UNICEF correspondent Amy Bennett reports on a UNICEF-supported centre's efforts to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS in Côte d'Ivoire.

President of FC Barcelona Joan Laporta talks about the clubs' pledge of 10 million dollars over the next five years to assist UNICEF in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Bloemen reports on how early diagnosis of infants in Malawi is helping to stem the tide of HIV/AIDS.

BBC - SURVIVAL: TB hat in früheren Zeiten viele Todesopfer gefordert und schien unter Kontrolle. Inzwischen aber gilt TB wieder als ernsthafte Bedrohung. Afrika wurde in Hinblick auf TB von der WHO 2005 zum Notstandsgebiet erklärt. Infos unter http://survival.tv/thebriefingroom/german/

A german man has been cured of HIV after he had a bone marrow transplant which was to treat his leukemia

Doctors are considering using a new technology for genetically modifying AIDS patients' own cells to be resistant to HIV. As this ScienCentral News video explains, they're modeling the idea after rare individuals who are naturally immune to the AIDS virus.

Two doctors in Houston, Texas, believe they might have discovered the Achilles heel of the HIV virus. KHOU's Lee McGuire reports.

Research has revealed a great deal of valuable medical, scientific, and public health information about the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The ways in which HIV can be transmitted have been clearly identified. Unfortunately, false information or statements that are not supported by scientific findings continue to be shared widely through the Internet or popular press. Therefore, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has prepared this fact sheet to correct a few misperceptions about HIV.

How HIV is Transmitted
HIV is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, by sharing needles and/or syringes (primarily for drug injection) with someone who is infected, or, less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth.

In the health care setting, workers have been infected with HIV after being stuck with needles containing HIV-infected blood or, less frequently, after infected blood gets into a worker's open cut or a mucous membrane (for example, the eyes or inside of the nose). There has been only one instance of patients being infected by a health care worker in the United States; this involved HIV transmission from one infected dentist to six patients. Investigations have been completed involving more than 22,000 patients of 63 HIV-infected physicians, surgeons, and dentists, and no other cases of this type of transmission have been identified in the United States.

Some people fear that HIV might be transmitted in other ways; however, no scientific evidence to support any of these fears has been found. If HIV were being transmitted through other routes (such as through air, water, or insects), the pattern of reported AIDS cases would be much different from what has been observed. For example, if mosquitoes could transmit HIV infection, many more young children and preadolescents would have been diagnosed with AIDS.

All reported cases suggesting new or potentially unknown routes of transmission are thoroughly investigated by state and local health departments with the assistance, guidance, and laboratory support from CDC. No additional routes of transmission have been recorded, despite a national sentinel system designed to detect just such an occurrence.

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Cass Mann is one of the world's longest-term HIV-positive diagnosed gay men, now in his third decade of living with HIV, and the founder of UK’s only gay men’s HIV/AIDS charity Positively Healthy, which provides HIV services including education, support, and peer counselling. He feels that ironically, it is often other gay men who most stigmatize gay men. He experiences the deepest discrimination from people in the gay community who want nothing to do with an HIV positive person. Many HIV positive gay men don't want to go to clubs because visible side effects of antiretroviral drugs like lipodystrophy (muscle wasting), lipoatrophy (facial wasting) and the "buffalo hump" (irregular fat deposits in the body) cause them to be singled out and ridiculed. As a result, HIV positive gay men often don't go to lit venues; they go to dark rooms, back rooms, or parks instead. For more information about HIV/AIDS, visit http://www.posh-uk.org.uk/ and http://www.AIDSvideos.org/.

Phil Johnson, M.D. explains why family members don't need to worry if they live in the same household with someone who is HIV positive or has clinical AIDS. There is no evidence that HIV is transmitted among family members through living together, eating together, sharing the same cooking and eating utensils or bathroom, or other routine household contact. Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate a video into another language! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to learn how you can help!!!]

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Replicación de HIV

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it is a very excellent animation which explains the hiv replication very clearly.

