• Why does HIV-1 have to integrate? [erv]

    Updated: 2010-09-30 06:00:54
    Now on ScienceBlogs : Engineering Hybrid Silks Last 24 Hrs Life Science Physical Science Environment Humanities Education Politics Medicine Brain Behavior Technology Information Science Jobs erv If we're made in Gods image , God's made of gag , pol , and . env Latest Posts Archives About Blogroll RSS Contact Search Profile I'm a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations . I also study epigenetic control of ERVs . Recent Posts Why does HIV-1 have to integrate Endogenous non-retroviral retroviruses : Hepadnaviruses in the bird genome This is a post on ERV Food is not medicine : Vitamin D You put the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble : CDC , HIV , and the homo gay We are exposed to more viruses as we age . In other words , A

  • Endogenous non-retroviral retroviruses: Hepadnaviruses in the bird genome [erv]

    Updated: 2010-09-29 19:00:49
    : Now on ScienceBlogs : Engineering Hybrid Silks Last 24 Hrs Life Science Physical Science Environment Humanities Education Politics Medicine Brain Behavior Technology Information Science Jobs erv If we're made in Gods image , God's made of gag , pol , and . env Latest Posts Archives About Blogroll RSS Contact Search Profile I'm a graduate student studying the molecular and biochemical evolution of HIV within patients and within populations . I also study epigenetic control of ERVs . Recent Posts Why does HIV-1 have to integrate Endogenous non-retroviral retroviruses : Hepadnaviruses in the bird genome This is a post on ERV Food is not medicine : Vitamin D You put the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble : CDC , HIV , and the homo gay We are exposed to more viruses as we age . In other words , A

  • Tell Us: What Does the AIDS Community of Illinois Need Right Now?

    Updated: 2010-09-29 17:32:40
      This year, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) has been traveling around the state to solicit input from people living with HIV/AIDS, service providers, and other community members about the most pressing issues facing the HIV/AIDS community. The invaluable feedback we are gathering will help us to create the 2011-2012 Illinois HIV/AIDS Policy Priorities. read more

  • Lessons from IAC 2010, a Clinical Context Report

    Updated: 2010-09-29 15:47:38
    In this exclusive video report, Michael Smith reviews some of the most important news out of this summer's International AIDS Conference in Vienna with a leading expert in the field. Here's a transcript of their discussion.

  • Slides & Abstracts from the 4th International Workshop on HIV Persistence during Therapy

    Updated: 2010-09-29 15:10:24

  • 2nd Global Forum on TB Vaccines concludes, looks to the future

    Updated: 2010-09-29 10:02:19
    The following post is by Annmarie Leadman, Director of Communications at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation and Babs Verblackt, Associate Communications at TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative – TBVI. Christine Sizemore of the U.S. National Institutes of Health called on the TB vaccine research field to challenge dogma and to think outside the box as scientists [...]

  • Neurological Risks of HIV Remain High

    Updated: 2010-09-29 05:30:00
    People with HIV remain at a surprisingly high risk of neurological disorders -- ranging from neuropathy to dementia -- despite the success of combination antiretroviral therapy, researchers reported.

  • HHS Convenes Second Meeting of NHAS Implementation Group

    Updated: 2010-09-28 23:38:34
    By Ron Valdiserri, M.D., M.P.H, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Infectious Diseases, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Working towards the December 9 deadline for submitting its National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) implementation plan to the White House, the Department...

  • Changing How We Think about HIV Awareness

    Updated: 2010-09-28 22:39:55
    By Deb LeBel, AIDS.gov Partnerships Specialist AIDS.gov funded 17 organizations serving communities of color, other communities at highest risk of HIV, and people living with HIV. The funding was intended to stimulate and support the organizations' efforts to use new...

  • Live webcast of hearing on PEPFAR – Wednesday Sept. 29

    Updated: 2010-09-28 19:16:18
    Wednesday morning, September 29, the controversy over the Obama approach to funding AIDS programs will get a full airing during a congressional hearing on U.S. global AIDS policy.  At 9:30 a.m., the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing entitled “PEPFAR: From Emergency to Sustainability and Advances Against HIV/AIDS,”  in room 2172 of the Rayburn House [...]

