By a vote of 206-226 the House of Representatives defeated an amendment offered by Representative Joseph Pitts (R-PA) to reinstate the “33 percent” abstinence-until-marriage earmark in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
The Foreign Operations Appropriations bill contains a provision that waives the mandatory abstinence-until-marriage earmark for FY 2008. The provision provides the administration [...]

The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday recommended a very modest overall increase for domestic HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs and flat funding for treatment education and training and domestic HIV prevention programs. The Senate committee’s proposed funding is much less than recommendations from the House of Representatives subcommittee and significantly less then the actual needs for [...]

There are 250,000-350,000 people in the United States living with HIV who do not yet know that they are infected. At least 40,000 people are infected with HIV in the U.S. each year. People who receive an early diagnosis of HIV have substantially better health outcomes than people who are diagnosed at late stages of [...]

Amarillo Biosciences, Inc. (ABI) (OTCBB: AMAR) today announced that by the end of June, two new clinical sites - in Newark, New Jersey and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - will be ready to enroll patients in a Phase 2 study to test low-dose interferon alpha lozenges administered orally to HIV-positive subjects with oral warts. The Company’s goal [...]

Human resistance to a retrovirus that infected chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates 4 million years ago ironically may be at least partially responsible for the susceptibility of humans to HIV infection today.
These findings, reported by a team of researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in the June 22 issue of Science, provide a better [...]

He packs up his bag for work — HIV/AIDS pamphlets, condoms, and HIV tests — and heads off to his field office — gay bars, clubs, and bathhouses. At 10:30 pm while many people are heading off to bed, Christiano Ayoub Ramazzotti’s workday is just beginning.
Ramazzotti has spent the past five years providing HIV/AIDS education [...]

BET Networks, in partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation, announced its plans to televise special programming to coincide with National HIV Testing Day on June 27. Recently nominated for five Cable Positive POP Awards and the 2007 POP winner for best network special programming, BET will air a lineup of shows and public service announcements [...]

Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the New Drug Application (NDA) for ISENTRESS(TM) (raltegravir, previously known as MK-0518). Data in the NDA support the proposed use of ISENTRESS in combination with other antiretroviral agents for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in treatment-experienced patients with [...]

GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC), announced today that the Vaccine Research Center (VRC) of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has begun a Phase I clinical trial to test a novel vaccine known as Ad35HIV-EnvA to prevent HIV-1 infection. This adenovector-based vaccine was developed under [...]

As the U.S. observes National HIV Testing Day today with increased testing, outreach and awareness at events throughout the country, the response to the AIDS epidemic in Florida continues to sputter as state officials, including Governor Charlie Crist, remain steadfast in their decision to slash the budget and cut services for Floridians living with HIV/AIDS. [...]