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Vatican Stance On Condom Use Not Likely To Change

A study has been in the works for sometime now on the control of Aids through the use of condoms. The Catholic Diocese has always been against the use of birth control but has considered the use of the condom for the sole purpose of controlling sexually transmitted diseases like Aids. This study by the health council was started in 2006. The long study has concluded with no positive out come. The question... 

The HIV ‘Hiding Place’ Has Been Discovered

A new discovery on the AIDS front may open the door to future awakenings. Researchers are learning how the virus manages to hide while avoiding the deadly killing powers of the various medicines. A new study reveals that the virus hides in certain bone marrow cells. It then reawakens under given circumstances. What this means is that the findings provide a better understanding of how HIV hides in the... 

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New Zealand Man Injects Wife With HIV Twice

According to media reports Monday, an HIV-positive man was convicted in Auckland, New Zealand, of twice injecting his sleeping wife with his infected blood. The Daily Express reports that the 35-year-old man pricked his 33-year-old wife with a needle contaminated with his HIV positive blood. Court documents detail how the woman once caught the man handling a syringe with his blood. She described how... 

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Stars Come Together For World AIDS Day PSA

Some of today’s hottest TV and film stars have come together for a special World AIDS Day video. Titled “Coming Together As ONE,” the PSA features Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed, Jackson Rathbone and Ashley Greene from Twilight; Leighton Meester, Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick from Gossip Girl; Corbin Bleu from High School Musical; Hayden Panettiere from Heroes; Tristan Wilds from 90210; Flash Forward’s... 

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Number Of People With AIDS Stabilizing, World AIDS Day Dec 1

With World Aids day to be held on December 1, new statistics on the disease offer hope. The number of people living with HIV AIDS has hardly changed over the past two years, stabilizing at 33 million people in most regions, except Africa, according to a report released Tuesday by the UN. The epidemic has probably reached its peak in 1996. Last year, HIV infections in sub-Saharan Africa accounted for... 

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World HIV Infections On The Decline: Report

New HIV infections have been reduced by 17 per cent over the past eight years. Since 2001, according to new data. According to the UN report, half the world’s population who need HIV treatment are getting it. Africa still has the highest rate of HIV infections. Since 2001, when the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed, the number of new infections has dropped by 15... 

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