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CDC: HIV infections remain stable, increase among young, black gay, bisexual men
In a report issued Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new multi-year data disclosed that the annual rate of new HIV infections in the United States has remained relatively stable.
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I’m gonna wipe that AIDS right off of my face
Several years ago, I told someone that I was HIV positive before I agreed to his invitation for a date. “Yeah, I know,” he casually replied, and then he looked a little embarrassed, as if he shouldn’t have said it. It was too late, of course; I knew exactly what he meant. He knew my HIV status because of the appearance of my face.
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HIV: Treatment is Prevention
In the New England Journal of Medicine this week is an excellent research study on HIV, entitled Preventing HIV-1 Infection with Antiretroviral Therapy.
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Inexpensive daily anti-HIV pill found to be effective as preventative measure
In a groundbreaking series of recent clinical trials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that a pill containing either one or two anti-HIV drugs taken daily can reduce transmission of the HIV-virus by as much as three-quarters among heterosexual couples.
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30 years ago, New York Times first reports on disease that would become AIDS pandemic
On this day 30 years ago — July 3, 1981 — under the headline “Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals,” The New York Times reported:
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AIDS — the most destructive epidemic in recorded history — turns 30
On this day, June 5, in 1981, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta published a report of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among previously healthy young men in Los Angeles. All of the men were described as “homosexuals” — two had died.
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Why Ronald Reagan’s legacy should be vilified, not sanctified
Today would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. The American ultra right and Christian conservatives, along with nearly all of the GOP are singing his praises, and in the case of the politico’s, either trying to emulate the “Gipper” or […]
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German doctors claim they have ‘cured’ HIV through blood stem cell transplant
Doctors in Germany claim they have cured a man who was infected with HIV. Three years after undergoing a blood stem cell transplant, Timothy Ray Brown, 44, an American patient living in Berlin,44, who was both HIV positive and stricken with Leukemia, now shows no sign of either affliction.
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World AIDS Day: AIDS pandemic nears 30 years, has claimed 30 million lives
The AIDS pandemic is almost 30 years old, and in that time 60 million people have been infected with HIV, and more than 30 million people have lost their life to the most destructive epidemic in recorded history. Today is World AIDS Day.
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HIV drug found to significantly reduce risk of infection, study shows
In a landmark study announced this week, scientists have found that Truvada — a single daily pill containing two drugs that is currently being used by patients already infected with HIV — actually reduces the risk of contracting the virus by at least 44%.