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...launched last year with $6 million in donations that came primarily from alumni “who have an affinity toward this area.” The first found of funding—awarded last fall—was geared toward marketable research to combat widespread diseases, such as HIV, cancer, and diabetes. “My personal feeling is that academic researchers can really have significant impact on health care and society by lending their expertise to projects that can be translated into therapeutic intervention,” said Joan S. Brugge, a professor of cell biology who sits...
...President has asked Congress to extend and double the funding of PEPFAR when the five-year program expires in 2008. PEPFAR provides anti-retroviral drugs and other treatment for HIV-positive and AIDS patients in developing countries, while also trying to prevent new infections using the "ABC" approach: abstain, be faithful and use condoms. An earlier controversy over the first tenet of that drive - abstinence, which critics claimed reflected an effort impose a conservative Christian morality amid a humanitarian catastrophe - remains. "Certain constituencies, such as sex workers, are excluded from PEPFAR money," says Ayesha Kajee, program director of the International...
...Paul Farmer—a Harvard Medical School professor and co-founder of Partners in Health, a non-profit that brings medical care to third-world countries—Leiby said he is taking classes and researching with the Botswana-Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative for HIV Research and Education...
...remove or rephrase its restrictions, and men who have had sex with men should not be prevented from donating blood. When the FDA first introduced the current questionnaire phrasing as a guideline in 1983, statistics showed that men who had sex with men were far more likely to carry HIV than those engaging in heterosexual intercourse. In 1985, 64 percent of HIV cases were transmitted through sex between two men; heterosexual activity accounted for only 3 percent of transmissions. These statistics no longer hold true. As of 2004, HIV cases arising from male sex dropped to 42 percent, and those...
...editing error, the Feb. 7 story, "Zeroing in on an HIV Vaccine" described T cells as being "antibody-producing." In fact, antibodies are produced by B cells, which, in turn, are stimulated by T cells...