Much research and work remains to increase the safety and viability of HIV-positive to HIV-positive transplants; in one study, five out of 27 HIV-positive South African recipients of HIV-positive organs experienced acute rejection episodes, a 19 percent rate.
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Since 2013, federal law has allowed the transplant of organs from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.
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The HOPE Act was inspired by an organ transplant program in South Africa that showed positive outcomes for non-HIV transplants in HIV-positive recipients and the proven results of HIV-positive to HIV-positive kidney transplants.
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According Melissa Badowski, a pharmacist who treats HIV positive inmates in Illinois, it's unfair to tack on extra punishment for HIV positive prisoners.
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According to the latest nationwide survey, 81.5 percent of HIV positive women but only 71.0 percent of HIV positive men know their status.
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While 11 of the HIV-negative study participants became HIV positive, those infections could not be traced back to the HIV-positive partner.
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Dr. Sander Florman, the director of the Transplant Institute at Mount Sinai, believes transplanting HIV-positive organs into HIV-positive recipients will help everyone awaiting an organ.
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In May 2016, an HIV-positive patient at UCSF Medical Center had a small window of time to receive a partial liver transplant from his HIV-positive partner.
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After Greg, who is HIV positive, was first misdiagnosed, his doctor, who specializes in HIV-positive patients, then sent him for a colonoscopy instead of a rectal exam.
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Doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have been given the okay to become the first hospital in the country to perform HIV-positive to HIV-positive organ transplants.
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The passage of the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act in November 2013 allowed researchers to conduct studies of organ transplants from HIV-positive donors to HIV-positive recipients.
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South Africa has been performing HIV-positive to HIV-positive transplants since 2008, where 19.1 percent of the adult general population carries HIV, one of the highest rates in the world.
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Women from the Mothers to Mothers program in South Africa – HIV-positive mothers who support each other and support new mothers who have realize they are HIV-positive while they are pregnant.
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" (+1) I'm not just sure about that, "I'm HIV positive.
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She didn't dare tell them she was also HIV positive.
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About 65,000 of its 5 million people are HIV positive.
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With the arrival of an HIV-positive organ donor pool, HIV-positive patients awaiting organs will be given a new lease on life, and others on the transplant waiting list will receive organs sooner.
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The CDC estimates 88 percent of HIV-positive Americans know their status, and Volberding said in some areas—like San Francisco—as much as 95 percent of HIV-positive individuals know they have the infection.
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The recipients, whose names will remain anonymous, are also HIV-positive.
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One such challenge is ensuring that HIV-positive individuals have food.
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Upon testing, Ghangharo was found to be HIV-positive as well.
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Tom Duane, a former New York State Senator, is HIV positive.
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Read more: Americans are still being imprisoned for being HIV positive.
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His sister is HIV-positive and he cares for her children.
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He went to Planned Parenthood and received his HIV-positive diagnosis.
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Van Ness publicly came out as HIV-positive in September 2019.
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Four years later it would emerge that Sheen was HIV positive.
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Roche isn't sure of the exact time she became HIV-positive.
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According to Suttle, he told Joe that he was HIV-positive.
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While the UK's National Health Service Blood and Transplant agency revealed this May that the country has performed four HIV-positive to HIV-positive transplants over the past five years, the procedure remains in its infancy.
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One criterion for recruitment was that the putative father was HIV-positive.
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Kami, a female character on the Nigerian "Sesame Square," is HIV-positive.
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Lambda was unable to identify any openly HIV-positive or bisexual judges.
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HIV-positive individuals are encouraged to plant gardens to acquire healthy foods.
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Today, he is a recovering addict, HIV positive, and suffering from tuberculosis.
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The current lead actor of the show, Javier Muñoz is HIV-positive.
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Read This Next: I Prefer to Date Men Who are HIV Positive
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Have you ever been discriminated against at work for being HIV positive?
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Read This Next: I Prefer to Date Men Who Are HIV Positive
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One of my best friends, Ken, has been HIV Positive since 1991.
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Testing is the only way to find out if you're HIV-positive.
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Both of their mothers were addicts and HIV-positive, like Chiron's mother.
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And the stigmatization the HIV positive community has faced is so pervasive.
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Jonathan Van Ness is ready to open up about being HIV positive.
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Photo via Wikimedia "I've been HIV-positive for 25 years," saysJuno Roche.
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Based on recent data from 22 U.S. cities, a lower percentage of HIV-positive African American gay and bisexual men are aware of their status, compared to HIV-positive gay and bisexual men of other races and ethnicities.
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He only discovered that he was HIV-positive at the age of 2380.
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In 20183, there were 22018 million deaths (including among 226,22018 HIV-positive people).
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In January, Russia passed a grim milestone, registering its millionth HIV-positive patient.
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Dorn, who is HIV positive, was thrown in solitary confinement for a year.
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Since she joined the clinic, no babies have been born HIV-positive there.
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It also gave NGOS money to provide HIV-positive people with free medicine.
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Kami, the HIV-positive muppet from South Africa, brought awareness to HIV/AIDS.
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A Democratic House candidate in Florida on Thursday revealed he is HIV-positive.
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"Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness recently revealed that he was HIV positive.
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Alison Carey — a reported former prostitute from New York City — is HIV positive.
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I am 49 years old and HIV positive; Noah is 31 and negative.
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Some came out as transgender, as HIV positive, as struggling with eating disorders.
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Even today, not enough people who are HIV-positive have access to drugs.
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Many of my patients we are talking about are older and HIV positive.
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One of my first…let's just call him a boyfriend, was HIV positive.
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Until April 2016, HIV-positive foreigners were banned from entering the country altogether.
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With its recent approval by the United Network for Organ Sharing, Johns Hopkins will become the first hospital in the nation to do an HIV-positive kidney transplant and the first in the world to perform an HIV-positive liver transplant.
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She received only the second such transplant of HIV-positive tissue into an HIV-positive donor in the United States—the first was at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine this March—and is the first to publicly share her story.
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Right now, I hope that I don't become HIV-positive, because many others have.
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South Africa is home to almost a fifth of the world's HIV-positive population.
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"Howard Ashman was HIV-positive and wasn't telling anybody," Menken told EW in 2015.
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Since coming out with his HIV positive status, Sheen says it's been a relief.
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Earlier in "Mother Of The Year," Blanca reveals her HIV-positive status to Angel.
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Most importantly, Brown said, the program has introduced her to other HIV-positive people.
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Bazzel, 38, is HIV-positive, and he wants scientists to learn from his remains.
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Alimova has had to inform several of her "clients" that they are HIV-positive.
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Bathandwa Mbele, who is HIV positive, said the ATM pharmacy is a life changer.
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HIV-positive individuals in the 1980s and 1990s (many of them sex workers), the
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Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury is one of the most famous HIV-positive celebrities.
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An HIV-positive diagnosis was often seen as a death sentence 20 years ago.
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People who are HIV-positive "face double discrimination" in the region, according to Makso.
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I am an HIV-positive, polyamorous-oriented gay man in an open triad relationship.
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Johnson maintains he told his partners he was HIV-positive before they had sex.
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Their benefits are in everybody's best interest, not just those who are HIV-positive.
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If your partner is immunocompromised, HIV positive, autoimmune suppressant, be a little more careful.
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Pacheco, who is HIV-positive, went without a background check for nearly four months.
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Progressives with negative status were pointedly sharing water glasses with their HIV-positive acquaintances.
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Elsewhere, recent successful efforts have been made to transplant organs from people with once-disqualifying medical conditions like hepatitis C (now often curable with proper medication), as well as to transplant organs from one HIV-positive donor to an HIV-positive recipient.[NEJM]
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He adds ... his HIV positive status was revealed to her the moment they were introduced.
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By 1986, David had been diagnosed as HIV positive, and Peter Hujar had already died.
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Dmitry, however, didn't find out he was HIV positive until he came to the states.
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But thanks to those drugs, HIV-positive people can now lead rich and complete lives.
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These challenges were reflected in a lengthy interview I had with an HIV-positive grandmother.
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He said the procedure was medically necessary given that the girls' father is HIV-positive.
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And the day he made his announcement about being HIV-positive, I met with him.
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The center is volunteer-based, and primarily devoted to helping minorities who are HIV-positive.
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Others, like the International HIV/AIDS alliance, advocate for HIV positive people around the world.
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But then a man he had sex with revealed that he had tested HIV-positive.
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All three children and their father soon found out that they too were HIV-positive.
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The first instance of an HIV-positive patient being cured came roughly 12 years ago.
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This retired welsh rugby player, father, husband, role model - today revealed he is HIV positive.
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Van Ness revealed that he is HIV positive in a recent New York Times profile.
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And whole countries, you'd have a third of the people in the country HIV positive.
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I'm trans, HIV positive, and I don't seek to fit into a simple gender binary.
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After my husband, my father was the second person I told I was HIV-positive.
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Other conditions might include high blood pressure, cancer, being HIV-positive, or certain psychiatric conditions.
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The intense fear of being labeled HIV positive prevented many from getting tested and treated.
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Jonathan Van Ness is sharing his story to shed light on the HIV-positive community.
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Together, they created a club for HIV positive teenagers to feel supported, safe and empowered.
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Many HIV-positive people have non-detectable viral loads, meaning transmission is next to impossible.
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The HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act directed the Department of Health and Human Services and the Organ Procurement Transplant Network to develop standards for research on HIV-positive organ transplantation and allows the HHS secretary to sign off on transplants between HIV-positive people.
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Its current star, Javier Munoz, is openly gay, HIV-positive and an advocate for both communities.
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The information shared included including details of drug overdoses, abortions, and whether individuals were HIV positive.
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Slowly, over the following two decades, HIV positive prisoners were integrated into the general prison population.
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In November 2015, Charlie Sheen shocked the world when he announced that he was HIV-positive.
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Her kidney and liver were successfully transplanted into two recipients, both of whom are HIV-positive.
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As things start to progress, Shea makes a confession: She tells Josh that she's HIV-positive.
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A contestant on the upcoming reality dating series Finding Prince Charming is HIV-positive, PEOPLE confirms.
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"For me, it's like: Is someone HIV-positive not worthy of love?" said Sepélveda Jr., 33.
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Linfen was set up over a decade ago specifically to provide education to HIV-positive kids.
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"If you are HIV-positive, you're five times more likely to have cervical cancer," Cowal said.
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Independent NGOs, many staffed by HIV-positive people, play a crucial role in reaching vulnerable groups.
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Growing numbers of HIV-positive LGBT+ people are dying after crossing into neighboring Colombia, activists say.
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In 1986, up to 50 percent of injection drug users in the Bronx were HIV positive.
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Next came the 2015 case of a French teenager, now 20, whose mother was HIV positive.
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Her sister Alison has made tabloid headlines for drug use, sex work, and being HIV-positive.
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Laboratory testing showed the new infections were different from the virus in the HIV-positive partners.
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I'm fortunate, but I almost have 34 years being HIV positive, and I'm 51 years old.
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When I found out I was HIV positive in 2013, I thought my life was over.
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"I tested HIV-positive in 1991, and I was thinking a lot about health," Katz recalls.
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In 2014, about 40,000 children in Malawi were born to HIV positive mothers, according to UNICEF.
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Worldwide, sex workers are 2100 times as likely as the general population to be HIV positive.
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The criteria required the father to be HIV positive and the mother to be HIV negative.
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There is no single strategy for HIV-positive and -negative people to pursue sex and intimacy.
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For years, many HIV-positive people have thought they were excluded from being an organ donor.
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HIV-positive MSM are up to 22011 times more likely to be diagnosed with the disease.
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In November 2015, actor Charlie Sheen went on the Today show and revealed he's HIV positive.
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INDECLINE traveled to Cuba to visit with Los Frikis, a group of Cuban radicals, who in the 80's in an act of solidarity, self-injected themselves with HIV positive blood to live with their HIV positive family and friend who had been exiled by Castro.
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A gay, HIV-positive American man living in Singapore obtained a government registry of 22019,200 HIV-positive people, including names, addresses, and other personal information, and leaked it to make a point: The registry was wrong, and it should have never existed in the first place.
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A gay, HIV-positive American man living in Singapore obtained a government registry of 14,200 HIV-positive people, including names, addresses, and other personal information, and leaked it to make a point: The registry was wrong, and it should have never existed in the first place.
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Recent encounters include a man who lost his job when his employer discovered he was HIV positive.
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First, famed NBA star Magic Johnson announced his HIV-positive diagnosis and retirement from basketball in 1991.
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He's returned to visit an estranged friend (Robert Downey Jr.) who was recently diagnosed as HIV-positive.
