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New AIDS Vaccine Strategic Plan Unveiled
Voice of America
The new Scientific Strategic Plan – developed by the Council of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise - appears in the journal Nature Medicine. ...
Wayne C. Koff To Present At Annual Vaccines: All Things Considered Conference ...Medical News Today (press release)
Newly-found antibodies to target HIV more effectivelyThe Nation, Pakistan

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GeoVax Labs to Present at the Rodman & Renshaw 12th Annual Healthcare Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
We will give an update on our preventative HIV vaccine candidate, which is progressing in a Phase 2a clinical trial being conducted and funded by the HIV ...

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Boise State University The Arbiter Online
Take the time: Health and Wellness Center offers students free HIV testing
Boise State University The Arbiter Online
The Boise State Health and Wellness Center wants to change how the sexually transmitted virus affects BSU students by offering a free HIV test in a new lab ...

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Pevion Biotech Appoints New CEO and Secures CHF 10 Million Financing
PR Newswire (press release)
A clinical stage malaria vaccine candidate has been outlicensed and the Company`s technology is being used for an HIV vaccine currently in human trials. ...

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Pevion Biotech AG announced today the appointment of Evert Kueppers as its new Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Thomas Stauffer.

SOUTH AFRICA: National HIV testing campaign disappoints
Plus News
A poor referral system may also explain why, despite a surge in the uptake of voluntary counselling and HIV testing (VCT), only an additional 3000 people ...

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Tom Hanks gives support to Dr. Peter
Metro Canada - Vancouver
Actor Tom Hanks has written a letter in support of The Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, named after Vancouver doctor Peter Jepson-Young, who died of AIDS. ...

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Women's Center to hold free HIV testing appointments Tuesday
UM Maneater (blog)
The Women's Center is offering free HIV testing appointments from 1 to 4 pm Tuesday at the Center for Social Justice. All appointments are ensured to be ...

Young gay men fuelling HIV epidemic, study warns
The Guardian
"Targeted HIV prevention programmes are key to reducing the numbers of new infections each year. But we'd also argue for innovative testing services to ...

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US committed to addressing Uganda's HIV/Aids needs
Daily Monitor
In the past year, PEPFAR funded the testing of over a million pregnant Ugandan women as a first step in preventing transmission of HIV to their newborns. ...

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Guess what's the fastest growing sector in Canada. Hint: it's in health care
Vancouver Sun (blog)
Along with registered nurses, Sageworks projects that home care aids, physician assistants, pharmacists, and other medical professions will be in high ...

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Albuquerque Isotopes (blog)
Four teams to compete in circuit's postseason for first time
Albuquerque Isotopes (blog)
When a player has the chance to participate in a playoff setting, it aids in his development and even offers some insight on how someone may react on a ...

Wayne C. Koff, Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Research and Development (R&D) at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI.org), will give the keynote presentation titled "Future Directions in AIDS Vaccine Development: The Decade Ahead" at the 8th Annual Vaccines: All Things Considered Conference to be held this year in Washington, DC on Nov. 8-9, 2010 by GTCbio. Dr...

Wayne C. Koff To Present At Annual Vaccines: All Things Considered Conference ...
Medical News Today (press release)
During the past few years, there has been incremental progress towards the development of a safe and effective HIV vaccine. These advances have included: ...
Newly-found antibodies to target HIV more effectivelyThe Nation, Pakistan

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The Hypocrisy of CARICOM
Stabroek News
As for the circumstances in which HIV testing is sanctioned by the ILO, these cover specific situations related to hospital visits where patients present ...

• ACHAP HIV Support Programme granted another five year lease
Sunday Standard
“This helped ensure the success of government's routine HIV testing effort, significantly improving uptake of both treatment and prevention of mother to ...

US Patents Awarded to Inventors in Maryland (Sept. 5)
TMCnet
The quinoline inhibitors are oxoquinolines that can be used for preventing or treating AIDS or HIV infection in a subject." The patent was assigned to the ...

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Sound Advice program helps fill a void
North Shore News
For many people the high price tag for a pair of hearing aids, ranging into thousands of dollars, puts them out of reach. Subsidies for hearing aids are ...

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Toronto author Allan Stratton thrilled with 'Chanda's Secrets' film adaptation
Winnipeg Free Press
Khomotoso Manyaka stars as a teenager in Sub-Saharan Africa who has to raise her younger siblings because her mother (Lerato Myelase) is dying of AIDS. ...

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Toronto author Allan Stratton thrilled with 'Chanda's Secrets' film adaptation
Winnipeg Free Press
Stratton says his journey with the 2004 novel began when his publisher asked if he was interested in writing a novel about the HIV-AIDS pandemic. ...

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