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A Promising New Approach to Cure AIDS [VIDEO]

In a bold new attempt to cure AIDS, scientists used genetic engineering in six patients to develop blood cells that are resistant to infection with the virus that causes the disease.

David Gutierrez, Discharged From Air Force, Gets 8 Years for Spreading HIV

A military court has sentenced U.S. Air Force Sgt. David Gutierrez to eight years in military prison for violating orders to use a condom and notify partners of his HIV-positive status. Gutierrez was also dishonorably discharged from the armed services, which means he will forfeit his wages and benefits. During the...

Airman Gets 8 Years in Prison in HIV Exposure Case

WICHITA, Kan. -- An Air Force sergeant convicted of exposing multiple sex partners to HIV at swinger parties was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in military prison and will be dishonorably discharged after serving his time. A court martial judge earlier found Tech. Sgt. David Gutierrez guilty on seven of eight counts...

Elders Enjoying More Sex but Risking More Disease

A recent flurry of scientific reports should remove any lingering suspicion that older people automatically lose their sex drive the minute they hand in their retirement papers. That's the good news. The bad news is that too many of these turned-on elders are also contracting sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV,...

LA Health Officials Close Porn Industry's Clinic

(Dec. 10) -- Health officials in California shut down a clinic that served the pornography industry, denying an operating license to a center that has provided medical treatment to adult film stars for years. The Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation, or AIM, was ordered closed Thursday by the Los Angeles County...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

Rise In STIs Poses 'Very Real Danger'

Too many people are putting themselves at risk by having unsafe sex, health experts have warned, as figures were released showing a "disappointing" rise in the number of new cases of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs).

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Strange Bedfellows: Should HIV-Positive And HIV-Negative Men Ever Have Sex With Each Other?

Thirty years into the epidemic the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS has greatly diminished, especially in big cities and in areas such as Palm Springs and its environs.

THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

Show Us Your Package, LA!

Would you jump into bed with Los Angeles without protection?

THE HUFFINGTON POST - MUSIC

Deborah Dugan: Engaging New Audiences in the Fight Against AIDS

The world finds itself at a historic moment in the fight against HIV/AIDS, with the opportunity to end mother-to-child transmission of HIV and take a crucial step toward defeating this global pandemic that has already claimed 30 million lives.

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Nick Jonas: AIDS Walk 2012 with Adrienne Bailon

Nick Jonas steps out at the 2012 AIDS Walk New York inside Central Park on Sunday afternoon (May 20) in New York City. The annual walk benefits dozens of organizations seeking a cure for HIV/AIDS.

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06/01/12 Aids treatment in S Africa sends baby infections... Source: Dawn SOWETO: One-year-old Katakane laughs and coos in the arms of her HIV-positive mother as a doctor tries to examine her at South Africa's largest public hospital, in Soweto township.
06/01/12 MATCOPS, Others Sensitize Yiffin on 'Welbodi Week' Source: AllAfrica Health To increase health awareness among residents of Yiffin town, Nieni chiefdom and in Kondemaia chiefdom in the Koinadugu district, the people of the town and its environs have benefited from a one-day sensitization programme on 'Mamie en Pikin welbodi week' that was organised by the Matei Multipurpose Co-operative Society (MATCOPS), Sustainable Nutrition and Agriculture Promotion (SNAP) and the Marie Stopes Society Sierra Leone (MSSL).
05/31/12 Condom shortage worries NGO Source: Pattaya Mail At a May 22 meeting between the Pattaya Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Department and Bureau on AIDS, Tuberculosis and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, city director Na-anya Janthramas said workers lacked larger size condoms to hand out and those getting the free prophylactics preferred ones in fruity flavors.
05/31/12 Tropical Disease Chagas, Dubbed by Docs as âThe New... Source: Babble "More than 8 million people have been infected by Chagas, most of them in Latin and Central America. But more than 300,000 live in the United States," Yahoo!
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Background on Sexually transmitted diseases and infections

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and venereal diseases (VD), are illnesses that have a significant probability of transmission between humans by means of human sexual behavior, including vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex.

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