It is estimated that 38 million people worldwide are currently infected with HIV and that 4.1 million more are added each year. For scientists to design treatment therapies that are effective over the long-term it is essential to learn more about how the virus mutates and develops resistance to...
And all their information is confidential so they can't share ANY of it with anyone, say the Nurses or Doctors son/daughter caught it off that specific patient but were unsure and the parent doctor knew who it was would she tell her son/daughter?
why are you all cocky Fucccckers? only a question...
As the nation observes World AIDS Day, the consensus reached by nearly 400 HIV/AIDS experts taking part in the just completed 2010 National Summit on HIV Diagnosis, Prevention and Access to Care provides this stern warning to the country's policymakers: unless more is done to identify and...
Figures released by the UK's Health Protection Agency today show that, in 2009, an estimated 85,000 people were living with HIV in the UK, a 2.4% percent increase on 2008's figures, with 61,000 people accessing HIV care and one in five of these aged 50 years or over. While the rate of increase...
A daily dose of antiretroviral medication lowered the risk of contracting HIV by more than 40% among men who have sex with men, according to a study published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, the New York Times reports. The results of the study -- nicknamed iPrEx -- "are the best...
The number of new HIV infections "has dropped by about one-fifth over the past decade but millions of people are still missing out on major progress in prevention and treatment," according to the annual UNAIDS report released Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reports. "In 2009, 2.6 million people...
A study that included nearly 2,500 HIV-negative men and transgender women who have sex with men has shown that a daily dose of Truvada, a pill containing the AIDS drugs emtricitabine and tenofovir, "can reduce risk of contracting [HIV] by an average of 44% - and by more than 70% if the subjects"...
Over 56 countries report either considerable reductions or stabilization in new HIV infection rates, while AIDS-related deaths have fallen 20% over the last five years, a UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic reveals. The authors also inform that consequently, the total number of individuals...
it was protected
but the condom broke
and she took pills and she wasnt pregnant
well i never told her i had hiv
should i tell her?
how should i bring it up to her?
if i did she wouldnt have sex with me
...girl is on her period? I have been with my girlfriend for more than a year and r in a committed relationship. We are both clean. We were tested two months ago. She is on birth control. So a couple of weeks ago me and my girlfriend had unprotected sex in the shower while she was on her period...
K so I'm completely oblivious in regards to my surroundings when I'm out and today I was on my mobile not looking at the ground and I kicked/walked into some glass bottle full of some bs liquid. No idea what it was, but the bottle broke on my leg and I've got a scratch which started bleeding...
Tiny differences in five amino acids in HLA-B, a protein, are linked to whether people can control levels of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) with just their immune systems, an international team of researchers wrote in the journal Science. These small variants in the protein appear to alert...
This November, HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) is inviting people living with HIV, as well as those with a professional interest in the condition, to attend a free conference in Bristol. South West Think Positive, the first event of its kind in the region, will take...
Los Angeles Times Examines Challenges, Potential Benefits Of Developing Artificial Blood The Los Angeles Times examines scientists' efforts to develop synthetic blood substitutes, writing that many attempts have "failed to meet rigid safety standards." The WHO "estimates that 44% of women...
In an effort to forge greater commitment for child sensitive social protection policies, 40 parliamentarians from ten countries in Eastern and Southern Africa are gathering for a three day meeting in Windhoek, Namibia. Hosted by the Parliament of Namibia in partnership with Inter-Parliamentary...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that new safety information has been added to the label for the HIV antiviral drug Invirase (saquinavir), describing potentially life-threatening side effects on the heart when used with Norvir (ritonavir), another HIV antiviral medication. In...
A new report on Poverty and HIV by NAT (National AIDS Trust) and Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) reveals at least one in six people diagnosed with HIV in the UK experienced severe poverty between 2006 and 2009. Furthermore, the level of poverty experienced by people living with HIV has...
Catholic Church Critical Of Filipino President's Stance On Contraception Catholic Church representatives have criticized Filipino President Benigno Aquino's support for contraception, the Associated Press reports. The Reverend Deogracias Yniguez of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the...
Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE Amex: INO), a leader in the development of therapeutic and preventive vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases, announced the Phase I clinical study assessing Inovio's PENNVAX™-B DNA vaccine delivered using its proprietary electroporation technology in...
I'm afraid that I have something because I have a sore on the bottom of my tongue and and shared drinks with my 2 friends, my one friend got tested and tested negative 2 weeks ago and the other has never done anything before. Please help me because I'm scared!