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Pope Feels Close to PWAs, Stays Mum on Condoms
November 30, 2005—Pope Benedict feels close to people with AIDS and their families, according to a statement he made today in honor of tomorrow’s World AIDS Day.

India Sticks by "Impossible" HIV Drop
November 30, 2005—India’s health minister defended his country’s claim today of a 95% drop in annual HIV growth, which the United Nations has cited as “plainly impossible.”

November 29, 2005

Kaletra Monotherapy Shows Promise Again
November 29, 2005—In a small Spanish study, 81% of positive people maintained control of their HIV by taking Kaletra (a boosted protease inhibitor) alone for 72 weeks.

Miss Positive Russia?
November 29, 2005—Russia’s surgeon general has hatched a World AIDS Day plan for a Miss Positive 2005 beauty pageant, according to Interfax news service.

November 28, 2005

GSK Plans Experimental HIV Vaccine
November 28, 2005—Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) hopes to develop an HIV vaccine by fusing HIV genes onto an existing measles vaccine—with the help of France’s Institut Pasteur, GSK announced today.

HIV Up By Half In China
November 28, 2005—China reported today that the number of HIV cases hit 135,630 in September, more than a 50 percent increase over last September’s 89,067 count.

November 23, 2005

Whitman-Walker Gets $ome
November 23, 2005—Congress came through last week with a badly needed $650,000 for Washington, DC’s beleaguered Whitman-Walker Clinic.

Why Do Babies Get HIV?
November 23, 2005—A new study offers an explanation for why HIV is so commonly transmitted to babies during birth: Small amounts of blood seem to leak from the mom’s placenta during labor.

November 22, 2005

S. Africa Health Minister Shames and Blames
November 22, 2005—In response to yesterday’s UN report criticizing South Africa for treatment failures, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang laid blame today with the pre-1994 apartheid government.

Americans Don’t Trust HIV Vaccines
November 22, 2005—In a random phone survey, only 29% said they’d support someone they know enrolling in an HIV vaccine trial, according to the December 15 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

November 21, 2005

Interview: Michael Barnathan
POZ interviewed Rent co-producer Michael Barnathan earlier this year about the November 2005 release of the film. Here are a few excerpts from that conversation:

2005: Biggest Rise Yet in HIV Infections
November 21, 2005—Almost 5 million people were infected with HIV this year, according to a UN report released Monday, the highest number of new cases since the virus first appeared in 1981.

November 17, 2005

AIDS Warning on Bird Flu
November 17, 2005—People with AIDS-compromised immune systems could help spread the deadly bird flu, U.S. doc Robert Webster, MD, warned yesterday.

Two New HIV Meds Tested Together
November 17, 2005—Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd. announced today the opening of a phase III trial for experimental non-nuke TMC125—in conjunction with another experimental drug, Tibotec’s TMC114 protease inhibitor.

November 16, 2005

Libya Proposed Death Row Deal
November 16, 2005—Bulgaria’s foreign minister said yesterday that Libya had offered to exchange an officer imprisoned in Britain for the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing with the Bulgarian medics on Libya’s death row for allegedly infecting more than 400 kids with HIV.

November 15, 2005

Massachusetts House OKs Syringe Sales
November 15, 2005—Massachusetts’ House voted to legalize over-the-counter needles yesterday, moving the legislature toward a possible conflict with Governor Mitt Romney, who says syringe sales fuel drug use.

Creatine Makes HIV Men Bigger, Not Stronger
November 15, 2005—Body builders’ dietary supplement of choice, Creatine, can increase lean body mass in HIV positive men, but it does little to help build strength during weight training.

November 14, 2005

London Man: I Beat HIV
November 14, 2005—A 25-year-old Scot named Andrew Stimpson wowed the British press over the weekend with his claim of having completely cleared his body of HIV.

Warning on Skin Med
November 14, 2005—People with HIV shouldn’t use the psoriasis drug Amevive because it can speed up HIV infection, according to a warning issued Monday by drug-maker Biogen and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

November 11, 2005

FDA: Condoms Work...Sometimes
November 11, 2005—The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday deemed latex condoms highly effective against HIV, gonorrhea, chlamydia and hepatitis B, though less effective against genital herpes, HPV and syphilis.

Drug Trials End Sooner
November 11, 2005—Pharma companies are ending successful drug trials earlier than they used to and then failing to report “relevant information” about drugs released onto the market, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association.

November 10, 2005

AZT Shortage?
November 10, 2005—AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest U.S. AIDS org, sounded an alarm today about a worldwide shortage of AZT, which is a component of the popular meds Combivir and Trizivir.

Why Celebs Still Care
November 10, 2005—Celebrities cite the AIDS deaths of friends in art, music and fashion as one of the main reasons for attending and hosting glamorous AIDS benefits, according to a story in today’s New York Times.

November 09, 2005

HIV on the Brain
November 9, 2005—An October study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported that HIV can damage brain tissue even when you’re on HIV meds.

Magic Says HIV Is Blessing and Curse
November 9, 2005—HIV positive basketball superstar Magic Johnson says his HIV has been a blessing and a curse.

November 08, 2005

HIV Makes Malaria Worse
November 8, 2005—People living with HIV are three times more likely to develop severe malaria than HIV negatives, according to South African research published in December 1’s Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Russian Syringe Stabber on the Loose!
November 8, 2005—A Russian man sticking strangers with a syringe has been menacing the citizens of Ekaterinburg, feeding a national panic about intentional HIV transmission.

November 07, 2005

Senate Votes on HIV Medicaid
November 7, 2005—The Senate passed a little-noticed amendment to a budget bill last week that would overturn a rule barring poor people with HIV from getting Medicaid unless they have full-blown AIDS.

November 04, 2005

FDA Debates Home HIV Tests
November 4, 2005—A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel heard arguments for and against a 20-minute home HIV test yesterday, a debate weighing the benefits of getting more people into treatment against the lack of counseling for those testing positive.

21 Years for Not Disclosing to Women
November 4, 2005—An HIV positive Washington, DC, man was sentenced to 21 years in jail yesterday after allegedly infecting four women and girls without disclosing his status.

November 03, 2005

Alito Voted Against Workplace Rights for HIV Positives
November 3, 2005—Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito helped write a 1986 Justice Department decision in favor of firing people with HIV from the workplace if and when they test positive, Tuesday's Washington Post reported.

Moms on Combos Have Smaller Babies
November 3, 2005—Babies born to moms on HIV combos measure smaller in height, weight and head size than babies born to moms taking one med or no meds, according to the European Collaborative Study, published in this month’s Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

November 02, 2005

Bulgarian Medics in Libya: Free at Last?
November 2, 2005—Five Bulgarian medics and a Palestinian doc, all on death row in Libya for allegedly infecting 400 Libyan children with HIV, may soon go free, according to Arab diplomats close to the Libyan government.

Texas Medicaid to Cover Resistance Testing
November 2, 2005—The Texas Medicaid program will cover tests to determine whether HIV positive folks are resistant to specific HIV drugs, test-maker Monogram Biosciences announced today.

November 01, 2005

HIV Kills Poor People Faster
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005—Without health insurance or routine medical care, poor Americans with HIV die faster than wealthier positive people...

Football Fuss
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005—The Canadian Football League is in a tizzy after learning that Saskatchewan Roughrider Trevis Smith knew he was HIV positive...

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