  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID, Statement on National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

    Updated: 2010-09-27 22:41:38
    . , , Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs Pistol Pete's blog Dr . Anthony Fauci , Director of NIAID , Statement on National Gay Men's HIV AIDS Awareness Day Dr . Anthony Fauci , Director of NIAID , Statement on National Gay Men's HIV AIDS Awareness Day By Pistol Pete Posted on 27 September 2010 The third annual National Gay Men’s HIV AIDS Awareness Day on Sept . 27, 2010, marks an occasion to reflect on how profoundly HIV AIDS has affected gay and bisexual men . It also is a fitting time to recognize how much this group has influenced the development and implementation of strategies to prevent and treat the virus and the . disease The HIV AIDS epidemic continues to exact a terrible

  • AFC Recommends More Frequent HIV Testing for Gay Men

    Updated: 2010-09-27 21:41:51
    Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs aidsconnect's blog AFC Recommends More Frequent HIV Testing for Gay Men AFC Recommends More Frequent HIV Testing for Gay Men By aidsconnect Posted on 27 September 2010 On this , National Gay Men’s HIV AIDS Awareness Day , AIDS Foundation of Chicago calls for more frequent HIV testing among gay men and a re-doubling of efforts to combat the epidemic among this most-impacted population . The U.S . Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC reported on September 23 that approximately one in five gay men in 21 American cities are HIV-positive , and 44 were unaware of their status . Chicago released its data from this study in July 2009 and found

  • Clinical research fellows educate lawmakers on value of global HIV/TB programs

    Updated: 2010-09-27 19:47:01
    Eleven current and former Fogarty International and Doris Duke clinical research fellows made their way to Capitol Hill Thursday for congressional office visits with key legislators. The Center for Global Health Policy staff escorted the group to meetings with the offices of 15 policymakers. The fellows highlighted their research experience abroad through the Fogarty and [...]

  • Focusing HIV Prevention Efforts on Gay and Bisexual Men

    Updated: 2010-09-27 15:26:58
    By Brian Bond, Deputy Director of Public Liasion (Cross-posted from the Office of National AIDS Policy Blog) Today is National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. For me, every day is an “awareness day” about HIV/AIDS. I feel it is important...

  • National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

    Updated: 2010-09-27 14:25:42
    By Howard K. Koh, M.D., M.P.H, Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Dr. Howard Koh, HHS Since the first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981, gay men have been in the eye of the...

  • TB vaccine advocates assess efforts to raise TB vaccine support

    Updated: 2010-09-27 11:00:00
    The following post is by Annmarie Leadman, Director of Communications at the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, and Babs Verblackt, Associate Communications at TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative – TBVI Knowledge about the global tuberculosis epidemic is misunderstood and will only change with greater understanding of the disease, said TB advocates during a facilitated discussion on TB [...]

  • How stress controls our genes

    Updated: 2010-09-25 15:26:04
    Stress has become a main disease states in the developed world. But what is stress? It depends on from where you look. You may experience stress as something that affects your entire body and mind, the causes of which are plentiful. But if we zoom in on the building bricks of the body, our cells, stress and its causes are defined somewhat differently. Stress can arise at the cellular level after exposure to pollution, tobacco smoke, bacterial toxins etc, where stressed cells have to react to survive and maintain their normal function. In worst case scenario, cellular stress can lead to development of disease........

  • Vote Naked Illinois!

