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Scott Wiener, a member of the Board of Supervisors, takes a daily pill to greatly reduce his risk of contracting H.I.V., and he wants to make it more widely available. 
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The .com’s and .net’s of the world have a new, more charitable neighbor to welcome online. A new initiative called dotHIV officially launched Tuesday with plans to sell .HIV domain names to web creators as part of a fundraising effort to fight and prevent HIV and AIDS. Companies and individuals can purchase .HIV domain names for $179, and a small donation will be made to an HIV- or AIDS-related charity each time a web user visits the site.
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Traditional advertising does not reach all users in need of health services. Sophisticated geo-specific resources are powerful.
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The rate of HIV diagnoses in the United States has dropped more than 30 percent over the past decade, but is on the rise among certain gay men, researchers said Saturday.
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Stigma also feeds the fear that PrEP will lead to decreased condom usage, but let's be real: Some people -- gay and straight -- are already not using condoms for many reasons.
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Michigan’s Between The Lines newspaper, along with several non-profit groups working statewide to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic, has launched a new social media and web campaign to draw attention to significant changes in HIV prevention and health-care sciences which are changing the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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The biggest problem with HIV/AIDS is… believing it is not a problem anymore.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants gay and bisexual men to start talking to stop AIDS with a new HIV/AIDS awareness campaign. The talk that’s being encouraged includes conversations about HIV testing, HIV status, condom use and new options like medicines that prevent and treat HIV.
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It's the Truvada conundrum: A drug hailed as a lifesaver for many people infected by HIV is at the heart of a rancorous debate among gay men, AIDS activists and health professionals over its potential for protecting uninfected ...
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A NEW study seeks to identify accurate rates of HIV in Australia’s gay male communities through anonymous testing to pinpoint HIV-positive men unaware of their status.
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Today is the start of HIV National Testing Week, where gay and bisexual men are being encouraged to find out their HIV status by getting tested.
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Recreational drug use from Wikipedia Via Kelly Riker
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WITH half an hour still to go before the forum would officially begin, out in the audience the conversation about Pre Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV — PrEP — was already in full swing.
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Scott Jordan was diagnosed with HIV in 1984 – the same year the virus was identified as the cause of Aids. Like other long-term survivors, he saw many of his HIV-positive friends die before effective treatment became available in the mid-1990s.
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New York Times - Credibility Among Gay Men Gives Leverage to New York City's New Chief of HIV
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The number of new HIV diagnoses in British Columbia has steadily declined in the past decade – but not for gay and bisexual men, who have shown no meaningful...
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HIV infections are rising among gay men in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization warned Friday, urging all men who have sex with men to take...
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It's clear that the U.S. is failing when it comes to HIV prevention.
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Growing up in the Bay Area and going to school at a liberal arts college, I have been lucky enough to be surrounded by very non-discriminating and generally accepting people. Since I became an intern at Until There’s A Cure Foundation, I have been reading up on public health, specifically HIV and AIDS.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has unveiled a new ad campaign encouraging gay men to talk about HIV prevention with their partners. In the ads, the CDC endorses preventative medications like ...
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The Associated Press - about as mainstream as you can get - has an article out this week about a very marginalized medication: It's the Truvada conundrum: A drug hailed as a lifesaver for many peop...
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Talks with Press Pass Q about “Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival”by Chuck Colbert - The AIDS epidemic is not over for the LGBT community, even as AIDS activism and media coverage have waned.
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"While most men who have sex with men (MSM) consume sexually explicit media (SEM) without problems—including without HIV risk—for a small subgroup of high consumers, our formative research and these results both suggest their behavior may be experienced as problematic. Clinically, it would be helpful to establish what relationship, if any, exists between very high SEM consumption and compulsive sexual behavior, to identify whether the SEM use is compulsive in itself, and then to compare the behavior and characteristics of MSM with and withour compulsive SEM use." ------
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... recalled how four friends became H.I.V. positive through unprotected sex, all within a year. The news shocked Mr.
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