HIV and AIDS
Human Immunodeficiency Virus and
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Articles and Brochures
2004
- Preventing Listeria Contamination
in Foods, FDA Consumer Magazine, January-February 2004
To avoid being infected by Listeria bacteria, especially dangerous
to those with weakened immune systems, take special precautions when handling
or preparing food.
2003
- Inside Clinical Trials: Testing
Medical Products in People, FDA Consumer Magazine, September-October
2003
The risks and potential benefits involved in joining a clinical trial.
2001
- Living With AIDS--20 Years
Later, FDA Consumer Magazine, November/December 2001
As the AIDS epidemic enters its third decade, the battle worldwide is focused
on prevention, more effective treatments, improving the quality of life for
people infected with HIV, and development of a vaccine.
- The Last Word, Commentary: Living
with the Enemy: Never Letting Our Guard Down. By Jeffrey S. Murray,
M.D., M.P.H., FDA Consumer Magazine, November/December 2001
Lifelong treatment of an infectious disease is a new reality ushered in by
HIV/AIDS.
- Home Diagnostic Tests: The Ultimate
House Call?, by Carol Lewis, FDA Consumer Magazine, November/December
2001
Home diagnostic tests offer convenience and privacy. However, health-care
professionals warn that the tests have limitations and are not a replacement
for regular visits to your health-care provider.
2000
- How to Protect Yourself from AIDS
(FDA 00-1296, Easy-to-Read brochure)
Explains the most common ways of contracting the disease and the HIV virus.
- The Truth About Choosing Medical
Treatments (FDA 00-1248, Easy-to-Read brochure)
1999
- Attacking AIDS with a 'Cocktail'
Therapy, Drug Combo Sends Deaths Plummeting, John Henkel, FDA Consumer,
July-August 1999
- From Test Tube to Patient:
New Drug Development in the United States, Special Issue, FDA Consumer
This second edition of this special issue was published in 1995 (the first
edition was published in 1993). A
third edition published in 1999 by FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and
Research, is available only in PDF format.
1998
- Clinical Trials of Medical Treatments:
Why Volunteer? (FDA 98-1294)
- Condoms: Barriers to Bad News,
by Tamar Nordenberg, FDA Consumer, March/April 1998
- The Protease Inhibitors Backgrounder, Updated December
4, 1998,
This document profiles the similarities and differences of four approved protease
inhibitors, and provides useful information about dosing, storage, potential
drug interactions, and therapeutic options. This is an update of the September
1996 backgrounder.
1997
- Thalidomide Brochure: Important Patient
Information 9/15/97
- Giving Thalidomide a Second
Chance, FDA Consumer, September-October 1997
The source of tragedy in the middle of this century, thalidomide may now be
the source of hope for people with AIDS, cancer, and other illnesses,
- Why Should FDA Regulate Drugs?
FDA Consumer, September-October 1997
That's a question many people raise as FDA strives to maintain a delicate
balance between too much regulation and not enough. The answer is explained
in an interview with the director of FDA's drug center,
- Equality In Clinical Trials, Drugs and Gender,
by Judith Levine Willis, September 1997
- New Ways to Prevent and Treat
AIDS, FDA Consumer, Mike Kubic (May 1997)
1996
- Food and Drug Law Institute Annual Meeting,
Washington, DC, David A. Kessler, Commissioner of Food and Drugs, December
10, 1996
- When a Patient Speaks... Patient
Representatives to FDA Advisory Committees, February 1996
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