HIV infection often does not show any symptoms of the infection and it only method to diagnose is by testing a person’s blood. Two traditional tests are available to diagnose AIDS. First test looks for the level of antibodies generated by the body in reaction to HIV and the second test that looks for the viral load itself.

Now the researchers have developed the quicker methods to detect HIV which are little expansive than the traditional but save the time of people and minimize the risk of spreading such as home HIV test kit.

Antibodies are the proteins released within the body whenever a disease or micro organisms attacks it. When HIV infection occurs, body produce antibodies specific to HIV. The first test, commonly known as ELISA, detects such antibodies in blood.

Circumcision is considered not only to save men from AIDS virus but also protect them from some common sexually-transmitted diseases. Two new studies that have been presented at the world AIDS conference suggest that circumcision offer greater protection to men than thought.

Robert Bailey, a US researcher from the University of Illinois, Chicago presented long-term data from a trial in Kenya and in its early phase 2,784 uncircumcised uninfected men were enrolled.

Half of the men in the group were circumcised first and the others circumcised afterward and then they were tested for HIV later.

The “Human-Rights” team is stressing upon Iran to discharge abruptly two well-known medical physicians for their serve in the cure and rehabilitation of HIV Aids.
The Human Rights Watch said in a statement,” the establishment didn’t expose why Arash Alaei and Kamyar Alaei were under arrest last month”.

Both of the brothers have passed through extensively outside Iran containing to the US to join the symposiums on HIV/Aids.
They were in order to take action in an up coming exciting conference in Mexico by next month.
Arash Alaei was planned to offer a remark on a number of the Iranians ground-breaking HIV plans, Human Rights Watch said.

According to researchers from University of California, San Diego, neuropathic pain in HIV patients can be relieved by using medicinal marijuana.

In the study, the researchers included those 28 HIV patients whose nuropathic pain wasn’t relieved by opiates or other pain killers. The researchers noticed that the patients who smoked medicinal marijuana reported significant relief in their pain compared with those who were given a placebo.
The University of California Center for Medical Cannabis Research (CMCR) sponsored the study and it has been published online in Neuropsychopharmacology.