    Updated: 2010-09-24 18:11:56
    Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs Pistol Pete's blog Vote Naked Illinois Vote Naked Illinois By Pistol Pete Posted on 24 September 2010 To highlight a change in Illinois election law anyone eligible to vote can now do so by absentee ballot starting September 23 the advocacy group Equality Illinois has come up with a pretty amusing video as part of their new Vote Naked Illinois” . campaign According to Vote Naked’s Facebook page For the first time ever , you may now vote by mail from home . No need to go to the polls , wait in line , or even put on pants . Check out the video and if you're in Illinois , check out Vote Naked's Facebook page to vote by mail Pistol Pete's blog Login

  • New TB Vaccine In Clinical Trial

    Updated: 2010-09-24 04:30:30
    At an international gathering of TB vaccine scientists in Tallinn today, the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation announced it will initiate a clinical trial of an investigational live recombinant tuberculosis vaccine to be led by scientists at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The announcement was made at the Second Global Forum on TB Vaccine Development........

  • Youth, New Media, and HIV/AIDS: amfAR Congressional Briefing

    Updated: 2010-09-23 23:07:00
    By Miguel Gomez, AIDS.gov Director Lynne Mofenson, NIH, Margarita Figueroa-Gonzalez, HRSA, & Miguel Gomez, AIDS.gov Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in a Congressional briefing sponsored by amfAR , HIV/AIDS and Youth: Moving Toward an HIV-Free Generation . During...

  • What We’re Reading

    Updated: 2010-09-23 22:12:17
    The ONE campaign has launched a campaign to ensure that by 2015, no child is born with HIV (campaign video accompanies this post). Erin Hohlfelder has a great post on the ONE blog explaining how we can accomplish that goal. Alanna Shaikh discusses the “corporatization of global health” on the End the Neglect blog this week. [...]

  • In Nepal, a new TB challenge

    Updated: 2010-09-23 15:52:52
    KATHMANDU, Nepal – In a walk-up doctor’s office, off a busy street in Kathmandu, Dr. Dirgh Singh Bam sees patients every day in relative anonymity. His walls, though, reveal a history of being in the limelight: plaques and ribbons and framed photographs covering every inch, highlighting Dr. Bam’s efforts in leading Nepal’s TB control program [...]

  • America Wins on the New Patient's Bill of Rights

    Updated: 2010-09-22 20:26:52
    You probably know by now that we're totally jazzed about health care reform. The insurance industry has been allowed to openly and legally discriminate against people with HIV and other chronic illnesses but that's coming to an end. read more

  • Rob Hecht talks prevention: Thoughts on UNAIDS data showing HIV prevalence decline

    Updated: 2010-09-22 17:36:35
    Dr. Robert Hecht is Principal and Managing Director at Results for Development Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works on health, development, and education issues. He is editor of the just-published “Costs and Choices: Financing the Long-Term Fight Against AIDS,” an aids2031 project. Hecht spoke with John Donnelly about the recent UNAIDS report that showed [...]

  • Film shows effort to massively ramp up HIV testing in Kenya

    Updated: 2010-09-22 11:00:42
    In the lead up to this week’s MDG Summit, health experts discussed integration of HIV/AIDS programs with other health programs at a special event in Washington, DC.  David Hoos, MD, of Columbia University’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP), one of the largest PEPFAR implementers, spoke on the panel, which was sponsored [...]

  • J&J Seeks to Boost Vaccine Capabilities

    Updated: 2010-09-21 21:50:28
    Johnson & Johnson (J&J New Brunswick, NJ) announced last week that it was in “advanced negotiations” for a potential public offer for the Dutch biopharmaceutical company Crucell (Leiden, The Netherlands). Although not yet making a formal bid, J&J said it would consider an offer of EUR 24.75 ($32.49) per ...

  • Tackling TB to reach MDG targets: The promise of new vaccines

    Updated: 2010-09-21 21:36:10
    The following is a guest blog posting by Peg Willingham, the Senior Director of the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation. World leaders are meeting at the United Nations in New York this week to discuss the ambitious global poverty reduction agenda set forth in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).  With five years left in the timeline [...]

