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. [...]

Treating hepatitis B patients with the drug entecavir can cause those who are also infected with HIV to become resistant to two of the most important drugs in the anti-HIV arsenal, according to a new report in the New England Journal of Medicine.
In findings published June 21, 2007, online in the journal, the researchers reported [...]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) hosted a “webinar” to encourage Internet bloggers who write on health issues and HIV/AIDS to promote National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), observed annually on June 27th, and HIV testing.
Presenters included Admiral John O. Agwunobi, MD, MBA, MPH, Assistant Secretary for Health; Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, Director [...]

The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has entered into a lease for space with New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and partnered with the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center to become the first tenant at BioBAT, a new 486,000 square foot bioscience center to be housed at the Brooklyn Army [...]

The Safe Haven Project announced the kick off of the Keep the Light Alive II Run/Bike tour. Led by founder and CEO Dave Butler, the 3-day journey to benefit The Safe Haven Project will begin in Albany, New York on Friday, June 29 and end on Sunday, July 1 in Boston Common. Along the way, [...]

During the process of appealing the recent award of a state program to provide HIV/AIDS disease management (DM) services to Florida’s Medicaid population, testimony from a key Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) official revealed a legal and bureaucratic bombshell: The only AHCA evaluator who has reviewed the financial status of the proposed new [...]