AIDS Alert Archives – September 1, 2010
September 1, 2010
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Game on: Athletes, researchers reach youth with active education
Thirty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic the grandchildren of the first generation impacted by AIDS have little interest in the disease. -
Ball game shows kids how HIV attacks
The Grassroot Project program was adapted from curriculum implemented across sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, where it was more commonly known as Grassroot Soccer. -
Research suggests new path to HIV prevention
Investigators are studying the way antiretroviral (ART) drugs penetrate the body, particularly focusing on the genital tracts to examine the potential for these drugs to impact the areas where HIV transmission most often occurs. -
Drug concentrations as measure of ART adherence
Adherence is one of the largest variables in the concentrations achieved of antiretrovirals (ARTs). -
Special Focus: Occupational HIV in the emergency room
Preventing HIV transmission from patients to health care providers has been the subject of extensive research throughout the course of the HIV epidemic. -
Abstract & Commentary: Treatment update: HIV and HCV co-infection
Data for 64 HIV/HCV co-infected patients treated in a prospective study of pegylated IFN alpha + RBV were analyzed. -
FDA Notifications: Generic Zidovudine injection approved
The FDA has granted approval to a generic formulation of zidovudine injection USP, 10 mg/mL, packaged in 200 mg/20 mL single-use vials, manufactured by Pharmaforce Inc., of Columbus, OH.