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  • Drug to treat HIV in children shows promise via national clinical trial

    ScienceDaily: HIV and AIDS News
    6 Jan 2012 | 12:58 pm
    For children with HIV infection, the FDA approval of the use of raltegravir, an antiretroviral drug that slows the spread of HIV infection, offers a new weapon to treat HIV infection in children.

  • Antiretrovirals Raise Birth Defect Risk

    HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
    27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    HIV-positive mothers can protected their babies from becoming infected with the virus if they take antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. However, even though these drugs prevent transmitting the disease to the child, they could potentially cause birth defects like cleft lip and palate...

  • Are we bad at forecasting our emotions? It depends on how you measure accuracy

    ScienceDaily: HIV and AIDS News
    27 Jan 2012 | 3:27 pm
    How will you feel if you fail that test? Awful, really awful, you say. Then you fail the test and, yes, you feel bad -- but not as bad as you thought you would. This pattern holds for most people, research shows. The takeaway message: People are lousy at predicting their emotions.

  • BIG medical blunders

    HIV/AIDS Skepticism
    Henry Bauer
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    When I first realized that published, peer-reviewed mainstream data clearly show — and have shown all along — that there is no evidence that HIV causes AIDS while there’s convincing evidence that it doesn’t, I thought this was an extraordinary, unique instance of modern medical science and modern medical practice going so drastically wrong with untold damage to untold numbers of individuals. Over the last few years, however, I’ve seen that what’s wrong with the HIV/AIDS scene is part and parcel of the Big-Pharma-influenced, money-dominated, research-hothouse, cutthroat…

  • Outcomes of nonagenarian patients after rehabilitation following hip fracture surgery

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    27 Jan 2012 | 8:37 pm
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    HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today

  • Antiretrovirals Raise Birth Defect Risk

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 am
    HIV-positive mothers can protected their babies from becoming infected with the virus if they take antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy. However, even though these drugs prevent transmitting the disease to the child, they could potentially cause birth defects like cleft lip and palate...

  • In HIV-Positive Patients, Standard Treatments For Head And Neck Cancer Are Less Effective

    27 Jan 2012 | 6:00 am
    Radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy is less effective for patients with HIV when compared to the recurrence and overall survival rates in patients who do not have HIV, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM. Treating head and neck cancer in HIV-positive patients is a challenge for oncologists...

  • Study Compares HIV Saliva Self-Test To Blood Test

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    A saliva test used to diagnose the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), is comparable in accuracy to the traditional blood test, according to a new study led by the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and McGill University...

  • Women Cope Better With HIV/AIDS When They Have The Love Of A Dog Or Cat

    25 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    A spoonful of medicine goes down a lot easier if there is a dog or cat around. Having pets is helpful for women living with HIV/AIDS and managing their chronic illness, according to a new study from the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University. "We think this finding about pets can apply to women managing other chronic illnesses," said Allison R...

  • MSU Seeks To Revamp HIV-Prevention Programs In Caribbean

    23 Jan 2012 | 3:00 am
    While global attention to HIV/AIDS remains strong, a lack of focus on prevention strategies is stonewalling health experts in many developing nations, specifically in the Caribbean...
 
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    HIV/AIDS Skepticism

  • BIG medical blunders

    Henry Bauer
    25 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    When I first realized that published, peer-reviewed mainstream data clearly show — and have shown all along — that there is no evidence that HIV causes AIDS while there’s convincing evidence that it doesn’t, I thought this was an extraordinary, unique instance of modern medical science and modern medical practice going so drastically wrong with untold damage to untold numbers of individuals. Over the last few years, however, I’ve seen that what’s wrong with the HIV/AIDS scene is part and parcel of the Big-Pharma-influenced, money-dominated, research-hothouse, cutthroat…

  • Informed Consent and Big Pharma

    Henry Bauer
    23 Jan 2012 | 2:27 pm
    I am realizing increasingly that the HIV/AIDS blunder/industry is far from unique, indeed that it reflects shockingly but faithfully many other present-day medical practices, for example the fudging of “informed consent” regulations by outsourcing trials to Africa and the profit-greedy peddling of insufficiently tested and all-too-often toxic drugs. See for example the article, “Too many given no right to refuse in medical trials” by Harriet A. Washington in the New Scientist, #2848,  23 January 2012. Her new book also seems pertinent: Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking…

