Gay And Lesbian Infection Rates

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Sexual Partner Concurrency and Sexual Risk Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender American Indian/Alaska Natives

Disproportionately high rates of HIV infection are among the "pervasive health disparities" found among American Indian and Alaska Natives, wrote the authors, who noted, "Sexual network dynamics, including concurrency and sexual mixing patterns, are... Read more »

Gay & Lesbian Doctors Warn Against Mandatory Reporting

Aggressive management of HIV disease with the use of protease inhibitors has dramatically expanded the period of time that many people are living with HIV prior to receivng an AIDS diagnosis. This significant development has led the Centers for... Read more »

Gay, Lesbian Advocacy Groups Focus on National HIV/AIDS Strategy at Denver Conference

Gay and lesbian advocates last week at the annual Creating Change conference in Denver called on the Obama administration to create a domestic HIV/AIDS strategy, the Denver Post reports. Conference Director Sue Hyde said, "People will have a... Read more »

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Gay/Lesbian Friendly Dr's

Where can I get a list of gay/lesbian friendly doctors in my area. I dont want to go to my regular primary dr since we are friends. I feel that a more open minded DR will help me more with my worries/symptoms. I read n this forum to try and find...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

There are some different resources you can try. One is through the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association; their web address is http://www.glma.org/. Gayhealth.com also provides a list of gay friendly providers. You can also try contacting a local... Read more »

Gay and Lesbian Ostomates

At last years United Ostomy Conferene It was noted that there has been a slight increase in HIV+ individuals having to have colostomies and ileostmiews from severe diahrea. If those people are gay there are many more issues to discuss with their...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Thanks for bringing that resource to our attention. kH... Read more »

lesbians and aids

What is the documented transmission rate of HIV/AIDS in the lesbian community of only those lesbians who have never had sexual relations with a man?...

Response from Brooks Jackson, M.D.

Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

The HIV seroprevalence rate (which is different than the HIV transmission rate)among lesbians is very low, but it is not zero, even among lesbians who have never had sexual relations with a man because there are lesbians who are IV drug users who... Read more »

marry me dr bob! (I'm a lesbian so that proposal is a big deal!:)

Hi Dr. Bob! First I wanted to say I am a 24 year old lesbian who just came out last year, and am happily involved with a female partner. I was raised in a very strict, strange little cult that equated homosexuality with eternal damnation, so as you...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi Lesbian Newbie,Stepping on blood on the ground, which is not all that common unless you happen to work in a knife sharpening factory with lots of clumsy coworkers, is not a risk for HIV transmission. First, most blood is not HIV infected. Second,... Read more »

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being gay or lesbian is a sin?

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

Being gay or Lezbian is SIN ?

Pleas give me information about it, If it is natural thing I
don't think it is Sin Do you?

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CDC infection rates estimate.

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

The CDC estimates that half the gay population is infected with hiv. The question is how do they know they are if they have not tested?

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Lesbian with HIV/AIDS for Over 20 years

Posted by Smiley

Smiley Rodriguez Fighting a War to Save Lives
August 8, 2003
By Raymond R. Beltran

Smiley Rodriguez was only five years old, living in Puerto Rico, when a man
snuck into her mothers bar while they were asleep. She vaguely remembers any
specific... Read more »

Re: By Susan Oakie. testing. infection rate.

Posted by don, 1 Reply

Reference
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Subject: Re: By Susan Oakie. Era of Decline of U.S. AIDS Cases May Be Over.
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Newsgroups: alt.polyamory
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