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Only 17 million of the 36.7 million HIV positive people around the world are taking antiretroviral treatment.
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She's HIV positive and waiting until she stops breastfeeding to find out if her baby is too.
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Currently, its star is Javier Munoz, an openly gay, HIV-positive actor who advocates for both communities.
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I think he knew that the announcement that he was HIV-positive was just the first step.
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Newly crowned beauty queen Horcelie Sinda Wa Mbongo is HIV positive, and she's not hiding that fact.
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So I contacted an ex, who is HIV positive, and he came with me to the clinic.
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In 1996, President Clinton refused to defend the statutory ouster of HIV-positive members of the military.
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Actor Charlie Sheen has been HIV-positive since 2011, and came out with his diagnosis in 2015.
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It will also tackle some tougher topics – such as the fact that one contestant is HIV-positive.
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I was kinda the only HIV Positive trans girl at the time who wanted to be out.
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Worldwide, they are 49 times more likely than non-transgender women to be HIV positive, he said.
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When you revealed you're HIV-positive to the public, did you receive any backlash from industry types?
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For HIV-positive women, access to treatment is further complicated by gender inequities in employment and pay.
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It has also led to the stigmatization of HIV-positive individuals as toxic or wicked—and desexualized.
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Thankfully, a biopsy revealed that Harry's new HIV-positive kidney is faring just fine in her body.
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Nationwide, nearly 26 percent of MSM are HIV positive, according to a more recent survey by UNAIDS.
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In 1987, Republican Senator Jesse Helms authored legislation banning anyone who was HIV-positive from entering the country, despite the fact that there were almost no HIV-positive people trying to enter and even though it was well-known by then that HIV isn't spread through casual contact.
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Doe maintains she never would have had unprotected sex with Sheen had she known he was HIV-positive.
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He found out he was HIV-positive in 2008 and locked himself in his room for two days.
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Discrimination [against women] in Russia is a permanent phenomenon that affects everyone, but HIV-positive women even more.
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Early results released in May 2011 resulted in the recommendation that all HIV-positive patients receive early ART.
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Kami, a shaggy bright yellow Muppet who appeared in the South African production in 2002, was HIV-positive.
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Whereas 4.3% of people in sub-Saharan Africa are HIV-positive, the prevalence in Senegal is just 0.4%.
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Sheen, who revealed his HIV-positive diagnosis in 2015, has remained relatively under the radar in recent years.
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Fewer than 25% of Russia's HIV-positive patients receive ARV drugs, well below the global average of 46%.
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These essential tests must be repeated every three months to make sure patients have not become HIV positive.
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A study by the University of Pennsylvania put the number of potential HIV-positive donors at nearly 400.
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The final entry showed that an HIV-positive patient had come in for an appointment on August 212.
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The liver and kidney, which were transplanted a few weeks ago, came from the same HIV-positive donor.
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Bell told investigators he is HIV positive, and investigators found evidence corroborating the diagnosis, the sheriff's office said.
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There was also Kami, the HIV-positive character on Takalani Sesame, the South African version of the series.
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You wouldn't know that Geoffrey Matiya, a lively 14-year-old boy, has been HIV-positive since birth.
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HIV-positive foreigners were barred from entering Singapore until 2016, according to Action for Aids, a local charity.
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An Atlanta woman has become the world's first living HIV-positive kidney donor, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.
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HIV-positive individuals struggling with their legal documentation status may avoid treatment out of a fear of deportation.
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Only half of HIV positive people in the United States are 'undetectable'—the benchmark for being non-infectious.
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These include assisting refugees in applying for asylum and explaining legal rights to people who are HIV-positive.
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"Had it not been for Planned Parenthood, I wouldn't have known that I was HIV-positive," he said.
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We need people on treatment because if you're HIV-positive and on treatment, you can't transmit the disease.
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One in ten adults in Mozambique is HIV positive, making the country's HIV prevalence the eighth highest globally.
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If organizations serving HIV-positive clients can share data securely and see health benefits, so can anyone else.
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We need people on treatment because if you're HIV-positive and on treatment, you can't transmit the disease.
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Doctors at John Hopkins University performed the first kidney and liver transplants on HIV-positive patients in 2016.
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Princess Diana hugs an HIV-positive child in a hostel for children living in poverty near Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Today's HIV-specific policies are more nuanced, calling for harsher punishment of HIV positive people rather than automatic quarantine.
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Reminder that the current star of Hamilton is the incomparable Javier Muñoz, an openly gay, openly HIV-positive actor.
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Nearly twice as many HIV-positive individuals indicated that they had lost weight because there wasn't enough to eat.
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In 2005, she even wrote and starred in a play about two HIV-positive women called In the Continuum.
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Pose revolves around the newly formed (fictional) House of Evangelista, created by HIV-positive drag queen Blanca (Mj Rodriguez).
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At Immigration Equality, we have been protecting and empowering LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants for more than 20 years.
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Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified the member of the Hamilton cast who is HIV-positive.
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He shares a dorm-style room with another HIV-positive man, who did not wish to appear on camera.
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Segev estimates the number of HIV-positive would-be organ donors in the United States at 500-600 annually.
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Only 17 million of the world's 36.7 million HIV-positive people having access to anti-retroviral treatment, UNAIDS says.
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Swaziland has the highest HIV prevalence in the world: More than a quarter of adults there are HIV-positive.
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We know that saliva does not transmit HIV, but spitting while HIV-positive remains a crime in 28503 states.
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Redfield continued to strongly support VaxSyn, pushing Congress to fund a $0003 million clinical trial on HIV-positive men.
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In the HIV-positive partner, the viral load had to be less than 200 copies per milliliter of blood.
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Chiutsi said she tested HIV positive last month, and was immediately put on anti-retroviral treatment to protect her.
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A UK lawmaker revealed on Thursday that he is HIV-positive in a speech to fellow members of Parliament.
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The 250 participants, HIV-positive and HIV-negative, will be people who've been physician-certified to use medical marijuana.
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A few years later he came to New York, and they got married, and they were both HIV positive.
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Soon he was hustling up and down truck-stops of the American South, addicted to heroin and HIV positive.
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Government data shows 24,000 HIV-positive people died in 2014, the last full year for which data is available.
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That possibility shook the LGBT community in Singapore where people with HIV-positive status can face life-altering discrimination.
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He played a critical role in developing treatments that enable HIV-positive people to live long and active lives.
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At 25, Van Ness writes, he received the "devastating" news that he was HIV positive, according to the paper.
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Jonathan Van Ness' famous friends and costars are praising the star after he revealed that he is HIV positive.
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About 7 million South Africans are HIV-positive -- 13.1% of the population -- according to the country's national statistical service.
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HIV-positive gay and bisexual men constantly fight back against the assertion that overt promiscuity led to their diagnosis.
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The fact that HIV is seen as an outsiders' virus prevents many HIV-positive Mapuche people from accessing care.
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Today, medical breakthroughs mean HIV-positive people can have near-normal life expectancy rates—but not if you smoke.
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In general, people who are HIV-positive collect their medication every one or two months and must take it daily.
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"I have been living with this for 12 years," says Blossom, an HIV-positive trans woman featured in the series.
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This is further challenged by new guidelines from the World Health Organization recommending that HIV-positive individuals pursue ART earlier.
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In reality, HIV-positive addicts receiving opioid substitution therapy are 54% more likely to get the antiretroviral drugs they need.
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As an example, she describes projects she works on to reduce the number of trans women who are HIV-positive.
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The Real World (1994)Pedro Zamora was the first HIV-positive openly gay man to appear on The Real World.
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One study in 2013 found that in 16 African countries, an average of 37% of sex workers were HIV positive.
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Researchers followed 358 gay male couples with one partner who was HIV-positive and one partner who was HIV-negative.
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This was 10 years ago, back when you are HIV positive the feeling was you are gonna die soon enough.
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Following Sheen's revelation two months ago, Mueller broke her silence to announce she and their sons are not HIV-positive.
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He added that this is still a too-common fate for HIV-positive Americans, particularly among young African American men.
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While studying at university I became very ill, due to my HIV-positive status, and found myself unable to work.
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" That number jumps among trans women of color: "one in five African American trans women (20%) reported being HIV-positive.
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Do you ever get paranoid about passing it on, in the way people who are not HIV positive sometimes are?
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It was a 20-minute walk to the regional health center where I would work, mainly with HIV-positive people.
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When someone is HIV-positive, regular treatment can nearly eliminate their chance of spreading the infection to others during sex.
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She keeps hearing it from her mother, who is HIV-positive and still snatches the odd cup from her hands.
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His announcement was controversial because he said he continued to have sex with women while knowing he was HIV-positive.
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"These barriers force HIV-positive children to rely on pediatric treatments containing suboptimal drugs with more side effects," MSF said.
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Kami was introduced as the first ever HIV-positive Muppet on the South African version of 'Sesame Street' in 2002.
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An HIV-positive gay man, he spent the following decades doing research and activism surrounding AIDS and other infectious diseases.
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When Johnson announced he was retiring from the NBA and that he was HIV-positive in 1997, Stern stood close.
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GMHC's Women Empowering Women harm reduction program aims to protect HIV-positive and at-risk HIV-negative women of color.
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A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court's injunction blocking the Air Force from discharging two HIV-positive airmen.
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People infected with HIV are at particular risk (about 272% of deaths among HIV-positive individuals are caused by TB).
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We have treatments that allow HIV-positive people to live full lives, and we have tools to prevent its spread.
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When Ana found out that she was HIV positive six years ago, she had never heard of the virus before.
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It is common for HIV-positive women in the Gambia to lose their marriage and families when they disclose their status.
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But in small towns where gossip travels fast, landlords might be reluctant to rentW an apartment to an HIV-positive woman.
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There is no official data on how many of Ukrainian's 1.4 million (according to IDMC) internally displaced people are HIV positive.
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"I left Simferopol, in Crimea, after they shut down the replacement therapy (OST) program," says Andrei, an HIV positive drug addict.
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One of the main problems is that people do not know they are HIV positive because of the stigma around testing.
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It suggested there would be similar rates of success with HIV-positive patients as transplants in high-risk patients without infection.
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The family demanded that the employee who had been injured get a blood test to determine whether she was HIV-positive.
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Bethell's day job is in the provincial government, an industry he's found relatively easy to navigate as a HIV-positive individual.
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This ends a 25-year-stretch in which it was illegal in the US to use HIV-positive organs for transplants.
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Image: Johns Hopkins MedicinePhysicians from Johns Hopkins Medicine have performed two landmark organ transplantations involving an HIV-positive liver and kidney.
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Court documents also state Pacheco is HIV-positive, and that some of the teens opted to be tested for the virus.
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I had panic attacks, including one while I was at the Planned Parenthood office wondering if I might be HIV positive.
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There's some new research out this week in JAMA Internal Medicine about Charlie Sheen's recent announcement that he is HIV-positive.
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Transmission rates—that's a measure of transmissions in relation to the current number of HIV-positive people—had fallen 17 percent.
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These were the days where even the hint of homosexuality or a HIV-positive status could ruin someone's life and career.
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The news of the film comes about a year after Sheen confirmed on the Today Show that he is HIV positive.
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The antibody was found to be produced naturally by a patient who was HIV positive, but developed an immunity to it.
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"There was no mention of people with HIV anywhere (on the government website)," Schoettes, who is openly HIV-positive, told CNN.
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The liver went to a person who suffers from hepatitis C and has been HIV-positive for more than 25 years.
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I am a 48-year-old HIV-positive poly-oriented gay man, but I am more than any of those things.
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If a pregnant woman knows she is HIV-positive, she can take medications to make sure her baby doesn't get it.
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When her sister took her to the hospital she was referred to CEPIAD for treatment and was diagnosed as HIV positive.
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People say you are old at 20 and need to have a child, Kyendikuwa added, especially when you are HIV-positive.
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How can a leader publicly decry abuse of HIV positive sex workers and then defend alleged abusers in his own ranks?
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The researchers note that two of the men who became HIV-positive in the PrEP group had stopped taking their pills.
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Of the 18,000 people so far tested for HIV in Harare's night clinics, 36 percent have proved HIV-positive, NAC said.
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Jonathan Van Ness detailed how he learned he was HIV positive in a new interview with the "Today" show Tuesday morning.
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The HIV Stops With Me campaign was about teaching folks about people that were in their neighborhoods that were HIV positive.
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HIV-positive men want to be able to enjoy an event, where having HIV is the norm, where there's no stigma.
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Van Ness, 32, says he tested HIV-positive at age 25, while he was a stylist at an LA hair salon.
