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I am all in favor of microbicides.  Anything that will help stop the spread of HIV is fine by me (with ethical considerations a given here of course), however, I would really love it if these people writing about them would stop acting like African women are the only women in the world who are not empowered to require condom use by their partners!  ( Read more... )

Researchers Decode HIV Genome

Thursday, August 6, 2009
"Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have decoded the entire HIV genome, opening the door to understanding how viruses infect humans - knowledge that could lead to new antiviral drugs," the Triangle Business Journal reports. The building block of HIV is a ( Read more... )

Pulling It Together: America Has Gone Quiet on HIV/AIDS - Kaiser Family Foundation
The media, and in particular the news media, clearly has a role to play in bringing greater attention to the U.S.’s continuing HIV/AIDS epidemic. In our survey 62% of the American people named media as their main source of information on HIV/AIDS. However, while the ( Read more... )

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A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS - WSJ.com
A Doctor, a Mutation and a Potential Cure for AIDS
A Bone Marrow Transplant to Treat a Leukemia Patient Also Gives Him Virus-Resistant Cells; Many Thanks, Sample 61
By MARK SCHOOFS

The startling case of an AIDS patient who underwent a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia is stirring new ( Read more... )

U.S. Blacks, if a Nation, Would Rank High on AIDS
If black America were a country, it would rank 16th in the world in the number of people living with the AIDS virus...

You know, it amazes me that in a country like ours, the epidemic can have such a stranglehold on an entire community, although I suppose it shouldn't. We are after all the same ( Read more... )

In today's show I discuss:

Work: Yay we got funded so I won't be losing my job! And yes, I am one of the people who helped write the grant requesting funding. All UR HIV FUNDS R BELONG TO ME!!!

Coffee is my fuel! Without it I would be a a Romero Zombie unless I've used my asthma inhaler in which case I'm a 28 Days Later zombieAn article I ( Read more... )

In today's show I talk about...

• Microbicides for HIV Prevention
• The state of HIV/AIDS in the US and abroad with info from the Kaiser Family Foundation (The documents I got my stats from are here and here)
• The importance of HIV Testing

Listener Comments are go!

I pimp out the book I just read: On the Banks of Lethe by James L. Grant of Two ( Read more... )