Social anxiety in gay & bisexual men may be linked to risky sex

Social anxiety in gay and bi-sexual men may be linked to risky sex according to a Ryerson University HIV researcher who claims to have found a link between social anxiety and unsafe sexual activities." Dr. Trevor...

World AIDS Day 2009: South Africa's New Policy for HIV & AIDS

Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, announced new policies to combat the nation's AIDS epidemic today, on World AIDS Day. South Africa's new policies for HIV & AIDS include treatment for all HIV-positive babies under one-year-old, mobilize testing for HIV, and reverse...

A Reason to Dine: 'Pick up your fork and fight HIV'

  Organized by the Columbus AIDS Task Force (CATF), A Reason to Dine: 'Pick up your fork and fight HIV' is taking place at select Columbus, Ohio restaurants today, December 1, in honor of World AIDS Day...

Clinton announces U.S. to host 2012 International AIDS Conference

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the United States will host the 2012 International AIDS Conference. The announcement came one day before World AIDS Day 2009, celebrated today, December 1."...

State-funded gay bar will open in Dali City on World AIDS Day

A state-funded gay bar will officially open in Dali City, Yunnan China tomorrow, December 1st. The official opening is being held on World AIDS Day to promote peer education on reducing AIDS transmission. This...

New AIDS Vaccine ALVAC-AIDSVAX to Help Prevent AIDS

An experimental vaccine called ALVAC-AIDSVAX has been found to be over 31% effective in the prevention of AIDS, suggesting new hope and a breakthrough in the near future.  The study was conducted on 16,000...

Community leaders recall Kennedy's impact on equality for LGBT

Community leaders recall Senator Edward 'Ted' Kennedy's impact on equality for LGBT Americans. Chai Feldblum worked with Senator Kennedy on ENDA, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), to prohibit...

Jan Meza: Former Porn Star Fights For Safer Porn Industry

Jan Meza, former porn actress, has joined the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) to fight to regulate certain porn filming conditions, including requiring the use of condoms in porn. Meza first started appearing in adult movies in 2006, and stopped around one year later when...

Experts warned dispersal of Tamiflu would do more harm than good

" The government rejected advice from its expert advisers on swine flu, who said there was no need for the widespread use of Tamiflu and suggested that the public should simply be told to take paracetamol. An...

A New HIV Strain Deriving From Gorillas Found In Humans

A new strain of AIDS-causing HIV virus has been found in a 62-year-old woman from Cameroon. A study by French researchers in the academic journal Nature Medicine suggests that the new strain of HIV resembles that found in gorillas, a subtype of the simian immunodeficiency...

53,000 HIV-positive Children in India, Number Increasing

The Indian Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, announced on July 29 that there are nearly 53,000 HIV positive children in India. This constitutes an increase of more than 2000% since 2006, when 2,253 cases of HIV-positive children were reported; however, this huge increase may...

China's Lesbians Petition Government to Donate Blood

China's lesbians petition their government to donate blood. They have organized an online petition calling for gay people to be allowed to donate blood. The petition is asking the government to repeal a 1998 ban...

Scientists Find HIV's 'Missing Link' in Sick Chimps

Scientist working at Gombe Nationals Park in Tanzania think they have found the HIV 'missing link' in sick chimps.  Chimpanzees get a wasting disease similar to human HIV, called simian immunodeficiency...

Spread love, not infection...

Spread love, not infection...Alka Pande, CNS "Say Yes to Condom – No to HIV" "A Rupee saves a life" "Stay Negative Love Condom" "Love yourself, Love your partner, Love Condom" With these catchy slogans, a health organisation distributed condoms to people in New Delhi,...

Canadian HIV vaccine ready for human tests

HIV Vaccine: After hearing about vaccine of HIV i am quite happy for those who are suffering from this disease, after successful tests on animals now this vaccine is ready to test on humans. I think if this...

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