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"Sesame Street" developed a curriculum on AIDS and HIV in 2000, and created Kami, an HIV-positive Muppet from South Africa.
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Per Van Ness, he first found out he was HIV positive after he collapsed in his St. Louis, Missouri hair salon.
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And there's PozMatch, a site that, like HIVNet, has an HIV-positive owner and has been around since the late '90s.
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Four-time gold medal-winning diver Greg Louganis faced condemnation after he told the world he was gay and HIV-positive.
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Of the estimated 1.1 million Americans who are HIV positive, 16 percent of that population is over the age of 65.
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Even in cases where mothers are HIV positive, she said breastfeeding is the recommended action, especially if they are receiving treatment.
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Rent tackled the frustrated, defiant aftermath of the first wave of the AIDS crisis, putting HIV positive characters at the forefront.
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It's legislation led by NYC Health Committee Chair Council Member Corey Johnson, the only openly HIV-positive elected official in the state.
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Hart became addicted to heroin during Candy Apple Grey's recording and was—incorrectly, it would later turn out—diagnosed as HIV-positive.
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Unlike many Muslim countries, the country's 10,000 HIV-positive population now has access to lifesaving antiretroviral drugs to boost their immune systems.
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He was in the proverbial trenches fighting for LGBTQ rights and organized AIDS activists even before he was diagnosed as HIV positive.
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On the erstwhile Looking, one of the show's main characters struggles to get used to having sex with his HIV-positive boyfriend.
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He found out he was HIV-positive after his friend, a lab supervisor, snuck him a test as part of a study.
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" According to the documentary, McQueen was HIV-positive when he died which Gary thinks was "always in the back of Lee's mind.
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We meet Tristan Roberts, an HIV-positive man who injects himself with an experimental gene therapy that he hopes will cure him.
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These drugs can also allow a woman who is HIV-positive to carry and deliver a child without infecting them with HIV.
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The change in tone, and this expression of inclusion, were key drivers for the LGBT community and those who are HIV positive.
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More than 10 percent of young women in South Africa are HIV positive, compared to 4 percent of young men, UNAIDS says.
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In the modern British workplace, you can't be fired or discriminated against in any way on the grounds that you're HIV positive.
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"Groin Anomaly" shows her struggling with the physical effects of AIDS, and the effect her HIV-positive status has on her relationship.
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Authorities at first said Allen was a carrier of an unidentified "blood-borne pathogen" but later disclosed that he was HIV positive.
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Court documents also state that Pacheco is HIV-positive and that some of the teens opted to be tested for the virus.
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Although Truvada is used to treat HIV, if an HIV-positive person takes it without other antiretrovirals it can create drug resistance.
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According to multiple local studies, in the late 22010s in Chiang Mai, an estimated 21.5 percent of sex workers were HIV positive.
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It's strange to think I made it through those years unscathed, only to find out in 2013 that I was HIV positive.
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It's a place where a 49-year-old, gay, HIV positive man can go to dance to remind himself he's still alive.
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If he found that Trahan's virus closely resembled that of the HIV-positive patient in Schmidt's notebook, her accusation would be supported.
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At the pretrial hearing, Mullins also contended that there were problems with the control group, the HIV-positive patients from around Lafayette.
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Doctors at Johns Hopkins announced yesterday that they successfully performed the first organ transplants between HIV-positive patients in the United States.
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The show's already been taped, but no word on whether the HIV positive guy was chosen after opening up about his diagnosis.
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Despite that fact that 36.7 million people around the world are HIV positive, a lot of damaging stigma still surrounds the disease.
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Men and women who are HIV-positive can virtually eliminate their chances of transmitting the virus if they are under proper care.
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Six other teenagers between the ages of 85033 and 17 allege that Pacheco, who is HIV-positive, groped them over their clothing.
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After a year, just two of the men had become HIV positive, and those two had not taken their medication as instructed.
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This week, Georgia state representative Betty Price, a Republican, was slammed after making comments suggesting that HIV-positive Georgians should be quarantined.
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Although in their best interest, many Latinos will avoid testing in fear of being discriminated against because of an HIV-positive status.
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Van Ness came out as HIV-positive in an interview with The New York Times on Saturday, receiving a positive reception online.
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In fact, using a combination of the medications available, Lopez's HIV-positive daughter recently gave birth to a son who is negative.
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As a result, it can be thrilling for these people to have sex with someone who's HIV positive and not become infected.
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My mom and dad were the first people, besides my husband, who I told when I found out I was HIV positive.
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Almost 20 percent of the country's drug users and nearly 10 percent of the country's gay people were HIV-positive, he said.
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Russia registered its millionth HIV-positive patient — a 26-year-old woman in the south of the country — on Wednesday, said Pokrovsky.
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Russia registered its millionth HIV-positive patient — a 22014-year-old woman in the south of the country — on Wednesday, said Pokrovsky.
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Little is known about the people who participated in the trial—seven couples comprised of HIV-positive fathers and HIV-negative mothers.
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In the Cusco region of Peru, a woman found out she was HIV positive while getting prenatal care for her sixth pregnancy.
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Since the early days of the HIV epidemic, the HIV-positive community has struggled to receive affordable access to care and treatment.
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Even though HIV is an equal-opportunity disease, being outed as HIV-positive remains stigmatized in part because it's associated with homosexuality.
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The act does not give priority status to HIV-positive patients but provides a donor pool specifically for people living with HIV.
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"I think so often in my experience as a Black trans woman, so often it's assumed that I'm HIV-positive," she says.
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Dating as an HIV-positive person can be challenging, especially if you were diagnosed decades ago when the disease was heavily stigmatized.
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Although she is now on antiretroviral treatment, she still hasn't told anyone in her family or community that she is HIV positive.
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The law, which also applies to HIV-positive people who donate blood without telling the blood bank, goes into effect on January 1.
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When people find out you are HIV positive, they stare at you, and finding a job is practically impossible for people like me.
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State officials accused Ms Ahmed of being bribed by foreigners after she wrote about an HIV-positive character with a taste for prostitutes.
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Washington (CNN)A Florida congressional hopeful who disclosed this week that he is HIV-positive hopes he can help others with the illness.
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Yet other critics say that He took advantage of HIV-positive couples in China, where fertility treatment is out of reach for most.
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Chansa is now determined to help tackle widespread ignorance around an epidemic that has left one in six people in Lusaka HIV positive.
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The doctors, who announced the surgeries yesterday, used organs donated by the family of an HIV-positive woman who died earlier this month.
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Researchers at the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group UsAgainstAlzheimer's liken this prevention-centric approach to the treatment of patients that are HIV positive.
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The law also created the crime of "aggravated homosexuality" for same-sex relations between serial offenders, sexually active HIV-positive people, and others.
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They claim to have used a stem cell transplant to successfully clear any traces of the virus in their HIV-positive male patient.
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But the UNAIDS report found only around 17 million patients worldwide - less than half of those diagnosed as HIV positive - are on treatment.
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The kidney went to a patient who suffers from hypertension and autoimmune problems, and has been HIV-positive for 30 years, CNN reports.
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Instead, I watch the season's tenth episode, the one where the designers' mothers visit, and Mondo reveals he's HIV positive on the runway.
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An HIV-positive man who worked at a school and coached track pleaded guilty Friday to sexually abusing 42 underage boys, PEOPLE confirms.
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CumUnion is an HIV-positive event, so it allows people with HIV to have a little more freedom and choice when having sex.
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Milton is HIV-positive and registers for treatment at a clinic farther from home in order to avoid further discrimination in her area.
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Walter Elakas, a district head in Katakwi, said parents of HIV-positive children are struggling to give their children a meal before midday.
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In 2017 Sheen revealed during an interview on "Today" that he's HIV-positive, but denied that he got the virus via drug use.
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More than 430,000 people were infected with TB in South Africa in 2016, and more than half of them were also HIV-positive.
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According to the NIH, because of the stigma of an HIV-positive status, Latinos have the longest delays between diagnosis and accessing care.
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During the AIDS crisis in the 80s, even celebrities who came out as HIV-positive endured the negative stigma associated with the diagnosis.
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Eric Lynn Wright, better known as the rapper Eazy-E from N.W.A, died in 1995 a month after receiving his HIV-positive diagnosis.
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But the health workers have done more than provide antenatal care, they have also brought hope to the HIV-positive mother of two.
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Club Church wants to create a space where HIV-positive men can feel physically uninhibited, where one's HIV status is not an obstacle.
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RuPaul's Drag Race star Valentina, who recently came out as gender non-binary, was cast as the HIV-positive trans street performer Angel.
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She found out she was HIV positive in 2001, and tried a few targeted dating networks in the early days of her diagnosis.
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But many HIV-positive and -negative people still pursue sex and intimacy together, in what are known as "serodiscordant" or mixed-status relationships.
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The police were criticized after officers delayed examining the body of Lupo's second victim, stalling the investigation, because the deceased was HIV positive.
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Over the course of recording these tapes, Leonilson would discover he was HIV positive, lending this daily exercise a new and troubling meaning.
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She believes this is the best way to connect HIV-positive Mapuche people with doctors, while also retaining a connection to their traditions.
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In November, Sheen revealed on the Today show that he is HIV-positive: "I'm here to admit that I am in fact HIV-positive and I have to put a stop to this onslaught, this barrage of attacks and of sub-truths and very harmful … stories that I am threatening the health of others, which couldn't be farther from the truth."
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The researchers identified men to be at high risk if they engaged in anal intercourse without condoms with casual partners of HIV-positive or unknown status, if they had a sexually transmitted infection such as rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea, if they used crystal methamphetamine or if they engaged in unprotected anal intercourse with a HIV-positive partner who isn't on treatment.
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When he returned, Doe claims, he "threw a bag of pills on the bed" and told her that he was, in fact, HIV-positive.
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Gregg Araki's angry punk debut feature The Living End portrayed an HIV-positive gay couple turning to a life of crime, eschewing respectability politics.
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But the UNAIDS report found only around 17 million patients worldwide - less than half of those diagnosed as HIV positive - are currently on treatment.
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I told the world that I was gay and HIV-positive in 1995, agreeing to primetime interviews with the media titans of that decade.
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A Florida man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for having sex with three women and not telling them he was HIV positive.
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In March of this year, M. got his blood tested for another medical issue and was surprised to find out he was HIV-positive.
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While Cunanan was on the run, the press speculated that his rampage was a reaction against being diagnosed as HIV-positive (he was not).
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An immigration worker who is HIV-positive has been charged with sexually abusing at least eight unaccompanied immigrant boys at an Arizona detention center.
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While the center was founded for cancer care, it took on AIDS patients because, Merriman said, vast numbers were HIV positive at the time.
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Brochez was convicted in Singapore in 2017 on numerous drug-related and fraud offences, including lying to the authorities about his HIV-positive status.
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If someone were to reject me for being HIV positive, I would think, The world's a really crappy place because of people like you.
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Performing transplants between HIV-positive patients will result in the "greatest increase in organ transplantation that we've seen in the past decade," Segev said.
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" The video was inspired by a viral social experiment in Finland, in which Janne Antin, who held up a sign saying "I'm HIV positive.
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Kang's meticulous approach, however, showed that SAV001 was safe after testing it on 153 HIV-positive participants, and also produced antibodies against the virus.
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One-quarter of the population in this region is HIV-positive, a figure which along with tuberculosis contributes significantly to high maternal-mortality rates.
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Something he believes is due to an absence of education about how the virus is transmitted and what it means to be HIV-positive.
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"It popped for them because if someone is taking Truvada, they were taking it because it is used for HIV-positive status," Schoettes said.
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Although Kanwar didn't have to live with her husband until she reached puberty, her aunt told her that her new husband was HIV positive.
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He went on to get his beautician's certificate, moved to LA, and worked at the salon when he first learned he was HIV-positive.
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Ill enough that you go to the hospital, and after much poking and prodding and waiting for lab results you learn you're HIV positive.
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Sean, who is HIV-positive, gradually falls in love with one of the new recruits to the group, the chiselled (and HIV-negative) Nathan.
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According to the New York Times, Corey Johnson, the speaker of the Council — who is gay and HIV-positive — introduced the bill on Thursday.
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One might assume that HIV-positive people choose to date those who share their status, so as not to worry about transmitting the virus.
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Incidentally, the "positive" in the term "sex-positive" does not refer to "HIV-positive" as some unaware of the theory behind it might think.
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He tested HIV-positive before he could start on PrEP, which was available only through a single clinical trial, expensive private prescriptions or online pharmacies.