  • Duesberg publication noted in NATURE, infuriates HIV/AIDS vigilantes

    Henry Bauer
    8 Jan 2012 | 4:39 pm
    “Evidence-based medicine: No HIV/AIDS epidemic”  drew attention to the article, “AIDS since 1984: No evidence for a new, viral epidemic — not even in Africa”, Italian Journal of Anatomy & Epidemiology 116 (# 2, 2011) 73-92, by Duesberg, Mandrioli, McCormack, Nicholson, Rasnick , Fiala, Koehnlein, Bauer & Ruggiero. The article summarizes epidemiological evidence, and reiterates points made in the Medical Hypotheses publication that had been withdrawn by Elsevier publishers at the behest of HIV/AIDS vigilantes spearheaded by Nobel-Prize awardee Barré-Sinoussi…

  • 2011 in review

    Henry Bauer
    31 Dec 2011 | 5:20 pm
    Even though this is self-advertising by the WordPress people, I thought readers might be interested in which posts brought the greatest number of views, and which brought the greatest number of comments — not the same ones!   The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 110,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 5 days for that many people to see it. Click here to see the complete report.

  • HAART is toxic: Mainstream concedes it, in backhanded ways

    Henry Bauer
    30 Dec 2011 | 7:59 pm
    Just as it’s rare to find “HIV” mentioned without the add-on of “AIDS” or “the virus that causes AIDS”, so it’s rare to see antiretroviral drugs mentioned without the adjective “life-saving”. Yet the technical mainstream literature is replete with backhanded admissions that antiretroviral drugs are highly toxic. What do I mean by backhanded? Making the admission in such a way that it seems like not an admission. For example, in what the Journal of Infectious Diseases  labeled a “Major Article”, Walensky et al. calculated “The survival benefits of AIDS treatment in…
 
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    AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs

  • Africa: Foundation Welcomes Launch of New Business Leadership Council for a Generation Born Free of HIV

    27 Jan 2012 | 12:21 pm
    Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation (Washington, DC)-The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) today welcomed the introduction of a new organization dedicated to the shared goal of ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

  • South Africa: HIV-Related Deaths Slow Economy

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:21 am
    IPS (Johannesburg)-If there was no HIV/AIDS, South Africa would have 4.4 million more people than today, the size of a major city. This significant slow-down in population growth is causing a slow down in economic growth and resulting in social ills, researchers warn.

  • Congo-Kinshasa: 85 Percent of Aids Patients Lack Treatment

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:18 am
    CISA (Nairobi)-Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is alarmed by the situation of HIV/AIDS patients in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the lack of priority given by the Congolese authorities and the withdrawal of donors, all occurring as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis prepares to celebrate its tenth anniversary on 28 January.

  • Uganda: Rwanda to Buy Natiion's Drugs

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:50 am
    New Vision (Kampala)-President Paul Kagame has pledged that his Rwandan Government will soon start buying some of its antiretroviral and anti-malarial drugs from Quality Chemicals in Uganda.

  • Kenya: Shortage of HIV Test Kits Raises Concerns

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:02 am
    PlusNews (Johannesburg)-Voluntary counselling and testing centres around Kenya are turning people away due to a shortage of HIV testing kits after the recall in December of more than one million faulty HIV tests.
 
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  • Insurer WellPoint to revamp primary care pay

    TOM MURPHY
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:37 pm
    Health insurer WellPoint Inc. plans to improve primary care reimbursement and start paying for care management it doesn't currently cover, changes that could give patients more quality time with their doctors.

  • NY juice jumps as fungicide found in Brazil juice

    27 Jan 2012 | 4:17 pm
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Orange juice futures rose almost 3 percent on Friday after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said juice shipments from Brazil and Canada had tested positive for a fungicide that is prohibited in the United States. Such a f...

  • IV Acetaminophen Linked to More Child Overdoses

    <b>By Alan Mozes</b><BR/><i>HealthDay Reporter</i>
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    FRIDAY, Jan. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Following the U.S. Food Drug Administration's approval last year of an intravenous formulation of acetaminophen for fever and pain in a hospital setting, researchers warn that use of the preparation could le...

  • Test Might Predict Risk of Lung Cancer's Return

    <b>By Randy Dotinga</b><BR/><i>HealthDay Reporter</i>
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    THURSDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- A new industry-funded study suggests that a molecular test can provide insight into whether patients are at high risk of a relapse after surgical treatment for a form of lung cancer.

