Category Archives: HIV and AIDS
To Fight AIDS, State Recommends Routine HIV Screening
BOSTON — In an effort to reduce AIDS rates in Massachusetts, state public health officials recommended that everyone 13 and older get HIV-tested as part of their routine medical care. The goal is to make HIV screening as common as cholesterol tests and blood pressure monitoring. That way, HIV infections could be treated immediately, before […]
Discrimination in Visa Laws Poses Risk to Those With AIDS, Rights Group Says
International migrant workers, foreign students and political refugees are often endangered by laws that discriminate against people with AIDS, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch reported last week. The report describes how guest workers from poor countries like the Philippines and Sri Lanka working in wealthy ones like Saudi Arabia may be given mandatory H.I.V. […]
HIV-related TB deaths higher than past estimates
The 2009 Global TB control report reveals that one out of four TB deaths is HIV-related, twice as many as previously recognized. In 2007, there were an estimated 1.37 million new cases of tuberculosis among HIV-infected people and 456 000 deaths. “These findings point to an urgent need to find, prevent and treat tuberculosis in […]
Obama Seeks a Global Health Plan Broader Than Bush’s AIDS Effort
President Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to spend $63 billion over the next six years on a new, broader global health strategy that would reshape one of the signature foreign policy efforts of his predecessor, George W. Bush. Mr. Bush made combating global AIDS a centerpiece of his foreign agenda. The program he created — […]
Mothers Helping Mothers Stop HIV
Mothers2Mothers program aims to prevent AIDS virus transmission to infants. At the World Economic Forum on Africa, the impact of HIV/AIDS on African countries is being addressed. The forum has honored one program that helps prevent mother-to-child transmission and turns stigmatized women into role models. By giving the Mothers2Mothers program the Schwab Award, Falk says […]
GLOBAL UPDATE; Parasites: Giving a Deworming Drug to Girls Could Cut H.I.V. Transmission in Africa
Schistosomiasis is a worm disease that primarily exists within rural Africa. The worms typically infect humans who are swimming or washing in snail-infested waters by leaving the snails and burrowing into the skin. The disease starts as a urinary tract infection, but if left untreated it can lead to genital sores. These sores provide an […]
Testing Requirements for Mississippi Marriage License
I live in Mississippi. I heard my fiancée and I have to get an HIV test before we get married, how can I find out for sure? Each state has their own STD testing requirements. The state of Mississippi does not currently require an HIV test before issuing a marriage license, but you are required […]
What are the symptoms of HIV?
In past articles, I have ranted about how emotionally destructive it can be to worry a lot about symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly HIV. My point has always been that emphasizing symptoms can often either make you a nervous wreck for no good reason or give you a dangerous false sense of security. I […]
Will I be safe from HIV if I don’t ejaculate?
This belief is, of course, misguided on so many levels that I wanted to give an overview of the general routes of transmission to try and achieve some kind of clarification. Semen transmits some major diseases, namely, HIV, Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C. It can also transmit other diseases such as HTLV, a retrovirus that […]
