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Effort to control HIV in Africa 'badly targeted'
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A genetic mutation that originally protected Africans from a virulent form of malaria now renders them 40% more susceptible to HIV infections, offering a partial explanation for the disproportionate spread of the virus among Africans and African Americans, researchers reported today. (article 6)
A genetic variant peculiar to Africans substantially raises their risk of infection with HIV, according to research that suggests evolved susceptibility may be helping to drive the continent's Aids epidemic. (article 5)
The 90 per cent of Africans who carry the DNA variation are 40 per cent more likely to contract HIV than those without it, after similar exposure to the virus, scientists from Britain and America have found. (article 5)
WASHINGTON - A two-decade ban on people with HIV visiting or immigrating to the United States may end soon through a Senate bill aimed at fighting AIDS and other diseases in Africa and other poor areas of the world. (article 2)
A gene which apparently evolved to protect people from malaria increases their vulnerability to HIV infection by 40%, say US and UK scientists. (article 4)
Scientists estimate that the trait which also provides protection against a form of malaria might account for 11 percent of the HIV cases in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic. (article 8)
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HIV, AIDs, malaria, Africa, susceptibility |
Source articles
- Free HIV testing offered at several sites :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Health News (suntimes.com, 07/14/2008, 238 words)
- U.S. ban on foreign visitors with HIV could end soon (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 07/16/2008, 660 words)
- Effort to control HIV in Africa 'badly targeted' (timesonline.co.uk, 07/16/2008, 512 words)
- Malaria gene 'increases HIV risk' (BBC News, 07/16/2008, 508 words)
- Scientists make gene link to African HIV epidemic (timesonline.co.uk, 07/16/2008, 602 words)
- Increased HIV risk found in genetic mutation (L.A. Times, 07/16/2008, 694 words)
- Ttrip to Rwanda opens eyes to HIV... (suntimes.com, 07/14/2008, 330 words)
- Genetic Trait Boosts AIDS Risks in Blacks (Washington Post, 07/16/2008, 533 words)
- Senate agrees to triple anti-AIDS funding (msnbc.msn.com, 07/16/2008, 776 words)
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