
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An experimental gel designed to prevent men and women from being infected with the virus that causes AIDS has been dropped by the British biotechnology firm developing it.
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BEIJING  - Two top Beijing universities have suspended a programme to distribute free condoms to students to prevent HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites), frowning on it as &quot;inappropriate&quot;.
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South Africa said on Tuesday it had ordered an inquiry following reports that participants in the clinical trial of a microbicide gel to help prevent HIV infection among women had instead contracted the virus.
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The frustrating quest to develop a vaginal gel to prevent HIV infection was dealt a fresh blow on Monday as researchers announced that the first prototype to complete advanced clinical trials was ineffective.
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ELITE Peking University is calling off plans to hand out free condoms next week for World AIDS Day, saying it shouldn&#39;t be done so openly on campus.
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Zambia's government announced Friday that widely publicized herbal drugs held to cure AIDS have been proved ineffective after clinical trials conducted on dozens of HIV patients.
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The Indian drug company Ranbaxy Laboratories, Ltd., has pulled all of its antiretroviral drugs from a World Health Organization (WHO) program that sets minimum quality standards for cheaper anti-AIDS drugs designated for use in poor nations.
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Medical researchers at the Israeli Hadassah University have reportedly developed a new injection that strengthens the body&#39;s immune system against HIV, the cause of AIDS.
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Merck's HIV vaccine fails in phase 2 trials.
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Scientists are no nearer finding a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a top expert says.
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The World Health Organisation is reinstating two generic AIDS antiretroviral drugs delisted earlier this year after the Indian manufacturer carried out new studies to confirm that they are as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
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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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GENEVA, NOVEMBER 19 : Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its anti-retroviral drugs from the World Health Organisationâs (WHO) list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, WHO said on Friday.
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The true scale of ignorance and lack of sympathy in the UK to people with HIV and Aids is revealed today in a survey of British attitudes.
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A cheap antibiotic drug has almost halved the rate of AIDS-related deaths in African children, reveals a new study. The antibiotic - co-trimoxazole - does not combat HIV but it prevents secondary infections
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The government&#39;s chief of AIDS research rewrote a safety report on a US-funded study of the anti-HIV drug nevirapine, sold in the United States as Viramune, to change its conclusions and delete negative information.
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Hundreds of thousands of bottles and tubes of antiseptic cream removed from sale after activists claim to have contaminated them.