Word: hiv
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...final word on foreign policy: beware those candidates who speak glowingly, uncritically about multilateralism. Clearly, a new era of international cooperation is necessary, given the rise of viral nonstate threats like terrorism, global warming, transnational criminal gangs and corporate powers, and actual viruses like hiv. But the failure of our NATO allies to fulfill their military quotas in Afghanistan raises a real question about which if any countries will be ready to stand with the U.S. when military action is necessary-a difficult problem for the next President...
...intravenous drug users, and the Indian government's National Family Health Survey. The old figure, which ranked India as number one globally in cases of HIV/AIDS, was based on extrapolating from prenatal clinic data alone. The new figures would put India back behind South Africa, which has 5.5 million HIV-positive people, and perhaps below other countries as well...
...massive drop follows a similar halving of the official HIV estimate in Kenya, in 2004, following a more comprehensive survey. Some health experts believe that extrapolating from rates among pregnant women is inaccurate and has led to overestimations in some countries. (The figures from South Africa, where the epidemic is more established and many more surveys have been conducted, are believed to be much more accurate...
...immediate obstacle to translating the results to human cells involves the way that the scientists turned back time on the mouse skin cells. They used a retrovirus vector, piggybacking the genes for the growth factors and proteins onto this infectious ferry. Retroviruses, however, like HIV, can cause infectious diseases and are not always easy to control, so before testing this approach in humans, researchers need to find other modes of transport for the critical compounds. The good news is that they need the genes to churn out their proteins for a only brief period of time, so using less virulent...
...companies paid Emory University $525 million—about 12 percent of the value of the school’s endowment at the time—to purchase rights to an anti-retroviral drug discovered by three researchers there. The drug, marketed as Emtriva, is used to treat HIV...