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HERE, I finally managed to blog it, but it is very personal to me. I went to medical school from 1982-86. In early 1985, as a third year medical student, I was first to admit a man with AIDS into a hospital in Peoria. He was a patient of my clinic directors partner..who had refused to see him. The directed asked me to, so I did....... He died.. They all did... ALL through my residency... It was horrific and no one was getting us meds! HERE is the story of how we got them.....
Exerpted from the Democracy Now blog that embeds the full video of Amy Goodman's introduction and interviews.
http://tinyurl.com/cuvfjkbHERE, I finally managed to blog it, but it is very personal to me. I went to medical... more
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This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — an international direct action advocacy group formed by a coalition of activists outraged over the government’s mismanagement of the AIDS crisis. We speak with ACT UP founding member Peter Staley, one of the longest AIDS survivors in the country; and David France, director of the new documentary "How to Survive a Plague," which tells a remarkable history of AIDS activism and how it changed the country. "I’m alive because of that activism," Staley says of the triple drug therapy he was able to take. "This was a major victory this movie tells about getting these therapies. But that was only the beginning of the battle. Now we have these treatments that can keep people alive, and there are still two to three million dying every year. There are more dying now than when we actually got the therapies to save people. So it’s a huge failure of leadership internationally. And it shows a failure of our own healthcare system." [includes rush transcript]http://tinyurl.com/77jnmswThis weekend marks the 25th anniversary of ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition to... more
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Online social networking sites are popular among homeless youths and can be used for sexual health interventions!Online social networking sites are popular among homeless youths and can be used for... more
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PPGNW says it is targeting college students and millennials who are already comfortable with social media in hopes of spreading the word about healthy sex!PPGNW says it is targeting college students and millennials who are already... more
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We chronically underestimate how complicated condom use can be. It involves the use of a condom, while negotiating the condom use and sex with a partner all at the same time!We chronically underestimate how complicated condom use can be. It involves the use of... more
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Actual quote from this idiot:
"Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community -- it was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall. My understanding is that it is virtually -- not completely, but virtually -- impossible to contract AIDS through heterosexual sex...very rarely [transmitted]."
http://veracitystew.com/2012/01/31/homophobic-gop-lawmaker-kicked-out-of-restaurant-video/Actual quote from this idiot:
"Most people realize that AIDS came from the... more
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Chris Whitney lived in San Francisco in the 1980s, when there wasn’t much known about AIDS. But then he tested positive for HIV in 1985. He explains what happened next to his friend Erin Kuka.Chris Whitney lived in San Francisco in the 1980s, when there wasn’t much known... more
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The HIV infection rate among the homeless transgender population is more than TWENTY-TWO percent! That’s huge.
The HIV infection rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is just 5% and world-wide, it’s .8%. However, for homeless transgender people, it’s OVER TWENTY-TWO PERCENT!The HIV infection rate among the homeless transgender population is more than... more
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There is probably nothing more agonizing than the moment in which you and your eager partner discover that you’re out of condoms. Thankfully, an app called iCondom might help such an awful situation come to a happy ending...There is probably nothing more agonizing than the moment in which you and your eager... more
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Earlier this year, the Health Department launched the NYC Condom Finder, a free smartphone application designed to locate the five nearest New York City venues that distribute free NYC Condoms. The application allows users to determine their location through either global positioning system (GPS) technology on their smartphone or by manually entering an address.Earlier this year, the Health Department launched the NYC Condom Finder, a free... more
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It was a perfect sunny day for walkers, celebrities, politicians, activists, friends, co-workers and families to gather in West Hollywood to walk and raise money for the 27th Annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles 2011.
Continue reading on Examiner.com 27th Annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles Raises $3 Million for the fight against AIDS - Los Angeles events | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/events-in-los-angeles/27th-annual-aids-walk-los-angeles-raise-3-million-for-the-fight-against-aids#ixzz1bLcYDupE
http://www.examiner.com/events-in-los-angeles/27th-annual-aids-walk-los-angeles-raise-3-million-for-the-fight-against-aidsIt was a perfect sunny day for walkers, celebrities, politicians, activists, friends,... more
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What is it about prostitutes, in particular, that drive men crazy to the point of risking their careers and putting their families on the line? DJ Mona-Lisa discusses the life of couples whose husbands are having torrid affairs with strippers and street prostitutes. Unsuspecting wives who lie with cheating husbands-jeopardizing their health. The humanitarian talk show host also reports the prevention and treatment of multiple types of sexual transmitted diseases which she defines in full details: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/djmonalisa/2011/07/14/dj-mona-lisa-live-broadcastWhat is it about prostitutes, in particular, that drive men crazy to the point of... more
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PARIS — Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade.
The exploit is published on Sunday in the journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, where -- exceptionally in scientific publishing -- both gamers and researchers are honoured as co-authors.
Their target was a monomeric protease enzyme, a cutting agent in the complex molecular tailoring of retroviruses, a family that includes HIV.
Figuring out the structure of proteins is vital for understanding the causes of many diseases and developing drugs to block them.
But a microscope gives only a flat image of what to the outsider looks like a plate of one-dimensional scrunched-up spaghetti. Pharmacologists, though, need a 3-D picture that "unfolds" the molecule and rotates it in order to reveal potential targets for drugs.
This is where Foldit comes in.
Developed in 2008 by the University of Washington, it is a fun-for-purpose video game in which gamers, divided into competing groups, compete to unfold chains of amino acids -- the building blocks of proteins -- using a set of online tools.
To the astonishment of the scientists, the gamers produced an accurate model of the enzyme in just three weeks.
Cracking the enzyme "provides new insights for the design of antiretroviral drugs," says the study, referring to the lifeline medication against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
It is believed to be the first time that gamers have resolved a long-standing scientific problem.
