Among 884 HIV-infected pregnant women in Tanzania followed about 69 months, those with serum vitamin D under 32 ng/mL were 25 percent more likely to progress to WHO stage III or worse and 47 percent more likely to develop severe anemia, a PLoS One study found.
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June 27th - the National HIV Testing Day
June 27 is National HIV Testing Day, run by the National Association of People with AIDS. CDC recommends everyone aged 13 to 74 test at least once and higher-risk people yearly; about 20 percent of infected Americans do not know they carry the virus.
Drug
National HIV Testing Day --- June 27, 2010
CDC estimates that in 2006 about 21 percent of Americans living with HIV, some 232,700 people, did not know it. The share of adults aged 18-64 ever tested rose from 40.4 percent in 2006 to 44.6 percent in January-September 2009, suggesting more people are learning their status earlier.
Drug
New AIDS vaccine promising
In a Thai trial of 16,000 volunteers, 51 of 8,197 people given a prime-boost HIV vaccine regimen became infected against 74 of 8,198 on placebo, about 30 percent lower risk and a moderate but statistically significant difference. The vaccines target strains common in Thailand.
Vitamins
Vitamin D helps prevent HIV transmission from mother to child
In a Harvard study of 884 HIV-infected pregnant women in Tanzania, infants of mothers with low vitamin D were 1.5 times more likely to acquire HIV during birth and twice as likely through breastfeeding by six weeks. By 24 months they were 61 percent more likely to have died.
Lifestyle
Circumcision not a Factor in Male Transmission of HIV to Female Partners
Johns Hopkins researchers led by Dr. Maria Wawer circumcised half of 922 HIV-infected uncircumcised men and tracked 163 female partners for 24 months, finding circumcision did nothing to lower the women's risk. Their conclusion: condom use is essential either way.
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