  • Statins May Stave Off Liver Cancer in People With Hepatitis B

    <b>By Denise Mann</b><BR/><i>HealthDay Reporter</i>
    27 Jan 2012 | 4:04 pm
    THURSDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Popular cholesterol-lowering statins may also lower risk for liver cancer among people with hepatitis B, a new study shows. Hepatitis B, an inflammation of the liver due to the hepatitis B virus, is one of the...
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    AIDS.gov blog

  • AIDS 2012 Plenary Speakers Announced

    Gregorio Millett, M.P.H.
    27 Jan 2012 | 9:24 am
    By Gregorio Millett, M.P.H., CDC/HHS Liaison to the Office of National AIDS PolicyGregorio Millett Today’s announcement (PDF 215KB) of plenary speakers is a clear indication of how AIDS 2012 is shaping up to be one of the strongest International AIDS Conferences yet, with 15 world-renowned experts tapped to speak on a range of key issues related to the global and U.S. response to AIDS.  Under the plenary theme of Ending the Epidemic: Turning the Tide, Monday’s panel will feature a presentation by NIAID Director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci entitled, “Ending the HIV Epidemic: From…

  • PACHA Blog: CMS Care Innovations Summit

    Christopher Bates
    26 Jan 2012 | 7:08 am
    By Christopher Bates, M.P.A., Executive Director, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, and Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Infectious Diseases, U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesDr. Michael Horberg The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the HHS Office of the National Coordinator are hosting the first “Care Innovations Summit” in Washington, DC today to “showcase innovative work in care delivery and payment.” The Summit will bring together leading innovators from inside and outside the healthcare industry to…

  • HRSA Announces $70M Grant Competition for HIV/AIDS Services for Women, Infants, Children and Youth

    AIDS.gov
    25 Jan 2012 | 4:38 pm
    By AIDS.govLast week, the HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part D Grants for Coordinated HIV Services and Access to Research for Women, Infants, Children, and Youth (WICY). According to HRSA the entire $70 million Part D program is being re-competed through this FOA in order to respond to changing HIV epidemiology and better address the goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) by providing comprehensive health care services for the WICY populations in areas…

  • New Media in Action at the 2012 National African American MSM Leadership Conference

    Aisha Moore
    24 Jan 2012 | 6:46 pm
    By Aisha Moore, Communications Director, AIDS.govMore than 350 people attended the National African American MSM Leadership Conference on HIV/AIDS and Other Health Disparities in New Orleans last week. The theme of the conference was “Forward Together – Engaging Our Future Leaders.” We hosted a social media lab where we provided small group technical assistance on using new media in response to HIV. Not only did we share a lot of information, we also heard from community members across the country how they are using new media. Here are some of the highlights: Ken Williams and Jonathan…

  • Register Now: The Graying of HIV/AIDS Webinar

    Deb LeBel
    24 Jan 2012 | 8:00 am
    By Deb LeBel, Partnerships Specialist, AIDS.govThe Administration on Aging (AoA) will host a free webinar “The Graying of HIV/AIDS: Community Resources for the Aging Services Network” on Wednesday January 25th from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern. Register here. This session will explore community programs and resources associated with positive aging and HIV prevention, including the new AoA Older Adults and HIV/AIDS Tool “HIV: Know the Risks. Get the Facts.” We at AIDS.gov are excited to be part of this webinar.  The following speakers will present and take questions: Dr. Charles…
 
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    Peter Staley

  • AIDS Activism Wows Sundance

    Peter Staley
    25 Jan 2012 | 9:12 pm
    I got the chance to see AIDS activism wow a crowd at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, during the premiere of HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE on Sunday. Seeing it on a big screen kinda blew my mind, and judging by audience response, I wasn't alone.

  • How to Survive a Plague, ctd.

    Peter Staley
    19 Jan 2012 | 11:27 am
    In December, 2008, David France came over to my Brooklyn apartment and told me about his dream of making a documentary that honored the history he witnessed of AIDS treatment activism in the late 80's and early 90's. From the heady-optimism of ACT UP's Treatment & Data Committee, to the painful split of ACT UP & TAG just as the plague years were at their worst in the U.S., and finally to the remarkable research breakthroughs that made the death rate decline by 70%.

  • How to Survive a Plague

    Peter Staley
    9 Jan 2012 | 12:21 pm
    This seems to be the year of the AIDS documentary. It's about time. I'm still shocked by how many twenty-somethings have never heard of ACT UP. We can't let this remarkable history slip away.