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The UCSD Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) presents a series of lectures from international experts on the latest worldwide HIV research. In this program, James Hakim, M.D., Professor of Medicine and Chair, Department of Medicine, University of Zimbabwe discusses AIDS in Zimbabwe, a microcosm of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Series: "CFAR, UCSD Center for AIDS Research " [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 12277]

The UCSD Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) presents a series of lectures from international experts on the latest worldwide HIV research. In this program, Kimberly C. Brouwer, Ph.D. Division of International Health & Cross-Cultural Medicine, UCSD, discusses: The Effect of Sub-Clinical Plasmodium Falciparum (malaria) Infection on HIV-1 Viral Load Early in Life. Series: "CFAR, UCSD Center for AIDS Research " [6/2007] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 12876]

The 3D animation illustration of HIV infection and replication process from Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

HIV and AIDS are not the same thing, but the virus can lead to the disease. Learn how in this video.

See more videos on HIV & AIDS:
http://www.sexhealthguru.com/index.php?hiv_and_aids-1&YT214AIDS2

For its exhibit at the 2002 International AIDS Conference in Barcelona,GlaxoSmithKline commissioned a three minute film on the life of cycle of the HIV virus,with an emphasis on the mechanism of the integrase molecule in its role in inserting the AIDS virus genome into the host T-cell DNA.

This stunning censored interview conducted by medical historian Edward Shorter for WGBH public television (Boston) and Blackwell Science was cut from The Health Century due to its huge liability--the admission that Merck drug company vaccines have traditionally been injecting cancer viruses (SV40 and others) in people worldwide.

This segment of In Lies We Trust: The CIA, Hollywood & Bioterrorism, produced and freely contributed by consumer protector and public health expert, Dr. Leonard Horowitz, features the world's leading vaccine expert, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, who explains why Merck's vaccines have spread AIDS, leukemia, and other horrific plagues worldwide.

Please forward this clip (link) to everyone you know who thinks vaccines are "safe and effective."

Man, this OS sucks!!!

It's sometimes possible to recognize when you've recently contracted HIV from signs and symptoms such as fever, rash, or swollen lymph nodes. This video will teach you how to recognize signs and symptoms of primary HIV infection that are experienced by between 40 and 90% of individuals after they are first infected with HIV. Primary HIV infection occurs during the first few weeks or months after a person first becomes infected with HIV. Symptoms include rash and/or fevers, possibly in combination with one or more of the following symptoms: malaise (which is a general feeling of weakness, discomfort, and fatigue), loss of appetite, weight loss, a sore throat, sores in the mouth, joint or muscle pain, swollen lymph nodes, diarrhea, fatigue, night sweats, nausea and vomiting, headache, or genital sores. The symptoms usually last from seven to ten days, and rarely more than two weeks. There is an incubation period of a few days to a few weeks between when the person was exposed to HIV and when the symptoms begin. If you have any of these symptoms and think there's even the slightest chance you might have been exposed to HIV, such as through recent sexual activity or sharing a needle, even with someone who you believe is HIV negative, you should see a doctor and ask to be tested for HIV. When you go to the doctor with any of these symptoms, it's very important to mention any risk factors you may have for HIV so they could test you. If you have ever had unprotected sex, even once, have used injection drugs, or think you might be experiencing primary HIV infection, make sure to tell your doctor. Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate this video into another language! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!!]

Fight AIDS. Fight TB. Fight Now...A film co-produced by UNAIDS and the Stop TB Partnership. Discusses TB, a leading killer among HIV-infected people with weakened immune systems.

Jeff interviews Adriana Stuijt about a new strain of TB discovered in South Africa. It kills 100% of those infected, it's airborne, and kills in 20 days. My tip, buy a mask.

this is a video that i did for my english class. I wrote a research paper on the HIV/AIDS crisis in Zimbabwe and to help put my paper into perspective, i made this video to go along with it.

The real origins of AIDS told by Boyd Graves

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Targeting HIV replication

The replication of HIV 1 is a multi-stage process.

Each step is crucial to successful replication and is therefore a potential target of antiretroviral drugs.

Step one is the infection of a suitable host-cell, such as a CD4-positive T-lymphocyte.

Entry of HIV into the cell requires the presence of certain receptors on the cell surface, CD4 -- receptors and co-receptors such as CCR5 or CXCR4.

These receptors interact with protein-complexes, which are embedded in the viral envelope.

These complexes are composed of two glycoproteins:

an extracellular gp 120 and
a transmembrane gp 41

When HIV approaches the target cell gp120 binds to the CD4-receptors. This process is termed attachment.

It promotes further binding to a co-receptor. Co-receptor binding results in a conformational change in gp120.

This allows gp41 to unfold and insert its hydrophobic terminus into the cell membrane.

Gp 41 then folds back on itself.

