Video: Rethinking HIV Risk for Black Men Having Sex with Men

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:02:30 +0000

This year, the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project or CHAMP presented a forum at the Center in NY on Rethinking HIV Risk for Black Men Having Sex with Men. Speakers included Kenyon Farrow from CHAMP, Greg Millet from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Tokes Osubu from Gay Men of African Descent (GMAD), and Michael Angelo Robeson from People of Color in Crisis (POCC).

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HIV vaccine achievement bewilders researchers

vincent — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:00:37 +0000

Blend of two failures cuts AIDS risk by 31%

by thestar.com

BANGKOK–Scientists said they were thrilled – but nonetheless baffled – that a developmental AIDS vaccine has shown significant success.

Test results released here yesterday showed the vaccine – a combination of two vaccines that have not worked in humans before – cut the risk of becoming infected with HIV by more than 31 per cent.

It was the world’s largest AIDS vaccine trial of more than 16,000 volunteers in Thailand.

“I don’t want to use a word like `breakthrough,’ but I don’t think there’s any doubt that this is a very important result,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is one of the trial’s backers.

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Video: Rethinking HIV Risk for Black Men Having Sex with Men

HIV vaccine achievement bewilders researchers

Blend of two failures cuts AIDS risk by 31%