For many people, being told that they are HIV positive is no longer a death sentence. But for Robert Suttle, a Black gay man and social justice educator, it is a life sentence. Unexpectedly caught up in the HIV criminalization web at the age of 30, Suttle spent 6 months in a Louisiana state prison […]
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FIT Aids Triage for Possible Colorectal Cancer
MONDAY, Nov. 2, 2020 — Fecal immunochemical test (FIT) results can be used to prioritize patients for investigation of suspected colorectal cancer (CRC), according to a study published online Oct. 30 in Gut. Nigel D’Souza, M.B.B.S., from Imperial College London, and colleagues assessed whether FIT could be used to select patients with suspected CRC symptoms […]
Wound healing in mucous tissues could ward off AIDS
Wound healing events in mucous tissues during early infection by Simian Immunodeficiency Virus, or SIV, guard some primate species against developing AIDS, a recent study has learned. The research looked at why certain species can carry the virus throughout their lives, and still avoid disease progression. SIV is closely related to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. […]
A children’s doctor used syringes, apparently several times – and now hundreds of children are HIV-positive
In the South of Pakistan, nearly 700 people were infected, and presumably by contaminated syringes with the Aids Virus. Until Saturday, Rato Dero area of 681 people in the town are HIV positive have been tested, including 537 children between the ages of two and twelve years, a government official said on Sunday in a […]
Improved genetic risk score aids type 1 diabetes classification
(HealthDay)—An improved type 1 diabetes (T1D) genetic risk score (GRS), the T1D GRS2, is highly useful for classifying adult incident diabetes type and improving newborn screening, according to a study published in the February issue of Diabetes Care. Seth A. Sharp, from the University of Exeter Medical School in the United Kingdom, and colleagues analyzed […]
How innovation can help end the AIDS epidemic by 2030
A United Nations initiative backed by global experts has set its sights on an ambitious programme to bring an end to the AIDS epidemic by 2030. The 90-90-90 strategy aims to do this by reaching three targets: 90% of all people with HIV must know their status, 90% of those diagnosed with HIV must receive […]
'When I Was 18, 3 Words Changed My Life Forever: You Have AIDS'
It happened just days before my 18th birthday. I was enrolled in Job Corps—a government-funded educational program in Kentucky—at the time. It was a fresh start for me: After being sexually abused by a family member growing up, running away from home when I was 13, and joining a violent gang, this was my new […]