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Volberding also pointed out that the majority of HIV-positive Americans are aware of their status, and would be prohibited from donating through that knowledge.
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Brochez was HIV-positive and used his Singaporean doctor partner's blood sample to pass blood tests so he could work in Singapore, the ministry said.
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Ross filed a lawsuit against Sheen last year, alleging in court documents that the actor kept his HIV-positive status from her during their relationship.
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Already these children are from poor families, often they have single mothers or their parents are HIV positive, and the grandparent is looking after them.
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Disturbingly, He allegedly used fake blood tests as a workaround given that HIV-positive individuals are prohibited from participating in assisted reproduction, officials told Xinhua.
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Ashley later told me that, since joining ACT UP four months ago, not one person has asked him whether he is HIV positive or not.
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Among HIV positive people, 25 percent live, or used to live, in the area of Donetsk and Luhansk where the war is being fought today.
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Charlie Sheen is facing several lawsuits following his admission that he was HIV-positive, but he claims he did not put any partners at risk.
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About a third of respondents falsely believed that you can be infected with the virus by sharing a toothbrush with someone who is HIV-positive.
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Kia LaBeija, real name Kia Michelle Benbow, is many things: a photographer, a dancer, an activist; a queer, black female who was born HIV positive.
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The idea is reportedly an effort to eliminate the stigma of being HIV positive, but Lil E -- an HIV activist -- thinks it's a Pandora's box.
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Feher was diagnosed as HIV-positive in the 1980s, and through the AIDS crisis and onward, watched friends and other artists succumb to the disease.
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The 36-year-old woman who died has not been identified, but reports by Indian newspapers state she was HIV-positive, and had killed herself.
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The Jackass star, 44, revealed the lowest point of his drug addiction, which occurred when he went to his allegedly HIV-positive drug dealer's home.
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After several years of erratic behavior, Sheen, 50, announced in November that he is HIV-positive and that his hard-partying days were behind him.
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Prison officials at Michigan Department of Corrections were operating under a policy which required indefinite isolation of HIV positive inmates who have sex in prison.
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After revealing his HIV-positive status, Sheen was faced with several lawsuits after admitting that he didn't tell partners that he was carrying the virus.
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With early access to antiretroviral therapy, research suggests life expectancy for people who are HIV-positive is approaching parity with people that are HIV negative.
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When Alexander, an HIV-positive drug user in Moscow, received his diagnosis, he says he "didn't leave the house for a month and a half".
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In November, Harry helped the charity open a new children's center in Lesotho that delivers psychosocial support to 1,500 HIV-positive young people each year.
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Three-quarters of the global HIV-positive population lives in sub-Saharan Africa, while Asia, Europe and the Americas host a few hundred thousand cases.
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"Next year, I'll be marking an anniversary of my own: 290 years since I became HIV-positive," the 239-year-old told the lower house.
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In a deeply moving and articulate way, this woman described going from not knowing what HIV was to coming to terms with being HIV-positive.
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Women represented 43 percent of those who came into contact with the law, although they are only 13 percent of the California HIV-positive population.
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Roxsana Hernandez Rodriguez was an HIV-positive transgender woman who fled Honduras to seek asylum in the United States, according to lawyers representing her family.
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It also reduced the sentence enhancement for sexual assault if a person is HIV-positive to twice the original sentence and requires proof of transmission.
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As treatments developed, and more prominent people have shared their stories about living with HIV, the reception to coming out as HIV-positive has changed.
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There's a lot of theories floating around about that era, including about Eazy's death, which happened so quickly after he was diagnosed as HIV positive.
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After looking up its label on the search engine Baidu, she discovered that they were drugs for HIV treatment: Her husband had become HIV-positive.
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More than 45,000 people in the country find out they're HIV-positive every year and 90% of HIV infections in U.S. could have been prevented.
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A young child may be infected by their HIV-positive mother during pregnancy or breast-feeding, but drug treatment can reduce the risk of transmission.
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More recently, Puerto Rican Latin trap artist Anuel AA released a diss song that included homophobic lyrics and the shaming of an HIV-positive model.
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He also said he was in good health while managing the condition with medication, and Stephen, his partner of several years, was not HIV positive.
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The academy draws its players from the local area, many of whom come from single parent or HIV positive families that often live in poverty.
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"A once-daily preventive medication called PrEP is now available for people who are in a relationship with someone who is HIV-positive," Alberda said.
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But by 2015, ministry officials had only identified 47,440 cases, meaning that tens of thousands of HIV positive people remain underground, unaware, or without medication.
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In fact, community health workers have been part of the success in getting HIV-positive Africans on ARV treatment and keeping them on it consistently.
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His results were shocking: HIV-positive smokers are six to 13 times more likely to die from lung cancer than from traditional AIDS-related causes.
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HIV-positive and in recovery from alcohol abuse for decades, he said his experience had made him reluctant to take opioid painkillers in the first place.
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Feleppa chose not to fly to be with Michael in the U.K. until the New Year when he delivered the news that he was HIV positive.
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Sheen is responding to the lawsuit filed anonymously last summer by a woman who says he had unprotected sex with her BEFORE revealing he's HIV positive.
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"When the AIDS epidemic first came to New York and I was living on the Lower East Side, my best friend was HIV-positive," Madonna remembers.
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This May, Hans Berlin, an HIV-positive gay porn star, gave an acceptance speech at the Grabbys, an annual awards show for the gay-porn industry.
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An uptick connected to the failure of the Health System, the destruction of medical buildings, and the shutting down of assistance programs for HIV positive people.
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In a Today show interview announcing that he is HIV-positive, Sheen said he was extorted for $10 million by people threatening to disclose the diagnosis.
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The initiative could speed up the delivery of care to HIV-positive infants across the country where 10,000 children died of HIV-related illnesses in 2014.
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In response, the organization implemented a new policy to not automatically terminate HIV-positive volunteers but to instead assess them on a case-by-case basis.
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After wrestling with the decision for nearly a decade, Los Angeles-based ABC News correspondent Karl Schmid publicly announced that he is HIV-positive on Friday.
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People in a village in southern India drained a lake — their only supply of fresh water — after a woman who was HIV-positive drowned in it.
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HIV education advocates reached another milestone in 2002 when "Takalani Sesame," the South African version of "Sesame Street," featured its first HIV positive puppet character, Kami.
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This seeks HIV-positive volunteers who are terminally ill for some other reason and asks them to bequeath their tissues for cryogenic preservation and subsequent study.
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Ronnie's presence is understandably heavy because he's living at such a unique historical moment: he's HIV-positive and assumed he was going to die any second.
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While everyone files into testing facilities for the exam, 16 kids in northern China's Shanxi province will sit the test in isolation — because they're HIV-positive.
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Long behold, two years later, I booked my first Broadway show, which was Rent and I'm playing an [HIV] positive character on Broadway for five years.
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Nabembezi says that women seem to find it easier to come out about being HIV positive as they have already experienced stigma for being sexually liberated.
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Doctors in Britain said on Monday that the HIV-positive man had been cleared after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV-resistant donor.
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He told HRH he wants 'to be an advocate for HIV positive people, & show the world that life doesn't end after getting an HIV diagnosis.' pic.twitter.
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If I'm feeling particularly cruel, I will remind myself that I am HIV positive, too, and I'll imagine how that might play out as I age.
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Thankfully, there is light to be found in Tanaka's story; she is now using her experiences to counsel and support HIV-positive adolescents in her community.
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Data from 2009-2013 showed that among those who inject drugs in Ukraine, more than 20% of women and almost 20% of men were HIV-positive.
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They have had to ration the little food they have to survive - but this is particularly dangerous for Esther, who, like her parents, is HIV-positive.
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But Marina also had a secret that she later revealed to everyone: She was HIV positive, but she was undetectable and thus the virus wasn't transmittable.
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He knows he has "ARC," the term in currency then to describe being HIV positive, but he isn't interested in memorializing himself in some grand way.
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In lying about his HIV positive status, Brochez was aided by his partner, Ler Teck Siang, a former head of the MOH's National Public Health Unit.
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They were also witnessing employees walking out of workplaces, en masse, when an HIV-positive employee was allowed to return to work after receiving medical treatment.
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Van Ness made headlines in recent months for coming forward as HIV positive, and speaking about the struggles he faced as someone living with the condition.
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As a result, fewer people living with HIV in the South are aware that they are HIV positive than in any other region in the country.
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In 2005, Zuma, who has several wives and more than 20 children, was charged with raping a 31-year-old HIV-positive woman in his home.
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Only two of the 20123,700 men were diagnosed as HIV-positive after the study; both were not adherent to the preventive treatment, according to the study.
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Transplants involving tissue from HIV-positive persons have been illegal in the US since 1988, when amendments to the Organ Transplant Act made such procedures illegal.
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Such patients still have the option of waiting for HIV-negative organs, as well, and HIV-positive organs will not be used in HIV-negative patients.
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Dugas reportedly had 250 sexual partners per year – and his 'deviant' sexual practices and awareness of his HIV-positive status augmented both his liability and immorality.
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have isolated an antibody from an HIV-positive patient that is capable of neutralizing 98 percent of HIV strains.
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" Fureigh says, "We had requests from members of the deaf community and HIV positive people request that we do it during their Whitney Signs deaf tour.
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Police arrested Farrera-Brochez, who is HIV-positive, and charged him with faking government-mandated blood tests to keep his name off the nation's HIV registry.
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The couple looked into adopting an HIV-positive 13-month-boy, but were denied because they were deemed "too old" and were in a same-sex relationship.
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Many unwilling guinea pigs were outed as HIV-positive when Jammeh broadcast his healing sessions on GRTS, the state-run television channel watched by thousands of Gambians.
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The larger problem is one of treatment access and quality for HIV-positive Americans in general: only half of positive Americans are currently receiving adequate HIV treatment.
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"They know that, if this information got into the wrong hands, they could lose their family," Brady Dale Morris, 42, who is HIV positive, told the newspaper.
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The second woman said she had been dating Bodiford since June 2017 and he never notified her of his HIV-positive status, the State Attorney's Office says.
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News of the allegations was first published by ProPublica, which also reported that Pacheco is HIV-positive and that some of the children have undergone HIV testing.
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"The agency considers factors including access to reliable specialists and trusted laboratories as well as a country's legal climate when placing HIV-positive Volunteers," the spokesperson said.
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"The immunosuppressed, such as HIV-positive individuals or cancer or transplant patients, might experience more severe symptoms or develop an infection that requires medical treatment," Tierno says.
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Blanca (MJ Rodriguez) plays Elektra's HIV-positive "child" who breaks out to form her own house, and goes head-to-head with Elektra on the ball floor.
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And Valentina from RuPaul's Drag Race will perform as Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen who finds out they're HIV-positive and dies at a young age.
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UNAIDS said that if treatment targets are reached - the U.N. is aiming to have 30 million HIV positive people on treatment by 2020 - that number will soar.
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Poor public and scientific understanding of HIV led to years of rampant misinformation that pushed HIV-positive individuals to the margins of society out of unfounded fear.
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BBC News reports that in these first cases, the children's parents were not HIV-positive, so it was not passed to them during pregnancy, labor or delivery.
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And then Pray Tell himself, who is HIV positive, has to consider what he will do to ensure some sort of legacy once he finally passes on.
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She says the biggest service Grace House offers their HIV-positive clients is case management, in which they develop a plan with long- and short-term goals.
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The program matches volunteers with HIV-positive people looking for companionship, emotional support, or just someone to talk to about HIV and other things in their life.
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The anonymous woman, identified as Jane Doe, sued Sheen last June, alleging he lied about being HIV-positive and exposed her to the virus during unprotected sex.
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The new study, conducted in 123 European countries, involved couples with one HIV-positive partner and one HIV-negative partner who had unprotected sex with each other.
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A British member of parliament has given a deeply personal and arresting speech, disclosing his HIV positive status and calling on more funding for HIV prevention medication.
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As stated above, Louisiana is known for its high incarceration rate, and it has also been accused of neglecting to provide HIV-positive prisoners with medical care.
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More from Tonic: HIV positive people who have just left the system face some other challenges, though, and one is directly linked with the looming opioid crisis.
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Earlier in his career, Redfield also advocated for policies like mandatory patient testing for HIV, and for segregating HIV-positive soldiers from the rest of the Army.
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It was a scandal that reverberated across Asia, and threatened the safety of thousands of HIV-positive people living in Singapore where gay sex is technically illegal.
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He'd been a professional dancer in New York, but by the late 1980s, he was HIV-positive and had lost his partner and many friends to AIDS.