  • If Only My Dog Could Vote

    Peter Staley
    9 Jan 2012 | 10:41 am
    Normally, Stella barks at something outside, but for the first time ever, she was barking at the TV.

  • That's a Lot of Vivid Dreaming

    Peter Staley
    27 Jan 2010 | 3:40 pm
    It seems Gilead is selling tons of Atripla these days:try{for(var lastpass_iter=0; lastpass_iter Gilead 4Q Profit Rises 43 Percent On Atripla SalesGilead Sciences said yesterday its profit climbed 43 percent in the fourth quarter due to rising sales of its three-in-one...
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    global health delivery

  • Only one week left to apply

    Amy Scheffler
    26 Jan 2012 | 11:17 am
    Over the past few months, project evaluators, consultants, health researchers, clinicians and public health professionals from around the world have been working against the February 1st deadline to submit their application to the Global Health Effectiveness (GHE) Program. The 2012 program runs July 5 through July 27, and will be held at the Harvard School [...]

  • GHDonline.org: Wrapping up 2011, Ringing in 2012

    Aaron Beals
    5 Jan 2012 | 1:35 pm
    I’m proud to say that 2011 was a year of growth for us here at GHDonline.org– thanks to the efforts of our members, our moderators, and our staff.After a successful trial run of Expert Panels in the second half of 2010, we expanded them to the point where they are now core to our community [...]

  • SmileTrain Cofounder Highlights the Power of IT for Surgical Training

    Marie Connelly
    16 Dec 2011 | 8:45 am
    At a recent MIT lecture, Brian Mullaney spoke about his work with Smile Train (where he was formerly the CEO), and about Surgery for the Poor, an organization he recently co-founded. Smile Train’s accomplishments are hard to deny. The organization performs over 100,000 cleft surgeries a year in 80 countries and will complete its one [...]

  • Flexibility and Time Key to Successful Partnerships between NGOs and Ministries of Health

    Marie Connelly
    14 Dec 2011 | 2:40 pm
    Last month, we hosted “Strengthening Health Systems: The Role of NGOs,” a virtual Expert Panel discussion on GHDonline.org with Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, Minister of Health of Rwanda, and practitioners from The Access Project, Health Alliance International, Partners In Health, and Tiyatien Health. We were delighted to see more than 100 contributions from over 50 participants, [...]

  • Blaya recognized for MiDoctor, a mHealth solution for chronic disease management

    Sophie Beauvais
    6 Dec 2011 | 3:50 pm
    Joaquin Blaya, PhD, co-founder and CIO of eHealth Systems, a Chilean company that offers eHealth strategies and open source solutions to companies, and a GHDonline.org moderator, is one of eleven to be nominated Leading Mobile Health Innovators of the Year by the mHealth Alliance and the Rockefeller Foundation (see press release here). This recognition acknowledges [...]
 
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    POZ HIV/AIDS Web Exclusives

  • Back in the Driver’s Seat

    2 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    For Wayne Starks, 51, a former New York City bus driver and the father of two, finding the strength to stay sober has been central to his fight to stay healthy while living with both HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). His life has taken some unexpected turns along the way, but as he explains here, Starks has managed to steer himself on the road to wellness.

  • Black Manhood and Sexual Diversity: Can the Two Be Mixed?

    20 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    The brother behind the “I Am a Man” conference and film talks about manning up, homosexuality, hip-hop and HIV in the black community.

  • 2011 Most Heartwarming Stories

    18 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    Here are the 20 most heartwarming news stories on poz.com in 2011 as selected by the editors of POZ. 

  • 2011 Most Momentous Moments

    18 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    Here are the 20 most momentous news stories on poz.com in 2011 as selected by the editors of POZ.

  • 2011 Year in Review

    18 Dec 2011 | 11:00 pm
    Here are the most momentous, heartwarming, horrifying and strangest stories of 2011 as selected by the editors of POZ, as well as the top news and treatment stories, the top blog entries and the most commented stories.
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    HIV/AIDS Treatment News from POZ and AIDSmeds

  • New Gilead GS 7340-Inclusive Fixed-Dose Combo Tablet Trial Announced

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Gilead Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: GILD) today announced the start of a Phase II clinical trial to evaluate a modified version of its experimental “quad” fixed-dose combination (FDC) tablet currently being reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to a company announcement.

