In order to monitor how far an HIV infection has progressed, the number of immune cells lymphocytes must be counted. Researchers at the University of Twente have developed a method that neatly arranges the antibodies that bind to these immune cells on a 'molecular printboard'. The researchers are publishing this key step in the road towards antibody-based sensors in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS).

The researchers have succeeded in neatly lining up proteins on a surf...

The Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report incorrectly stated the amount of President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funding received by the Indian generic pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy. The company has received an estimated $8.9 million from PEPFAR (Business Standard, 9/21). A corrected version can be found here.

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An internationally recognized Virginia Commonwealth University physician has been named a recipient of the 2010 Maxwell Finland Award for his pioneering contributions that have advanced the understanding of infectious diseases, joining an esteemed group of past recipients who have made a remarkable impact on clinical practice, public health and research.

The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases awarded the honor to Richard P. Wenzel, M.D., an internationally known expert on infec...

Health experts are optimistic that China can control the spread of HIV, but the country must "move quickly" because "the situation could worsen rapidly," Bates Gill of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and Susan Okie, a contributing editor of NEJM, write in a NEJM perspective piece. Among new HIV cases in China, 48.6% are caused through injection drug use, 49.8% through sexual contact and 1.6% through mother-to-child transmission, according to Connie Osborne, a Beijing-based s...

The combined use of antiretroviral drugs, the antibiotic cotrimoxazole and insecticide-treated nets could reduce the incidence of malaria among HIV-positive people by up to 95%, according to a study published in the April 15 issue of the journal Lancet, Reuters reports. HIV-positive people are more susceptible to opportunistic diseases such as malaria, which also can be more severe in people living with HIV. Jonathan Mermin of the Uganda Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda, and colleagu...