"We wanted to see if human intuition could succeed where automated methods had failed," Firas Khatib of the university's biochemistry lab said in a press release.
"The ingenuity of game players is a formidable force that, if properly directed, can be used to solve a wide range of scientific problems."
One of Foldit's creators, Seth Cooper, explained why gamers had succeeded where computers had failed.
"People have spatial reasoning skills, something computers are not yet good at," he said.
"Games provide a framework for bringing together the strengths of computers and humans. The results in this week's paper show that gaming, science and computation can be combined to make advances that were not possible before."
http://tinyurl.com/3w9rz4uPARIS — Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or... more
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As some of you know, I’m involved in HIV prevention on the local and national level. Today I’m in Atlanta, GA for a UCHAPS meeting and… I’m pissed. I’ve been part of UCHAPS for a couple of years and I’ve watched our as cold-hearted tea bagging idiots have systematically sought to pay for corporate tax breaks with the blood of our citizenryAs some of you know, I’m involved in HIV prevention on the local and national... more
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Esteban "Steven" Escobar, Executive Editor-In-Chief of Diversity News Magazine published by Diversity News Publications and Captain of Diversity News 3960 for AIDS WALK LA 2011 makes Public Service Announcement inviting you to come to the AIDS WALK LA 2011 Red Carpet Fundraiser to be held at Gus Harper Studios on August 20, 2011 from 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm.,live from The Gus Harper Studios in Los Angeles, CA.
http://blip.tv/diversity-news-tv/esteban-steven-escobar-diversity-news-3960-aids-walk-la-2011-psa-5459629Esteban "Steven" Escobar, Executive Editor-In-Chief of Diversity News... more
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Great news but don't throw away your condoms yet folks. We still have a long way to go, but one man appears to be the first to have been completely cured of HIV. (CBS News)
Thirty years ago from Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control issued the first report on the emerging AIDS epidemic. Now, after years of progress in holding back the disease, there is finally an apparent case of one successful cure.
CBS News correspondent Hank Plante, with San Francisco affiliate KCBS, reports that 45-year-old Timothy Ray Brown, now living in the Bay Area, tested positive for HIV back in 1995, but now has entered the scientific journals as the first man in world history to have his HIV completely eliminated from his body. It's what doctors call a "functional cure."
He was living in Berlin, Germany, in 2007, dealing with HIV and leukemia, when scientists there gave him a bone marrow, stem cell transplant that had astounding results.
"I quit taking my HIV medication on the day that I got the transplant and haven't had to take any since," Brown says, adding that his diseases are effectively gone.
In fact, his only medical problem these days is one involving his speech and motor skills because of neurological damage after the treatment, but that's getting better.
"The Berlin Patient," as Brown is known, received stem cells from a donor who was immune to HIV. In fact, about one percent of Caucasians are immune to HIV. Some say it goes back to the Great Plague; People who survived the plague developed an immunity, and that immunity was passed down to their heirs today.
Brown says being the first man to be cured of HIV makes him very, very happy.
Needless to say, Brown is now being monitored by doctors at San Francisco General Hospital and here at UCSF, where we sought out a medical opinion from one of the most respected AIDS researchers in the world, Dr. Jay Levy, who was one of the co-discoverers of the HIV virus.
"If you're able to take the white cells from someone and manipulate them so they're no longer infectable by HIV, and those white cells become the whole immune system of that individual, you've got essentially what we call a functional cure," Dr. Levy says.
We also sought out a medical opinion from Dr. Paul Volberding, another pioneering AIDS expert, who has studied the disease for all of its 30 years.
"One element of his treatment, and we don't know which, allowed apparently the virus to be purged from his body. So its going to be an interesting, I think, productive area to study," Dr. Volderding says. "He hasn't had any recurrence now for several years I think of the virus, and that hasn't happened before in our experience."
Timothy Brown's radical procedure may not be applicable to many other people with HIV, because of the difficulty in doing stem cell transplants, and finding the right donor. But this one case does open the door to the field of "cure research," which is now gaining more attention.
"I'm cured of HIV," Brown says. "I had HIV, but I don't anymore."
Those are words that so many in the scientific community are now cautiously clinging to.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/05/eveningnews/main20069146.shtml#ixzz1QAmX2Wim video and article at linkGreat news but don't throw away your condoms yet folks. We still have a long way... more
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At first it seemed an oddity: a scattering of reports in the spring and early summer of 1981 that young gay men in New York and California were ill with forms of pneumonia and cancer usually seen only in people with severely weakened immune systems.
(click on the link for the full article)At first it seemed an oddity: a scattering of reports in the spring and early summer... more
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A slutty Steamboat Fritz cat named Smutley performs freaky and unspeakable acts of a sexual nature upon a variety of species to the tune of Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation” in the name of AIDS prevention.
Brilliant!A slutty Steamboat Fritz cat named Smutley performs freaky and unspeakable acts of a... more
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The astonishing beauty that was Liz Taylor.
It is a sad day indeed. My favorite Hollywood icon, Elizabeth Taylor, passed away this morning. My sister and I were talking about how amazing she was and that no one comes close to her stature and grace. She had an incredible impact on our society though her life’s work of spearheading and supporting the HIV/AIDS community. That, coupled with her amazing talent and divine beauty, well, there’s no one like her in Hollywood anymore. It is truly the end of Hollywood glamour. Yeah, you can mention Angelina Jolie…ish. But as the sun sets on Dame Elizabeth Taylor, please take a moment of silence to honor one of the greatest icons of our time. My time anyway.
Read more: http://imeanwhat.com/blog/peoplewelerve/elizabeth-taylor-you-were-the-greatest#ixzz1HR7c5lcTThe astonishing beauty that was Liz Taylor.
It is a sad day indeed. My favorite... more
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