  • Volunteer to Save Our State at the 2010 AIDS Run and Walk

    Updated: 2010-09-20 19:05:37
    Gearing up for the 2010 AIDS Run/Walk? Wanna add a sailor hat into the mix? This year, AFC’s policy department will be gearing up sailor-style to Save Our State. The-Titanic-is-sinking-themed tent will urge event participants to learn more about Illinois’ budget crisis and how they can fight to change it - plus folks can play our Save to State game and win a free t-shirt! read more

  • Study Spells End of the Road for One Anti-HIV Gel

    Updated: 2010-09-19 23:30:00
    A microbicide gel -- PRO2000 -- aimed at preventing HIV infection in women was ineffective, despite promising early clinical trials, researchers reported.

  • FDA Panel Votes ‘No’ on Arena’s Obesity Drug

    Updated: 2010-09-17 23:43:50
    The US Food and Drug Administration’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee yesterday voted 9–5 against approval of Arena Pharmaceuticals’ (San Diego) appetite-curbing drug candidate lorcaserin hydrochloride. The panel believed that the risks outweigh the benefits of the drug for the treatment of obesity. Concerns focused on increased rates of ...

  • Getting to the Guts of Immune Control

    Updated: 2010-09-16 20:00:21

  • How bacteria acquire immunity

    Updated: 2010-09-16 15:39:30
    In a newly released study this week, Rice University researchers bring the latest tools of computational biology to bear in examining how the processes of natural selection and evolution influence the way bacteria acquire immunity from disease. The study is available online from Physical Review Letters It builds upon a main discoveries made possible by molecular genetics in the past decade -- the revelation that bacteria and similar single-celled organisms have an acquired immune system........

  • Chloroquine May Temper Immune Activation

    Updated: 2010-09-15 21:12:11

  • Losing Immunological Naivete

    Updated: 2010-09-14 21:51:47

  • What's Love Got to Do with It?A Free Forum on HIV Infection within Gay Relationships, September 21 at Center on Halsted

    Updated: 2010-09-14 21:48:07
    , Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here What's Love Got to Do with It A Free Forum on HIV Infection within Gay Relationships , September 21 at Center on Halsted What's Love Got to Do with It A Free Forum on HIV Infection within Gay Relationships , September 21 at Center on Halsted Use the Events Calender to find out what's happening in your community . Everyone is encouraged to view the calendar listings , but only registered members may post an . event By Pistol Pete Posted on 14 September 2010 Date : nbsp 09 21 2010 6:00pm 9:00pm Please join LifeLube and the Chicago Development Center for AIDS Research for What’s Love Got to Do with It Discover the link between relationships and HIV

  • Making the Most of Election Day

    Updated: 2010-09-14 18:30:27
    Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs aidsconnect's blog Making the Most of Election Day Making the Most of Election Day By aidsconnect Posted on 14 September 2010 Tis the season . Election season , that is Are you ready to do your civic duty The November 2 General Election is just around the corner and important deadlines for voters are fast approaching . Here are three easy ways to make the most of your election : day 1. Make sure you’re registered to vote Did you move Change your name Turn 18 Look up your voter status at the Illinois State Board of Elections website . nbsp Get your voter reg form in the mail and postmarked by October 5. If you miss this deadline you can register

  • AIDS Community Remembers Lonnie Fulton

    Updated: 2010-09-14 15:07:06
    Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here AIDS Community Remembers Lonnie Fulton AIDS Community Remembers Lonnie Fulton Use the Events Calender to find out what's happening in your community . Everyone is encouraged to view the calendar listings , but only registered members may post an . event By aidsconnect Posted on 14 September 2010 Date : nbsp 09 17 2010 10:00am 12:00pm Community Advocate Lonnie Fulton passed away on September 9, 2010. His fellow members of the AIDS Housing Advisory Council had these words to share : nbsp Susan Armstrong Lonnie was a great mentor my first effort at public speaking was with him . nbsp Fernando Blasco He was an honest man , a wonderful person and very

  • Searching for Signs of TB Activation

    Updated: 2010-09-13 18:55:55

  • HIV This Week Issue #84

    Updated: 2010-09-12 20:00:00
    Welcome to the 84th issue of HIV This Week!  n this issue, we cover the following topics: 1. Injecting Drug Use A clarion call to evidence-informed, rights-based action on HIV and drug use 2. Female condomread more

