Activists and researchers rally behind AIDS drug for mothers

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The drug nevirapine is used to help prevent mother-to-baby transmission of HIV, but the stories published by the Associated Press have raised the issue of effectiveness of the drug. Scientists and patient advocates came together to defend an HIV treatment against claims that a key clinical trial of the drug was flawed.

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AIDS researchers seek criteria for vaccines

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The ways to increase the existing drug treatment for AIDS is discussed. The scientists primarily focus on the preventive vaccines that would prevent the disease, while researchers seek therapeutic vaccines to treat AIDS.

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Celebrity genomes alarm researchers

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Genome researchers are worried about prominent scientists releasing their own genome sequences. The impact of sequencing individual genomes is discussed.

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