  • Less than 1 in 2 HIV-Positive U.S. Residents Are in Regular Care

    24 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Less than half of people living with HIV in the United States are being retained in ongoing medical care, according to a new analysis by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators published online ahead of print by the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The sobering statistics, which include the finding that only two thirds of people testing positive for HIV are being successfully linked to medical care within a year of their diagnosis, help explain those of another recent CDC analysis indicating that only 28 percent of U.S. residents living with HIV…

  • Many at Risk for Hep B in U.S. Aren't Getting Vaccinated

    23 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Missed opportunities to vaccinate people at the highest risk for hepatitis B virus (HBV) explain why 80,000 people continue to be infected ever year in the United States, according to a new study published online ahead of print by the journal Infection.

  • Viread Approved for Children 2 and Up

    19 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Viread (tenofovir), Gilead Sciences’ nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor, has been approved for children living with HIV, according to a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcement. To facilitate correct pediatric use of the drug, the agency also approved a powder formulation for children between the ages of 2 and 5 and low-dose tablets to meet pediatric dosing needs. 

  • Vitamin D May Protect Bone Health in Tenofovir Takers

    18 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Vitamin D supplementation may help prevent hormonal changes that can lead to bone loss among adolescents and young adults being treated for HIV with tenofovir—found in Viread, Truvada and Atripla—according to a National Institutes of Health (NIH) study published online ahead of print by Clinical Infectious Diseases.
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    POZ and AIDSmeds HIV/AIDS Newsfeed

  • My Brothaz Home, a Georgia HIV Testing Group, Shuts Down

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    My Brothaz Home, a nonprofit HIV testing organization in Savannah, Georgia, is suspending its services by April 1 until it can get more funding, WTOC.com reports. 

  • New Standards for Sexual Health Care of Youth in Detention

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    The Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP) has released the first set of standards created to ensure that sexual health care is included in basic medical services for young people in detention and other types of state custody, such as foster care, according to a CHLP statement. 

  • Federal Appeals Court Hears HIV Lawsuit Against Atlanta Police

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Lambda Legal recently urged the U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a lower court ruling against the claim of a man who applied to be a police officer with the Atlanta Police Department (APD) but was denied employment because he has HIV, according to a Lamda Legal statement.

  • Rapid HIV Test Results From Blood Slightly Better Than Saliva

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Test results from the Oraquick rapid HIV test are slightly more accurate when they use blood samples compared with saliva samples, according to a University Health Center of Montreal study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and reported by MedPage Today.

  • Kaiser Permanente Launches HIV Challenge

    25 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Nonprofit health care provider Kaiser Permanente (KP) has launched the "Kaiser Permanente HIV Challenge," an effort to push providers and clinics to improve access and results of care, according to a KP statement.
 
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    News Front Page - PositiveLite.com

  • Indian video with a new take on HIV Stigma

    27 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Bob Leahy says “This one had me scratching my head for a bit. What does it mean? See if you can figure it out.” Sometimes I think we’ve seen every kind of HIV messaging under the sun, and then comes something completely out of left field. This one is from India and while I like to think I know a fair bit about stigma, having blogged about it and nothing else for six months on Ontario’s HIVStigma.com campaign, must admit I hadn’t considered this take on the subject before. The video below has great production values, but the exact message, in the absence of a knowledge of Hindi, is a…

  • A whole lot of love – and food

    27 Jan 2012 | 7:11 pm
    Bob Leahy talks to Lisa Martella, Executive Director of Vancouver’s A Loving Spoonful, an organization that distributes 100,000 meals a year to people in need living with HIV. And she’s also selling CandyGrams for Valentine’s Day! (Why not buy one?) Bob : Hi Lisa. Thanks for agreeing to talk to PositiveLite.com.  I want to talk to you about the work of A Loving Spoonful because it sounds quite amazing. But before that  I want to tell you that  I’m loving that flash mob video of yours.  (We’re also posting it below). Do you want to tell me about it?   Is…

  • Criminal Sex? Women, HIV and the Injustice of the Law.

    27 Jan 2012 | 9:46 am
    A documentary film screening with expert panel discussion in Ottawa, hosted by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and the Canadian AIDS Society In less than 15 years, more than 130 people living with HIV in Canada have been charged with not disclosing their HIV-positive status to their sexual partners, including many cases where there was no significant risk of HIV transmission.  The over-use of the criminal law has contributed to a climate of anxiety, fear and misinformation that undermines HIV counselling, education and prevention efforts — and puts all Canadians at greater risk.

