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56% of People in United States Say Government Should Spend More to Fight HIV/AIDS, Survey Says

Fifty-six percent of people in the United States believe that the government should spend more to combat the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation , Reuters reports (Reuters, 6/2). ... Read more »

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Australia: Government to Spend $10 Million on HIV Awareness

Australia's health minister, Tony Abbott, is considering plans to spend $10 million Australian ($7.7 million U.S.) on an HIV awareness campaign amidst rising infection rates among gay men. HIV infections have increased 41 percent between 2000 and... Read more »

Domestic HIV/AIDS Spending "Essentially Flat," Increased "Efforts to Control" HIV From "All Levels of Government" Needed, Editorial Says

It has been "difficult over the years to get a good statistical handle on the size of the AIDS problem in this country," a New York Times editorial says, adding, "But by the latest and most sophisticated measurements, the disease continues to... Read more »

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How the government effects HIV epidemic

How does the government in struggling countries affect the HIV epidemic?...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

This is a great question with many different answers. Various countries have responded to the HIV epidemic in different ways. Some have been highly successful, like Brazil, but others have been slow to respond.A great source of information on this... Read more »

Government Agency singles out people who are HIV+??

At the local welfare office, when a person who is known to be HIV+ applies for food stamps, daycare, medical, etc, their case is identified and given to a specific worker known to carry the HIV+ caseload. No special training has been given to this...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

This sounds like one of those policies intended to help recipients--have one person be the "expert" on HIV-related issues and have all HIV+ recipients served by that individual--that has an unintended bad outcome. I encourage you to write... Read more »

HIV & Government Security Clearance

I am currently unemployed, and living in the metro DC area where there are a good number of "defense" companies and contrators that are doing a lot of hiring, but most all of the jobs require different levels of government security...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

I've checked with several lawyers on this one. None of them is aware of any HIV-related restrictions on domestic work, but HIV could well be a security clearance problem for a job requiring work outside the U.S. They all suggested that you... Read more »

I ended up spending the money...

Hi. Dr. Bob,Even after you were gracious enough to respond to my question from July 26th,"Before I spend the money...", I ended up taking a bDNA pcr and another HIv1/2/0 icma and Hiv-2 Ab tests anyway. Neg on all, the bDNA <75 (which is...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Hmm . . . 52 negative ELISAs, 3 negative NATs, 1 negative proviral DNA PCR, 1 negative PCR RNA and 1 negative bDNA PCR over a 20-month period? OK, I'm sending both the folks from the Guinness Book of World Records and the folks from... Read more »

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I don't believe our government would Lie.

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

The CDC is a government organization. I don't think they would lie to us by telling us that 3 months is enough. There are cases were people have tested positive after 3 months. What's wrong with you guys. You keep claiming the CDC is going to revise... Read more »

Re OUR GOVERNMENT

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

Exactly my thoughts 'Anonymous One' the 1% or 0.1% inaccuracy of the test depending what you read, in my mind is used as a disclaimer as because of the way this virus is consistently mutating. The tests used need to be updated all the time as new... Read more »

Proof that AIDS is U.S government bio-weapon

Posted by Sojuro, 2 Replies

Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, the United States was involved a EUGENICS programs in which AFRICAN AMERICANS, and others deemed as 'undesireables' were being INVOLUNTARILY SYSTEMATICALY STERILIZED to quell their population growth... Read more »

HIV and AIDS- NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS

Posted by bradford, 1 Reply

HIV and AIDS- NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS

In many countries throughout the world, people are going to naturopathic physicians when faced with a health issue.

It is naturopathic physicians, not medical doctors, who are specifically educated as physicians... Read more »

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