Palabra clave ‘AIDS’

Alcohol increases desire for sex without condoms: systematic review

Sábado, enero 14th, 2012

has an impact on the intention of individuals to have unprotected , according to the results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal “Addiction”.

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Sex Education Gets Directly to Youths, via Text

Martes, enero 10th, 2012

While heading to class last year, Stephanie Cisneros, a Denver-area high school junior, was arguing with a friend about ways that sexually transmitted diseases might be passed along. Ms. Cisneros knew she could resolve the dispute in class — but not by raising her hand. While her biology teacher lectured about fruit flies, Ms. Cisneros hid her phone underneath her lab table and typed a message to ICYC (), a text-chat program run by Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.

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Contraceptive Used in Africa May Double Risk of H.I.V.

Martes, octubre 11th, 2011

The most popular contraceptive for women in eastern and southern , a hormone shot given every three months, appears to double the risk the women will become infected with H.I.V., according to a large study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases on 4 October 2011. And when it is used by H.I.V.-positive women, their male partners are twice as likely to become infected than if the women had used no contraception.

Fuente: The New York Times

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New Math in HIV Fight

Sábado, julio 23rd, 2011

Statistical Method Evolves From Physics to Wall Street to Battle Against , Scientists using a powerful mathematical tool previously applied to the stock market have identified an Achilles heel in that could be a prime target for vaccines or drugs.

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UNAIDS and WHO hail new results showing that a once-daily pill for HIV-negative people can prevent them from acquiring HIV

Viernes, julio 22nd, 2011

Results announced today from two studies reveal that a daily tablet taken by people who do not have can reduce their risk of acquiring HIV by up to 73%. Both daily tenofovir and daily tenofovir/emtricitabine taken as preventive medicine ( – pre-exposure prophylaxis) can prevent heterosexual transmission of HIV from men to women and from women to men.

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Positively False – Birth of a Heresy

Martes, julio 12th, 2011

Positively False – Birth of a Heresy traces the challenge over the past 25 years to the scientific orthodoxy which maintains that is the cause of . Joan Shenton reaches back to 1987 through her extensive archive of broadcast and non-broadcast video material and combines it with current footage.

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The fight against the HIV / AIDS in Mozambique

Sábado, junio 11th, 2011

Thirty years after the appearance of the first cases of , the , the diagnosis and the are a fight of every day in . In spite of overhangs and efforts to check the distribution of the virus, counts among countries the most deprived and the most touched by the /AIDS.

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Drugs Stop AIDS. Take Your Medicine

Sábado, junio 4th, 2011

THERE is now, for the first time, hard clinical evidence of an effect that doctors have suspected for years: If you are H.I.V.-positive, being on drugs will probably save not only your life, but also the lives of your .

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Genital Herpes – CDC Fact Sheet

Viernes, junio 3rd, 2011

is a sexually transmitted disease () caused by the herpes simplex viruses type 1 (HSV-1) or type 2 (HSV-2). Most genital herpes is caused by HSV-2. Most individuals have no or only minimal signs or symptoms from HSV-1 or HSV-2 . When signs do occur, they typically appear as one or more blisters on or around the genitals or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender ulcers (sores) that may take two to four weeks to heal the first time they occur. Typically, another outbreak can appear weeks or months after the first, but it almost always is less severe and shorter than the first outbreak. Although the can stay in the body indefinitely, the number of outbreaks tends to decrease over a period of years.

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When Treatment Is Also Prevention

Lunes, mayo 23rd, 2011

The discovery of a near-perfect way to halt of the virus has the potential to change the way international agencies and nations cope with the epidemic. But that can only happen if troubling issues of cost and practicality can be surmounted.

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