  • Injecting Drug Use

    Updated: 2010-09-12 19:00:00
    Time to act: a call for comprehensive responses to HIV in people who use drugs Beyrer C, Malinowska-Sempruch K, Kamarulzaman A, Kazatchkine M, Sidibe M, Strathdee SA. Lancet. 2010; 376:551-63.read more

  • Biomedical prevention tools: female condom

    Updated: 2010-09-12 18:00:00
    The female condom: the international denial of a strong potential. Peters A, Jansen W, van Driel F. Reprod Health Matters. 2010;18:119-28.read more

  • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission

    Updated: 2010-09-12 17:00:00
    Potential impact of new WHO criteria for antiretroviral treatment for prevention of mother-to- child HIV transmission. Kuhn L, Aldrovandi GM, Sinkala M, Kankasa C, Mwiya M, Thea DM. AIDS. 2010;24:1374-7.read more

  • Health care providers

    Updated: 2010-09-12 16:00:00
    Nurse versus doctor management of HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (CIPRA-SA): a randomised non-inferiority trial. Sanne I, Orrell C, Fox MP, Conradie F, Ive P, Zeinecker J, Cornell M, Heiberg C, Ingram C, Panchia R, Rassool M, Gonin R, Stevens W, Truter H, Dehlinger M, vander Horst C, McIntyre J, Wood R; CIPRA-SA Study Team. Lancet. 2010;376:33-40.read more

  • Penile Hygiene

    Updated: 2010-09-12 15:00:00
    Genital hygiene practices of fishermen targeted for a topical microbicide intervention against sexually transmitted infections in Kisumu, Kenya Kwena ZA, Bukusi EA, Gorbach P, Sharma A, Sang NM, Holmes KK. Int J STD AIDS. 2010;21:435-40.read more

  • Economics

    Updated: 2010-09-12 14:00:00
    Macroeconomic impact of HIV: the need for better modelling. Lamontagne E, Haacker M, Ventelou B, Greener R. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2010;5:249-54.read more

  • Sexual transmission

    Updated: 2010-09-12 12:00:00
    Heterosexual HIV-1 transmission after initiation of antiretroviral therapy: a prospective cohort analysis Donnell D, Baeten JM, Kiarie J, Thomas KK, Stevens W, Cohen CR, McIntyre J, Lingappa JR, Celum C; Partners in Prevention HSV/HIV Transmission Study Team.Lancet. 2010;375:2092-8.read more

  • Male Circumcision

    Updated: 2010-09-12 11:00:00
    A model for the roll-out of comprehensive adult male circumcision services in African low-income settings of high HIV incidence: the ANRS 12126 Bophelo Pele Project. Lissouba P, Taljaard D, Rech D, Doyle S, Shabangu D, Nhlapo C, Otchere-Darko J, Mashigo T, Matson C, Lewis D, Billy S, Auvert B. PLoS Med. 2010;7(7):e1000309.read more

  • Sexual transmission

    Updated: 2010-09-12 01:00:00
    Weighing the gold in the gold standard: challenges in HIV prevention research Padian NS, McCoy SI, Balkus JE, Wasserheit JN. AIDS. 2010;24:621-35.read more

  • Genetic variation linked to lupus

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:50
    Genes reside along long chains of DNA called chromosomes. UCLA scientists have observed that a variation in a gene on the sex chromosome X may enhance an immune response that leads to lupus in men. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease that predominantly affects women. Interestingly, scientists observed that eventhough the variation occurred in a gene on the X, or female, chromosome, its influence was stronger in men than in women. Humans hold two sex chromosomes men have an X and Y, while women have two Xs. Prior studies have shown that genetic variations on the X chromosome contribute to the development of lupus........

  • Apixaban for prevention of stroke

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:50
    The data monitoring committee of the AVERROES study, seeing overwhelming evidence of the success of apixaban in the prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation who are unsuitable for the conventional therapy of warfarin, has recommended early termination of this study. The decision came after repeated review and careful consideration of all efficacy and safety data........

