Drug maker Roche Holding AG has announced it will stop ongoing experiments for HIV treatment medicines after it determined their products did not result in any improvements compared to other drugs currently available.

The company, known for being the first to produce an anti-HIV treatment, will suspend current experiments being done on two other similar products as a response to the findings of a standard product review

Two newly developed AIDS drugs have proven safe and highly success at suppressing the HIV virus in patients who have exhausted all possible treatment options, according to researchers Tuesday at the 14th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.

The drugs work differently than previously developed drugs and have shown to be safe and able to drastically reduce the HIV virus to undetectable levels in 60 percent of its patients, according to a study presented by Merck and Co. Inc., a New Jersey based pharmaceutical company, involving 700 patients

Prezista or Darunavir, the newest anti-AIDS drug seems to be effective in patients who have exhausted all modes of treatment in fighting their resistant HIV virus.

Scientists at the 16th International AIDS Conference said 46% of the patients who received Prezista along with background medication suppressed the virus to levels that were hardly detectable following 48 weeks of treatment

Initial results from a study, looking at trends with HIV treatment from the viewpoint of the patient and physician, identify some of the mental and physical challenges to self-injectables.

FUZEON presents unique challenges because it is the first self-injectable antiretroviral, whereas all other treatments are oral

Doctors and State of New York Health Officials have been on the outlook for a man who is carrying a deadly strain of the HIV virus that is resistant to practically all available treatments for the virus.

Dr. Gary Blick, a private-practice physician in Norwalk, Conn has the patient who is responsible for spreading the strain through unprotected anonomoyus anal sex that the man had with others in a sex club in New York City in 2004