Posted by: diychica on: October 29, 2009
Apparently exposing someone to a deadly and lifelong disease isn’t a big deal in the court of law.
Source:http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2009/10/duluth_man_inte.php
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 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: June 20, 2009
As a gay man, Michael Lamarre was encouraged by President Obama’s decision to extend certain benefits to the same-sex partners of gay federal workers.
But Lamarre, a 43-year-old Oakland Park, Fla., biking enthusiast and Air Force veteran, sees an inconsistency in the president’s action and the harsh realities far away from the Oval Office.
Source:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061804055.html
Posted by: diychica on: June 1, 2009
Australian scientists have developed an HIV test that works in 30 minutes and can be performed anywhere in the world — no lab required.
Source:http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20090106-19244.html
Posted by: diychica on: May 14, 2009
Hans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world’s deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV.
He argues that preventing transmissions — not drug treatments — is the key to ending the epidemic.
Source:http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_the_truth_about_hiv.html
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 [...]
