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The AIDS Education Global information System (AEGiS) is a 501c(3) not-for-profit
organization that was established in response to the growing HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Our mission is aimed to:
Since AEGiS' inception, it has matured into the largest free-access virtual AIDS
library on earth.
Today, AEGiS consists of more than
430,409 articles.
Our Ask the Doc forum allows users to submit real-life questions to our panel of
HIV specialists.
For more than 30 years AEGiS has kept pace with the social and clinical aspects
of HIV/AIDS. We believe that the dissemination of potentially life saving information
has made a difference to many people throughout the world. For those that have HIV
management questions and needs, AEGiS has proved to be a trusted source. AEGiS serves
to illuminate all developments on the HIV/AIDS front,the question is:
“What do you want to know about HIV/AIDS today?”
Daily Hot Topics:
FDA panel OKs Truvada for HIV Prevention
Bay Area Reporter
May 17, 2012
Truvada, a once-daily antiretroviral pill, is effective for preventing sexual transmission of HIV and should be approved as post-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted last week.
Lee urged to backfill AIDS cuts
Bay Area Reporter
May 17, 2012
Advocates for people living with HIV and AIDS are increasing their calls for San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee to backfill federal funding for services they describe as lifesaving even as the city must close a steep budget shortfall.
City must backfill AIDS funds
Bay Area Reporter
May 17, 2012
Back in March city leaders learned that San Francisco would face cuts from the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Modernization Act and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The cuts, about $4.7 million from Ryan White and approximately $3.1 million from the CDC, will significantly impact ...
AFRICA: US HIV Aid Has Prevented 741,000 Deaths: Study
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
Some 741,000 deaths from any cause were averted in 12 African
countries receiving aid from the US President's Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief, a new study suggests. Previous research has
shown PEPFAR-associated declines in AIDS, but it was unclear
whether there were any ...
Over-the-counter HIV tests backed by US panel
BBC News
May 16, 2012
Over-the-counter HIV tests that would allow people to check in the privacy of their homes if they have the virus have moved a step closer in the US.
SOUTH CAROLINA: May 19 Is National Hepatitis Testing Day
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
Saturday is National Hepatitis Testing Day, and health
authorities in South Carolina are emphasizing the importance
of being tested for the disease. "Our community partners will
offer more hepatitis C virus testing this summer through new
rapid testing technologies," said ...
TEXAS: New Digs Prove Prosperous for South Dallas HIV Agency
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
Abounding Prosperity has already begun HIV testing at its new
location on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Dallas, though
it has not yet held a grand opening. People who do not self-
identify as gay are more likely to come to the new office for
testing and prevention ...
FLORIDA: American Cancer Society: New State Funding for Cancer
Screenings Will Save Lives
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
The 2012-13 budget signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott includes
$1.24 million for breast and cervical cancer screening. The
federal effort is known in Florida as the Mary Brogan Breast
and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; it provides
mammograms and cancer testing ...
UNITED STATES: Sanders Bill Aims to Lower HIV Drug Costs
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
The US Senate subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging held a
hearing Tuesday to discuss cost as a barrier to HIV treatment
for Americans. A new bill would end drugmakers' exclusive
rights to market new HIV/AIDS drugs, instead granting the
companies monetary rewards from ...
UNITED STATES: Achillion's Hepatitis C Drug Gets FDA Fast
Track
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s experimental hepatitis C drug ACH-3102
has been granted fast-track status by the Food and Drug
Administration. The designation is used to expedite the review
of medications that seek to treat serious diseases and meet
unmet medical needs. ACH-3102 ...
UNITED STATES: Sudden Cardiac Death Risk Higher in HIV
Patients
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
Sudden cardiac death, which occurs when the heart unexpectedly
stops, was second only to AIDS as a leading cause of death
among HIV patients in a new 10-year study. The results
indicate that even if their virus is under control and they
appear relatively healthy, HIV-positive ...
CALIFORNIA: Valley Tattoo Shops, Artists Face Inspections
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
A law requiring California counties to enforce new safety
rules for tattoo and body piercing shops goes into effect July
1. Under the Safe Body Art Act, these businesses will be
subject to public health permitting, inspections and
standards. The law will impact nearly 200 ...
