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Porn Stars at Center of HIV Scare Speak Out
Cameron Bay speaks out after her HIV diagnosis halts porn industry.
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Cleveland craigslist post warns partner of possible HIV exposure
A craigslist post on Tuesday in Cleveland had many people talking. The post said in part, “We had sex behind a dumpster after NA…I don’t remember your name." It went on to say, “I went for an HIV test and It came back positive." The message advised the sexual partner to go get tested.
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In Life, Man Immune To HIV Helped Scientists Fight Virus
Stephen Crohn, a man best known for staying alive during the early days of the AIDS epidemic, died Aug. 23 at age 66. Throughout his lifetime, the New York artist helped researchers uncover vital clues about HIV and how to stop it.
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United Nations reports 'dramatic' progress in fight against AIDS
LONDON (Reuters) - The global rate of HIV infection and the number of AIDS-related deaths have been dramatically reduced, thanks to expanding access to treatment, the United Nations said in a report issued
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AIDS Activists Say Epidemic's Defeat Is Within Reach
AIDS, the epidemic that has ended 35 million lives and infected twice that number, may meet its own end within the lifetime of most people reading this article, experts say.
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Cats may be the key to developing a successful HIV vaccine for humans
In a new study published in the Journal of Virology, a cat AIDS virus protein was found to trigger an effective immune response in blood from HIV-infected humans. According to the researchers from the University of Florida and University of California, San Francisco, this finding could lead to the development of a successful AIDS vaccine for humans.
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Here Come the Condom Police
Monitoring gay bathhouses and mandating condoms for porn actors are quick fixes that won't replace the long, hard work of HIV prevention.
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Discovered: A Natural Protein in Breast Milk That Fights HIV
For decades, public health officials have puzzled over a surprising fact about HIV: Only about 10-20 percent of infants who are breastfed by infected mothers catch the virus. Tests show, though, that HIV is indeed present in breast milk, so these children are exposed to the virus multiple times daily for the first several months (or even years) of their lives.
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Close-up of HIV virus could ease AIDS vaccine research
The search for an HIV vaccine has taken an important step forward after researchers at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla managed to capture molecular images of a protein spike that allows the deadly virus to invade human immune cells to hack their genetic code.
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Sex workers using anti-HIV drugs instead of condoms
In Kenya 1.5 million people are living with HIV, and there are about 100,000 new infections every year. Despite this, some sex workers are having unprotected sex - and taking antiretroviral drugs afterwards to cut the infection risk. How reckless is this?
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HIV’s Stealth Revealed
HIV-1, the virus that causes AIDS, is renowned for its ability to escape the immune system. A new study shows that its sneaky talents depend on the capsid protein that makes up the virus’s outer coat.
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Researchers block replication of AIDS virus
A multidisciplinary team of scientists from Spanish universities and research centres, among which is the University of Valencia, has managed to design small synthetic molecules capable of joining to the genetic material of the AIDS virus and blocking its replication.
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New aggressive HIV strain leads to faster AIDS development
A recently discovered HIV strain leads to significantly faster development of AIDS than currently prevalent forms, according to new research from Lund University in Sweden. The period from infection to development of AIDS was the shortest reported among HIV-1 types, at around five years.
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What Young Gay Men Don’t Know About AIDS
If unprotected anal intercourse is rising among gay men—a trend noted not just in America but in much of the Western world—the rates of HIV infection will surely follow. Why is this happening?
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World Aids Day: how Aids activists changed medical research
Outbreaks of epidemic diseases, especially diseases that appear to be new, can seriously affect the organisation of human societies – bubonic plague forced changes in social organisation and agriculture in Europe, while diseases such as smallpox, carried by Europeans, devastated many indigenous communities, particularly in the Americas.
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HIV returns in two patients after bone marrow transplant
HIV has returned in two patients whom doctors hoped had been cured of the virus following bone marrow transplants, the Boston researcher who treated them said.
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Porn performer tests positive for HIV; industry group seeks shutdown
The porn film industry faces another shutdown after it was announced Friday that a performer had tested positive for HIV. The name and gender of the performer were not released. Officials with the Free Speech Coalition, an adult-film industry trade group that called Friday for a moratorium on filming, said the HIV-positive result came from a testing center in Los Angeles. The moratorium would be the third such shutdown this year.
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Credit Card-Sized Chip Diagnoses HIV and Provides T Cell Counts on the Spot
A credit card-sized chip can diagnose HIV infection and provide T cell counts to guide treatment, according to a recent paper in Science Translational Medicine. The tiny fluid-processing chip provides accurate test results in less than 20 minutes using a single drop of blood that goes directly into the testing chamber and does not require trained handling.
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Egyptian ‘miracle cure for HIV’ met with scepticism
The Egyptian military has developed a device capable of both detecting and curing HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C, according to the country’s government, though the claim has been met with widespread scepticism by both scientists and the Egyptian public.
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Twitter Now a Tool for Reducing HIV Outbreaks
Due to recent study findings, researchers may have determined a new way to identify and control HIV occurrences. This new tool for reducing HIV outbreaks is the social media website Twitter.
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