HIV Transmission:
HIV Transmission
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Aug 25th, 2009
Screening and early intervention with people in the earliest stages of HIV infection may reduce the spread of the disease.
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Aug 24th, 2009
Centers for Disease Control's National HIV Prevention Conference convenes this week in Atlanta. One of the topics to be discussed will be routine circumcision of newborn males in the United States.
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Aug 17th, 2009
cientists have uncovered details of an immune-cell environment conducive to HIV infection that persists at the location of HSV-2 genital skin lesions long after they have been treated with oral doses of the drug acyclovir and have healed and the skin appears normal.
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Aug 12th, 2009
A single-session, online, multimedia intervention effectively reduced risky sexual behaviors among young men who have sex with men, a group at high risk for HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections.
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Aug 3rd, 2009
New research helps explain why infection with herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), which causes genital herpes, increases the risk for HIV infection even after successful treatment heals the genital skin sores and breaks that often result from HSV-2.
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Jul 25th, 2009
HIV infection rates among gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in some African countries are 10 times that of the general male population, and stigma, poor access to treatment or testing are to blame.
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May 25th, 2009
A new study of nearly 14,000 U.S. women reveals that those who are in physically abusive relationships are at higher risk for HIV infection.
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Mar 13th, 2009
Kerry Thomas did not learn anything from his first HIV related conviction. Thomas is charged again for knowingly spreading HIV.
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Mar 5th, 2009
A total of 435 new cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) were reported to the Hong Kong Department of Health (DH) last year (2008), the highest annual number ever recorded.
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Feb 26th, 2009
HIV can adapt rapidly to evade immune system responses, and these mutations can be passed on in the wider population, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature.