Almost a fifth of transgender women worldwide are infected with HIV, results of a meta-analysis published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases shows. A total of 39 studies involving over 11,000 transgender women in 15 different countries were included in the study, which…
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Click for 14 times he was cooler than you’ll ever be.
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Danish scientists "months away" from finding HIV cure Scientists in Denmark are conducting clinical trials on a new strategy for combating HIV that they say could be the breakthrough needed to finally find a cure for the virus.
Lead researchers studying the treatment told Telegraph that initial signs are “promising.”
“I am almost certain that we will be successful in releasing the reservoirs of HIV,” said Dr. Ole Søgaard, a senior researcher at Denmark’s Aarhus University Hospital. “The challenge will be getting the patients’ immune system to recognize the virus and destroy it. This depends on the strength and sensitivity of individual immune systems.”
The Telegraph reports that 15 patients are currently enrolled in clinical trials for the treatment, and if they are successfully cured of HIV, the treatment will be rolled out on a larger scale, administered in combination with an immune-system booster.
SCIENCE. This is unreal.
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Courtesy of The Stigma Project.
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amfAR Welcomes Increased AIDS Funding in President’s Budget Proposal, Including Important Increase for Global Fund “amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, on Wednesday welcomed the President’s fiscal year 2014 budget proposal, which includes increases in funding for AIDS research and domestic programming, and a significant increase for the Global Fundto Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, compared to the fiscal year 2012 budget. But the Foundation raised concern about the President’s continued proposed reductions for bilateral HIV/AIDS funding through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)…”
read more at amfAR
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In my research today i’ve learned that a lot of organizations who do any kind of HIV/AIDS education tend to promote and idea called the “ABC’s of HIV”, and then usually involve Abstinence, Being Monogamous and Condom use. Which is all well and good for people who want to be abstinent, or monogamous. Realistically, something like this completely erases a whole range of sexual identities not limited to the queer community and generally promotes slut-shaming ideals as in “If you have sex you will get AIDS” or “All sexually active people will get an STI” or “If you’re sexually active you’re probably going to have an STI if you don’t have one already”. I think we can all pretty much agree this is bullshit, so I’m proposing this revision to the “ABC’s of HIV”.
(via celestethebest)
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Knowing a MtF Trans* Woman: Meta-analysis shows the massive global burden of HIV among transgender women -
Fighting HIV stigma in the Honduran Garifuna community.
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HIV Infection Is Most Concentrated In The South, Where Students Don’t Learn About It In School
The CDC’s most recent HIV Surveillance Report contains the first-ever comprehensive data set allowing researchers to map HIV infections across the entire country. As the agency explains, their new data paints a “complete picture of diagnosed HIV infection in the U.S.,” revealing potential trends in infections across different regions. At least one clear trend emerges among Southern states, where the concentration of HIV infections tend to be higher.
It’s likely no coincidence that many of those same states lack the comprehensive sexual education requirements that would help educate their residents about HIV transmission from an early age. Health classes in Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana aren’t required to provide any kind of medically accurate information about HIV. And in two of those states — Texas and Florida — public schools don’t have to offer any type of sexual health education whatsoever.
In fact, just 20 states across the country mandate both sex education and HIV education, while the rest of country’s youth are growing up with significant gaps in their knowledge about sexual health. That’s especially troubling amid reports that, even though new cases of HIV in the U.S. are beginning to stabilize, young people still continue to put themselves at risk for the virus.
The HIV epidemic continues to take a disproportionate toll on men who have sex with men (MSM) — 62 percent of all HIV diagnoses are attributed to male-to-male sexual behavior, even though MSM represent just two percent of the U.S. population — yet the nation’s sexual health requirements also lag behind when it comes to sexual orientation. None of the southern states with the highest rates of HIV infection require public schools to provide LGBT-inclusive information in their health classes — and Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas actually stipulate that teachers must impart negative, shame-based information about homosexuality.
(via fyqueerlatinxs)
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The Plague Years, in Film and Memory
” ‘Remember when they burnt those people’s house down?’ Spencer Cox asks.
We are at a reunion dinner for about half a dozen people at a restaurant on the edge of Soho. I haven’t seen him since the mid-1990s. He looks unwell. It’s late September, 2012. On Nov. 30 we’re on a panel together for World AIDS Day at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. By Dec. 18 he is dead.
I don’t remember, so I look it up when I get back to D.C. In 1987, in Arcadia, Florida, Clifford and Louise Ray’s house mysteriously burned to the ground after a court ordered the local schools had to admit their HIV-positive hemopheliac sons, despite community objections. Other families had already been pulling their kids out of the school, which also faced multiple phoned-in bomb threats. The family decided their only option was to give up and leave town…”
read more at The Atlantic
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I finally got around watching this documentary.
I have learned that the reason I can live with HIV/AIDS now is due to the sacrifices of the HIV/AIDS activists.
