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Pastor Steven Anderson Suggests Executing Gays Will Cure AIDS
Pastor Steven Anderson has suggested that executing homosexuals will cure AIDS.
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The CDC might suggest all men consider getting circumcised. Here's how to interpret that advice.
An HIV doctor offers help with a difficult decision.
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Lufkin man pleads guilty to murdering woman after learning she had HIV
A Lufkin man has accepted a 50-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to killing a woman after learning she had HIV after he had sex with her. Justin Welch, 23, entered the plea in District Judge Bob Inselmann's courtroom. “Guilty,” Welch said. “Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” Inselmann asked. “Yes sir,” Welch said.
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Aggressive new HIV strain detected in Cuba
Researchers have detected a new strain of HIV in patients in Cuba. The progression to AIDS happens much faster than in other strains of the virus.
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Experimental new HIV treatment may prevent infection
Researchers say that they have developed an HIV treatment capable of blocking infection in monkeys for more than 40 weeks after being administered.
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A Brief History of AZT, HIV's First 'Ray of Hope'
1996 is usually regarded as the year HIV changed. With the development and approval of the regimen of antiretroviral drugs known as HAART (highly-active antiretroviral therapy), an HIV infection no longer meant (or means) a lingering, painful death of colluding opportunistic infections. HAART offers at least the possibility of a reasonably normal and healthy life and lifespan. And more often than not it delivers.
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Texas measure cuts HIV funds, boost abstinence education
Texas has the third-highest number of HIV diagnoses in the country and one of the highest teen birth rates nationwide
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Fighting HIV where no-one admits it's a problem
HIV infection rates are soaring in Russia, but there is a reluctance to address the issue.
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New HIV Treatment Aims To Starve Out the Virus Instead of Actively Kill It
Trying to stop the human immunodeficiency virus—HIV—has not been too successful until recent history. But that does not mean that we are out of the woods yet. Still, the new developments show great promise; and one, in particular is incredibly innovative. “This compound can be the precursor for something that can be used in the future as part of a cocktail to treat HIV that improves on the effective medicines we have today,” explains study author Harry Taylor.
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HIV vaccine approach nears human trial
An HIV vaccine works in mice, human trials could begin in two years.
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Researcher who spiked rabbit blood to fake HIV vaccine results slapped with rare prison sentence
Dong Pyou Han admitted that he intentionally spiked rabbit blood samples with human antibodies to give the impression that the vaccine was working.
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The World Can End AIDS By 2030: UN
By 2030, AIDS could be a thing of the past, a new UNAIDS report has concluded Since 2000, the number of new HIV cases has dropped by 35 percent -- from 3.1 million to 2 million. The drastic decline is
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People with HIV live almost 20 years longer than in 2001
Better access to antiretroviral drugs has transformed outlook for 15 million people with HIV, says UN, but more funding needed to avoid Aids comeback
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HIV: UN meets goal to treat 15 million - BBC News
The goal to get life-saving HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has been met, says the United Nations Aids agency.
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Number of Canadian babies getting HIV from moms now almost zero
TORONTO -- Canada has virtually eliminated the incidence of mothers passing HIV to their infants at birth, primarily because of high rates of pre-natal testing and ready access to drug treatment that subdues the infection, researchers say.
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HIV flushed out by cancer drug
HIV can be flushed out of its hiding places in the body using a cancer drug, researchers show.
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Tinder Demands Removal of L.A. Billboards That Link Dating App to STD Testing
Tinder has sent a cease and desist letter to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation after a billboard went up in Los Angeles last week that draws a link between dating apps and a growing rate of sexually t...
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Millions More Need H.I.V. Treatment, W.H.O. Says
Everyone who has H.I.V. should immediately be put on antiretroviral triple therapy and everyone at risk of becoming infected should be offered protective doses of similar drugs, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday as it issued new H.I.V. treatment and prevention guidelines.
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Kenya Is Accused of Forcing Suspected Gay Men to Take HIV and Anal Tests
Kenyan officials have come under fire from LGBT activists in the country over a case where authorities allegedly forced two men to undergo HIV and anal testing to verify whether or not they were gay — considered a crime in Kenya that can land someone in jail for up to 14 years. The Nairobi-based National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (NGLHC) filed a lawsuit this week against a judge and police station in the small coastal town of Msambweni...
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We know the city where HIV first emerged
When HIV and AIDS appeared they seemed to come from nowhere, but genetics has told us when and where the virus first entered the human population
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