Best-intentioned efforts aggravated AIDS pandemic

New coronavirus with "pandemic potential" sparks global surveillance efforts.

The HIV/AIDS Pandemic in West Papua

Reported HIV/AIDS cases in West Papua are dramatically increasing. This disease remains one of the deadliest threats to the survival of the West Papuan people. Reported cases do not represent the real number of sufferers. It is important to be aware that variations in reporting of prevalence rates exist due to the difficulty in accurate data collection by the international community. All statis...

Some lessons learned from the AIDS pandemic.

Recent Insights into the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Etiology, transmission and protection: Transmission of HIV, the causative agent of AIDS, occurs predominantly through bodily fluids. Factors that significantly alter the risk of HIV transmission include male circumcision, condom use, high viral load, and the presence of other sexually transmitted diseases. Pathology/Symptomatology: HIV infects preferentially CD4+ T lymphocytes, and Monocytes. B...

Tracing the Origin of the AIDS Pandemic

for those lucky enough to be in attendance, the keynote lecture delivered at the 6th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (croi) at the end of January 1999 was nothing short of a jawdropping experience. Dr. Beatrice Hahn of the University of Alabama at Birmingham presented the first concrete evidence of the primate origin of hiv-1, the much more prevalent of the hiv types res...