AIDS

News

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   N.Y. Car Dealership Denies Firing HIV -Positive Man

   Thu, 20 Jun 2013

   after his employer learned he is HIV -positive has recruited celebrity Since he learned he had the virus about five years ago, Villacampa two employers who knew he was HIV -positive and had "no issue discrimination against workers who are HIV -positive have generally fallen
2. 
   FDA Ban on Gay Men as Blood Donors Opposed by American Medical Association

   Wed, 19 Jun 2013

   originated in 1983 in response to the AIDS outbreak, when little was known about the virus and gay men were more likely to have contracted the virus . However, now that the ban say the policy is outdated. HIV and AIDS testing has become Valadez, policy analyst for the HIV / AIDS advocacy group Gay Men's Health
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   New York Man Says He Was Fired For Having HIV

   Thu, 4 Apr 2013

   after his employer learned he is HIV -positive. Jeffrey Villacampa Since he learned he had the virus about five years ago, Villacampa two employers who knew he was HIV -positive and had "no issue with Disabilities Act involving HIV status, or .08 percent of all
4. Meningitis Spreading Via Anonymous Sex in NYC

   Fri, 22 Mar 2013

   or at bars or parties, according to the City's health department . More than half of the infected men have had HIV , a virus that attacks the immune system making infections more likely and more severe. "Vaccination is the best defense
5. Adult HIV Patients 'Functionally Cured' Before Mississippi Baby

   Fri, 15 Mar 2013

   first "functional cure" for HIV in a Mississippi baby, French a similar remission from the virus . The patients in the French found less than five copies of HIV DNA or RNA per 1 million cells Dr. Mark Kline, a pediatric HIV and AIDS specialist at Baylor College
6. 14 HIV Patients Have 'Functional Cure'

   Fri, 15 Mar 2013

   perspectives" for people with HIV . Among other things, they the 1 percent of the HIV -positive population that natural ability to control the virus . The elite controllers tend cells that give rise to new virus , leading to viral rebound
7. 
   Baby's HIV 'Cure' Raises Skepticism Among Experts

   Tue, 5 Mar 2013

   being infected with the virus because her mother Mark Kline, a pediatric HIV and AIDS specialist at Baylor treated children with HIV and AIDS since the 1980s, said patients who were born with HIV and were somehow able to control the virus on their own, Kline

Videos

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   Baby Born With HIV 'Functionally Cured,' Doctors Say

   Mon, 4 Mar 2013

   monumental events and fighting aids doctors in Mississippi discovered a baby born with HIV was secured. Almost aggressively fight the virus . At some point doctors findings will help other HIV infected babies so no involves a man who had both aids and leukemia. And the away any traces of the HIV virus hot. Always these ones

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   What may be a monumental events and fighting aids doctors in Mississippi and Boston discovered a baby born with HIV was secured. Almost by accident and research into this remarkable case will be will be discussed today at a medical conference in Atlanta. The discovery was made at this Jackson Mississippi medical center where the HIV infected mother and her -- were treated we have. Practice in it -- but in fact. Cured the -- But the case is a bit of a puzzle. After birth the child was given three different medications to aggressively fight the virus . At some point doctors lost track of the mother one year later they discovered she had stopped giving her child the medications. After the baby had missed several appointments. We sort of looking for they eventually found the mother and her baby and then the clinic ran tests to see how much HIV was still in the baby's blood. Doctors found no Trace of the virus . My first thought was to panic. I thought. Oh my goodness I have been treating a child who's not actually infected. But after lab work was checked and double checked doctors from Boston and Baltimore were brought in to begin research. It. So now -- two and a half years old doctors say the child no longer requires any medications. Now doctors are trying to replicate the drug regiment they hope their findings will help other HIV infected babies so -- no longer require lifelong treatment. The research that started with the mistaken Mississippi will be discussed at -- today at a conference in Atlanta. If this indeed was a cure it would be the second time in the world the first case involves a man who had both aids and leukemia. And the bone marrow transplant that he was given for the leukemia also took away any traces of the HIV virus hot. Always these ones that sort of stents that that. That break the mold that you have to really zero went on in this exciting stuff doctors believe the death. Drug combination in the timing may have been what happened because -- the virus didn't have a chance reproduce. That's right and this is significant because even though in the United States we've made enough advances where testing for HIV has become. -- part of the prenatal regiment for pregnant women about around the world in 2001 in 300000. Children. Were infected with HIV that's an incredible amount if we stumbled on a way to save 300. -- recurring -- is aids and cancer -- and scientists are gonna get there exciting stuff.
2. 
   Still HIV -Free, Says Famed 'Berlin Patient'

   Tue, 24 Jul 2012

   not. Will be international aids conference is happening right in the world to be cured of aids in a press conference today that procedure he no longer had HIV . The donor cells he received that creates resistance to the virus . Since then researchers have cured. Some reportedly found virus particles in his body but Timothy

