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Obama lifts ban on US entry for foreign HIV patients
The United States will put an end to a 22-year-old travel ban on foreign patients infected with the AIDS virus, President Barack Obama has announced, hailing the move as a step towards ending the stigma of the disease.
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AIDS - research - Thailand
New hope in search for AIDS vaccine
After more than 25 years of research, an encouraging vaccine trial for the AIDS virus has been carried out in Thailand. Researchers said that it had lowered the rick of infection by approximately 31%.
AIDS - HIV - Thailand
AIDS: Close to a vaccine?
A major AIDS vaccine conference gets underway in Paris this week with controversy swirling around the results of vaccine trials in Thailand.
Health
This week: Closer to a vaccine for HIV or much ado about nothing?
Researchers in Thailand announce positive test results from a clinical trial of a HIV vaccine. HEALTH looks at whether or not it's time to celebrate.
AIDS - health
HIV - Vaccine: too early for optimism?
Does a new experimental HIV vaccine herald a new dawn in the fight against AIDS?
HEALTH
Trial of AIDS vaccine cuts infection rates
A new AIDS vaccine tested on volunteers in Thailand protected a significant proportion of volunteers against infection, US and Thai researchers revealed Thursday in the first case of any vaccine even partly succeeding against the deadly disease.
HEALTH
Scientists crack full HIV genome structure
US scientists have decoded the entire structure of the HIV virus genome that causes AIDS in humans, a new study says, raising fresh hopes for a breakthrough in research on new anti-viral treatments.
HEALTH
Gorillas may be a source of AIDS, say French researchers
French virologists from the Rouen Hospital Centre in northwestern France have announced their discovery of a new subtype of the AIDS virus that appears to have jumped the species barrier to humans from gorillas.
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AIDS - Economic crisis - health - South Africa
Is the recession affecting HIV/AIDS treatment?
In this edition of Focus: the fifth International AIDS Society conference is underway in Cape Town, South Africa, where seven million people are infected with HIV. Up for discussion: how is the global economic crisis affecting the fight against AIDS?
SENEGAL
Nine homosexuality convictions overturned, prisoners to be released
Dakar's court of appeal has overturned the convictions of nine Senegalese men for homosexuality and ordered their release. Members of an HIV/AIDS education group, the men were arrested in December and convicted of "indecent acts".
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