Word: hiv
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...findings discount one frequently made argument against broad AIDS testing--the fear that healthly people will mistakenly be found to carry HIV, the AIDS virus...
...conference series, funded by a $450,000 Macy Foundation gift, is called, "Meeting the Need for Health Care Personnel: Managing the HIV Epidemic in the 1990s." The conference program is part of a long-term goal of the Institute to promote education about AIDS and to develop more effective health care policies for the disease...
Clincal research at the Medical School, for example, is focused on the testing of new drugs in AIDS patients and in patients who are infected with the HIV virus--which causes the disease--but do not yet display the symptoms of AIDS, according to Dr. Martin Hirsch, who is co-director of the Center for Clinical Care, another branch of the Institute...
...working on drugs that affect the growth of the virus," Hirsch says. Over the summer, Med School researchers discovered that a natural protein, which they can synthesize chemically, inhibits growth of HIV in laboratory cultures by preventing the virus from attaching to cells. The drug, called CD-4, is now being tested in people for the first time...
Kleiman says he is focusing on pre-marital testing for HIV, reduction of heroin use and improving prison policies toward incarcerated drug addicts and AIDS victims as methods of reducing spread of the disease...