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ROME (MedPage Today) -- Researchers here suggested that the investigational integrase inhibitor dolutegravir can successfully -- and rapidly -- suppress HIV virus to undetectable levels for at least a year.

(University of Michigan) Vitamin A and beta-carotene supplements are unsafe for HIV-positive women who breastfeed because they may boost the excretion of HIV in breast milk -- thereby increasing the chances of transmitting the infection to the child, a pair of new studies suggest.

(University of Gothenburg) Studies of the spinal fluid of patients given anti-HIV drugs have resulted in new findings suggesting that the brain can act as a hiding place for the HIV virus.

Around 10 percent of patients showed traces of the virus in their spinal fluid but not in their blood -- a larger proportion than previously realized, reveals a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

American researchers are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the deadly AIDS virus.

One brochure boldly states that condoms fail one-third of the time -- by flaws, breaking or deterioration.

A nearby diagram of a broken condom shows a small "HIV Virus" particle looming near the spot where the latex ripped.

Another flier claims that the "most preventable cause of breast cancer" is...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- French scientists mixed gene therapy and bone marrow transplants in two boys to seemingly halt a brain disease that can kill by adolescence.

The surprise ingredient: They disabled the HIV virus so it couldn't cause AIDS, and then used it to carry in the healthy new gene....