  • THEATRE REVIEW: Atom Egoyan directs Arsinée Khanjian in Martin Crimp’s Cruel and Tender

    27 Jan 2012 | 8:13 am
    John McCullagh has been to see Arsinée Khanjian in an intense marital drama based on an ancient Greek tragedy but set against today’s “war on terror”. Cruel and Tender, written by Martin Crimp, one of Britain’s foremost playwrights, and directed by Canada’s acclaimed film director, Atom Egoyan, has opened at Canadian Stage in Toronto. It’s an adaptation of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy The Trachiniae, written in 490 BCE. Crimp created this adaptation in 2004 because it resonated in a world seeking to justify the invasion of Iraq. The Trachininae tells the story of Dejaneira, the…

  • Is it me or is it HIV?

    26 Jan 2012 | 11:00 pm
    Denis Robinson: “I guess I am not the only one of us who wonders the same. But my list of aches and pains and worries seems to be growing at an alarming rate.” Sorry to have been away for a while. Once again Bob had to prompt me to file this.I made no excuses this time. I just explained that part of what I have decided to call this year (see last post) has taken off with a bang. Unfortunately I am still celibate but the achieving part has been crazy. I have had three days off since I started back to work after the Christmas break and some of those working days have been eighteen hours…
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    AHF Speak Out

  • Dozens of protesters descended on Hershey, Pennsylvania to...

    27 Jan 2012 | 3:09 pm
    Dozens of protesters descended on Hershey, Pennsylvania to protest AIDS discrimination at the Milton Hershey School.  The boarding school - funded by the trust left behind by the Hershey co. founder - recently rejected a 13-year-old boy for admission due to his HIV-positive status. Help us reach 3,000 eletters telling the Hershey Board Members to denounce this discrimination and facilitate the boy’s enrollment at the school. Go to www.endHIVstigma.org to send your eletter. 

  • END HIV STIGMA Hershey-Funded Boarding School REJECTED an...

    24 Jan 2012 | 1:59 pm
    END HIV STIGMA Hershey-Funded Boarding School REJECTED an HIV-Positive 13-Year-Old Boy for Admission, Calling His Status a “Direct Threat to the Health & Safety of Others” Please join AIDS Healthcare Foundation in sending a message to the Hershey Company and the Milton Hershey School that HIV/AIDS discrimination is not acceptable. Send an e-letter to 3 Hershey Company Board Members—Robert Cavanaugh, James Mead & James Nevels—who also sit on the Milton Hershey School Trust Board, and demand that Hershey denounce this discrimination and facilitate the enrollment of the HIV-positive…

  • FDA: Safety Before Profits! Pharmaceutical giant -...

    23 Jan 2012 | 7:30 pm
    FDA: Safety Before Profits! Pharmaceutical giant - Gilead’s application to expand use of its AIDS drug Truvada for use as HIV prevention pill in uninfected individuals alarms AIDS advocates who note FDA approval is unwarranted based on unsuccessful clinical trials. Join the advocates & send a message to the FDA!

  • A truly historic day!  For more information about AIDS...

    17 Jan 2012 | 7:40 pm
    A truly historic day!  For more information about AIDS Healthcare Foundation’s campaign to require condoms in adult films, please visit: www.aidshealth.org.  

  • This week the Los Angeles City Council voted to adopt the ...

    13 Jan 2012 | 3:10 pm
    This week the Los Angeles City Council voted to adopt the condoms-in-porn initiative requiring adult film producers to show proof that condoms will be used on set before being issued a film permit.
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    Don't Get Stuck With HIV

  • Long past time to listen, believe, and investigate

    davidgisselquist
    21 Jan 2012 | 11:33 pm
    There would be no HIV epidemic if doctors and nurses in Central and West Africa had not reused syringes and needles during 1900-1960. We’d worry about other things. And health aid programs would be begging for money for other things. But no one would have heard of HIV. The charge – accusation – that colonial [...]

  • Is misogyny misleading the response to Africa’s HIV/AIDS epidemics?

    davidgisselquist
    12 Jan 2012 | 9:47 am
    Everyone has prejudices. Trying to overcome them can be like playing the arcade game whack-a-mole. See it, whack it. It pops up again, whack it again. The AIDS epidemic energizes a lot of prejudices. Unfortunately, the international AIDS industry – organizations and individuals getting money to do something about AIDS, including aid agencies, researchers, and [...]