IBM Teams Up With Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center to Reduce New HIV Infections to Zero
PR Newswire
May 16, 2012
BANGKOK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) is collaborating with the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Center (TRCARC) to strengthen HIV prevention effort and to make Bangkok the world's first city to achieve "Zero New HIV Infections" by 2015.As part of this initiative, IBM is donating ...
UNITED STATES: FDA Panel Backs OraSure's In-Home HIV Test
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 16, 2012
A panel of outside experts voted unanimously on Tuesday to
recommend that the Food and Drug Administration approve
OraSure Technologies Inc.'s OraQuick In-Home HIV Test. The 17-
member FDA advisory committee said the benefits of people
knowing their HIV status - and seeking ...
FDA advised to approve at-home HIV test
United Press International
May 16, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended approval of the first over-the-counter HIV test, officials said.
Influential leaders champion the role of the private sector in challenging HIV and global health threats
UNAIDS
May 15, 2012
Taking stock of the successes, challenges and future of the global AIDS response after three decades was at the core of the Global Business Coalition annual conference on Health (GBCHealth) held from 14-15 May in New York.
PENNSYLVANIA: Researcher Kevin Jones Recruits People for Much-Needed HIV Studies
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
Kevin Trimell Jones is part of a “small army” of university and hospital professionals in Philadelphia working to help end HIV. Locating and recruiting research participants is part of his job as a research coordinator and ethnographer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine’s HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Division.
Nepal: HIV widows on the edge
Integrated Regional Information Network
May 15, 2012
RAKAM, 15 May 2012 (PlusNews) - Widows living with HIV in Nepal’s remote hill districts in some of the country’s poorest and vulnerable communities face a particularly bleak future. “My husband died four years ago. We had to sell our cattle and farm to pay his medical ...
U.S. HIV aid has prevented 741,000 deaths: study
Miscellaneous News
May 15, 2012
The United States foreign aid program that sends billions of dollars to African countries for HIV treatment and prevention has cut the number of people dying for any reason in those nations, a new study suggests
US AIDS relief program saved 740,000 lives: study
Agence France-Presse
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 (AFP) - A US aid program aimed at helping foreign countries battle the AIDS epidemic saved 740,000 lives from 2004-2008, according to a US study published Tuesday.The US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was started by former president George ...
PENNSYLVANIA: Thomas Jefferson U. Hospital Opens Hepatitis C Center
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
The Jefferson Hepatitis C Center - a multidisciplinary, comprehensive facility for the study of hepatitis C virus and hepatic disease - now is open at Thomas Jefferson University ...
UNITED STATES: US Panel Will Consider Home AIDS Test
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s Blood Products Advisory Committee meets today to consider whether to recommend approval of an over-the-counter HIV test. Many public health experts believe at-home HIV testing could help reduce the number of Americans who are infected but unaware.
INDIANA: Official: 500 Have Sought Vaccinations Since Hepatitis A Exposure at Restaurant
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
Through Thursday, the Vanderburgh County Health Department is offering free hepatitis A vaccination to people who recently ate at the Lone Star Steakhouse in Evansville. A restaurant bartender, who handled drinks as well as some food, has been diagnosed with the infection.
GEORGIA: May Is Hepatitis Awareness Month
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
The Institute of Medicine recently reported that almost 5.3 million Americans have chronic hepatitis B or C infection, and most do not know it. CDC’s “Know More Hepatitis” campaign, announced ...
UNITED STATES: HHS Accepts Abstinence-Only Curriculum
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
The Department of Health and Human Services has added an abstinence-only sex education curriculum to the range of evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs funded by the Obama administration.
US panel urges approval of drugstore HIV test
Agence France-Presse
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 (AFP) - A panel of experts on Tuesday urged US regulators to allow an over-the-counter version of a test that could allow people to test themselves at home for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).The Blood Products Advisory Committee voted unanimously, 17-0, that ...
