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-positive man gets 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer
Egypt Sentences 5 Men for Homosexuality
An Egyptian court convicted five men Wednesday on charges of homosexual behavior and sentenced them to three years in prison, officials said.
Defense lawyer, Adel Ramadan, said the judge found the men guilty of the “habitual practice of debauchery” — a term used in the Egyptian legal system to denote consensual homosexual acts.
The convictions were confirmed [...]
Trial to Proceed In Transwoman Discrimination Suit
(Houston, Texas) The District Court for the Southern District of Texas on Friday denied motions for summary judgment from both sides in the case of a transgender woman who found her job offer from a Houston medical clinic withdrawn after a background check disclosed her sex as male.
Both Lambda Legal, representing 27-year-old Izza Lopez, and [...]
Merck AIDS Vaccine Failure May Doom Promising Study
A once-promising study of an AIDS vaccine developed by the U.S. will be scaled back and may be scrubbed after the failure of a related Merck & Co. effort.
The vaccine, created by the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland, may be studied in about only 2,000 people in the U.S. [...]