  • PrePex in Rwanda: Male Circumcision Associated with Higher HIV Transmission and Higher Profits

    Simon Collery
    10 Jan 2012 | 7:47 am
    Rwanda, which has a shockingly low number of doctors and other health personnel per patient, is claiming that they can circumcise two million men in the next one and a half years. Even Kenya, which makes exalted claims, has only managed 250,000 or so in a longer period of time. Apparently, the trick is to [...]

  • If Contaminated Medical Waste Makes Dumps Dangerous, How About Hospitals

    Simon Collery
    5 Jan 2012 | 10:43 am
    Medical waste is a serious threat in all developing countries, although it may not be as big a threat as reused contaminated equipment and other unsafe practices in health facilities. Thousands of people scrape a living from dumping sites by trawling for things that can be sold or reused. But if healthcare waste is not [...]

  • HIV Risk from Blood Transfusions and Tattoos

    Simon Collery
    24 Dec 2011 | 2:54 am
    Further to a recent report that parents of 23 thalassemic children who were thought to have been infected with HIV through contaminated blood transfusions were calling for an investigation, it appears their demands are being met, at least in part. There will be an investigation to, in effect, establish who to blame for the outbreak. [...]
 
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    HIV in Kenya

  • Huge Birth Control Programs Don't Work: Time to Give Education a Chance

    Simon
    26 Jan 2012 | 12:07 pm
    I recently moved from a job as grant proposal writer for an NGO working in several different development areas to a similar job in a secondary boarding school for girls, which is being built in a country where many girls don't even finish primary school. So I was comforted to find an article entitled 'Women's Education Slows Population Growth'. That women's education can have such profound and positive consequences is not the issue, that has been recognized for a long time, at least by those working in education. But the priority is so often given to population growth, rather than to…

  • Deceived and Misled, HIV Positive People Can Only Speculate About Their Infection

    Simon
    25 Jan 2012 | 1:11 pm
    I was intigued by the title of a Kenyan newspaper article: "When a Woman Feels She Is Not 'Rightfully Infected'". I thought that maybe someone was asking how they could have been infected with a virus that is not easy to transmit sexually even though they have never had unsafe sex, very little sex or perhaps no sex at all. Demographic and Health Surveys usually find that a considerable number of people are infected with HIV even though they have no obvious sexual risks. Non-sexual risks are rarely considered and it is usually assumed that people have lied about their sexual behavior. Anyhow,…

  • To Reduce HIV Transmission From Mothers to Children, Reduce Transmission to Women

    Simon
    24 Jan 2012 | 1:17 pm
    In the many articles about eliminating (or virtually eliminating) mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT), the one strategy I haven't heard mentioned seems like it might be the simplest and most effective of all: eliminate, or at least reduce, HIV in mothers. It has been shown that even very high uptake of prevention of MTCT services will still not allow a country such as Zimbabwe to achieve virtual elimination, which would mean reducing the risk to less than 5%. Even an increase in uptake of services from 36% to 56% only resulted in a drop in MTCT from 20.3% to 18%. The article states…

  • Keep Using Depo Provera For the Next Five Years; It May Not Be Harmful

    Simon
    23 Jan 2012 | 12:55 pm
    The issue of whether use of hormonal contraceptives such as Depo Provera may increase risk of HIV transmission in both directions (from male to female and from female to male) has cropped up on this blog a couple of times and several more times on the Don't Get Stuck With HIV blog. Three months ago, when a paper was published suggesting a possible danger of increased HIV transmission, the WHO, UNAIDS and others recommended doing nothing until they held a 'high level consultation' in January. Apparently that consultation is still on the cards, if this podcast is anything to go by (Podcast 4:…

  • Following Pepin, We Have a Duty to Rethink the HIV Orthodoxy

    Simon
    22 Jan 2012 | 10:56 am
    On page 9 of Pepin's book 'The Origins of AIDS', he writes: "The earliest evidence of HIV in East Africa comes from Nairobi in 1980-1 where 1% of patients with STDs and 5% of sex workers were HIV-1 infected. Just three years later, 82% of Nairobi sex workers were HIV-1 infected." Yet Pepin also spends a lot of effort demonstrating that sexual transmission is too inefficient to start an epidemic. If sexual transmission is inefficient, the percentage of HIV positive sex workers did not go from 5% to 82% in three years as a result of sexual transmission alone. You can't have it both ways and…
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