  • Large risk schizophrenia marker

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:49
    A group of researchers has identified a genetic variant that substantially increases the risk for developing schizophrenia in Ashkenazi Jewish and other populations. The study, published by Cell Press on August 5th in the American Journal of Human Genetics, associates a deletion on chromosome 3 with increased occurence rate of schizophrenia........

  • How stem cells determine what tissue to become

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:48
    Within 24 hours of culturing adult human stem cells on a new type of matrix, University of Michigan scientists were able to make predictions about how the cells would differentiate, or what type of tissue they would become. Their results are reported in the Aug. 1 edition of Nature Methods Differentiation is the process of stem cells morphing into other types of cells. Understanding it is key to developing future stem cell-based regenerative therapies........

  • Smoking influences gene function

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:48
    In the largest study of its kind, scientists at the Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (SFBR) have observed that exposure to cigarette smoke can alter gene expression -- the process by which a gene's information is converted into the structures and functions of a cell. These alterations in response to smoking appear to have a wide-ranging negative influence on the immune system, and a strong involvement in processes correlation to cancer, cell death and metabolism........

  • Vitamin B3 to treat fungal infections

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:47
    A team of researchers from the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of the University of Montreal have identified vitamin B3 as a potential antifungal therapy. Led by IRIC Principal Investigators Martine Raymond, Alain Verreault and Pierre Thibault, in collaboration with Alaka Mullick, from the Biotechnology Research Institute of the National Research Council Canada, the study is the subject of a recent article in Nature Medicine.......

  • Changing the cancer cell to respond to tamoxifen

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:46
    Using a small molecule decoy, researchers funded by the Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation have managed to block protein interactions and induce epigenetic reprogramming in human and mouse breast cancer cells, essentially changing the gene expression of breast cancer cells to behave in a more normal manner. The research illustrates what may perhaps become an effective targeted epigenetic treatment in breast cancer. Interestingly, the targeted therapy showed exciting results in triple-negative breast cancer cells, reverting their function and appearance, and sensitizing them to tamoxifen and retinoids........

  • DNA mutation as cause of cancer

    Updated: 2010-09-09 02:53:45
    What if we could understand why cancer develops? We know that certain risk factors, such as smoking or excessive sun exposure, can increase the chances of developing this terrible disease, but cancer can form in any tissue, and the cause is not always clear. One idea that has emerged is that for a cell to transform into a cancer cell it must suffer a large number of mutations affecting different genes needed to control cell growth. As per a research findings published this week in Science, Brandeis University scientists have observed that the process of repairing DNA damage also unexpectedly increases the rate of mutations and changes the kinds of mutations that arise........

  • New HIV Cases High Among French MSM

    Updated: 2010-09-08 23:30:00
    HIV appears to be out of control among French men who have sex with men (MSM), researchers reported.

  • Nevirapine Reuse Possible in Exposed Children With HIV

    Updated: 2010-09-07 21:00:00
    In most HIV-infected children being exposed at birth to nevirapine (Viramune) doesn't rule out using the drug again later, researchers reported.

  • Kids on HAART Would Benefit from Revaccinations

    Updated: 2010-09-04 15:00:00
    Children with HIV who received standard childhood immunizations before starting on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) could benefit from revaccination, a review suggests.

  • Uninsured? HIV+? Moderate-income? New health insurance option!

    Updated: 2010-09-03 00:35:30
    Search this site : Home About Us I Need . PEER Education Community Blog Calendar HIV AIDS News Job Volunteer Board Contact Us You are here Blogs John Peller's blog Uninsured HIV+ Moderate-income New health insurance option Uninsured HIV+ Moderate-income New health insurance option By John Peller Posted on 02 September 2010 The Illinois Department of Insurance recently launched the new Illinois Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan IPXP The plan is designed for uninsured people with HIV and other preexisting conditions including hepatitis , cancer , diabetes , heart disease and others Because the plan is federally subsidized , the premiums are much more affordable than other high-risk insurance plans . nbsp This is one of the first provisions of the federal health reform law that is helping

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