Tag Archives: HIV

NY Man Charged With Faking HIV Result, Barebacking With Duped Partner

An HIV-positive New York man faces eight years in prison on charges that he forged an HIV-negative test result in order to convince his girlfriend to have unprotected sex with him. Department of Investigation Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn says Duane Lang could spend up to 8 years in prison if convicted of reckless endangerment and possession of a forged instrument. …

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Hotter = Safer?

A study from the University of Toronto concludes that gay men considered sexually undesirable tend to have riskier sex. Gay men who are not considered sexually desirable are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviour, according to new research out of the University of Toronto. They may also develop psychological problems as a consequence of feeling undesirable. Professor Adam …

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Busted For Barebacking

HIV+ North Carolina gay nightclub DJ Josh Weaver, 23, is under house arrest after admitting to violating a September court order that he refrain from unprotected sex. On Sept. 6, Q-Notes reported that Joshua Waldon Weaver, 23, who works in clubs in Raleigh and Wilmington, pleaded guilty to charges that he failed to disclose his HIV-positive status and engaged in …

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They Could Call It The iPoz

How about a handheld detector for a slew of diseases, including HIV? Testing for diseases such as cancer and multiple sclerosis could soon be as simple as using a pregnancy testing kit. A team led by scientists at the University of Leeds has developed a biosensor technology that uses antibodies to detect biomarkers – molecules in the human body which …

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NYC’s HIV Rate 3X That Of Nation

NYC’s rate of new HIV infections is three times that of the rest of the country. Based on a new model for tracking recent infections developed by the Centers for Disease Control, city health officials estimated that 72 out of every 100,000 New Yorkers contracted the virus that causes AIDS in 2006, compared with 23 out of every 100,000 individuals …

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CDC: HIV Underreported By 40%

The CDC says that due to better reporting and improved blood tests, they now estimate the annual number of new HIV infections in the United States to 40% higher than previously thought. The number of Americans infected by the AIDS virus each year is much higher than the government has been estimating, U.S. health officials reported Sunday, acknowledging that their …

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The HIV Time Tunnel Returns

Ugh, an old idea has returned. Some Brooklyn outfit is selling a “safe sex license” so that players can “prove” that they don’t have HIV or other STDs. Via Thrillist. STF promotes responsible uglies-bumping via a Safe Sex License, a clinically backed, wallet-sized photo ID that says “I’m so clean, the condom should wear me”. How it works: sign up …

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NYC: 40% Of Gay Men Not Out To Doctors

Via Queerty: According to a new study, 40% of gay men in New York City, who have had sex with other men, hide their sexual orientation from their doctors. The study was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, and looked at data from 2004 to 2005 from the Centers for Disease Control National HIV Behavioral Survey. In the survey, …

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Liddy Dole: Worst Person In the World

Wednesday night Sen. Dole made Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person In The World” countdown at #3. Coming in at the top was that Florida billboard asshat.

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HIV Vaccine Trial Ends Before It Starts

Less than a year after Merck gave up on its initially promising HIV vaccine trial, the U.S. government announced yesterday that it too was giving up on a massive HIV vaccine trial. Plans for a large human trial of a promising government-developed H.I.V. vaccine in the United States were canceled Thursday because a top federal official said scientists realized that …

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Roche Gives Up On HIV

Pharmaceutical giant Roche has announced that they are suspending further research into HIV drugs because none of the drugs they are working on appear to improve on drugs already on the market. “Research scientists currently working in HIV will be reassigned to other activities,” Linda Dyson, a spokeswoman in Roche’s U.S. office in New Jersey, said in an e-mail. Dyson …

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Peace Corps Reverses On HIV+ Volunteers

The Peace Corps has apparently backed off its policy of rejecting HIV+ volunteers, as reported here back in April. In a lengthy story about Jeremiah Johnson, the 25 year-old Peace Corps volunteer who became infected while on assignment in Ukraine, Poz Magazine reports receiving this email from the Peace Corps: “Although there are certainly significant challenges associated with properly supporting …

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HIV In Humans For 100 Years

Fascinating story from Science Magazine: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) responsible for most of the AIDS cases in the world infected people approximately 100 years ago, more than 20 years earlier than previously believed, according to findings presented here this week at the Evolution 2008 meeting. Its lesser known cousin, HIV-2, jumped into humans decades later, from a monkey species …

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Today: National HIV Testing Day

Today is National HIV Testing Day. The above video is Part One from a web series called HIV Big Deal, which follows the lives of young gay men in Manhattan dealing with life, love, health, and HIV. Watch the clip. The acting is quite good, but be aware that the language is very frank and NSFW. And consider today’s news …

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An HIV Test For Every Adult In the Bronx?

An interesting proposal from NYC leaders: The city is planning to step up HIV testing in The Bronx, in an aggressive campaign to have all adults in the borough screened over the next three years, officials said yesterday. The initiative, set to kick off tomorrow, will target the estimated 250,000 untested 18- to 64-year-olds in The Bronx, which has the …

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EU Pressures USA On HIV Travel Ban

The European Union is pressuring the United States to end its ban on HIV positive travelers. Under US law, HIV+ people are restricted from entering the United States. The European Commissioner for Justice has raised the issue of issue of people with HIV being banned from entry into the US visa waiver programme with Michael Chertoff, US Secretary of Homeland …

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UK Nightclub Survey: 41% Of Poz Gay Men Unaware Of Status

A survey conducted in gay nightclubs in the UK revealed that 41% of the men who tested HIV positive were unaware of their status. The survey, which took oral fluid samples from over 3500 men in gay bars, clubs and sauna’s around the UK, found that 9% of men who took part in the survey were HIV positive. The surveys …

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Lambda Legal Protests HIV Spitting Sentence

Saying that the saliva of HIV positive persons should not be considered a “lethal weapon”, Lambda Legal has lodged a protest against last week’s sentencing of a Texas man to 35 years in prison for spitting at a police officer. A gay-rights group is protesting a 35-year prison sentence given to an HIV-positive man who was convicted of spitting on …

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Poz Man Gets 35 Years For Spitting At Cop

A 42 year-old HIV-positive Texas man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for spitting into the eyes and mouth of the Dallas policeman arresting him for public intoxication in 2006. “He turns and spits,” Officer Waller said. “He hits me in the eye and mouth. Then he told me he has AIDS. I immediately began looking for something …

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Peace Corps To Pozzers: Get Out

The ACLU is warring with the Peace Corps over their policy of rejecting volunteers who are HIV positive. Jeremiah Johnson joined the Peace Corps because he wanted to help people, but was forced to quit after giving nearly a year and a half of service because he is HIV-positive. Now, Johnson, 25, is working with the American Civil Liberties Union …

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