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HIV
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Canadian Researchers May Have A Vaccine For Aids [VIDEO]
21 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Canadian researchers recently received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to commence testing an HIV vaccine on humans.
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Online Gamers Solve Retroviral Enzyme Code In Three Weeks
20 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The University of Washington has finally found a way to make us of the mental energy expended by online gamers – recruiting them to decipher the structure of monomeric enzymes, found in retroviruses like HIV, by playing an online game called Foldit. Researchers had been working on it for the past decade; the collective gamers did it in three weeks.
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Doctor Secures Property With HIV-Infected Needles
29 Aug 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’ll just leave this here: A female doctor from Brazil has reacted to the frequent robberies Sobardinho property by studding the walls around her property with HIV-infected needles to keep burglars away. We know this because she’s kindly put up a hand-written sign,saying “HIV positive blood. Do not trespass.”
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New Studies Show Antiretroviral Drugs Could Prevent HIV Infection
14 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two recent medical studies claim that antiretroviral medications could help protect healthy people from contracting the HIV virus through sexual contact. How? Just drink an antiretroviral daily! The findings claim that this could greatly cut a person’s infection risk by as much as 73%. If this is true, then humanity could be looking at a potential game-changer in the fight against AIDS.
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India’s Health Minister Calls Homosexuality A Disease From The West
06 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
While the rest of us have been wondering whether or not people are born gay, India’s Health Minister has know all along: that it is in fact a disease from the West. The only thing he is still struggling with is identifying sufferers from this illness as it is “difficult to find them because you don’t know who is doing it and where they are.”
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Patient (Pretty Much) Cured Of Aids
07 Jun 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A man who suffered from both Leukaemia and HIV seems to have been cured of HIV, after he received a unique type of bone marrow transplant.
Seriously. Check it out…
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One Step Closer In The Quest For A HIV Vaccine
07 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hooray for science. US government scientists say they have discovered three powerful HIV antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any HIV antibody yet discovered. Details inside.
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HIV High
08 Mar 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In what has got to be an all-time low for human nature, people in the township of Umlazi in KwaZulu Natal have to live in fear of being robbed of their anti-retroviral drugs. According to a BBC report, gangs in the settlement are mugging people for their ARVs, which they then use to lace joints, apparently to increase their high.
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Lady Gaga Wears A Condom
18 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I’m not entirely sure what to think of lady Gaga’s latest outfit that she wore on Thursday’s edition of “Good Morning America”. She said that the outfit was based on a condom. Where on God’s green earth does this woman come up with these ideas?
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‘Jesus had HIV’ Sermons Upset Some People
02 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
In a recent Khayelitsha church service, Pastor Xola Skosana opened his sermon by stating “Jesus was HIV positive.” For some reason, this has caused some small outcry.
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