Monthly Archives: November 2011

Complete One-Pill, Once-Daily Prezista-Based HIV Regimen Enters Development

Tibotec Therapeutics—the research and development division of Janssen Pharmaceuticals—has entered yet another agreement with Gilead Sciences to develop a fixed-dose combination (FDC) tablet. Now, according to a November 15 press release, the companies will develop a complete FDC regimen containing … Continue reading

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AIDS Memorial Quilt

  Volunteers from the Ursuline Piazza’s Club 95 will make a panel remembering twenty of our HIV-positive friends who have died since the start of our program in 2007.  This workshop is being made possible by a partnership of The MetroHealth System, Cleveland Institute of … Continue reading

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Doctors claim to have “functional cure” for HIV

(CBS News) Thirty years ago from Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control issued the first report on the emerging AIDS epidemic. Now, after years of progress in holding back the disease, there is finally an apparent case of one successful … Continue reading

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Powerful HIV Inhibitor makes virus mutation ‘nearly impossible’

Washington: US scientists have created an inhibitor using a combination of two drugs to help prevent HIV virus from being transmitted. The inhibitor, a novel combination of two existing drugs, has a strength that ranges from several times better than … Continue reading

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Changes to Your Body (Lipodystrophy & Wasting)

Ever since AIDS was first documented in the early 1980′s, one of the scariest and frustrating experiences for people living with HIV has been changes they experience in their body weight, size, and shape. For the first 15 years of … Continue reading

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