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Should I tell if I know someone that works in my school has HIV/aides?

I was told by a teacher last year that he had HIV. I didn't really think anything of it other than to sympathize with him. I did not tell my principal. I have been around people who are HIV positive and didn't think anything of it. It...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

Do you have a grievance procedure? Do you belong to a union? Is there a school administrator to whom you can go with a grievance about this discipline--and a warning about the school's liability? If the principal is acting according to your... Read more »

giving first aid, is there a risk of contracting HIV?

Many people I know won't give frst aid because they're afraid of HIV. Is there really a... Read more »

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HIV & 1st AId

Hi all, Three Qs in one here sorry, I work as a volunteer co-ordinator in developing countries and... Read more »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ohio: Cuts in Aid for HIV Drugs Bring New Set of Troubles

Cuts made last July to Ohio's AIDS Drug Assistance Program resulted in nearly 1,000 people being dropped off the rolls by December. Facing a $3.9 million deficit three months into the current fiscal year, ADAP instituted a waiting list, and... Read more »

Atlanta Journal Constitution: HIV Aid Pipeline Clogged By State

"Alpha Goodshepherd is worried. HIV positive since 1998, he knows how important it is to take care of his health. Until recently, the 51-year-old Lawrenceville resident took a drug to keep the virus at bay. Now, all he has is an empty pill bottle... Read more »

Recipients of HIV/AIDS Programs Aid Expected to Feel Crunch of Global Economic Crisis

At the 2009 HIV Implementers' Meeting in Namibia Thursday, Paul DeLay, deputy executive director of UNAIDS, said the global economic crisis will impact countries who receive international aid for HIV/AIDS programs, so recipients of such aid should... Read more »

Wealthy Nations Must Increase Aid to Developing Countries to Meet Millennium Goals, Including Reducing HIV Spread, Report Says

Wealthy nations must "fulfil[l] their pledges" to increase aid to developing countries in order to met the U.N. Millennium Development Goals -- including curbing the spread of HIV and reducing maternal and infant deaths -- within the next decade,... Read more »

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Recent AID's Diagnosis: What should I expect?

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

I am a hetereosexual, non-drug user who has been living with HIV for 13 years. I was just officially Diagnosed with AIDS because of my percentages (11%). My CD4's are 262 and Viral 1801. I didn't realize how uneducated I was on AID's until now. ... Read more »

legal aid and bug-chaser

Posted by mandinka, 1 Reply

I am seeking legal aid and advise for my friend who is in jail and headed to prison. He had a fallout with his girlfriend and she accused him of transmitting the hiv virus to her even though she was already hiv positive. She was a known bug-chaser... Read more »

HIV, PEP, and irradication. What we'll never know.

Posted by Anonymous

The following is just a theory, or a topic for discussion.

Is it possible for a person to get the HIV virus in their body, but then somehow their body kills off the virus and they stay HIV negative? We'll never really know, because the virus would... Read more »

HIV/AID and the Senior Citizen

Posted by Anonymous

I would like to interview an HIV/AIDs positive senior citizen for a Social Work Research Paper that I am working on that must be submitted to my professor on 11/09/03. The person who will allow me to conduct the interview's Identity will be... Read more »

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