CALIFORNIA: $18 Million in Cuts to Jolt AIDS Care
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
San Francisco faces the loss of almost $8 million in federal AIDS funding in the fiscal year beginning July 1, and another $10 million the following year.
AIDS funding cuts could impact care, prevention
San Francisco Chronicle
May 15, 2012
Jerardo Lobato Hernandez lived on the streets of San Francisco for nearly a decade, struggling with severe depression, alcoholism and AIDS. Police arrested him regularly for public drunkenness, trespassing and illegal camping. Twice thieves put his health at risk when they stole his medications, which ...
GLOBAL: Global Burden of Cancers Attributable to Infections in 2008: A Review and Synthetic Analysis
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
In the current study, Martel and colleagues estimated the respective contribution of infections identified as strong risk factors for specific cancers to the global burden of cancer.
Area Conference on Disparities in HIV/AIDS Convenes May 23-24 in San Francisco With Focus on Accelerating HIV Testing, Access to Care
PR Newswire
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Skyrocketing rates of HIV among African Americans and Latinos in the Bay Area will take center stage when national and local leaders in HIV policy convene in San Francisco on May 23-24 for a conference on the unequal burden of HIV/AIDS among communities of color, sexual minorities and the poor.
BOTSWANA: Botswana Makes New Pitch for Circumcision in AIDS Fight
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 15, 2012
A government campaign to thwart the spread of HIV by circumcising nearly half a million Botswana males has managed to reach just 7 percent since it began three years ago.
Study: Sudden heart death high among HIV patients
San Francisco Chronicle
May 15, 2012
Patients with HIV infections are 4 1/2 times more likely to die suddenly from cardiac arrest than people without HIV, even if the virus is under control and they appear relatively healthy, according to a UCSF study.
FDA panel backs OraSure's In-Home HIV Test
Reuters New Media
May 15, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel of outside experts concluded that OraSure Technologies Inc's over-the-counter, in-home HIV test is reasonably safe and effective for determining whether someone has the AIDS virus.
Kylie Minogue supports Cannes Aids gala
BBC News
May 14, 2012
Alec Baldwin, Kylie Minogue and Janet Jackson are to support a gala dinner and auction at the Cannes Film Festival to raise money for Aids research.
The annual event, held by the American Foundation for Aids Research (Amfar), was passionately supported by the late actress Elizabeth Taylor.
Welcome (not)
UNAIDS
May 14, 2012
Infographic: For many of the millions of people living with HIV around the world, travel restrictions are a daily reminder that they do not have the freedom of move internationally.
UNITED STATES: HIV Risk Among Female Sex Workers in Miami: The Impact of Violent Victimization and Untreated Mental Illness
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2012
Street-based female sex workers “are often enmeshed in chronic patterns of substance use, sexual risk, homelessness, and violent victimization,” the authors wrote, causing them to be vulnerable to HIV infection.
Imaging HIV in infected cells reveals viral tactics
Miscellaneous News
May 14, 2012
The tactics that HIV uses to infect cells have been visualised in greater detail than ever before, thanks to a microscopy technique that allows even structures within viruses to be seen.
Conventional light microscopes cannot resolve structures that are smaller than about 200 nanometres because ...
International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
UNAIDS
May 14, 2012
Message from UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé
Analysis: Health by numbers: A statistician's challenge
Reuters New Media
May 14, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - The next time a headline tells of a sharp fall in measles deaths around the world, or an increase in those on treatment for HIV, or the shifting of the burden of cancer, spare a thought for the number-crunchers behind such far-reaching data.Above all else, analyzing the ...
SOUTH CAROLINA: Seeking Serenity: Church to Raise HIV/AIDS Awareness at Anniversary of Garden of Peace, Remembrance
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2012
The Victory Tabernacle Church’s Serenity Garden for people coping with HIV/AIDS will celebrate its fifth anniversary on May 17.
Patent expires on landmark HIV drug Combivir
Miscellaneous News
May 14, 2012
The patent on the landmark HIV/AIDS drug Combivir will expire on May 15, but there's already a far less expensive generic version of the drug on the market. The FDA approved Combivir (lamivudine/zidovudine) in 1997, greatly changing the treatment of HIV/AIDS. It was the first drug to combine two widely-used ...
