Can You Get AIDS From Making Out

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AIDS Makes 87,000 Orphans in Mozambique

At a recent meeting in Mozambique's central province of Manica, the country's National Statistics Institute (INE) reported that approximately 87,000 of the nation's children are AIDS orphans. INE delegate Amelia Nakhare said nearly 70,000... Read more »

American Leadership on HIV/AIDS Making a Difference in U.S. and Abroad

"As two people who worked as physicians in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic before the miracle of antiretroviral drug (ARV) therapy, and who now have the honor of leading the domestic and global HIV/AIDS programs for the Obama... Read more »

Swiss AIDS Drive Makes the Point

A new federal HIV prevention campaign in Switzerland features naked athletes fencing and ice skating. The image of healthy flesh exposed to sharp blades is meant to convey the safe-sex message "no action without protection." The national campaign is... Read more »

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I dout I have Aids and I am sure I dont have it but just making sure

but the question is how would I know early if I have it or not by taking some medicines plz respond me...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

You need to get an HIV test.... Read more »

Could Aids be transmitted through if bodily fluid makes contact with skin with rash ?

The condom only covers the shaft of the penis, so what if fluid were to get onto the base of the penis (which is not protected) and if there is rashes on this area, how high is the chance of transmition ? If the answer is yes, oes it also mean that...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

HiThis is a great question. And you are correct the condom does not protect the other areas in the genital area. If there is a rash or broken skin there is an opportunity for HIV to transmit. So yes if there are openings, rashes, broken skin... Read more »

PEOPLE WITH OCD STOP MAKING YOUR SELF GO CRAZY ITS HARD I KNOW I HAVE OCD AND WENT THROUGH A HELL OF A TIME WORRING ABOUT HIV/AIDS

Hi Im 21 years old have had unprotected sex as a young teen you could say i was very curios and experaminted alot as horney teen. i also have obsessive compolsive disorder (ocd)when i learned about Aids i went crazy for years discovered dr.Bob three...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Future Doc,Thanks for your post and taking the time to share your experience. The whole shebang (he-bang, she-bang, bang-bang-bang, whatever) is not uncommon in horned-up teens, tweens, X-gens, Y-gens or even 30 and/or 40-somethings. So... Read more »

Love making

My wife is HIV- and I'm HIV+, before we found out about my status, we were not using a condom and unfortunately after having discovered that I was +ve, we started to use condoms. I have been +ve for the past 4 years and we started using condoms...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

HiThere have been studies that show that someone living with HIV, on medications and adherent, which would lead to an undetectable viral load that this can reduce the risk of HIV transmission by up to 96% and of course a condom increases that... Read more »

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Behind every 'AIDS' story lies a money making scam

Posted by Anonymous

Behind every 'AIDS' story lies a money making scam.
FLEMINGTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2005--

Results of a new national survey of 864 physicians and 1,339 members of
the
general public revealed that a significant majority of both groups
belie... Read more »

Making a documentary on HIV/AIDS in Af.Americans

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Hi,

I am a nursing student and we are looking to make a documentary to present to other nursing students. Our goal is to find out what we can do to make a difference, how we can support the health of those living with HIV and AIDS and also promote... Read more »

Making out

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Can you get HIV from making out or agressively kissing another person?

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scary stat on hiv & death--makes u wanna not test.

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

check this...-- AIDS patients got both good and bad news on the long-term survival front. A federal report released in March found AIDS patients diagnosed in 1995 lived an average of nearly four years, compared to just 11 months for those diagnosed... Read more »

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