Where Does Hiv Comes From

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Day One With HIV: "Coming Out of the Second Closet"

Jason McDonald Want to share your own "Day One With HIV" story of finding out your diagnosis? Write out your story (1,000 words or fewer, please!), or film a YouTube video, and email it to oford@thebody.com . In the coming months, we'll be... Read more »

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: Coming Together to Fight HIV/AIDS

To commemorate National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, Senior Advisor to President Obama Valerie Jarrett shared her heart-felt thoughts on the importance of combating HIV/AIDS. Watch her video message: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness is not... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Florida: New Resource for Residents With HIV/AIDS Comes to Polk

Metropolitan Charities, which provides case management in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties, recently opened an office in Lakeland, in Polk County. "We definitely want to get to people who aren't getting services," said Sherman Rauld, the agency's... Read more »

Ask the Experts

Can you get HIV from coming in contact with a + person's snot?

Okay, I know it's gross, but....if a person is infected, and the caretaker comes into contact with used Kleenex that is still moist, is there a risk of infeciton?Thanks in advance....

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

There are no cases that I am aware of where HIV was transmitted that way.MH... Read more »

The cure for HIV ...when is it coming

Hi, bob... Do you think there will ever be a cure for HIV and when do you think it will come? Do you think steam cell research is the way forward in curing HIV? ...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,Yes, I think we'll have a "functional" cure before an actual cure (viral eradication). Exactly when this will occur, I can't say. However, we are getting much closer! Check out my three-part blog on this topic on the blog... Read more »

HIV+ husband coming back

my husband was closet gay. he left 11months ago wants to come out& live as gay person. during that time he contracted hiv. im neg. i still lov him in spite of all. i learned today about his hiv. i want to be there for him and let him spend more...

Response from Robert H. Remien, Ph.D.

Columbia University

There shouldn't be a risk of HIV transmission unless there is blood-to-blood or sexual contact between them. It seems to me that the real issues are the emotional and psychological ones that are involved with having parents who have separated,... Read more »

How long does HIV live after coming into the outside worlds,since I masturbated in the water where many people take bath and ejaculate?

Sir,I am 20 years old and staying the hostel.Once when I was bathing I masturbated by rubbing my sensitive lower part of the penis on the floor of the bathroom.Before doing this I poured water on the floor and then only I rubbed my penis there.I am...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

HIV is not known to be transmitted to you when your body has contact with the environment. HIV is only known to be transmitted to adults through sex or blood contact (primarily needle-sharing). There are multiple reasons for this, one being that HIV... Read more »

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New HIV test Coming Window will be 12 days.

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

What will losers like Aids2Hiv say when this test comes out ? Just proves that the newer generation tests are more accurate than what the 13 week nazis are still saying. The Elisa test out there right now can detect HIV Antibodies in 21 days making... Read more »

Suspected hiv notice coming.

Posted by diego47, 2 Replies

I made a very stuip mistake and had, unprotected receiving, anal sex in early Steptember 2010. A few weeks later my body started going crazy. I kept getting diarrhea or having loose stool. I went to pcp and tested for everything (STD) and was... Read more »

Confusion & Conflict when it comes to HIV and AIDS

Posted by bradford, 1 Reply

Confusion and Conflict when it comes to HIV and AIDS

In Canada, HIV was first diagnosed among gay men. Later, hemophiliacs and others with health problems were infected due to tainted blood received through blood transfusions. People infected... Read more »

Coming out to the Parents, with HIV...

Posted by PosJohnathan, 1 Reply

here is how i told them i was bi-sexual and hiv positive....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKTVlp8wkjQ Read more »

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