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White, who died in 1990, was an HIV-positive teen-turned-activist after he was kicked out of his school due to early AIDS hysteria and misinformation.
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During their investigation, the Prince George police confirmed that Vanderpool was HIV positive, and his charges include knowingly exposing or attempting to expose a victim to HIV.
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In some countries where one in five adults were testing HIV positive, risks to the health workforce and overwhelming health care needs threatened already fragile health systems.
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They are also 14 times more likely to be HIV-positive, are inhibited from reporting crimes against them and subject to exploitation from law enforcement, she added.
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On the last day of Pride, there was a die-in, organized by ACT UP New York, which represented HIV-positive asylum seekers who died in ICE detention.
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An estimated 170,3503 children in the country are also HIV-positive, and young people between the ages of 15 and 18 account for half of new HIV infections.
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Doctors at Johns Hopkins announced Wednesday they successfully performed the first liver transplant from an HIV-positive donor and the first U.S. kidney transplant from the same donor.
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His former fiancée Scottine Ross filed a lawsuit in December accusing him of assault, battery, false imprisonment and failure to disclose to her that he was HIV-positive.
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One day I came home from school and she sat me down and told me she was HIV positive and she felt like she was going to die.
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In his interview announcing that he was HIV-positive, Sheen, 50, told Matt Lauer he was extorted for $103 million by people threatening to make his diagnosis public.
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The actor played Rayon, an HIV-positive transgender woman living in Texas in the 1980s, in Dallas Buyers Club, earning himself a Best Supporting Actor trophy in 2014.
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You have no right to discriminate against HIV-positive people; being ostracised by the people around you often hurts more than the pain and suffering from the illness.
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Early in FX's new scripted melodrama Pose, Blanca, a HIV-positive trans performer, introduces Damon, a gay youth from Pennsylvania, to the glamour and volume of ballroom culture.
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In his interview announcing that he was HIV-positive, Sheen, 50, told Matt Lauer he was extorted for $10 million by people threatening to make his diagnosis public.
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"We are very thankful to ... use organs from HIV-positive patients to save lives, instead of throwing them away, as we had to do for so many years."
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It's estimated that 1.1 million Americans over the age of 13 may have HIV currently, with as many as 14 percent of HIV-positive people unaware their status.
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Many states, including most in the south, have been excluded from the expansion of Medicaid, a problem for HIV-positive people because Medicaid provides more robust healthcare options.
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"We are aware of one person who was turned away and subsequently became HIV positive," said Matthew Hodson, executive director of NAM, a British HIV/Aids information charity.
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Those HIV-positive green card applicants can end up stranded for months without access to adequate medical care while they wait out the results of their immigration applications.
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It's a vital breakthrough given that 1 in 2 black MSM and 1 in 413 Latino MSM will become HIV-positive in their lifetime at current infection rates.
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The final steps are to ensure HIV positive people start and stay on a cocktail of daily medicine that keeps the virus in check and prevents new infections.
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"I manage to get some medicine from other HIV positive patients in Russia who are so kind as to donate me some pills by mail," she told me.
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The aim is to diagnose 90% of all HIV-positive people, provide antiretroviral therapy for 90% of those diagnosed and achieve viral suppression for 90% of those treated.
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Olale, now 37, started the group in 2005 to provide other HIV positive women and young mothers with support in dealing with stigma, poverty and reproductive health issues.
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Van Ness said the injury became both a medical issue due to his HIV-positive status and a privacy one since he had yet to reveal his disease.
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Records leaked include 5,400 Singaporeans diagnosed as HIV-positive before January 2013, and 13,800 foreigners diagnosed before December 2011, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a statement.
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Besides maternal age, risk factors for a high-risk pregnancy include underlying health conditions, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, being HIV-positive, or being overweight or obese.
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The tickets sold out in less than two weeks and, with such strong demand, another restaurant run by HIV-positive staff may be in the offing, she said.
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Brochez was HIV-positive and used his Singaporean doctor partner's blood sample to pass blood tests so he could work in Singapore, the ministry said in a statement.
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Jonathan Van Ness came out as HIV-positive for an interview with The New York Times ahead of the release of his memoir "Over the Top" on Tuesday.
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"Queer Eye" grooming guru Jonathan Van Ness publicly came out as HIV-positive and discussed his past struggles with addiction in a wide-ranging New York Times interview.
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Montoya worked as a professional dancer in New York, but by the late 1980s, he was HIV-positive and had lost his partner and many friends to AIDS.
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Pap tests are only recommended for a small minority of women under 21 who are HIV-positive and sexually active, suggesting most of these tests were also unnecessary.
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Van Ness, who describes himself as a healthy and proud "member of the beautiful HIV-positive community," went on to say why he chose to disclose his status.
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This major milestone comes just a few months after the star revealed he was HIV positive in his memoir, Over the Top, which hit shelves on Sept. 24.
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Martinez was nonplussed when the HOPE Act became law because she understood that it would mainly be used to allow deceased HIV-positive patients to become organ donors.
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle, who represents the opposition Labour party, is only the second British lawmaker to reveal he is HIV positive, and the first announce it in parliament.
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The Pose star, 50, praised Van Ness for helping break down the negative stigma surrounding the virus after he revealed that he is HIV positive over the weekend.
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At the time, Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital was part of a National Institutes of Health study of organ transplants on HIV-positive patients (using HIV-negative organ donors).
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He's research has not been peer-reviewed, and the identities of the seven couples who participated in the trial—wherein the men were HIV-positive—are still unknown.
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According to the JAMA study, HIV-positive men and women who smoked daily faced high lung cancer mortality rates—23 percent for men and 20.9 percent for women.
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"I lost almost all of my closest friends," says the activist, who was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1985 but has responded well to medication in the decades since.
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Roberts has been HIV positive for six years, but two years ago, went off drugs and has relied on strategies like diet to maintain low levels of the virus.
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Then, in 1995, political strategist Rae Lewis-Thornton disclosed her status and became the first HIV-positive black woman to tell her story for a national publication, Essence magazine.
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The doctor had given him a check-up the previous week and had known Roberts was HIV positive but was planning on telling him in person the next day.
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They wanted to avoid the judgment of medical professionals, peers and a society that see both HIV-positive status and transness as worthy of shame, ridicule and — sometimes — violence.
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These women touch on everything from the pressure to engage in DIY hormone replacement therapy while HIV-positive to the lack of knowledge around PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis.
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"Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS," the statement read.
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This post originally appeared on VICE UK. In the modern British workplace, you can't be fired or discriminated against in any way on the grounds that you're HIV positive.
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In an interview announcing that he was HIV-positive, Sheen also told Matt Lauer that he was extorted for $10 million by people threatening to make his diagnosis public.
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While PrEP and antiretroviral care has changed the lives of HIV positive and HIV prone people in the West, the continent of Africa carries the burden of the virus.
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HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When she discovered she was HIV-positive early this year, sex worker Evelyn Msipa, 221, was alone in her rented apartment in Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
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The ministry said 37 percent of teens tested at night were found to be HIV-positive; all were given anti-retroviral treatment to slow the growth of the virus.
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In fact, Alexander first publicly announced that he was HIV-positive in a powerful TED talk at the University of the Arts London, which reduced his audience to tears.
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He also pointed to Magic Johnson's announcement in 1991 that he was HIV-positive as a landmark moment, noting that it didn't change his feelings about playing against Johnson.
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Nina Martinez, 35, donated the organ to a recipient who is also HIV-positive and chose to remain anonymous at Johns Hopkins on Monday, according to the university's announcement.
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The HIV-positive activist grew up around Zuma, who had spent about 10 years in Robben Island prison with her father, a member of the African National Congress (ANC).
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The episode doesn't explicitly state that Versace was HIV-positive, as the journalist Maureen Orth contended in her book "Vulgar Favors," on which this television series is loosely based.
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This, along with the enormous nutritional advantages of breast milk, are why the UN recently began advising HIV-positive mothers to breastfeed, as long as they're taking antiretroviral medicines.
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Earlier in his career, Redfield also advocated for controversial policies such as mandatory patient testing for HIV and for segregating HIV-positive soldiers from the rest of the Army.
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In countries where HIV is especially prevalent, more than 3 percent of all relationships are serodiscordant, and up to two-thirds of HIV-positive individuals are in such relationships.
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Days after Jonathan Van Ness revealed that he is HIV-positive, Brown told reporters backstage after Dancing with the Stars Monday night that he is "proud" of his castmate.
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Nteko, who is from the southern African country of Lesotho, was married at 19 and, when she become pregnant at age 21, she found out she was HIV positive.
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We talked to several HIV-positive heterosexual men and women about what it's like to date while living with a virus that rarely gets discussed in the straight community.
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In 2013, with bipartisan support, President Obama signed the HIV Organ Policy Equity (HOPE) Act into law, which allowed the transplantation of HIV-infected organs into HIV-positive patients.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note that men most at risk of contracting HPV-related cancers are HIV-positive men, and men who receive anal sex.
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Whatever happens, Gina Brown, the HIV-positive New Orleans social worker, says she hopes legislators remember that changes in the law affect the health of real people like her.
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Currently, we sit globally as the most high-risk group for HIV transmission—a fact not lost on me, as I have been HIV positive for over 25 years.
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He also called for segregating HIV-positive personnel in the military — policies that "most medical authorities at the time, including the CDC and the Surgeon General," opposed, according to Sen.
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In Iraq, a country enmeshed in bloody conflict and where HIV positive people are murdered, Amir Ashour of gay rights organization Iraqueer says the country pretends HIV does not exist.
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When HIV-positive people maintain suppression by continuing therapy, they effectively pose no risk of infecting sexual partners and they also can live long, healthy lives, according to the CDC.
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LeRoy was the author of three semi-autobiographical novels which drew from his abusive childhood, marked by sex work alongside his mother, an HIV positive diagnosis, and a heroin addiction.
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This is not easy for any, but is especially challenging for those living with HIV, who have lost everything and live in a country where HIV-positive people are stigmatized.
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Fellow Olympian Ji Wallace, who is gay and HIV-positive, mentioned he went public with his diagnosis after watching one of my interviews with Piers Morgan during the London Olympics.
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While the country has been able to lower its rates in the past two decades, a third of a percent of the population—around 2.1 million people—remains HIV positive.
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The controversial case saw Zuma supporters burn images of Kuzwayo (a well-known AIDS activist who was HIV-positive, and who died in October 2016) and call her a bitch.
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While being cross-examined in court, Zuma infamously claimed that taking a shower after having sex with someone who is HIV-positive would reduce his risk of contracting the virus.
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What inspired him: Montoya was a professional dancer in New York, but by the late 1980s, he was HIV-positive and had lost his partner and many friends to AIDS.
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However, HIV-positive individuals who are undetectable should still use condoms to protect against other sexually transmitted infections and/or pregnancy, and their partners should get routinely screened for HIV.
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What they did: Like the Berlin patient, the new case involves an HIV positive patient who was treated with a stem cell transplant intended to target cancer, not the HIV.
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"When the AIDS epidemic first came to New York and I was living on the Lower East Side, my best friend was HIV-positive," Madonna recalled to PEOPLE in September.
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Going in to the show, did you have any sort of timeline in your head of when you would share with Robert or the others that you are HIV-positive?
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Rossi filed a lawsuit against Sheen last year in which she alleged in court documents that he hid his HIV-positive status from her while they were in a relationship.
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But he said the real number of HIV-positive Russians could be as high as 53 million, or 1 percent of the population, based on his and other expert estimates.
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"Eight out of every ten blood samples were HIV-positive, and although the goal was to find those types of blood samples, it didn't sit well with me," she says.
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South African users receive pregnancy healthcare tips as well as advice for HIV-positive mothers, since over 40 percent of maternal deaths in the country are HIV and AIDS-related.
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In the spirit of grassroots publications that thrived in the 1980s and early '90s, Black and Whitbread have created a periodical exclusively featuring contributions from writers with HIV Positive statuses.
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The gunman held a grudge against Puerto Ricans, the alleged lover said, following sessions of group sex after which one of the men told Mateen that he was HIV-positive.
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For the last 10 years, she has counseled other HIV-positive mothers at a PEPFAR-supported clinic to start treatment for their own health and protect their babies from infection.
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Past research, Rodger said, suggests the risk of transmission is very low among heterosexual couples in which the HIV-positive partner has undetectable levels of the virus in their blood.
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The 1993 drama "Philadelphia" saw Tom Hanks play Andrew Beckett, an HIV-positive lawyer who was fired from his law firm after it was revealed he had contracted the virus.