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   word -- we really call -- the cure not. Will be international aids conference is happening right now and many are saying he is -- and it's just beginning. Hope is a light. And here is on there -- right. Timothy Ray Brown is thought to be the first person in the world to be cured of aids in a press conference today he speaks out for the first time my history. It's proof in concept it ATV can be here. In 2007. Timothy received a blood stem cell transplant to treat leukemia. After that procedure he no longer had HIV . The donor cells he received contained a rare mutation that creates resistance to the virus . Since then researchers have debated if he's really cured. Some reportedly found -- virus particles in his body but Timothy refutes those claims. Let me be crystal clear I am eight JB negative I'm free of the virus . After living with HIV for more than two decades Timothy says since the transplant he no longer needs medication. And today he announced the formation of a new foundation in his name -- -- mission is to find it here. I -- immediate fears that big hit for a cure. For everyone infected with -- disease. Word yet to become infected with HEB. And researchers are hoping to learn from him to help other people with HIV and he says he's had every single test known to man -- scientists are trying to learn from him. And find an
3. 
   HIV -Positive Student Rejected From School

   Fri, 2 Dec 2011

   student. Because he has the virus that causes aids . Is this legal is it right a thirteen year old boy with HIV applied the school said he would anger confusion and tears. HIV is transmitted primarily through school simply because they are HIV positive. I think that this

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   it refused to -- a young honor student. Because he has the virus that causes aids . Is this legal is it right here's ABC's Ron Claiborn. The Milton Hershey school was founded more than a hundred years ago to help underprivileged students all bankrolled by the great Hershey chocolate empire. But when a thirteen year old boy with HIV applied the school said he would not be admitted. The teenager who does not want his identity revealed spoke to a local TV station in Philadelphia. I feel they're -- -- -- teenager should go to the next move in the right. Just -- community turning. Tonight he told us in an email but his life has turned into fear anger confusion and tears. HIV is transmitted primarily through blood transfusions and sexual contact never through casual everyday contact. The school says he was rejected because of

   cannot be rejected even from a private school simply because they are HIV positive. I think that this little boy is putting the entire campus at risk. What are they basing that on. The boy's
4. 
   World AIDS Day: History of the Epidemic

   Thu, 1 Dec 2011

   immune deficiency syndrome or aids it has already claimed 636 victim. No one knows what causes aids or other it. But there is now last five years. fighting the virus inside and infectious fear and been infected. With the AIDS virus . And had unknowingly. Passed

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   years later I found out that I had been infected. With the AIDS virus . And had unknowingly. Passed into my daughter Ariel through my breast -- And my son -- In year around. America has not
5. 
   Nov. 7, 1991: Magic Johnson's HIV Announcement

   Mon, 7 Nov 2011

   Americans who died of aids were household names are infected with the HIV virus . Our curiosity about sympathy for people with aids has largely been reserved currently has no symptoms of aids other than having tested positive for the HIV virus . The rigors of playing

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   the world bank and asked me some information. On the spread of HIV infection throughout Asia. The disease in India it turns out is already have such epidemic proportions that if it continues to grow at its current pace. Then by the year 2000 there will be more HIV infected people in that country alone than throughout the entire world today. The doctor was wondering if there was any way that

   -- -- -- Of the more than 125000. Americans who died of aids -- were household names. And even as the numbers of multiplied. This week the Centers for Disease Control estimated between one and one and a half million Americans are infected with the HIV virus . Our curiosity about people with -- has often been limited to one hostile question how did they get it. Popular sympathy for people with aids has largely been reserved for those like Kimberly Bergalis who was infected by her dentist. Who can answer that one question without

   to keep on playing. Even though manager currently has no symptoms of aids other than having tested positive for the HIV virus . The rigors of playing professional basketball to include significant. Exhaustion on a regular basis. -- alterations of normal dietary and activity habits
6. 
   Man Uses His HIV As Weapon

   Thu, 25 Feb 2010

   accused of failing to warn his sexual partners that He had the AIDS virus spoke out as He walked into the court your bic and just moments counts of failure to warn there's sexual partners that He had HIV . The and report the only thing I didn't want to replace him

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   accused of failing to warn his sexual partners that He had the AIDS virus spoke out as He walked into the court -- -- -- -- your bic -- and just moments after telling six news a woman involved in this case are not victims. Perkins pleaded guilty the Ford Johnson County judge to -- counts of failure to warn there's sexual partners that He had HIV The -- and report the only thing I didn't want to replace him -- the victory. -- -- -- I just want
7. 
   World AIDS Day Marks 25 Years

   Fri, 1 Dec 2006

   that if there. Sexually active what does aids testing days. Well I think it's really That all patients should be tested for HIV thirteen years of age or older. If there are. Justice and citizens as a standard HIV testing which is about a 100% sensitive that you can go see your doctor and get aids tested right away. What what about tests lot of information on the Internet about HIV aids prevention condom use. And it it it's

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   the more chance there is to transmit or to be infected by HIV What's the what's the bottom line here. Well the bottom line essentially is is that the more sexual parties you have the the more inclined toward getting sexually transmitted disease or HIV And definitely we talk about partner reduction I think is important and should really realistically have. Less sexual partners less anonymous sex partners you know the Internet. Is -- breeding ground for people to have anonymous sex that's a fact we know statistically that with the use of Internet sex HIV has gone up. So we kind urging people just really to educate them about prevention just going back to the basics because. Even on -- doctrine and in private practice I think all my patients understand this I'm surprised every day by how little people know about HIV and prevention. To just to reiterate use condoms whenever you're sexually active. You know reduction in partners is definitely a key part of this -- just to recognize that. Maybe take it slower not just have so much anonymous -- -- to be very leery of Internet sex. And particularly speaking of the Internet there's an awful lot of information on the Internet about HIV aids prevention condom use. And it it it's certainly a resource for anyone who is engaged in sexual activity who is a sexually