This draws the virus towards the cell and facilitates the fusion of their membranes.

The viral nucleocapsid enters the host cell and breaks open releasing two viral RNA-strands and 3 essential replication enzymes:

Integrase, Protease and Reverse Transcriptase.

Reverse Transcriptase begins the reverse transcription of viral RNA.

It has two catalytic domains:

The Ribonuclease-H active site

And the polymerase active site

Here single stranded viral RNA is transcribed into an RNA-DNA double helix. Ribonuclease- H breaks down the RNA.

The polymerase then completes the remaining DNA-strand to form a DNA -- double helix.

Now Integrase goes into action.

It cleaves a dinucleotide from each 3-prime end of the DNA creating two sticky ends.

Integrase then transfers the DNA into the cell nucleus and facilitates its integration into the host cell genome.

The host cell genome now contains the genetic information of HIV.

Activation of the cell induces transcription of proviral DNA into messenger RNA.

The viral messenger RNA migrates into the cytoplasm where building blocks for a new virus are synthesised.

Some of them have to be processed by the viral protease.

Protease cleaves longer proteins into smaller core proteins.

This step is crucial to create an infectious virus.

Two viral RNA-strands and the replication enzymes then come together and core proteins assemble around them forming the capsid.

This immature particle leaves the cell acquiring a new envelope of host and viral proteins.

The virus matures and becomes ready to infect other cells.

HIV replicates billions of times per day destroying the hosts` immune cells and eventually causing disease progression.

Drugs which interfere with the key steps of viral replication can stop this fatal process.

Entry into the host cell can be blocked by fusion inhibitors for example.

Inhibition of reverse transcriptase by nucleoside inhibitors or by non-nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase- inhibitors is part of standard antiretroviral regimens.

The action of Integrase can be blocked.

Protease inhibitors are also part of standard antiretroviral therapy.

Each blocked step in viral replication is a step towards better control of HIV disease.


Script, Storyboard, Art Direction by: Frank Schauder, MD
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This is the story of Annabella, a young girl living with HIV who has found hope thanks to lifesaving programs supported by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Make a difference now by visiting www.pedaids.org.

Aids is still the plague of modern times... though it seems that people forget

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[Video] Bayer Sells AIDS-Infected Drug Banned in U.S. in Europe, Asia - Unearthed documents show that the drug company Bayer sold millions of dollars worth of an injectable blood-clotting medicine -- Factor VIII concentrate, intended for hemophiliacs -- to Asian, Latin American, and some European countries in the mid-1980s, although they knew that it was tainted with AIDS. Bayer knew about the fact that the drug was tainted and told the FDA to keep things under wraps while they made a profit off of a drug that infected its patients. If these allegations are true, then both Bayer and the FDA are at fault for this catastrophe. FDA regulators helped to keep the continued sales hidden, asking the company that the problem be ''quietly solved without alerting the Congress, the medical community and the public,'' according to the minutes of a 1985 meeting

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Vaccine Information and Awareness sites:

http://thinktwice.com/

http://www.vaclib.org/

Becky Kuhn, M.D., co-founder of Global Lifeworks, covers critical basic information about HIV and AIDS. HIV is a virus that causes the disease AIDS, which can be fatal. There are treatments but no cure. HIV is spread by contact between body fluids (blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and breast milk) and mucous membranes (eyes, nose, mouth, and genitals). It is spread by sexual contact, injection drugs users sharing needles, from mother to child during childbirth or nursing, and (early on during the epidemic) by receiving blood transfusions. You can reduce your risk by abstaining from sex before marriage, being faithful to a single partner and using a condom and/or dental dam if you are sexually active, and by never injecting drugs or by never sharing needles if you do. It can take up to six months after exposure to HIV for a person to test HIV positive; even before they test HIV postive, the infected person can spread the disease to others. A doctor can prescribe antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to prevent HIV from progressing to clinical AIDS. It is critical to take every ARV dose on schedule to avoid developing a resistant strain of HIV. If a person is HIV positive, they still need to practice safer sex to avoid spreading HIV to others and to avoid contracting a different, resistant strain of HIV. This video refutes misinformation from the "Lee Evans HIV Tests" video. Visit http://www.AIDSvideos.org to learn more about Dr. Kuhn's outreach. Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate this video into another language! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to learn how you can help!!!]

Basic info on HIV and AIDS.