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When "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness, 32, came out as HIV-positive in an interview with The New York Times on Saturday, he received an outpouring of support online.
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The 32-year-old is the second member of parliament in history to reveal his HIV-positive status, and the only one to do so in the House of Commons.
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Located in Toronto, the restaurant called June's on Tuesday was serving its first meals prepared by HIV-positive cooks to dispel any notion that food preparation can spread the virus.
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It's got a happy ending… but someone gets HIV from a prostitute and they find out his baby momma is HIV positive, too, but their baby is born without HIV.
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But he added the real number of HIV-positive Russians could be as high as 1.5 million, or 0003 percent of the population, based on his and other expert estimates.
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But he added the real number of HIV-positive Russians could be as high as 212 million, or 20153 percent of the population, based on his and other expert estimates.
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But the prevailing sentiment throughout the show — starring the openly gay and HIV positive actor Javier Muñoz as Hamilton — was reportedly hostile toward Pence, who has consistently opposed LGBTQ rights.
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Indeed, it wasn't until Ryan White, a child who became HIV-positive after a blood transfusion, heroically publicized his infection, that Congress stepped up with serious funding for the pandemic.
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This can decimate spiritual transcendence and ruin the soul -- like it did with my childhood friend, who is HIV-positive, and still lives in secrecy because of doctrines like Graham's.
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In 19 HIV-positive people given six months of vedolizumab along with ART, the virus started coming back to life within weeks of stopping ART for most of the subjects.
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Robert Dornan (R-Calif.) introduced the HIV ban for the fiscal year 2628 defense budget, contending that having HIV-positive service members in the military compromised the nation's combat readiness.
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It's when a group of teenagers participate in an unprotected sex orgy but the catch is that one of the members is HIV positive, hence the "roulette" in its name.
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That's why PPNYC stands with many HIV/AIDS organizations and groups in support of the HASA for All campaign - an expansion of welfare benefits to all low-income, HIV-positive individuals.
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An HIV-positive American has leaked online the names of 14,200 Singaporeans and foreigners also diagnosed in the city-state with the human immunodeficiency virus, the Health Ministry said on Monday.
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"In our area, some people are still scared," he said of the stigma surrounding HIV, despite how prevalent the infection is: In KwaZulu-Natal, almost 285% of adults are HIV-positive.
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Magic Johnson still remembers exactly how he felt when he stood before the world and announced he was HIV positive -- 25 years ago today -- and he's expressing tremendous gratitude and hope.
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Their birth was the result of a campaign that initially recruited as many as 200 couples, according to Chinese media reports, all of which included a man who was HIV-positive.
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For one of the experiments, nine HIV-positive patients stopped taking daily antiretroviral pills and then received three infusions of the two anti-HIV antibodies over the course of six weeks.
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One of the biggest factors has been that up to 17 percent of HIV positive patients are unaware of their status and so can unintentionally pass on the virus to partners.
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In a statement, Corey Price, field office director for ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations in El Paso, took no responsibility for Leon's death — instead seemingly blaming her for being HIV-positive.
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Aside from the obvious moral implications—Price was more or less suggesting rounding up the disproportionately LGBTQ HIV-positive population—there's also the fact that this awful solution would never work.
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For one thing, his lab notes referred to Trahan and Schmidt's HIV-positive patient by their first names, which meant he knew which sequence belonged to whom, potentially skewing the results.
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"Here was a very prominent athlete who is publicly disclosing being HIV-positive and opening up conversation around it for people," said Hoffman, who was not involved in the latest study.
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A report from the Williams Institute on application of the HIV criminal law in California demonstrates evidence of severe racial and gender disparities in conviction rates related to HIV-positive status.
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In November China's Centre for Disease Control said that 850,000 people were known to be HIV-positive, 12% more than a year earlier and almost three times the number in 2000.
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TV on Monday that a recent breakthrough that appeared to cure an HIV-positive patient is "not widely applicable" to the majority of people living with the virus that causes AIDS.
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But given the high prevalence of HIV among gay men in the U.S., there is a high risk that men are entering relationships in which one or both are HIV positive.
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Whether they are both HIV negative, both HIV positive, or if they have different HIV statuses, all couples need a plan that they agree upon and can work together to implement.
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Known as treatment as prevention (TasP), it involves HIV-positive patients getting their viral load (or the number of copies of HIV measurable in their blood) below levels detectable via testing.
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These figures paint a distressing portrait of life as an HIV-positive woman, but they also highlight an obvious fact: women do need PrEP, so why aren't they seeking it out?
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Just ahead of the September 24 release of his memoir, Over The Top: A Raw Journey To Self-Love, Jonathan Van Ness revealed that he is HIV-positive — and currently healthy.
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The princes' mother, Princess Diana, was frequently commended for raising awareness of the issue by meeting with HIV-positive patients in the 1980s at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
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It is apt, however, that Francis' remarks are being compared to Pope Benedict's statement that male prostitutes who are HIV positive could consider condom use as the lesser of two evils.
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The hairstyling pro and Netflix TV personality — who came out as HIV positive in an interview promoting his new memoir last week — tweeted his support for the presidential candidate on Wednesday.
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But two things have made this case unique, doctors said: It is the first liver donation from a living HIV-positive donor in the country; donors in previous cases were deceased.
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The numbers of HIV positive military personnel threatened the national security of several African countries and the rise in AIDS orphans and child headed households tore at the fabric of societies.
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A federal judge ordered the Department of Defense to halt the pending discharge proceedings against two HIV-positive members of the U.S. Air Force, LGBTQ legal group Lambda Legal said Friday.
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Companies discovered this to their cost when they decided to comply with China's requirement to share lists of names of HIV-positive employees, breaking American, British and European laws in so doing.
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Jamal's storylines have often been viewed as a high point on the series and continued to break new ground this season with Jamal being in a relationship with an HIV-positive man.
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" The profiles falsely claimed Herrick was HIV-positive, interested in unprotected sex and bondage, and that he was "Looking for a group of hung tops to come over and destroy my ass.
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There are an estimated 120,000 people waiting on organ transplant lists in the U.S., with Hopkins doctors estimating that anywhere from 500 to 600 organs from HIV-positive donors have been wasted.
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Only recently, a court in the city of Pune, in western India, ordered a company to rehire a woman after she was allegedly fired when her employers discovered she was HIV-positive.
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Doctors in South Africa transplanted part of the liver of an HIV-positive mother to her dying child — who did not have HIV — in a last-ditch effort to save the child.
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She created the petition after HBO's Back on Board: Greg Louganis – a documentary chronicling the diver's journey as he came out as gay and was outed as HIV positive – premiered in 2015.
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Per the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Price's phrasing left open the possibility she's not thrilled HIV-positive people are not dying "more readily," at which point they would pose less of a risk.
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Schoettes, who is HIV positive, wrote on behalf of himself and the five other council members who resigned: Lucy Bradley-Springer, Gina Brown, Ulysses W. Burley III, Grissel Granados, and Michelle Ogle.
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Johana Medina Leon, 25, died on Saturday at a hospital in El Paso, Texas, after being diagnosed as HIV-positive and complaining of chest pains, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.
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A 2006 study by the HIV nonprofit ACRIA found that over half of HIV-positive people over 50 suffer from depression; many more are affected by conditions like arthritis, hepatitis, and hypertension.
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TV that gene editing could prove to be promising in curing more HIV patients after a recent breakthrough has appeared to provide only the second-known cure to an HIV-positive patient.
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In Acholi village on the outskirts of Moroto town in northern Uganda, Teddy Adwin, a 30-year-old mother who was HIV-positive, was still being mourned a week after her death.
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These Haitians were HIV positive, and for that reason alone the United States held them for two years at Guantanamo before admitting them to the mainland as part of a legal settlement.
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"It was interesting because I was diagnosed HIV positive six months prior to the Olympic games in 1988 and then my dad, I believe in '89, was diagnosed with cancer," says Louganis.
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One of its uses is truly astounding: A woman can take Truvada to have a child with an HIV-positive partner, preventing transmission of the virus both to herself and her baby.
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The HIV-positive need an open space to discuss what it's like living with HIV/AIDS, and there's a stigma that the disease is only for gay people, that it's a plague.
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No one was spared from the ostracization that came from being HIV positive, whether you contracted the disease sexually, from a lifesaving blood transfusion or in the womb as an unborn baby.
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"Being HIV positive and not knowing may endanger other people by transmitting the disease unknowingly," said Tavoschi, adding that some studies have also shown lower survivability among older people living with HIV.
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And, if HIV-positive people maintain suppression by continuing ART, they can live long, healthy lives while effectively posing no risk of infecting sexual partners, according to the authors of the report.
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He incited widespread ridicule in South Africa for saying he knew the alleged victim was HIV-positive, but did not fear contracting the illness because he took a shower after the sex.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British lawmaker came out as HIV positive in a speech to parliament on Thursday, saying he wanted to tackle the stigma and encourage others to get tested.
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Studies of HIV-positive patients who have received HIV-negative organs have shown that, for unknown reasons, they experience transplant rejection at two to three times the rate of HIV-negative patients.
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This was his first run-in with the criminal justice system, but suddenly, it seemed, Suttle had no future: What would become of a black, gay, HIV-positive sex offender and felon?
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When 13 people in the hamlet of Premganj were diagnosed as HIV positive in one day last November, health workers in in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, knew something strange was happening.
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The interviewee in his 50s lost his job and became HIV positive, but he made really good friends in the scene—one had a cancer scare, and he supported him all through that.
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"They made a conscious decision not to take the medication because of the stigma around being HIV-positive," she says in an interview for an important new video series, Empowered: Trans Women & HIV.
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Cutting antiretroviral distribution would lead to an increase in HIV positive AIDS orphans—and it would be possible to name the people who died because of the cuts, as well as their children.
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He was acquitted on the charge of raping a family friend, but has long been ridiculed for saying that he took a shower after sex with the HIV-positive woman to prevent infection.
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And although his blokeish persona masks nasty views—see, for instance, his warnings about HIV-positive immigrants—he is not morally unfit to join a body whose current membership includes several convicted criminals.
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He describes how, in the 1990s, when half of IV drug users in New York were already HIV positive, he could only get permission to expand meds without counseling as a research project.
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Paris (CNN)The evidence is in and the message is clear: When someone is HIV positive, taking regular treatment can pretty much zero their chance of spreading the infection to others during sex.
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One of the 13 suitors trying to hook up with TV's first gay bachelor is HIV positive, and even though producers were aware, they kept the cast in the dark ... TMZ has learned.
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The answer mentions that, in the 1980s — in a time before there was an effective test for the virus — HIV-positive blood was distributed through the service, and thousands of Canadians were infected.
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Last year, Antonio—an HIV-positive undocumented immigrant who applied for a green card after marrying his partner—found himself stuck at the US consulate in Ciudad Juárez for more than a month.
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For example, if you're someone who's already at high risk for cervical cancer (because you're HIV-positive or have a family history), then your doctor will probably have a specific suggestion for you.
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When a pregnant woman is HIV-positive and not taking antiretroviral drugs, she has a 22009% to 45% chance of passing the virus on to her baby, according to the World Health Organization.
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The Ministry of Health and Child Care puts the number of people who test for HIV during daylight in local clinics at 380 every month, with 6 percent found to be HIV-positive.
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And I didn't realize—I was HIV positive, too, and it began to be one of those things where, as a Black trans woman, you have all these things in life you have.
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One day, my former business partner told me his father was HIV-positive and needed someone to construct edibles for him because he was getting to the point where he couldn't smoke anymore.
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Brandon Dixon, an openly gay and HIV-positive member of the cast, implored Pence to uphold the "inalienable rights" of "the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious" about the newly elected administration.
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"I see myself as a coalition builder," said Mr. Johnson, 35, who represents areas of the West Village, Chelsea and Midtown and is open about his struggles with alcohol and being HIV-positive.
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When Cox was a child — and medications that now help people with HIV live longer did not yet exist — she saw two of her mother's Black gay friends become HIV-positive and die.
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In addition, many older HIV-positive gay men who assumed they'd never live long enough to retire have now survived well past middle age, thanks to medical advances, but face serious savings shortfalls.
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The Centers for Disease Control, after months of tireless campaigning by activists, is helping to spread the truth that HIV positive individuals with an undetectable viral load cannot transmit the disease to others.
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" The reality star, who has since turned his life around and said he hasn't used hard drugs in years, described himself as a healthy and proud "member of the beautiful HIV positive community.
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PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is a combination of two HIV medicines that is approved for daily use to prevent an HIV-negative person from getting HIV from a sexual partner who is HIV-positive.
