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Catholic Leader: Condoms in Africa Carry HIV

Mozambican archbishop charges plot to kill Africans

(Newser) - Catholic opposition to condom use as an AIDS preventive in Africa took a bizarre turn yesterday when a respected archbishop in Mozambique charged that condoms imported from Europe had been deliberately infected with HIV. Maputo Archbishop Francisco Chimoio made his comments at an Independence Day celebration and reiterated them to...

Sex Is Most Common Cause of HIV in China

Society struggles with openness as virus spreads beyond IV-drug users

(Newser) - Unsafe sex has become the most common means of transmission of HIV in China, edging out IV-drug use and blood transfusions, the BBC reports. That points to the need to focus prevention efforts on mainstream sexual practices—not just those of high-risk groups—which poses a daunting challenge in a...

Syphilis Surges in Surprise Comeback

Experts worry about increasing infection rate among women

(Newser) - Just two years after it was almost eradicated, syphilis is experiencing a stunning comeback across the nation, health officials report. Nearly twice as many cases were reported in New York City in the first three months of this year, compared to the same time last year, the New York Times ...

South African Prez Fires AIDS Crusader

Minister sacked as Mbeki continues to deny science of HIV

(Newser) - South Africa's president has fired his government's leading HIV/AIDS crusader, the prime mover of a plan to offer free treatment to millions. Thabo Mbeki dismissed his deputy health minister, who has opposed his AIDS denialism for years, the Mail and Guardian reports.  Mbeki has drawn worldwide outrage for the...

Libya Admits to Torturing Medics
Libya Admits to Torturing Medics
Aug 10, 2007 5:07 AM CDT

Libya Admits to Torturing Medics

(Newser) - Moammar Gadhafi's son burnished his pro-Western image yesterday by admitting that Libya had tortured 5 nurses and a doctor once accused of spreading HIV among children, the AP reports. Seif al-Islam Gadhafi conceded that the "Benghazi six" were electrocuted and threatened after their 1999 imprisonment, but he did not...

Jailed Medics Freed, Pardoned
Jailed Medics Freed, Pardoned
Jul 24, 2007 7:15 AM CDT

Jailed Medics Freed, Pardoned

After eight years, the nurses go home

(Newser) - Six medics imprisoned by Libya on charges of infecting children with HIV are finally free today. EU officials struck a deal with Libya after years of negotiations, and the five nurses and one doctor were extradited to Bulgaria, where they were immediately pardoned by the Bulgarian president. In return, the...

Drug Recall Hurts Poor HIV Patients
Drug Recall Hurts Poor HIV Patients
Jul 23, 2007 5:00 PM CDT

Drug Recall Hurts Poor HIV Patients

In many countries, no life-saving meds

(Newser) - In the wake of a drug recall by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, tens of thousands of AIDS patients in the developing world no longer have access to lifesaving medicine. Last month, Roche announced a recall of the drug Viracept, after finding a hazardous chemical in some batches. But in...

Libya Spares Lives of Nurses, Doc in HIV Case

Executions called off after payments to infected kids' families

(Newser) - The Libyan government today spared the lives of the foreign medical workers sentenced to die for infecting hundreds of children with HIV. Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor had their sentences commuted to life in prison after the families of the infected children each accepted $1 million and withdrew...

Libyan Court Upholds Death for Nurses

Financial settlement with families could result in reprieve

(Newser) - Libya's Supreme Court today upheld the death sentences handed down to six Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting hundreds of children with HIV. But the medics, whose trial has provoked international outrage, may get a reprieve via a financial settlement with the kids' families.

Early Immunity to Chimp Virus Leaves Humans Open to HIV

An advantage 4M years ago is a weakness now

(Newser) - Humans are more susceptible to HIV than other primates because our ancestors evolved a protein that could fight off a different retrovirus that infected chimps, says Scientific American. The most conspicuous difference between the chimpanzee genome sequenced in 2005 and the human one, says a Seattle virologist, was 130 copies...

UN Urges Mass Circumcision
UN Urges Mass Circumcision
Mar 29, 2007 11:03 AM CDT

UN Urges Mass Circumcision

Mass circumcisions in AIDS-stricken region could reduce infection

(Newser) - Mass circumcision should be urged in AIDS-devastated regions to cut infection rates, the UN said yesterday. With trials demonstrating that circumcised men are 60% less likely to contract HIV, such programs could prevent 5.7 million new HIV cases in the next two decades, the Guardian reports.

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