Save the Humans uses animated 3-D animals in a UN-style meeting who express concern that AIDS is killing all the humans, which prompts them to launch a Save the Humans campaign...

Highlights from the charity benefit show.

À partir du 19 juin 2008, l¹Institut National de Prévention et d¹Education pour la Santé (INPES) lance une nouvelle campagne de prévention du VIH en direction du grand public, conçue par l¹agence McCann Paris.

Intitulée « Toute l¹histoire », cette campagne a pour objectif d¹inciter toutes les personnes se trouvant au début d¹une relation amoureuse à se faire dépister spontanément avant de baisser la garde en arrêtant le port du préservatif.

De fait, parce que le VIH est toujours là, il est plus que jamais nécessaire de faire du dépistage la condition de l'arrêt du préservatif. Pour ce faire, cette campagne rappelle aux populations ciblées (les jeunes hétérosexuels, les homosexuels, les migrants originaires d¹Afrique sub-saharienne) « le timing amoureux » : on met systématiquement un préservatif au début d¹une nouvelle relation ; avant d¹arrêter le préservatif, on fait le test.

Au plan créatif, la campagne consiste à présenter le test du dépistage comme une étape venant s¹inscrire naturellement dans le parcours amoureux d¹un couple. Parce que ce « timing amoureux » est le même pour tous, quelles que soient son origine géographique et ses orientations sexuelles, la campagne prend le parti de véhiculer un message simple et identique pour les trois publics visés : avant d¹arrêter le préservatif avec son partenaire régulier, il faut être sûr d¹être tous les deux séronégatifs, donc faire le test.

Chaque film raconte l¹histoire d¹un couple (de jeunes hétérosexuels, d¹homosexuels, de personnes originaires d¹Afrique sub-saharienne), depuis ses débuts, à travers une succession de plans courts. Le test est présenté comme une étape marquant le passage, dès lors que les deux partenaires sont séronégatifs, d¹une vie sexuelle avec préservatif à une vie sexuelle sans préservatif. Des déclinaisons print, avec un plan media adapté aux populations cibles, ont été réalisées pour chacun de ces « couples ».

Japanese Drama

http://www.bebin.tv - Bebin Health - Dr Alaei's efforts trying to stop spread of HIV/AIDS in Iran.

Fin de soirée pour Boris et Nadir. C'est l'heure des confidences sans tabou derrière le comptoir... Découvrez vendredi prochain, Il faut sauver le soldat Boris - Le Remix d'Eric Dahan

2nd part of the "Boris and nadir"adventure. This time, Boris loose something in a backroom...

'Be the One' project is organized by the HIV Champions Team, co-organized by AIESEC-LC-HKU,AIESEC-LC-HKUST, Aids Concern, and the Standard Chartered Bank.

There will be several upcoming events in the coming months! Please join us!

A brochure at DDU hospital, New Delhi is captured through a hidden camera selling HIV+ blood illegally without any paper formality

Commercial against AIDS

With Jeremie Elkaim & Zoe Felix

Directed by Antonin Denis

SxCheck.com - Confidential STD/HIV Testing and Medication

Alto al SIDA

http://www.aids-remember-me.eu/
740,000 people in the EU today have HIV/AIDS. One in three is unaware they have it. There is a rise of new infections in the EU and neighbouring countries. An EU survey reveals that in Europe less and less people know how the disease is transmitted and take the necessary precautions. Condoms are the best way to protect against HIV as well as other sexually-transmitted diseases such as herpes and condylomas. HIV is transmitted via mucus, wounds, used syringes and bodily fluids. Of these bodily fluids only 5 carry the disease from one person to another: blood, sperm, pre-seminal male secretions, vaginal secretions, and mother's milk.
Download: http://ec.europa.eu/avservices/video/video_prod_en.cfm?type=detail&prodid=1273&src=1

Lifetime explores the world of teen love, sex and gossip in the Lifetime Original Movie “Girl, Positive”, the story of Rachel, a high school senior who fears she may be infected with HIV and must come to terms with the life-altering ...

Lifetime explores the world of teen love, sex and gossip in the Lifetime Original Movie “Girl, Positive”, the story of Rachel, a high school senior who fears she may be infected with HIV and must come to terms with the life-altering ...

Deadly Catch: Lake Victoria’s AIDS crisis More than 20 years since the discovery of the AIDS virus, and despite huge advances in the prevention and treatment of the disease, AIDS is still decimating communities across Afri...