Justin Bieber makes surprise $545,000 donation to HIV research
Justin Bieber has surprised amfAR Cinema Against AIDS Gala event organisers during the Cannes Film Festival in France by donating $545,000 towards HIV research.
Posts tagged HIV research
New study to ask whether HIV treatment is prevention
The Centre for Social Research in Health at the University of New South Wales is looking for HIV-positive gay men in Sydney to participate in …
Research shows encouraging results
French researchers believe they have found evidence that early treatment of HIV can lead to permanent remission in some people. Fourteen patients that were part …
More HIV funding needed: Burnet
One of Australia’s leading HIV research bodies has called for greater government and philanphropic support. The Burnet Institute’s director and CEO Professor Brendan Crabb said …
Faster testing trial bound for Victoria
Victoria’s Health Department will trial rapid HIV testing in the coming months as new research revealed promising results for the test in Melbourne last week. …
Sero-discordant couples needed
‘Opposites Attract’, a global study exploring HIV treatments, viral load, and HIV transmission in sero-discordant gay male relationships, need several hundred pairs of men in …
HIV epidemic in drug users threatens to spread
An explosion of HIV cases among injecting drug users in Africa could spread to the wider population, says an Australian researcher. A study conducted in …
HIV vaccine approved for human studies
A vaccine to prevent HIV will begin human clinical trials next year. The Canadian-developed vaccine by researchers at the University of Western Ontario, has been …
Volunteers needed for HIV research
A researcher from the Burnet Institute is calling for HIV-positive and HIV-negative men to participate in research to understand how immune cells use nutrients to …
Chip to change HIV testing?
A new technology developed in the US may change the way people test for HIV and syphilis. Researchers at Columbia University claim that the mChip …