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GlobalHealthFacts.org Posts Latest Global, Country-Level HIV/AIDS Data; New Latin America, Mexico HIV/AIDS Fact Sheets Available

"Latest Global and Country-Level HIV/AIDS Data Now Available on GlobalHealthFacts.org," Kaiser Family Foundation : GlobalHealthFacts.org has been updated with country-level HIV/AIDS data to reflect the latest information released in the UNAIDS 2008... Read more »

Neurological Complications of AIDS Fact Sheet

What Is AIDS? How Does AIDS Affect the Nervous System? What Are Some of the Neurological Complications That Are Associated With AIDS? How Are These Disorders Diagnosed? How Are These Disorders Treated? What Research Is Being Done? Where... Read more »

International AIDS Fact Sheet

On May 11, 1999, the World Health Organization announced that HIV/AIDS is now the world's deadliest infectious disease. The United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that there are approximately 36 million men, women, and children... Read more »

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DOES size matter??? CDC FACT SHEET -- EFFECT OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY ON THE RISK OF SEXUAL TRANSMISSION OF HIV AND SUPERINFECTION, 2009)

I'm a gay male form Vermont, 54, have been pos 22 years and finally, after all of the myriad meds, highs and lows and being brought back from the abyss in the mid 90's, have tested undetectable during the past year. It feels good. And...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,There is no question that being on effective combination antiretroviral therapy that drives HIV plasma viral load to undetectable levels significantly decreases the risk of HIV transmission. However, and this is a very big however, it does not... Read more »

facts

Is it true that a condom cannot protect one from getting the HIV virus and AIDS? I was told by a teacher that HIV can be transmitted even with the use of a condom. Pls let me know A.S.A.P. thanks...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Your teacher told you what??? What did you say her name was? Miss Information??? Here's the information from the CDC's (Center for Disease Control's) "Fact Sheet for Public Health Personnel: Male Latex Condoms and Sexually... Read more »

semen on bed sheets

Is it possible to become infected through contact with HIV positive semen (still wet) on a bed sheet? Really concerned about this!...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for your question,There is no risk from contact with wet HIV positive semen on sheets. None! To get HIV, there needs to be HIV positive body coming out of someone's body and going immediately/directly inside someone else's body.... Read more »

towel/bed sheet? swollen glands?

Hello,I'd like to know whether a towel/bed sheet can be a media of HIV transmission or not? coz when I visit this sex worker 12 days ago I laid on the bed which I don't know it's dirty or not and I'm naked. I don't know if...

Response from Richard Cordova III

Test Positive Aware Network

Hi there:There is no risk of transmission from a situation like this. I would suggest reading the section on HIV transmission. HIV does not live well outside of the body, needs a portal of entry into your body, and the mode of transmission must... Read more »

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Get The Facts

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

http://www.pplm.org/Facts/hsc_fac/hiv.html

WHAT IT IS:
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).

HOW IT IS SPREAD:
HIV is transmitted through contact with the blood, semen, vaginal secretions or... Read more »

HIV from bed sheets?

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Hi!

I'm just wondering if there's any possibility to get HIV from bed sheets. I've slept in crappy hostels where they don't change sheets every day (I got crabs from one of the hostel beds I slept in!). If the person who slept in the bed before me... Read more »

2001 articles, Men and HIV/AIDS

Posted by Anonymous

The Body, 2001: Men, epidemiology fact sheet:

Over 70% of Hiv infections occur through sex between men and women. Yet in most regions of the world 2/3 or more with Hiv are men. 53% of all people with hiv are men.
5% to 10% occur through sex... Read more »

Key facts about HIV/AIDS - Note Last Item

Posted by ScotCharles, 1 Reply

Key facts about HIV/AIDS
Reuters NewMedia - August 10, 2006
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The world's largest international AIDS conference opens in Toronto, on Sunday, 25 years after the epidemic... Read more »

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