AIDS drugs have so improved the survival prospects of people with HIV that death rates among the recently diagnosed in industrialized countries have become comparable to those never exposed to the virus, according to a newly published European study.
Medical records show that, before 1996 - when combinations of antiviral drugs became available - the death [...]
Study shows improvement in AIDS/HIV survival rates
Up to 100 Vietnamese Contract HIV Daily
Each day Vietnam has from 50 to 100 new HIV carriers, according to a report entitled “Considering the AIDS situation in Asia: Sketching an effective response” released by Deputy Minister of Health Trinh Quan Huan and Dr. JVR Prasada Rao, Director of UNAIDS’s Asia-Pacific Regional Assistance Office, on May 20.
According to this report, AIDS is [...]
NYT on Pos Or Not?
mtvU’s anti-stigma campaign, Pos or Not?, was profiled in the New York Times.
Hot or Not, a Web site where people submit photographs of themselves so that strangers can rate how attractive they are on a scale of 1 to 10, has spawned many imitators (plus a fair number of critics who view it as a [...]
UCSF researchers studying cognition in older HIVers
With many people who have HIV and AIDS living longer, thanks to advances in medications, a group of researchers and doctors at the University of California, San Francisco is looking at how having HIV might affect cognitive health in people over 60.
People who have HIV and are over 60 are being sought for the three-year [...]
HIV-positive man gets 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer
Note: There has NEVER been a documented case of transmitting HIV by spitting on another person.
HIV-positive man with a history of spitting at police officers and biting fellow jail inmates was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday.
Willie Campbell’s sentence came one day after the same Dallas County jury convicted the 42-year-old of harassment of [...]
HIV Cases Rise in Germany
Germany experienced some 2,752 new cases of HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS, during 2007.
That’s an increase of about 4 percent over the previous year, according to the Robert Koch Institute, the federal institute responsible for disease control and prevention.
While the number of infections decreased among three groups: heterosexuals, drug addicts, and immigrants from [...]
South Carolina bill to notify schools of students’ HIV status
The symptoms pointed to a possible diagnosis of HIV/AIDS for Dr. Tracy Macpherson’s teenage patient. Prolonged fever. Unexplained rash. And acknowledgment of risky sexual activity during the past few months.
Macpherson sent the teen for an HIV/AIDS test at the county health department.
But a state law requiring that HIV/AIDS test results be reported to a student’s [...]
mtvU: Positive or Not Campaign
mtvU has launched their Positive or Not? anti-HIV/AIDS stigma campaign. You will be presented with a series of pictures that challenges your conception of who or what groups are stereotyped as more likely to get HIV. They are the same people who have created the game Darfur is Dying.
I think this campaign is especially important [...]
Fort Wayne AIDS Memorial Damaged By Vandals
Sections of a memorial to people in the Fort Wayne area who have died as a result of HIV/AIDS have been toppled and badly damaged.
A stone pedestal that supported a statue of an angel was pushed over, and the statue smashed.
The vandalism was discovered by Otis Vincent who created the memorial after his son died [...]
Peace Corps Fires Man With HIV
The American Civil Liberties Union has sent a letter to the Peace Corps demanding that it change its policy of barring people with HIV from serving as volunteers.
The letter was sent on behalf of a Denver, Colorado volunteer who was sent home from his post in the Ukraine and terminated after he tested positive.
“I joined [...]