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(University of California - Davis Health System) Tissue in monkeys infected with a close relative of HIV can ramp up production of a type of T cell that actually weakens the body's attack against the invading virus.

Scientists have shown how some cells in the body can repel attacks from HIV by starving the virus of the building blocks of life.

(MedPage Today) -- In a snapshot study of children and adolescents with HIV, about a third met criteria for at least one psychiatric disorder, researchers reported.

(MedPage Today) -- Americans appear to be taking fewer chances with HIV, according to the CDC.

(MedPage Today) -- Only about one in five sexually active high school students has ever been tested for HIV, CDC researchers reported.

Hundreds of Michigan residents -- and others -- may have been infected with HIV by a man who told police he’d been on a three-year mission to transmit the disease to as many people as he could, MSNBC reports.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Rising food prices are taking a toll in East Africa on low-income people who have the virus that causes AIDS....

(MedPage Today) -- For people with early HIV infection, immediate antiretroviral therapy appears to be more beneficial than deferring treatment until patients meet clinical guidelines, researchers reported.

(Lifespan) A Rhode Island Hospital study is the first to systematically review and analyze the literature on the association between HIV infection and overdose risk.

The findings show a 74 percent greater risk of overdose among drug users if they are HIV-infected. The researchers found that reasons for the increased risk are biological and behavioral, but may also include environmental and structural factors.

The study is now available online in advance of print in the journal AIDS.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Health officials said Thursday they are recommending that any person living with HIV be offered AIDS drugs as soon as they are diagnosed with the virus, an aggressive move that has been shown to prolong life and stem the spread of the disease....