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• in Lifestyle
  Blood Donor Turned Down For "Looking Gay"
  A Ohio man was recently turned down at a blood donation clinic, because an employee thought he looked gay.
  by dopodomani / on Jul 18, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  India keeping HIV+ Hopes Alive Worldwide
  India alone is catering to 86% HIV+ worldwide. Due to high quality and affordable drugs, many have access to treatment today.
  by deeps13 / on Jul 6, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  We Can Save One Million Lives in Next Four Years From AIDS and Tuberculosis
  Save One Million Innocent People from TB in Next Four Years
  by chetanmohan / on Jun 9, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “hiv aids”

 

• Living Positively: The Importance of Pediatric HIV Disclosure

  
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  Senior Treatment Officer Bisola Ojikutu, at AIDSTAR-One, discusses the positive, transformative effects disclosing an HIV status have for children living with HIV. Read more >>
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• Father Defiles Daughter & Infects Her With HIV/AIDS

  
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  By Emmanuel Omona PaOkech A Primary Five Child in Bweyale town council in Kiryandongo district has been defiled by his father. While explaining to the police the minor said, “He came in when we were sleeping at night and carried me and took me into another room from where he defiled me. My mother was [...]
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• HIV/AIDS Patients Worried Over Shortage of Septrin and Dapsone

  
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  By Mildred Nambi People living with HIV/AIDS in Luwero district have expressed worry over shortage of some drugs essential to their therapy. 8000 people are currently living on antiretroviral drugs in Luwero have failed to access Septrine and dapsone. The district coordinator  for people living with HIV/ AIDS ...
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• HIV-Testing In Emergency Departments Can Be Increased Through Peer-Referral Programs

  
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  Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have found that incorporating a peer-referral program for HIV testing into emergency departments can reach new groups of high-risk patients and brings more patients into the hospital for testing. Co-author and assistant professor of emergency medicine Michael Lyons, MD, ...
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• Time to get wonky: Learn about Option B+, an anti-HIV ‘treatment for life’

  
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  Erin Hohlfelder interviews Beth Tippett Barr, the CDC’s biomedical HIV prevention adviser in Malawi, who sheds light on Option B+, an approach that provides treatment for life for all HIV-positive pregnant women.  Joyce Dixon and her daughter Tamanda are part of a PMTCT program in Malawi. Photo credit: The ...
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• TEASER: Broadway Bares 2013

  
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  Might not be work-friendly. Recap from Broadway Cares: Broadway Bares: Solo Strips was a sexy tease for Broadway Bares , one of BC/EFAs annual signature events. This years racy, road trip-themed edition, Broadway Bares 23: United Strips of America, will feature 200 of New Yorks most desirable dancers ...
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• AIDS in Asia: hopes and challenges

  
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  Author: Binod Nepal, Canberra AIDS has already claimed as many as 30 million human lives worldwide. An estimated 34 million people, mostly adults of working age, are living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Despite this UNAIDS, the peak UN agency that coordinates AIDS control programs worldwide, ...
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• From Alcohol to HIV/AIDS, Anita Raj on How Gender Inequities Affect Maternal Health in India

  
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  “Improving the equity of women, the treatment of women and girls, the value of women and girls in society is a very important means of improving population health,” says Dr. Anita Raj of the University of California, San Diego. Traditional societal expectations of women and girls in India contribute to high ...
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• Mathematical Model Measures Hidden HIV Virus Replication

  
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  Scientists have long believed that measuring the amount of HIV in a persons blood is an indicator of whether the virus is actively reproducing. A University of Delaware-led research team reports new evidence that hidden virus replication may be occurring within the bodys tissue, despite undetectable virus levels in ...
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• Competing antibodies may have limited the protection achieved in HIV vaccine trial in Thailand

  
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  Continuing analysis of an HIV vaccine trial undertaken in Thailand is yielding additional information about how immune responses were triggered and why the vaccine did not protect more people. In a study appearing May 6, 2013, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of ...
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• Man Arrested over Fake HIV/AIDS Treatment

  
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  By Mildred Nambi Police in Masaka have arrested a man who set up a fake HIV treatment center and has been conning victims millions of shillings for treatment. Emmanuel Ssebunya, a resident of Gayaza village in Masaka district  was arrested after a tipoff  by residents who became suspicious of the herbs he has been ...
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• Alexithymia Increases Risk of Heart Disease in Individuals with HIV

  
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  People with alexithymia, which inhibits emotional processing, may have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease because of a comorbid risk of issues like smoking, diabetes, and obesity.
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• Stigma Affects Those Living with HIV and Caregivers

  
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  A study in China this year finds that both those living with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers perceive some amount of discrimination or feel isolated based on the illness.
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• Q Conversations 4: Jazz Singer and Photographer Ruth Naomi Floyd

  
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  While I was in the States at the end of last month, I had an afternoon to kill in Philadelphia. So the completely obvious thing to do was record another Q conversation. This time I sat down to chat with Ruth Naomi Floyd, whom I’d met at the European Leadership Conference in Hungary a few years ago. It’s available ...
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• No, a Sex Superbug ‘Worse Than AIDS’ Did Not Just Hit the U.S.

  
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  Reports of a drug resistant strain of gonorrhea that were supposedly found in parts of America and could have been “worse than AIDS” are, as it turns out, untrue. Here’s what happened and what you need to know. Last week, the Associated Press and a number of other news agencies and sites including CNBC ran a ...
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• Public discussion: The Arts & Disability

  
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  When: Thursday 9 May 2013 Time: 5.30 – 7pm Where: Book Cafe, 139 Samora Machel Ave/6th Street, Harare On Thursday 9 May the popular arts hub, THE BOOK CAFE once again offers a platform and opens its doors for a free public discussion on THE ARTS & DISABILITY. An initiative of the budding organisation ...
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• Challenges of Prevention

  
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  My editor over at Positive Lite asked me to write about the future of prevention. In taking up that challenge, I am discovering that I probably have more questions than answers, but I do have some ideas of the challenges we must meet if we are really going to stop HIV transmission. Motivation. ...
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• Second Chances: How a Blood Test Helped The Voice’s Jamar Rogers Live with Purpose

  
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  By Eric Compton, Worldwide President, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Inc. At Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD), celebrating National Minority Health Month in April was an opportunity to shine a light on the health disparities affecting our country. While we are all at risk for chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart ...
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• Sex Superbug Reports Proves to be a Rumor

  
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  Like the AIDS scare which proved very real, rumors of a sex superbug which is about to invade the private lives of millions of Americans has proven to be nothing but humbug (no pun intended)....        
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• Researchers Have Discovered Synthetic Agents Used To Treat HIV Inflammation

  
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  HIV can cause serious inflammation, regardless of drug therapy, as it develops slowly in immune cells called macrophages. However, new research conducted at the Temple University School of Medicines Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Center for Substance Abuse Research (CSAR) has just found that there ...
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