Breaking HIV related news

Gallo, who co-discovered HIV causing AIDS, is working on a new HIV vaccine study that is recruiting participants right now, wanting the first shot given by the end of the month. Gallo says it has taken 9 years to get to this point, but he thinks targeting the virus with a protein could help give other vaccines the "one-two punch" it needs to succeed. Quest Diagnostics is again sponsoring the AIDS Walk LA on 10/11.

From the HIV Radio Minute with Josh Robbins: These numbers are insane-- less than half of the adults in US are taking antiretroviral medications to live well and remain healthy. Less than half!

This is the HIV Radio Minute with Josh Robbins from http://imstilljosh.com. A Detroit woman was awarded $40,000 because the viral video that went public last year showing a police officer via dash cam admitting that he is only giving her a citation because she didn't immediately disclose she was living with HIV. And the NO/AIDS Walk 2015 presented by Quest Diagnostics is coming up soon!

Researchers name a potentially helpful STI (sexually transmitted infection) for the body. Crazy, right? Listen to the full story in this week's HIV Radio Minute with Josh Robbins

Michael Johnson was sentenced to 30.5 years in Missouri for nondisclosure of HIV status. The Center for HIV Law & Policy and others denounce the sentence as unfair and barbaric, citing expert opinion that these laws harm HIV prevention efforts instead of encouraging HIV disclosure prior to sex. Also, Quest Diagnostics is sponsoring AIDS Walks San Francisco!

National HIV Strategy is being updated on 7/30 and Quest Diagnostics to be sponsor AIDS Walk San Francisco.

I love chocolate, and lemon ice box pie, and pecan pie, and those little birthday shakes from the chicken place that rhymes with Taxbees…
I’m Josh Robbins and this is the HIV RADIO Minute.

Besides some people saying that my weakness is that I own a house in vermot— I’d argue that my sweet tooth takes the top spot.

Well researchers in a new study from Northwestern Medicine and Vanderbilt University say that HIV’s own sweet tooth is really the virus’ achielles heel.

Here’s what they mean. When HIV infects a new cell it needs sugar and nutrients from that newly infected cell to help fuel it’s rapid growth throughout the body. Makes sense right?

Well-- they believe they have found the switch to stop the feeding frenzy, and thus block the spread within the body. Super cool, nerd medicine stuff here.

According to the new releases:
This is believed to be the first time scientists have targeted the virus's ability to pilfer the cell's pantry to stop its growth. A related approach was attempted in the 1990s but the drugs used sometimes killed healthy cells and had serious side effects in HIV patients.

The Northwestern team's new approach is a gentler, non-toxic way to block HIV access to the cell's "pantry.”

Cool!

This is Josh Robbins of the HIV Radio Minute Podcast ...
Why is Indiana experiencing an HIV emergency? Especially since Ryan White and his family successfully won the right for him to be back in school 30 years ago and the government program supporting those living with HIV even bears his name?
Here’s the update. More than 150 people in Austin, Indiana have been diagnosed with HIV since December. The town has a population of 4200. The response started about 8 weeks ago.
According to TIME: (Source: http://time.com/3853590/indiana-hiv-epidemic/) So far — 1/3rd of the patients in Austin have started treatment… no AIDS complications have been seen by any patients in Austin yet. But one of the physicians in Indiana on the ground providing response to the emergency declaration is Dr. Diane Janowicz… and she says this: "Only by learning the lessons from this tragic outbreak can we prevent or stymie the next rural town epidemic."