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On World AIDS Day, we look at the outcome of PEPFAR, President Bush's international AIDS program, the aftermath of a controversial HIV-prevention trial, and the future of microbicides--women-controlled AIDS prevention
December 1, 2008 |
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The Bush administration's international AIDS program has been hailed as a success story
Features
Despite disappointing study results, scientists haven't given up on creating a way for women to protect themselves
Features
Pre-exposure HIV preventatives are now being tested in AIDS-stricken Africa
Fact or Fiction
We unpack whether a controversial prevention method works
The big challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS
Repeated failures in the quest for an AIDS vaccine have sent investigators back to the drawing board
The battle must continue, even if 25 years of research have disappointed
Eliminating HIV from the body would require flushing the virus out of its hiding places and preventing those reservoirs from being refilled. A tall order but perhaps not impossible
Physiology or medicine prize recognizes work on HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV) linked to cervical cancer--but leaves out Robert Gallo
In their first collaborative article 20 years ago, 2008 Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier, along with Robert Gallo, co-investigators who discovered HIV, introduced a Scientific American single-topic issue on AIDS. They recounted the breakthrough and offered prospects for vaccine, for therapy and for the epidemic
Some researchers say johns seek intimacy on demand; others believe these men typically want to use and dominate women
The big challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS
In Africa, patients and doctors battle the double whammy of AIDS and TB
In Africa, patients and doctors battle the double whammy of AIDS and TB
Peptide nucleic acid, a synthetic hybrid of protein and DNA, could form the basis of a new class of drugs—and of artificial life unlike anything found in nature
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