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When Should Someone Start Treatment?
That’s a huge question that HIV+ individuals have to decide when confronted with the diagnosis. The biggest thing is to contact and work closely with your health care provider, you can determine when...
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Public Swimming Pools & Your Health
#Disclaimer. You might want to read this blog ‘after’ you finish your tasty pancakes topped with fresh strawberries and whipped cream with a bottomless cup of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee..ahhhhh….ok,...
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CDC Releases New Data
Some new interesting facts from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Notice the young statistics and the older, mature individuals. Adolescents STDs are a risk to adolescents’ health and fertility....
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Excuse Me, Did Someone Say The Black Plague is Back?
You’ve got to be joking right? No, according to the news release a man in Oregon has the dreaded infamous Black Plague. Yes the same black plague from mid-14th century, that effectively wiped out...
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Hep C Infections On The Rise
A 2010 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that up to 3.9 million Americans have chronic hepatitis C infection, which is a leading cause of liver cancer, end-stage...
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Needle Exchange Programs Worked in Preventing Spread of HIV/AIDS
There are obliviously two sides of this argument but read on to see what our ‘cousins across the pond’ have learned. In 1986, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s special cabinet committee on...
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Increase of HIV Infections Brought Into the US
The CDC team defined “foreign born” as people born outside the USA and its territories, including naturalized citizens. They culled demographic characteristics and HIV transmission risk factors from...
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Federal Ban on Needle Exchange is Bad News
OK, I’m not here to support intravenous drug usage (IUD) but there is a direct correlation to increased HIV infections and IV drug usage. Just when Washington DC (number 1 city in our nation for HIV...
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CDC Pushes HIV Testing to Become Routine
Do you think you’re at risk for HIV infection? There’s a new push to make testing for the AIDS virus as common as cholesterol checks. Americans ages 15 to 64 should get an HIV test at least once — not...
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HIV Infections on Rise Among Young Gay and Bisexual Men
The number of new HIV infections for young gay and bisexual men has risen by 22% between 2008 and 2010, according to a new study released this week by the Centers For Disease Control (CDC). Joseph...
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