Questions tagged [hiv-aids]
AIDS is a disease of the human immune system caused by HIV, a virus.
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Was "L" placed at the beginning of the LGBT acronym because of the AIDS crisis?
Seen in various LGBT documentation spaces online:
This history of the acronym goes back to the last sustained trauma in the LGBT world: the AIDS pandemic of the 1980s and 1990s. ... a more ...
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Does Russia recruit a "large number" of people suffering from HIV and Hepatitis C to fight their current war?
Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, 25 October, 2022:
Russia’s Wagner private military company has started mass recruitment of russian prisoners who are suffering from serious infectious diseases such ...
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Has PrEP caused a decrease in condom use amongst men who have sex with men?
In this article of the Financial Times, the existence of a sexual health crisis is reported. Here is a statement from the article:
But others say condom use has fallen sharply among high-risk groups, ...
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Are HIV positive couples in China denied assisted reproduction methods?
In the following article on Xinhuanet, it is claimed that HIV carriers are not allowed access to assisted reproduction in China.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-01/21/c_137762633.htm
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Did UNAIDS and the CDC recommend circumcision for African countries?
In this article in the Israeli daily, Ha'aretz (Hebrew; may be paywalled), Prof' Bentowicz, head of the Center for Tropical Diseases and AIDS in the faculty of Health Science in the Ben-Gurion ...
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Did more gay men die in NYC during the AIDS crisis than US soldiers in Vietnam?
This Tumblr post, which has accumulated over 3,000 notes, claims:
During the 1980s, more gay men died in New York City during the AIDS
crisis than all recorded deaths of American soldiers in ...
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Were 25% of newly-infected HIV-positive gay men actively seeking infection in 2003?
Rense quotes a 2003 Drudge Report article, that previewed an apparent Rolling Stone magazine article titled "Bug Chasers: The Men Who Secretly Long To Be HIV+."
The men who want the virus ...
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Are the chances of contracting HIV from an infected person this low?
I've come across a few resources like this one. In this case they claim:
unprotected vaginal intercourse with an HIV-positive man who is chronically infected and not on antiretroviral treatment (...
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Are activities in which both people bleed on each other considered "No Risk" for the transmission of HIV?
My friend, who was a HIV care provider, claims explicitly that "no one has ever transmitted HIV through wound to wound contact" and that therefore there is no significant risk to hockey players ...
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What are the chances of female-to-male SOA/STD transmission during straight sex [closed]
SOA (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seksueel_overdraagbare_aandoening)
When a male does intercourse with a female who is infected with SOA (SOA called in Belgium, not sure SOA is STD?).
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What are the chances of female-to-male HIV transmission during straight sex?
I am really confused about this matter. I've heard a lot of versions from doctors and on internet. To be more specific:
A pathologist that claimed to have worked with HIV positive patients for 10 ...
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Do 62% of gay men diagnosed with AIDS practice unsafe sex?
LifeSiteNews Daily News reported in 2013 that
Nearly two-thirds of gay men who know they have AIDS have sex without condoms: CDC report
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) shows ...
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Did the Special Virus-Cancer Program (SVCP) exist?
Rense.com has a 2005 essay describing an AIDS conspiracy theory. In particular, it describes the "Special Virus-Cancer Program":
The Virus Cancer Program had it roots in 1964 when Congress provided ...
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Does UAE screen people with HIV/AIDS at the airport?
I recently stumbled upon a post that claims that:
For all the people who wish to come to the UAE for vacation or for shopping there's a new rule. Upon arrival at the airport an HIV/AIDS test will ...
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Did an experimental Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV) cause the AIDS pandemic?
Aidsorigins.com mentioned in a post that:
The oral polio vaccine (OPV) theory of origin of AIDS proposes that an
experimental OPV made in a unique manner was administered to nearly
one million ...
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