by APFLI | Feb 22, 2005 | STDs, STIs, HIV - Archive
Just a few days away from the celebration of World AIDS Day 2004, the prestigious medical magazine The Lancet published a document signed by experts from 36 countries who for the first time recognize that abstinence and fidelity are key to stopping thespread of AIDS....
by APFLI | Jan 28, 2005 | Barrier Methods
During the XIII International AIDS Conference held in Durban, South Africa, July 2000, researchers from the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS (UNAIDS) presented results of a study of a product, COL-1492,* which contains nonoxynol-9 (N-9) (1). N-9 products are...
by APFLI | Jan 28, 2005 | STDs
“The incidence of five non-AIDS defining malignancies — lung cancer, head and neck cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, anorectal cancer and melanoma — are significantly higher in HIV-infected persons than in the general population,” Dr. Pragna...
by APFLI | Jan 5, 2005 | STDs, STIs, HIV - Archive
DIAGNOSES OF HIV/AIDS — 32 States, 2000-2003 – An estimated 850,000–950,000 persons in the USA are living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), including 180,000–280,000 who do not know they are infected During 2000-2003, HIV/AIDS was...
by APFLI | Jan 1, 2005 | STDs, STIs, HIV - Archive
“An experimental drug in the form of a vaginal gel is being tested on female monkeys to prevent the HIV virus from gaining access to the body. The drug works by preventing the virus from penetrating a woman’s cells. “In many parts of the world, the...
