Tag Archives: HIV

New Much Cheaper Test For HIV?

British researchers say they may have created a new simple test for HIV that would cost a fraction of existing tests.  A cheap test which could detect even low levels of viruses and some cancers has been developed by UK researchers. The colour of a liquid changes to give either a positive or negative result. The designers from Imperial College …

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How To Use The Home HIV Test

Ora-Quick’s in-home HIV test hit drugstore shelves this month at a price of $40. JMG reader Diane points out that the company has posted a how-to clip for customers.  “Don’t drink the liquid in the test tube.”

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Magic Johnson Backs Home HIV Test

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CANADA: Supreme Court Rules Failure To Disclose HIV Is Not Always A Crime

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the failure to disclose an HIV+ status is not a crime as long as the person has a low viral load and uses a condom. Prosecutors from two provinces had demanded that any failure to disclose should remain illegal. The ruling still leaves open the possibility that charges could still be laid …

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New York City Begins Meningitis Vaccinations For High-Risk HIV+ Men

Today the New York City Department of Health began offering free meningitis vaccinations to high-risk HIV+ men at nine locations across the five boroughs. The Department is advising vaccinations for any man who is HIV positive and has had intimate contact with another man that he met through a website, digital application (“App”), or at a bar or party since …

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New Dating Site For Poz Dudes

Project Runway contestant Jack Mackenroth is the co-founder of a new site for HIV+ men. He tells Frontiers Magazine: Let’s not sugarcoat it too much. It’s a social networking site but it’s mainly a dating and hook-up site. It’s a hub to chat and meet with other HIV-positive men. It’s different from all of the other sites because we are …

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Premature Aging Hits Longtime HIV+

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that some longtime HIV patients are experiencing symptoms of aging long before those ailments normally appear.  Such reports have been appearing for several years. Patients are coming down with diseases and conditions most associated with aging even when their HIV is well controlled – even when the antiretroviral drugs used to treat it make the …

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In-Home HIV Test Now On Sale

Just in time for tomorrow’s HIV Awareness Day, the first-ever in-home testing kit is now available online.  The kit will be on the physical shelves of drugstores next month.  If you don’t want to spend $40, virtually all major cities offer free and confidential testing. (Via Box Turtle Bulletin)

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Tomorrow: HIV Awareness Day

A message from the Centers For Disease Control: On National Gay Men’s HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we honor the remarkable history of gay men’s leadership in the fight against the HIV epidemic. Three decades ago, extraordinary community and public health prevention efforts led to dramatic declines in new HIV infections among men who have sex with men. Yet infection rates are …

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AMFAR Donates To HIV Cure Research

Poz Magazine has the news: The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) has awarded more than $800,000 in three new HIV cure grants to research teams in the amfAR Research Consortium on HIV Eradication (ARCHE), according to an amfAR statement. The teams will: investigate if disulfriam, an FDA-approved drug for the treatment of alcoholism, can get dormant virus out of latency …

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Yet Another Circumcision News Item

I am bored to tears with the entire subject, but since about 100 of you sent this last night: The American Academy of Pediatrics has shifted its official position on the contentious issue of infant circumcision, stating Monday that the medical benefits of the procedure for baby boys outweigh the small risks. In its first new policy statement on the …

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Aussie Gymnast Comes Out As HIV+

Openly gay Australian gymnast and former Olympian Ji Wallace has come out as HIV-positive. Wallace, a trampolinist who won a silver medal at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, said he was inspired to make the public admission about his diagnosis after seeing an interview given by US diver Greg Louganis about his battle with HIV and being a gay Olympian. …

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FLORIDA: HIV-Positive Man Arrested After Alleged Rape At Orlando Gay Hotel

Orlando police say they’ve arrested an HIV-positive man after he allegedly raped a male patron in a hotel room at the famed Parliament House. Kenneth Creuzer, 48, told investigators the door to the man’s room was open, so he walked in and assaulted him as he lay on his stomach, a police report states. Leaving a door ajar and the …

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Day Four At The 2012 AIDS Conference

This is JMG reader Mark King’s fourth installment in his series of reports from AID Conference 2012 in Washington DC. Today he investigates the giant “global village” of exhibitors in the main hall.

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HIV Eradication Breakthough?

Interesting news out of the AIDS Conference. Scientists in the United States said Wednesday they had used a cancer drug to flush out the AIDS virus lurking dormant in trial patients’ white blood cells — a tentative step towards a cure. The ability of the HIV genome, or reproductive code, to hide out in cells and be revived after decades …

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Day Three At The 2012 AIDS Conference

JMG reader Mark King continues his coverage of AIDS Conference 2012 with an installment that covers the protests that have surrounded the event, including when 13 activists were arrested for tying condoms and syringes to the White House fence. You’ll like the way King intermingles archival protest footage with what’s going on this week.

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Elton John Tells AIDS Conference: I Shouldn’t Be Here, I Should Be Dead

Elton John spoke yesterday at the 2012 AIDS Conference in Washington DC, telling the audience, “By all rights I shouldn’t be here today. I should be dead – six foot under in a wooden box. I should have contracted HIV in the 1980s and died in the 1990s, just like Freddie Mercury, just like Rock Hudson. Every day I wonder, …

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On The Female Condom

One group at the AIDS Conference in DC is trying to bring attention back to the female condom for gay men. Via press release: ‘Strange,’ ‘unnatural,’ even ‘squishy’ sounding – these are just a few of the comments overheard in discussions around female condoms. Yet, listen to those who have actually used them and the conversation changes: ‘thinner,’ ‘more pleasurable’ …

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Day Two At The 2012 AIDS Conference

JMG reader Mark King continues his informative series about the goings-on at AIDS Conference 2012. Today King teams up with openly HIV-positive Project Runway star Jack Mackenroth and chats with openly HIV-positive Voice contestant Jamar Rogers, who is one of the faces of the CDC’s just-launched anti-stigma campaign.

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AIDS Conference: Hillary Clinton Lauds Circumcision As HIV Preventive In Africa

In a wide-ranging AIDS Conference 2012 opening speech on numerous HIV/AIDS topics, this morning Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the campaign to circumcise adult male Africans as a preventive for HIV infection. An excerpt via White House press release: On male circumcision, we’ve supported more than 400,000 procedures since last December alone. And I’m pleased to announce that PEPFAR …

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