Posted by: diychica on: September 25, 2009
A vaccine has reduced the chance of HIV infection in humans for the first time, in what the scientific community has hailed a breakthrough in the fight against Aids.
Source:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6225619/HIV-vaccine-hailed-as-historic-milestone-in-fight-against-Aids.html
Posted by: diychica on: September 9, 2009
A new German AIDS-awareness campaign that uses steamy sex and Adolf Hitler to shock people into wearing condoms is drawing fire from activists who say it demonizes those who are HIV positive…
The viewer only sees the back of the man’s head until the very end, the camera pans to his face revealing Adolf Hitler! [...]
Posted by: diychica on: August 23, 2009
An AIDS advocacy group filed complaints with state officials against 16 production companies that show unprotected sex in porn movies. By law, U.S. adult film actors must prove they have tested negative for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases within 30 days of going to work on a film.
Source:http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Porn-makers-challenged-for-apf-183164416.html?x=0
Posted by: diychica on: July 23, 2009
An international consortium has found that wild chimpanzees naturally infected with Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses (SIV) – long thought to be harmless to the apes – can contract an AIDS-like syndrome and die as a result.
Source:http://www.physorg.com/news167488142.html
Posted by: diychica on: July 21, 2009
Social and even legal suppression of gay sex forces it underground, increasing the HIV risk to those who engage in it – and to their heterosexual partners
Source:http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1911757,00.html?iid=digg_share
Posted by: diychica on: July 10, 2009
A home shopper who ordered a pair of slippers and was shocked to receive an explicit catalogue for sex aids and erotic clothing should not have been sent the unsolicited advertising, a watchdog ruled.
Source:http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?I_wanted_slippers,_but_I_got_a_bondage_catalogue&in_article_id=699304&in_page_id=34
Posted by: diychica on: March 30, 2009
Only half of those infected in South Africa by HIV – the virus that causes Aids – have access to life-saving medicines and as Claudia Hammond found out, the care for those dying can still fall on children.
This article details the plight of the children who are caring for their dying parents, and all-to-often catching [...]
Posted by: diychica on: March 25, 2009
According to reporters present at the time, it’s true.
On a flight to Yaound in Cameroon, his first trip as pope to Africa, home of two-thirds of the world’s AIDS sufferers, Pope Benedict XVI really did say that AIDS is a “drama that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which on the contrary [...]
