Hiv infections News

THURSDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) -- A recent case in New York City of HIV transmission between a living kidney donor and a transplant recipient highlights the need to revise national policy on the type and timing of HIV tests used to screen liv...

TUESDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) -- A natural chemical in bananas may help protect women against sexual transmission of HIV, U.S. researchers report. In laboratory tests, they found that a lectin called BanLec was as potent as two current HIV dr...

FRIDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- New research in mice suggests that a commonly used drug combination might protect people from being infected by the AIDS virus through the major routes of transmission. Previous research showed that the drugs co...

MONDAY, Aug. 17 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers report they were able to block HIV infections in the lab with synthetic proteins that prevented the virus from entering healthy cells. In the study, researchers developed synthetic molecules that int...

WEDNESDAY, March 4 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists report that a common germ-killing compound prevented transmission of an HIV-like virus in five female monkeys, an encouraging sign that it might also work in humans. The research is still in its ea...