Daily non-political popular news in brief.

Pediatric AIDS Vaccine Research Could Help Prevent Mother-to-child Transmission Through ...

Scientists at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, along with scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions worldwide, have begun the first clinical safety trial in Africa of a vaccine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding.

Read more »

Keywords: pediatric, aids, vaccine, research, prevent, mother-to-child, transmission, through, aid, mother, child

« Previous | Next »

Similar news on "Pediatric AIDS Vaccine Research Could Help Prevent Mother-to-child Transmission Through ...":

1. Hopkins joins Ugandan researchers to study pediatric AIDS vaccine
   10-13-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Scientists at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, along with scientists from Johns Hopkins and other institutions worldwide, have begun the first clinical safety trial in Africa of a vaccine to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV through breastfeeding.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
2. Drug used to prevent HIV transmission from mother to child damages DNA
   04-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
   HIV transmission from mother to child can occur in utero, during labor or from breastfeeding. If left untreated, approximately 25 percent of newborns exposed to the virus from their infected mothers will become infected themselves and potentially develop AIDS. Fortunately, antiretroviral drug combinations, which typically include AZT, a nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, have reduced the rate of transmission from mother to child to less than 2 percent in infants who are not breast fed.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
3. Antenatal HIV
   11-21-2007 · EurekAlert!
   South Africa's Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Program has severe shortcomings that could be doing more harm than good. HIV patients are missing out on opportunities to receive a key intervention -- namely the nevirapine tablet -- according to a study published in the online open access journal AIDS Research and Therapy.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
4. HIV study prompts call for revision of breastfeeding guidelines
   03-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
   A study by scientists at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, South Africa, has shown that exclusive breastfeeding can significantly reduce the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child in infants aged under 6 months when compared to those also given solid foods or replacement feed (i.e. formula milk). The research, published today in the Lancet, has implications for people in resource poor settings, such as in rural Africa.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
5. LIAI scientists make important finding on cytomegalovirus transmission
   05-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology have shown that cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the salivary glands can be reduced -- and in some cases eliminated -- through the use of antibodies to enhance the disease-fighting power of the immune system. The research team's findings, based on controlled laboratory studies of mice, may also have implications for other chronic virus infections, such as hepatitis and HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
6. HIV drug resistance risk in mothers reduced by combination of common drugs
   11-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Adding a single dose of two common anti-HIV drugs can prevent HIV-positive pregnant women from developing resistance to an entire class of drugs, potentially improving future treatment options.Providing tenofovir and emtricitabine with nevirapine during labor greatly reduces the extent of resistance to non-nucleoside reverse transcriptate inhibitors, such as nevirapine, which HIV-positive women take to lower the risk of mother-to-child transmission during childbirth.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
7. Penn Veterinary Medicine report new strategy to create genetically-modified animals
   09-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers at Penn Vet have demonstrated a new strategy for genetic modification of large animals by employing a virus that transfers genetic modifications to male reproductive cells, which passes naturally to offspring. Scientists at the Center for Animal Transgenesis and Germ Cell Research at Penn introduced adeno-associated virus to germline stem cells in goats and mice. AAV stably transduced male germ line stem cells and led to transgene transmission through the male germ line.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
8. HIV isolate from Kenya provides clues for vaccine design
   01-02-2008 · EurekAlert!
   Two simple changes in its outer envelope protein could render the AIDS virus vulnerable to attack by the immune system, according to research from Kenya and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published in PLoS Medicine.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
9. Treating diabetes during pregnancy can break link to childhood obesity
   08-28-2007 · EurekAlert!
   New Kaiser Permanente study shows treating gestational diabetes can break the link to childhood obesity. The largest study of its kind, this research shows that childhood obesity risk rises with a pregnant woman's blood sugar level and untreated gestational diabetes doubles a child's risk of obesity. Authors looked at 20,000 mothers and children, and found treating gestational diabetes lowers the child's risk of obesity to same level of a mother with normal blood sugar levels.
   Similar news · Read more »
   
10. 30+ AIDS vaccine clinical trials in 24 countries, research occurring on every continent
    01-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
    The International AIDS Vaccine Initiative's (IAVI) January 2007 Annual Issue of VAX, an editorially independent bulletin on AIDS vaccine research published by IAVI, reports that 13 new preventive AIDS vaccine trials were initiated in eight countries around the world in 2006. There are now more than 30 trials ongoing in 24 countries, across every continent.
    Similar news · Read more »