Every month, 1,000 young people in America become infected with HIV, most between the ages of 13 and 24 years of age. But what’s scarier is that according to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this week, more than half of young people in the United States who […]
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A new HIV pill is the first of it’s kind to contain four different HIV drugs in a single dose. This is welcome news for HIV patients with the incurable disease who often take multiple drugs daily to control the virus, which can make it difficult to stick to prescribed medication doses and result […]
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A Toronto man has been convicted of sexual assault after after he did not disclose he was positive with HIV to his new lover. Thomas Williams pleaded guilty for two counts of sexual assault. This is his second conviction, after he spent one year in prison for killing his wife after she was unknowingly infected […]
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A new HIV vaccine from the University of Western in Ontario, Canada has shown great promise. Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, professor of virology at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry says that, “These are very exciting results. It is, really, a major milestone.” The new treatment takes a deactivated HIV-1 virus and uses it to […]
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A new HIV test is giving hope for cheaper testing in poor countries. The new test uses nanotechnology to change a sample vial red or blue depending on if the blood is HIV positive or not. This new breakthrough was made through research from the Imperial College in London and published in the journal Nature […]
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Canada’s federal government is being sued by a former inmate and several HIV advocacy groups over its ban on distributing sterile needles in prisons. The plaintiffs argue that the government is violating the charter rights of prisoners by failing to provide sterile needles and syringes. But a spokesperson for Public Safety Minister Vic Toews defended […]
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