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Barebacking Study in San Francisco
#86970 - 02/11/04 08:05 PM
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My name is Jeff. I am a positive guy living in San Francisco. I am currently working on a great study for positive people trying to understand just what the risks are in a positive-positive unprotected sexual encounter. It is a question I have been wondering about for some time, and nobody knows what the answer is. Hopefully some answers will be unfolded as a result of this project. Below I have posted some info on the project. If you or anyone you know would be interested in participating...drop me a line. I would be happy to share with you what we know so far about superinfection and tell you more about the study.
Is HIV re-infection real?
Can drug-resistant HIV be transmitted to someone already HIV positive?
With your help the Positive Partners Study will find out!
Robert M. Grant, MD, MPH – Principal Investigator
Jeff McConnell, MA – Project Director
The Positive Partners Study will examine the possibility that someone already living with HIV could be infected with another strain of HIV. This is called superinfection or re-infection. Positive Partners hopes to find out whether superinfection really happens and, if so, whether it makes a difference in people’s struggle with HIV. The results will help people living with HIV to make more informed decisions about their treatment and sexual behavior. Positive Partners is looking for couples living with HIV. Both partners must be: HIV Positive, taking HIV medications (antiretroviral drugs) or on STI, at least 18 years old, and Involved in a sexual relationship with each other. Positive Partners who enroll in this study will: Participate in two confidential one-on-one interviews over the next year, provide blood and (males only) semen samples, and earn $25 each per visit; get free, state-of-the-art testing to monitor drug-resistance twice during the year (genotyping), T-cell count, viral load, and CBC (complete blood count). Positive Partners is a collaborative study conducted by the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS) at the University of California, San Francisco.
If you would like to participate or get more information call Positive Partners at (415) 476-9296 ext. 361 or e-mail aboutelle@psg.ucsf.edu.
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Isn't this question already been answered a big fat yes
They should spend that grant money on something like AIDS prevention education, not promoting an idea like it is OK to practice unsafe sex with your partner cause the scientific community still is on the fence about this obvious question.
Whoever is doing this study should be stopped. surely their is easier ways to make 25 dollars in San Fransico like selling your ass on polk, just remember to wear a rubber, then.
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I guess I don't understand why this study would even be conducted. People would rather risk death from superinfection that's caused from behavior then seek help for their addiction.
Why not quit having sex with multiple partners? Why not quit having sex all together? Sex was giving for procreation, not recreation, so why not stop the behavior that doesn't work out for you?
I lived in San Francisco for a short time, about a year, that was all I needed. Sex Clubs, Bath Houses, Circuit Parties, we all should be a little wiser, right!! We Adults should know what's best for us and make our own decision, well maybe they don't know how to... I was 18 and an adult, however I didn't know what I know now... had I known I would have never be there and done that.
HIV/AIDS care spending is going to spiral WAY out of control because more infections are taking place while infected persons are living longer...
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"faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" Heb 11:1
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Hi jeff, the short answers to your questions are both yes. I am saddened by the vitriolic responses of some people to the complex areas of human behaviour.
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