It’s December 1st and this means it’s World Aids Day, a special day to remember that HIV is a dreadful virus that needs to be under control. Although the HIV virus has been known for a few decades now, there isn’t a cure for the deadly disease AIDS caused by the virus. The red ribbon [...]
On December 31, 2008, a reported 20,606 state prisoners and 1,538 federal prisoners were HIV positive or had confirmed AIDS, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, announced. At yearend 2008, an estimated 5,672 inmates in state and federal prisons had confirmed AIDS, down from 5,762 [...]
AVAC Report Assesses Progress in AIDS Vaccine, Microbicide and PrEP Research and Calls for Urgent Coordination and Leadership in Advance of Upcoming Results “It’s an exciting time in HIV prevention research. We will see results from a number of critically important HIV prevention research trials this year, as well as see the start of new [...]