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World AIDS Day on 1 December brings together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic. The day is an opportunity for public and private partners to spread awareness about the status of the pandemic and encourage progress in HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care in high prevalence countries and around the world. Between 2011-2015, World AIDS Days will have the theme of “Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS related deaths”. The World AIDS Campaign focus on “Zero AIDS related deaths” signifies a push …

  Health Strategies Group (HSG) has been providing research-based sales and marketing intelligence to the pharmaceutical and biotech industry since 1992. With an unmatched depth and body of knowledge, they offer the expertise to assemble information and, more importantly, the unique talent to translate it into business implications and actionable recommendations. From syndicated research to consulting services and client-private projects, the insight they provide in managed markets, brand management, and sales force effectiveness improves their clients’ sales and marketing effectiveness. Ultimately, HSG helps clients increase sales and profitability—which is why 95% of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical companies work with Health …

I can’t believe that we are now in August and I am writing to you about the September and December BINGO Events and the October 6th Annual AIDS Walk…this year is moving right along for sure! The John Lennon Art Show and Sale sponsored by Yoko Ono and FACT gave us a door donation of $2,600.00. I want to give a big FACT thank you to Yoko Ono and Legacy Productions for including FACT as part of this event. Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) granted FACT another $5,000.00 this year. The Bucks County Playhouse will be hosting the BC/EFA and …

  Millions more people could get access to life-saving HIV drug therapy, following a landmark study led by Australian researchers based at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). The researchers have found a lower daily dose of an important HIV drug therapy is safe and as effective in suppressing the virus as the standard recommended dose. The findings have been presented at the International AIDS Society Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. “This has the potential to affect the treatment of millions of HIV positive people,” says UNSW Professor Sean Emery, the protocol chairperson of the …

A compound found in soybeans may become an effective HIV treatment without the drug resistance issues faced by current therapies, according to new research by George Mason University researchers. It’s in the early stages, but genistein, derived from soybeans and other plants, shows promise in inhibiting the HIV infection, says Yuntao Wu, a professor with the George Mason-based National Center for Biodefense and Infectious Diseases and the Department of Molecular and Microbiology. Still, that doesn’t mean people should begin eating large amounts of soy products. “Although genistein is rich in several plants such as soybeans, it is still uncertain whether …

  By: Megan Gannon, News Editor Published: 07/29/2013 08:21 AM EDT on LiveScience   In addition to preventing unwanted pregnancies and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, condoms may help good bacteria in the vagina flourish, a new study from China shows.   Sexually active women in the study who used condoms had larger colonies of beneficial microbes in their vaginas compared with women who used other forms of birth control, the researchers found. Read more (and video) HUFFPOST at  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/29/condoms-bacteria-vagina_n_3672034.html?&icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl21%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D352035  

Johnson and Johnson and GlaxoSmithKline may have come up with an even more convenient way of treating HIV — not with daily tablets but with new monthly injections that at least one study suggests might be even safer. Though it seems like most patients would prefer pills over needles, a new survey published in Nanomedicine has shown that 84% of HIV-positive people would rather have monthly injections. The side effects of injection (versus the newer, popular daily tablets) may be less as well, according to a new trial, especially for HIV-negative people who take pre-exposure medicince called PrEP for the purpose …