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Citing a local charity, CNN reported Monday that while the law prohibiting HIV-positive tourists from entering the state had been relaxed, they are still barred from receiving employment visas or permanent resident status.
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"I don't really watch that show," Sheen, who has remained relatively under the radar since revealing his HIV-positive diagnosis in 2015, told Entertainment Tonight at Project Angel Food's Angel Awards in Los Angeles.
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I bumped into him in 2008 and discovered that he was no longer employed by any hospital, addicted to drugs, HIV positive, facing multiple felony charges, and I just wondered what the hell happened.
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The former Two and a Half Men star — who has remained relatively under the radar since revealing his HIV-positive diagnosis in 2015 — revealed last month that he was celebrating one year of sobriety.
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Both procedures – one transplant of a kidney and one of a liver – were made possible by the 2013 Hope Act, which overturned a decades-long ban on allowing HIV-positive individuals to donate organs.
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Dorn's situation eventually came to the attention of lawyers at Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service and Lambda Legal, a civil rights group focusing on LGBTQ and HIV positive people, who advocated on his behalf.
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Michigan's new policy will punish HIV positive inmates caught breaking the rules on a case-by case basis with the input of at least two medical professionals to determine the real risk of infection.
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Charlie Sheen, who revealed in November that he is HIV positive, showed up fashionably late – and in self-referential fashion – to Elton John's annual Oscars viewing party Sunday, benefiting the pop star's AIDS foundation.
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This often placed HIV-positive individuals in a Catch-22: They were told to get on antiretroviral treatment as soon as they were diagnosed, to suppress the virus and its spread and prevent disability.
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There are treatments that help HIV-positive individuals reduce their viral load and live healthier lives while at the same time reducing the risk of transmission, so prevention and treatment go hand-in-hand.
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"This is the kind of thing that gets overhyped and contributes to the complacency that the public has about the epidemic," said Sean Strub, who founded POZ magazine, a publication for HIV-positive readers.
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When asked if she blames her parents for her diagnosis, Horcelie, of course, said no — and that she wouldn't judge the actions her parents took that may have led to her being HIV positive.
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After following nearly 900 heterosexual and gay couples for an average of 16 months, researchers found no evidence that uninfected partners became infected after condomless sex with an HIV-positive partner with viral suppression.
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"You just feel like everybody doesn't want you," said Olale, sitting with a dozen other HIV positive women, each with a small child on her lap, in a small home in Nairobi's Saika slums.
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Using a group of 33 participants who were already HIV-positive, they doled out the vaccine to half and a placebo to half, then measured whether the vaccine group started to produce extra antibodies.
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In 1990, after a Florida court ruled HIV positive couple Ken and Barbara Jenks' possession of marijuana was a medical necessity, the Jenks became the first AIDS patients admitted to the Compassionate IND program.
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Shonali, 24, an HIV-positive sex worker in the eastern city of Kolkata, said she barely had any work and was burning through her limited savings buying the food she needs to stay healthy.
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At that time, it was definitely easier to conceive of a relationship—or just casual sex—with another HIV-positive person because of the stigma I'd internalized and the fear of passing it along.
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Shonali, 24, an HIV-positive sex worker in the eastern city of Kolkata, said she barely had any work and was burning through her limited savings buying the food she needs to stay healthy.
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While deputy president of the ANC, Zuma was charged with raping Fezekile "Khwezi" Kuzwayo, the HIV-positive daughter of a friend who had been imprisoned on Robben Island with Zuma during the apartheid era.
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There is also evidence that HIV-positive individuals develop an immune system that is described as "hyper vigilant" for an extended period of time, and in older people that can lead to chronic inflammatory conditions.
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A former Maryland school employee who told police he is HIV positive was arrested on Friday for allegedly sexually abusing at least 10 male students on school property and at his home, according to authorities.
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Writing in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, the researchers estimate that about one of every eight gay and bisexual men in the U.K. is HIV-positive, but about 16 percent of those men aren't diagnosed.
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Instead, they were passed with the intent of deterring and punishing those who are HIV-positive and put people at risk of HIV by, for example, having sex with someone without disclosing their HIV status.
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But other scientists raised questions about the ethics of recruiting parents from an HIV advocacy group (all the fathers in the couples are HIV-positive), and whether their approach for finding mistargeted genes was safe.
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The first 15 children were confirmed HIV positive on April 24, as Dr. Muzaffar Ghangharo, a pediatrician who first attempted to treat the children's high fevers, wrote in an op-ed for the Daily Times.
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Overwhelming evidence In the largest-ever trial on HIV transmission risk among homosexual men, Australian researchers explored the sex lives and HIV rates of more than 350 homosexual couples where one person is HIV positive.
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A patient in London who was previously diagnosed as HIV positive is showing no sign of the virus today, doctors say, making him the seemingly second person ever to be cured of the AIDS virus.
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An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant donor, his doctors said.
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Russia registered its millionth HIV-positive patient — a 26-year-old woman in the south of the country — on Wednesday, Vadim Pokrovsky, the head of the federal AIDS centre, told Reuters in a phone interview.
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Although the CDC estimates there are 1.1 million Americans living with HIV and 1 in 7 who are HIV-positive are unaware of their status, HIV/AIDS has almost completely fallen off many Americans' radar.
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However, Boulton and other advocates worry that if U=U is formally enshrined in state laws, it would effectively create two classes of HIV positive people: those who can afford treatment, and those who can't.
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Grindr has responded by toughening its guidelines to say profile descriptions ruling out specific groups such as racial minorities, trans people or HIV-positive people are no longer allowed and discriminatory states will be removed.
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But by the mid-'90s, as the first protease inhibitors were integrated into healthcare and HIV-positive people started getting a little less sick, it became clear there was still a life left to lead.
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And as a result, some Frikis took up a form of protest that still manages to shock: They infected themselves with HIV, by injecting blood from their HIV-positive Friki friends into their own veins.
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I went through a period where I was HIV-positive and nobody knew, so I was sexually and personally withdrawn, so it was awkward for me to write a lot of these songs at first.
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"Regardless of the quality of the work, manipulating people by saying, 'I'm an HIV-positive teenager who's just come off the street and needs your help,' is a morally reprehensible thing to do," says Silverberg.
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She added that Mr. Johnson, as a gay man who is HIV-positive, could understand some of the issues facing minorities, a sentiment that was echoed by Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez of Manhattan, another speaker candidate.
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"Next year I will be marking an anniversary of my own – 10 years since I became HIV positive," he told the lower house of parliament in a speech ahead of World Aids Day on Saturday.
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The two-drug combination was originally formulated as a virus-suppressing therapy for HIV-positive people, but clinical trials later suggested it was also effective at blocking the virus from taking hold in the first place.
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In a 2015 analysis of two studies of gay men who reported that their HIV-positive partners "always" used condoms for insertive anal sex with them, the effective prevention rate was estimated at only 72 percent.
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According to the CDC's HIV Risk Reduction Tool, in fact, having anal sex with an HIV-positive partner who is using a condom is three to four times as risky as using PrEP for protection instead.
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It closely follows the seven main characters as they deal with transitions, homophobia, isolation by loved ones, being HIV positive, and homelessness—issues that are noticeably absent when the ballroom culture is appropriated solely for entertainment.
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I recently learned that the leather community in the 90's, they were the first people to really help AIDS-infected people and HIV-positive people in the hospital when everyone was scared to touch them.
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But a couple of studies that ran in The New England Journal of Medicine did show that when it came to kidney transplants, the organ rejection rate was three times as high between HIV-positive patients.
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China's fertility treatment shortage, as well as the desperation of HIV-positive couples there to have a child, appear to have been the key that opened the door to the world's first reported gene-edited people.
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An HIV-positive man in Britain became the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV-resistant donor, his doctors said in March.
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"For the child's medicines we have to go to Karachi, which means we spend several thousand rupees on each trip," a mother, whose three-year-old daughter has been diagnosed as HIV-positive, told BBC News.
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This week, a team of British scientists from the University of Cambridge claimed to have successfully treated an HIV-positive man from London with the same stem-cell technique that Brown's doctors used a decade ago.
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Sturdevant invited us to one of his regular meetings, where he discussed the intricacies of living with the illness with eleven other HIV-positive men and one woman, all of whom refer to him as Dad.
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"I was told on the record by the lead detective on Miami Beach that he had heard from the medical examiner who did the blood work that he was [HIV-positive]," she recently reaffirmed to THR.
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It unclear how long the mother of two will be staying in the facility, but it follows a difficult time for the actress after her ex husband Charlie Seen publicly revealed that he is HIV-Positive.
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In a landmark victory in April, a court in the south-western province of Guizhou ruled that a local education bureau must pay a school teacher compensation after he lost his job for testing HIV-positive.
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I am now the same age my mother was when she learned she was pregnant with me—the same age my mother was when she was learning, first-hand, what it meant to be HIV positive.
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VIENNA (Reuters) - Conchita Wurst, the bearded Austrian drag queen who became a gay rights icon after winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014, said in an Instagram post late on Sunday that she is HIV-positive.
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We've achieved a 28500 percent viral suppression rate among our HIV-positive members, saving more than $6900 million from 2628-28503, from in-patient cost-savings and other averted health care costs to New York State.
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For Milano, it all started in the 1980s during the height of the HIV and AIDS crisis when she kissed her friend Ryan White – who was HIV positive – on the cheek on The Phil Donahue Show.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An HIV-positive American who had been deported from Singapore after serving a jail term has leaked online the personal data of 14,200 Singaporeans and foreigners diagnosed in the city-state with the virus.
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Farrera-Brochez was imprisoned for more than two years over accusations that he cheated on a blood test to obtain a work permit and stay in Singapore, where HIV-positive foreigners are not allowed to work.
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The gay men's social network Hornet allows users to indicate their HIV status in their profiles, choosing from among five options: negative, negative on PrEP (the pill to prevent HIV), positive, positive undetectable, and don't know.
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While Farrera-Brochez says that he was not HIV-positive at that time, Singaporean prosecutors allege otherwise — and claim Ler and Farrera-Brochez tried to get around Singaporean laws that discriminate against foreign workers with HIV.
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By the time he published his first book, Sarah (229), 2006-year-old Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy had endured the unthinkable: sexual and physical assault, abuse from his fundamentalist Christian grandparents, an HIV positive diagnosis, a heroin addiction.
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They hinge on the disclosure requirement, which frequently comes down to "he said-she said," with the HIV-positive person more often than not perceived as a villain, facing an assumption of guilt when in a courtroom.
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Dr. Ian Holloway, a public affairs professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Hornet's positive-only search feature can be helpful for HIV-positive men to seek not only partners, but social support and advice.
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A federal judge in Brooklyn ruled in 1993 that President Bill Clinton's administration violated the due process rights of HIV-positive Haitian refugees, who were eligible for U.S. asylum, even though they were not on U.S. soil.
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When Kang went back to the FDA with his irradiated, poisoned, mutant virus, "the FDA suggested we should use HIV-positive individuals, because the main objective of a human Phase I clinical trial is safety," he says.
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The 50-year-old, who recently revealed he is HIV positive, adds that he spends about $113,000 in bills and other fees, and spends an additional $25,00 per month in medical costs not covered by his insurance.
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"Sexual racism, transphobia, fat and femme shaming and further forms of othering such as stigmatization of HIV positive individuals are pervasive problems in the LGBTQ community," Landen Zumwalt, head of communications at Grindr, said in a statement.
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According to blood donation guidelines set by the FDA, a straight man who either pays for sex with a woman or knowingly has sex with a woman who is HIV positive only needs to wait a year.
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GLAAD also noted that the number of transgender characters across all TV formats has more than doubled, bisexual representation has risen 10 percentage points, and that there are currently three HIV-positive characters on major TV shows.
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As an HIV-positive man, I've been exceedingly safe for 30 years—it's only been the last couple of years that I have finally been able to have sex without condoms, and it's a great, liberating experience.
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The program contributed to a 47% decrease in AIDS-related deaths since its inception, has saved more than 11 million lives, and is why over 2 million babies have been born HIV-free to HIV-positive mothers.
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If preventing HIV through male circumcision—the single most cost-effective HIV prevention strategy for the hardest hit countries—is too expensive, how can immediate and lifelong treatment for all HIV-positive people be anything but impossible?
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Researchers in London are giving hope to finding a cure for AIDS after a second HIV-positive man appears to have shaken the disease following a bone-marrow transplant, according to research published Tuesday by his doctors.
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The historian said she was a "point of light" because of the kindness and compassion she showed when she embraced HIV-positive and AIDS patients in the late 1980s and her dedication to the issue family literacy.
