Hiv And The Gym

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HIV + GYM + BLOOD

Hi,At the gym i go to the bicep curl machine is very popular and the arms pads are all torn up. I was lifting hard and my arms scratched up against the pads to the point were i was bleeding... a lot. Could i get hiv this way if some 1 eles bleed on...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

No, you cannot.... Read more »

HIV + and Gym

I have read before that HIV + persons should do light training in the gym. Is this true and why?... Read more »

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D. »

HIV in the gym?

My Beloved Dr. Bob, I deeply ADMIRE you and only you can put my mind at ease.I'm in panic mode... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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Articles

HIV/AIDS in Black America: The Uphill Battle

In the fall of 1991, during a game of capture the flag in my eighth grade gym class, the teacher told us to stop playing, get in two lines and be very quiet. She told us that a serious announcement was going to be made. A few minutes later, over the... Read more »

Hemo Homo

Reprinted from The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet Press) by permission of the author. The Chelsea Gym has been closed since 1999. Photographs are by Tomás Gaspar, whose work was featured in the Electric Blanket (Visual AIDS Artists Caucus). In... Read more »

Pickett Fences: Phat

Gym bunnies, nipple ponies, steroid sissies, muscle Marys. Pumping it up, posing and strutting, perking them out, lifting and separating, working it, feeling the burn, getting ripped, making it hurt for Daddy ... The poor dears. I used to find... Read more »

Recipes for Fitness

When I was in high school, part of our gym test was to climb a heavy ropesuspended from the ceiling. Our grade was the amount of time it took to climbup and down the rope. I got the symbol for infinity. After this and other humiliating gym... Read more »

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Hiv from used steriod needle at gym!!

Posted by hwood76, 1 Reply

Hello.. I work at a gym and one of our members lost thier card... I checked to see if they had thrown it in the trash..that happens for some reason..and I felt myself bet stuck by something.. I looked through the trash to see if it was a syringe and... Read more »

what to eat for HIV/AIDS person?

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Hi all,

I understand that I should eat BETTER... But I really don't know what are the good meals/food for HIV/AIDS people? Any anybody share your experience with me?

And what kind exercise do you guys do? I feel my body is very senstive to... Read more »

hiv & working out/bodybuilding

Posted by windycitypozdude, 2 Replies

hey everyone! i have always been a "working out," active kind of guy, and always been interested in getting bigger/more muscular, etc. i shy away from the term "bodybuilding" as for me that conjures notions of drug-enhanced muscularity that is... Read more »

what is hiv related fatigue like?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

i'm trying to figure out if i am experiencing fatigue or not. i used to work out regularly, until about 3 weeks ago i started getting a headache and stomache ache, so i stopped working out for 3 weeks. today i got to the gym for the first time in... Read more »

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