NIH statement on HIV Vaccine Awareness Day - May 18, 2012
NIAID News
May 14, 2012
There is a growing consensus that we can significantly curtail the HIV/AIDS pandemic by implementing scientifically proven HIV prevention strategies, such as voluntary medically supervised adult male circumcision, prevention of mother-to-child transmission and treatment as prevention.
Data on HIV/AIDS Described by Researchers at University of Liverpool
AIDS Weekly Plus
May 14, 2012
According to the authors of a study from Liverpool, United Kingdom, "Treatment of HIV/malaria-coinfected patients with antiretroviral therapy (ART) and artemisinin-based combination therapy has potential for drug interactions. We investigated ...
UNITED STATES: Violence Linked to Risky Sexual Behavior
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2012
A new study finds that women who witness crimes in their neighborhood or are victims of abuse are more likely to participate in risky sexual behavior.
NORTH KOREA: N. Korean Leader Grappling with STDs
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2012
A booming prostitution trade may be contributing to a growing number of STD cases in North Korea, an online publication monitoring the impoverished country reports. According to News Focus, the regime had directed Pyongyang’s ...
Op-ed: A Call for Innovation in HIV/AIDS Fund-raising
Miscellaneous News
May 14, 2012
AIDS Project Los Angeles announces Concrete Hero Urban Obstacle Challenge as one way of rallying new support.
This July in downtown Los Angeles, HIV/AIDS fund-raising will take on a bold new look. Activists will leap over cars, swing above oozing tar pits, and scale over signs as they raise awareness and funding to help fight the epidemic.
Researchers from Federal University Describe Findings in HIV/AIDS and Candidiasis
AIDS Weekly Plus
May 14, 2012
New research, "Morphological changes in the digestive system of 93 human immunodeficiency virus positive patients: an autopsy study," is the subject of a report. "Involvement of the digestive system in patients with acquired immunodeficiency ...
INDONESIA: Indonesia, US Vow to Strengthen Partnership on Combating Tuberculosis
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2012
The United States is working with Indonesia to fight TB, especially multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB), according to local media in Jakarta. As part of its efforts, the United States has pledged it will send 17 GeneXpert machines ...
UNITED STATES: FDA Panel Recommends Gilead's Quad for HIV
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2012
A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Friday voted 13-1 to recommend Gilead Sciences Inc.’s Quad pill for people with HIV who have never been treated. However, the independent experts said patients taking the drug should be monitored for possible kidney problems, and they urged more research to assess the safety of Quad for women, who were under-represented in clinical trials.
TENNESSEE: Tennessee Governor Signs Controversial 'Gateway Sexual Activity' Bill
CDC HIV/AIDS/Viral Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update
May 14, 2012
Gov. Bill Haslam’s office confirmed Friday he has signed a bill that prohibits sex education instructors from discussing “gateway sexual activities.” Teachers or outside speakers could face fines of up to $500 for promoting or condoning ...
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National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day :May 19th
May 19 is National Asian and Pacific Islander (API) HIV/AIDS Awareness Day.
The Banyan Tree Project
—a national campaign to end the silence and shame surrounding HIV/AIDS in Asian and Pacific Islander communities—is the lead for this day. This year’s theme is “Saving face can't make you safe. Talk about HIV--for me, for you, for everyone.”
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day :May 18th
National Institutes of Health’s
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
is the lead for this day.
NIAID’s HIV Vaccine
Awareness Day web site contains many resources. Also visit bethegeneration.nih.gov to find local events and more
resources.
Read and share this 2011 press statement by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director,
NIAID, NIH.
Orange County AIDS Walk :
Disneyland Resort will once again serve as the venue for
AIDS Walk Orange County.
The 26th annual walk takes place Sunday, May 6.
Five thousand supporters are expected to attend and enjoy the magical route through
Disneyland park, Disney California Adventure park and Downtown Disney. The walk
is scheduled to begin at 7:00 a.m.
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