Scientists are a step closer to understanding why some people with HIV develop full-blown AIDS, and others don’t. Researchers in Massachusetts and California say that the answer lies in how the immune cells that recognize invaders are educated – a finding that may pave the way for new strategies for designing an HIV vaccine. The human immune system detects...
Seventy HIV positive children, as well as those who have lost their parents to the dreaded disease, showed their creative side by enthusiastically participating in different competitions organised by UP Network for HIV positive people and UP State AIDS Control Society, on the occasion of World Orphans Day, on Friday. In painting competition, Ankita, Anchal and Adarsh secured first,...
Scientists have observed a rise in the number of HIV/AIDS cases among adults 50 and older over the course of the epidemic. Diane Zablotsky, UNC Charlotte Associate Professor of Sociology, pointed out that “historically when you looked at AIDS diagnoses people 50 and older accounted for 10 percent of all diagnoses”, and the number was up to 12.5 by...