Category: Aids

Indonesia’s vast Papua in the grip of Asia’s worst AIDS crisis

Friday, 28 November, 2008 04:19 Written by admin

papua_aids WAMENA, Indonesia (AFP) — Gaunt and covered in sores, 20-year-old Christina Mabele is a rarity in the ballooning AIDS crisis that has hit the remote Papua region in eastern Indonesia: she knows why she is sick.

Sitting in a hospice in this highlands town, which much of the time is only accessible to the outside world by plane, Mabele might get treatment in time.

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USAID puts $100 million toward AIDS gel research

Monday, 08 September, 2008 19:22 Written by admin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Agency for International Development has offered $100 million to the Eastern Virginia Medical School to work on a gel that might protect men and women from the AIDS virus, the school said on Monday.

The money, $20 million a year for five years, will be used to help pay for trials of several so-called microbicides — gels or creams that could be applied vaginally or rectally to protect people from infection.

While several experimental microbicides have failed, the team at Eastern Virginia Medical School’s CONRAD program is working on two using HIV drugs: Gilead Sciences Inc’s tenofovir and an experimental drug called UC781.

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