Alec Baldwin and Julia Roberts have signed on to star in “A Normal Heart,” a big screen adaptation of the Tony-winning stage show about the early days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The film, being put together by “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy, follows the rise of the disease in the 1980s, when [...]
Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade. The exploit is published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where — exceptionally in scientific publishing [...]
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. scientists have developed a strain of green-glowing cats with cells that resist infection from a virus that causes feline AIDS, a finding that may help prevent the disease in cats and advance AIDS research in people. The study, published on Sunday in the journal Nature Methods, involved inserting monkey genes that [...]
A leading adult film producer demanded an apology Thursday over claims about an actor’s HIV test that triggered a suspension of US porn filming, as it awaits final test results for “Patient A.” But an AIDS group which campaigns for condoms to be used on porn film sets refused to say it was sorry, boasting [...]
Is the Pope giving condoms his blessing? Hardly. But Benedict XVI sent eyebrows sky-high – and heartened health experts who see condoms as a key weapon in the global fight against AIDS – by remarking that condom use might be acceptable under certain circumstances. One year after saying that condoms could be worsening the AIDS [...]
BEIJING (Reuters) – It will be a “big mistake” for donors to cut funding to China in the fight against AIDS, the head of UNAIDS said Monday, rebuffing critics who say the world’s second-largest economy should no longer be a recipient of such aid. Several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in fighting AIDS in China say they are facing more [...]
India has pledged not to curb its output of life-saving generic HIV/AIDS drugs in exchange for a free-trade deal with the European Union, a leading advocate for action on AIDS has said. UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS, quoted India’s Trade Minister Anand Sharma as promising “to ensure quality generic medicines, [...]
Date: 6/10/2011 12:45 AM Read other: UN statement end AIDS EDITH M. LEDERER,Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for global action Wednesday to put an end to AIDS by 2020 and relegate the killer disease to the history books. Opening a three-day General Assembly meeting to assess progress in combatting HIV/AIDS, [...]
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