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While herpes is the subject of public mockery and angry lawsuits reminiscent of attacks on HIV-positive people in a landscape where some states still have HIV criminalization laws on the books, Bobrow made a surprising finding.
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Victoria Graves-Cade, an HIV-positive community liaison officer at GMHC, believes this lack is largely an economic problem, which becomes a race issue as funding for educational programs and healthcare fail to reach neighborhoods of color.
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The study, published in the Lancet medical journal on Thursday, assessed the risk of HIV transmission between serodifferent gay male couples - where one partner is HIV-positive and one is HIV-negative - who do not use condoms.
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The EEOC said the fired worker had been questioned a week earlier by his shift manager, and told he might lose his job because the defendants had previously fired a female worker who was also HIV-positive.
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MSF said ViiV had failed so far to deliver on pledges to speed up availability of pediatric dolutegravir formulations where they are most needed, including in sub-Saharan Africa where the majority of HIV positive patients live.
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Every HIV positive individual needs to take one or two doses a day, and people living with HIV in Hubei and neighboring Henan province told CNN that hospitals usually provide three months of medication after an examination.
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Their currencies are plunging, they have large debts, and they're going to be hit by the public health crisis on a really epic scale — especially in South Africa, where they have a big immunocompromised HIV[-positive] population.
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Amid the HIV/AIDS crisis, Williamson held support groups for HIV-positive patients, and in 1989, she founded Project Angel Food, which delivered meals to the homes of HIV/AIDS patients and others with life-threatening illnesses.
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Doctors in the Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre transplant unit in Johannesburg announced last week that they had performed a liver transplant from a living HIV-positive donor to an uninfected patient, the first in the world.
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Three years later, during which the National Institutes of Health developed safeguards and criteria for such transplants, HIV-positive patients in need of organs now have another option to turn to in the face of dire demand.
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A friend recently told me he had become disillusioned and no longer had the righteous indignation with the world that I did, and I thought to myself, secretly, that it had to be because I'm HIV-positive.
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At the Porgera mine as recently as December, three men told VICE News they were forced by guards at gunpoint to perform sex acts on one another, despite one man telling the officers he was HIV-positive.
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According to the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, as of 2016, at least 12,000 people living with HIV in Illinois newly gained health care through the ACA — or a third of the HIV-positive population in the state.
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The gay men's social network Hornet has long allowed users to indicate their HIV status in their profiles, choosing from five options: negative, negative on PrEP (the pill to prevent HIV), positive, positive undetectable, and don't know.
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Tredway also maintained that he uses condoms in the majority of his sexual encounters, and only has unprotected sex with HIV-positive men or HIV-negative men on PrEP, a treatment that reduces one's risk of acquiring HIV.
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"She was living in denial, she didn't want to discover she was HIV positive," says David Odali, the director of the Umunthu Foundation, a non-profit that offers HIV testing and treatment and runs education campaigns in Malawi.
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Photo: APMedical records and contact information belonging to thousands of HIV-positive Singaporeans and foreign visitors to the southeast Asian city state have been leaked online, according to an alert issued by the country's Ministry of Health (MOH).
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His ideal, he explained, is to one day fall in love with someone who is also HIV-positive, so they can share the experience together, without stigma, and even have children if they both adhere to their treatment.
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Millet said research into long-term injectables would help the HIV population on both ends of the demographic curve: the youngest HIV-positive individuals are by far the largest group of new cases, as well as undiagnosed cases.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved Truvada in 743 for use by people who were HIV-negative but who were at high risk of contracting the virus, for example, because they had a partner who was HIV-positive.
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Heterosexual women and men who are sexually active and have one of the following: an HIV-positive partner, an inconsistent use of condoms during sex with a partner whose HIV status is not known or a recent STD.
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DENVER (Reuters) - A former surgical technician who is HIV-positive pleaded guilty on Tuesday to tampering with narcotics at a Colorado hospital, potentially exposing thousands of patients to blood-borne diseases, including the AIDS virus, federal prosecutors said.
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A strike is a tactic among tactics and Visual AIDS evolved DWA into an opportunity to unite the art world(s) around the ongoing crisis, the history of art AIDS activism, and the work of HIV-positive artists.
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The 27-year-old drag queen appeared on Fox's live production of Rent on Sunday, where she played a drag queen of another name — Angel Dumott Schunard, the HIV-positive drag queen and drummer at the musical's heart.
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I strike up a conversation with someone who works for an advocacy organization that works to secure affordable housing and food assistance for HIV-positive populations and to expand those protections to the rest of New York State.
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Like many large companies, they had employees who were so paranoid or homophobic that they refused to work alongside anybody who was gay, because the assumption was that if you were a gay man, you were HIV positive.
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Plus, "few of the Ryan White Title-26-funded programs providing service to HIV-positive New Yorkers address needs to women," wrote public advocate Betsy Gotbaum in a 21 report about women and HIV/AIDS in the city.
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In the Central African country of Cameroon where I lived from 2007 to 2009, I worked with two doctors, barely out of their 20s, who managed a caseload of 203 HIV positive children out of two tiny rooms.
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A cure for AIDS has yet to be found, though HIV positive people who religiously take anti-retroviral therapy, a daily pill, can suppress the virus to such an extent that it's undetectable in the bloodstream, and untransmittable.
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But today through our networks of clubs, camps and programs across both Lesotho and Botswana, we help children and young adults to learn that they can go on to live happy and productive lives, despite being HIV positive.
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They hinge on the disclosure requirement, which frequently comes down to "he said-she said", with the HIV-positive person more often than not perceived as a villain, and facing an assumption of guilt when in a courtroom.
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And then there's the fact that, half a planet away, the 34-year-old American is at the center of an international investigation into the leak of the personal data of thousands of HIV-positive people in Singapore.
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In the late 80s, after Dlugos was diagnosed HIV positive, he remembers the literary critic David Kalstone, whose apartment on West 22nd Street he visited "on a winter day/in 1976" and a book he borrowed and never returned.
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It's also true that MSM have a higher prevalence of HIV infection than the general population: the Centers for Disease Control estimates 18 percent of MSM are HIV-positive, compared to less than 1 percent of the overall population.
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Actor Charlie Sheen, who publicly announced that he is HIV-Positive in November 2015, endorsed the product at its launch event, as a part of an effort he says to reduce stigma around condom use and encourage STI education.
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"If you're pregnant, you should also use condoms if your partner is HIV-positive and you aren't, and if your partner is having an active herpes outbreak and you aren't (or you aren't sure about your status)," Proudfit says.
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Though he was later tested negative for the coronavirus, he told Reuters he received 30 pills of Kaletra — a medicine used to treat HIV — for free from Andy Li, a HIV-positive man who "hoards" drugs for his condition.
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The administration also fired gay and HIV-positive U.S. Air Force airmen because of their HIV status, only to be rebuffed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that said the administration's policy is 'at odds with current science.
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Michael Johnson Michael Johnson, the HIV-positive former college wrestler also known as "Tiger Mandingo," pleaded no contest Thursday to one count of knowingly transmitting HIV to one man and four counts of exposing four others to the virus.
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The increase in screenings should focus on the groups at highest risk -- HIV-positive men, men who have sex with men, and men ages 20 to 29 -- and safe sex practices, specifically the use of condoms, should be emphasized.
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Donated breast milk is generally safe for babies to consume; the CDC notes that HIV and other serious infectious diseases can be transmitted through breast milk, but the risk is extremely small, even if the donor is HIV positive.
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As I detail in my book "States of Disease," the South African government has become more aggressive in responding to the HIV/AIDS epidemic while establishing itself as a leader in the testing and treatment of HIV-positive individuals.
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The survey determined that only half of Canadians—or at least of those participating—would "knowingly share or eat food prepared by a chef who is HIV positive," despite the fact that the disease can't be transmitted through food.
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Before the Affordable Care Act was enacted, only about 13 percent of HIV-positive people in the U.S. had private health insurance, and 24 percent had no coverage at all, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A U.S. citizen who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people in Singapore has been found guilty by a U.S. court of illegally transferring personal data and threatening the Singapore government, court filings show.
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The bottom line: If you really could get enough people tested (about 165,000 Americans don't know they're HIV-positive, per HHS), and help patients access and stick with drugs to treat the virus, that really could make a difference.
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In the largest study to date of HIV transmission amongst gay couples of differing HIV status, researchers found that HIV-positive men with whose virus levels are undetectable due to treatment did not transmit it to their sexual partners.
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The World Bank estimates that homophobia costs India $31 billion a year due to lower educational achievements, loss of labor productivity and the added costs of providing healthcare to LGBT people who are poor, stressed, suicidal or HIV positive.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The number of people developing and dying from tuberculosis (TB) is falling in Europe, but among the most vulnerable - including migrants, prisoners and people who are HIV positive - there have been worrying increases, data showed on Monday.
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More than half a dozen U.S. activists, including those who have lived with the illness for decades, emphasized that the development would do little to help those who are currently HIV positive, because the procedure cannot be administered broadly.
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"Conspiracy theorists would declare as suspect the family's rush to cremate Gianni's body and their successful appeal to have the state of Florida seal Gianni's autopsy—reviving the question as to whether Gianni had been HIV-positive," she writes.
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MEXICO CITY, June 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A second transgender asylum seeker who was HIV-positive has died after being detained in the United States, government officials said on Monday, sparking fresh concerns over the treatment of LGBT+ immigrants.
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"I have been HIV-positive for many years," the 29-year-old pop singer, whose real name is Tom Neuwirth, told her nearly 300,000 followers, adding that she had been forced into revealing her status by a former partner.
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In Uganda, the worst affected districts are in the north and east, where district authorities have warned the drought may disrupt ARV treatment as HIV-positive children and their elder relatives are hungry and unable to take the drugs.
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While changes in the way medicine is delivered can help alleviate the burden of HIV on the Latino community, more must be done to battle stigma and discrimination associated with being HIV-positive in order to gain real progress.
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Sales of in-home HIV testing kits reached record highs around the same time the actor announced that he had been diagnosed as HIV-positive in 13, according to a study published in the journal Prevention Science on Thursday.
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Having just learned that he is HIV-positive when the play begins, Mr. Garfield's Prior is a mix of mortal terror, a drag queen's bravado and a profound consciousness that the world is now a different place for him.
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"The drug is intended for use by high risk individuals — such as those whose sexual partner is HIV positive — in combination with safer sex practises, including condom use," a spokesperson for Health Canada told VICE News in an email.
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Russia's AIDS epidemic is at a dangerous tipping point after the number of people registered HIV-positive passed the 1 million mark, the country's top AIDS specialist said on Thursday, warning the rate of infection had reached record levels.
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LONDON, March 53 (Reuters) - An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV-resistant donor, his doctors said.
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As HIV positive patients grow older thanks to highly effective treatment, the focus shifts to long-term side effects as nearly half of all HIV patients in the profitable markets of North America and Europe are now over 50.
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ART is just as promising -- a 2019 study of almost 1,000 gay male couples with one HIV-positive partner who took the treatment found no new cases of transmission to the HIV-negative partner during sex without a condom.
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David "Puck" Rainey gained famed (and infamy) after he stirred up drama with his HIV-positive roommate, Pedro Zamora, and was ultimately evicted from the house on MTV's 3rd season of the hit reality show, 'Real World: San Francisco.
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He and other eligible bachelors are competing for a relationship with the "prince," Robert Sepulveda, Jr. On Thursday night's episode, Leonardos will reveal to Sepulveda and to viewers at home that he is HIV positive, and has been for several years.
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The study team previously published 2008 and 2011 results from the CDC's National HIV Behavioral Surveillance, which includes data from 20 cities on adult HIV-positive men who have sex with men - a group at particular risk for HIV infection.
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Johnson's case has been closely watched because he was one of the most highly publicized targets of controversial HIV laws that make it a crime for HIV-positive people to have sex without first disclosing that they have the virus.
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While a concrete answer to what actually happened is not currently evident, Badowski says that her patients in Illinois—who include HIV positive inmates—have told her similar stories (to Dorn's) about corrections officers, though she's never witnessed such behavior firsthand.
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Following a hack disclosed last summer that affected the patient records of up to 1.5 million citizens, Singapore's Ministry of Health revealed today that personal details and the HIV-positive status of 14,200 people were posted online by a convicted fraudster.
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Black, gay, disabled, and HIV positive, Wilson jokes that his identity's got more intersections than most, but he also somberly points out that these marginalized aspects of his identity are why he vitally needs to socialize with like-minded people.
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