hiv

Language is going to be a factor obviously.

Maybe something other than homeopathy once in a while? Alright, here's my beef with AIDS: Its not a disease or a condition, it is first of all a definition. Example: If you got HIV and you've got tuberculosis, you've got AIDS. If you don't have HIV and you've got tuberculosis, you've got...

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/mccain-stumbles-on-hiv-prevention/ What a moron. He really just needs to give up, man. Social Conservatives aren't going to buy the act, and he just ends up looking like a doofus to his moderate supporters. He should just focus on his senate seat...

Full article: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/16/mccain-stumbles-on-hiv-prevention/ The "Straight Talk Express" continues on, but it won't be visiting any science classroom.

I ran across this in a myspace forum. It's pretty sweet, and the guy who posted it quickly resorted to using famous quotes about how we should all keep an open mind. But, check this out: The audacity of some charlatans...

I had no idea there was a serious debate about this (although I recall denial by the South African President), but there is an interesting court case in South Australia, reported in Melbourne's Age (sorry I cant post a link). A man convicted of knowingly infecting two women with HIV, and...

Reuters Not entirely sure what I think about this yet.

...the South African government Simply too unbelieveable for words! All the science we have available yet not enough science about how to communicate it to share it with humanity.

Hi, A friend just told me that she quit taking her HIV meds because, "the chemical onslaught is worse than the disease. Detoxing from the meds is dreadful, but it shouldn't last too long (I hope). I am now exploring immune strengthening (sp?) methods, healthier eating, etc... no quackery snake...

http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_Forum/index.php?showtopic=4153 I am losing faith in humanity, or at least loosers

I came across some unusual statistics recently from the Center for Disease Control government website: "In the United States, HIV and AIDS have had a tremendous effect on men who have sex with men (MSM). MSM accounted for approximately two thirds of all HIV infections among men in 2003"...

It's on the news at the moment, just found this link also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4432564.stm Seems as though he was HIV+ on one test, then 14 months later was HIV-. Scientists, obviously, are quite keen to know what the deal is here. There seems to be some suggestion that he...

It seems there is a very simple home test kit for HIV which a company wants to make available over the counter. For some reason, the FDA is being reticent about making such a kit available. Why that is, I don't know. http://www.freep.com/news/nw/hivtest3e_20051103.htm The article doesn't...

When laypersons go off on their ridiculous tangents, I'm not that surprised, but it really irritates me when we have so-called "scientists" like Peter Duesberg who give fire to these "causes" If you go to his website (www.duesberg.com) you'll notice that his rhetoric has toned down quite a bit...

Progresses to full blown AIDS in three to four months. A previously unknown strain of HIV that is highly resistant to virtually all known drugs and appears to lead to the rapid onset of AIDS was detected in a man last week, New York health officials said Friday. While the extent of the spread...

LONDON: A single change in a human gene may hold the key to preventing people living with HIV from progressing to full-blown AIDS, researchers said on Monday. They found a crucial difference between a gene in humans and one in rhesus monkeys that blocks infection of the virus in the animals - a...

I saw a program on the history channel saying that the mutation that keeps some people from getting infected with HIV is the same that helped people survive the plague. A little googling rained on that theory. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040212083108.htm Sigh. Again, a...

What on earth is the principle behind the provision of homeopathic preparations of pharmaceutical drugs?

I don't know how many of you have heard of this gentleman - there's some background here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2490581.stm I was listening to the radio on my way home this afternoon. The interviewer was talking to a Roman Catholic bishop in South Africa, who described the problem...

Yes another miracle woman who cured aids! Go woo woo power, how do you explain this you perfect skeptics! http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040102/ap_on_he_me/hiv_lawsuit&e=1

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20030214/sc_nm/aids_virus_dc GBV-C, a harmless virus, may slow the advance of AIDS. "We found that men who were persistently positive for GBV-C were 2.5 times more likely to survive," Williams told reporters. They looked at...