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AIDS/HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases Articles
Recreational Erectile Dysfunction Drug Use A Risk
(30 May 2005)
The recreational use of erectile dysfunction drugs is linked to a higher risk of sexually-transmitted diseases and doctors are worried that abuse of Sildenafil and methamphetamine by one patient may have led to the development of a highly virulent HIV mutant strain...
Risk Of Herpes Increases With Oral Sex
(30 March 2005)
Women who had only receptive oral sex, without vaginal intercourse, were at a ten-fold higher risk of being infected with the herpes virus...
More Evidence That Circumcision Reduces Risk of HIV
(24 January 2005)
A study examining the probability of HIV infection from heterosexual sex has found that uncircumcised men have more than twice the risk of acquiring HIV than do circumcised men...
"Erectasy" Drug Combo Worries Experts
(20 December 2004)
The use of Viagra - often combined with illicit drugs such as Ecstasy - for recreational purposes is worrying doctors who believe it increases the risk of sexually transmitted infections...
Sexual Health Sufferering With Secrecy
(18 October 2004)
Combatting the spiralling number of sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies means we need to be more open about sex, even if it means upsetting those who find open discussions of sex and sexuality unpalatable...
Infection By Multiple HIV Strains Possible
(30 August 2004)
Researchers now believe that HIV positive patients can become infected with a second strain of the HIV virus. These so-called "superinfections" may be resistant to drug treatment...
Holidays Abroad Lead To Risky Sex And STDs
(26 July 2004)
A survey of holidaymakers found that a quarter had slept with a new partner while away and two thirds had not used condoms...
AIDS A Sign Of Masculinity For Some African Men
(19 July 2004)
For men in rural Africa, the behaviours that put them at risk for HIV – being sexually active with lots of partners – are the same behaviours that give them high status among their peers...
Gonorrhea Linked To Prostate Cancer
(10 May 2004)
The evidence linking prostate cancer and various STD's continues to grow with the finding that men who have had gonorrhea are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer...
Shyness Can Make You Sick
(16 April 2004)
Scientists say there is a strong relationship between personality type and HIV replication rate in the body...
New Findings Suggest Why Circumcised Men At Lower Risk From HIV
(2 April 2004)
A study suggests the explanation for the lower risk of contracting HIV for circumcised men may be biological rather than behavioural...
Crystal Meth Use Increases HIV Risk
(10 March 2004)
Crystal methamphetamine not only lowers inhibitions, it may also suppress a part of your immune system that's important in fighting off HIV...
Stable Relationships Slow HIV Progression
(5 February 2004)
For men with HIV, having a stable partner is linked with a slower rate of progression to AIDS...
STDs Preferable To Condom Use For Many Men
(26 January 2004)
A significant percentage of men may not be willing to use condoms even after seeking treatment for a sexually transmitted infection...
Genital Herpes Transmission Reduced With Antiviral Drug
(1 January 2004)
Taking a single daily dose of the antiviral drug valacyclovir can reduce the transmission of genital herpes to uninfected partners by 50 percent...
High-Risk Behavior Hinders HIV Prevention
(11 December 2003)
A recent survey in New York revealed over 40% of HIV patients had unprotected sex after learning they were HIV positive...
Green Tea Prevents HIV From Binding To Human T Cells
(13 November 2003)
The major component of green tea prevents the binding of HIV to human T cells, the first step in HIV infection, according to a new study...
Worldwide Trial For HIV Vaccine
(9 October 2003)
A synthetically produced HIV gene – which cannot cause HIV infection - is about to be trialled in worldwide tests...
New Method To Flush Out HIV
(18 September 2003)
Scientists have devised a new technique to switch on and drive hibernating HIV from its hiding places in the body...
Surprisingly, Life Is "Better" For Some HIV Patients
(11 August 2003)
Around a third of patients with the HIV virus say their life is generally better since they received their positive diagnosis...
Young Detainees Push Envelope For HIV/AIDS Risk
(4 August 2003)
A new study says that nearly all juvenile jail detainees - even those as young as 10 years - engage in dangerous HIV and AIDS risk behaviors...
Alcohol Abuse Increases Susceptibility To HIV
(31 July 2003)
The immune-weakening effects of alcohol may alter susceptibility to infection upon exposure to HIV...
Alternative Medicine Warning For HIV Patients
(10 July 2003)
Many HIV-infected Americans use alternative medicines that could interact with conventional HIV therapies...
Fear Of Rejection Behind HIV Secrecy
(12 June 2003)
Fear of rejection, violence and discrimination mean 13% of HIV-positive people are having unprotected sex without telling their partners that they have HIV...
Identifying The Triggers For Risky Sex
(2 June 2003)
The wide variety of risk-related behaviors amongst gay men suggests that counseling, tailored to the particular behaviors practiced by each man, might be useful in preventing new HIV infections...
Common Herb Offers Hope For Herpes Sufferers
(22 May 2003)
A new anti-herpes agent derived from a common herb effectively treats the herpes simplex virus and the newer acyclovir-resistant strains of herpes...
Natural Gene Mutation Protects HIV-Infected Patients
(19 May 2003)
How do approximately 25-30 percent of HIV-infected patients naturally thwart the development of AIDS?
Alcohol Consumption Speeds HIV
(15 May 2003)
Alcohol abuse and HIV can compromise immune function and when combined, will increase HIV progression...
Herpes - A Hidden Epidemic
(3 April 2003)
Experts estimate each year 1 in 3 adults is either living with, or will become newly infected with, a sexually transmitted disease, with genital herpes being the most common...
Rap Music Linked To Risky Sex
(3 March 2003)
Risky behavior and a heightened incidence of sexually transmitted diseases among African-American adolescents may be linked to exposure to rap music videos...
New HIV Test May Slow The Spread Of AIDS
(20 February 2003)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved new blood-testing technology for HIV that will deliver test results within an hour...
Prison Inmates Unconcerned About HIV Status
(13 February 2003)
Inmates infected with HIV engaged in unprotected sex at "exceedingly high rates," according to a new study...
Infection By Multiple HIV Strains Possible
(20 January 2003)
An individual who became infected with a second strain of HIV despite effective drug treatment following the first infection has researchers concerned...
Trucking Linked To Spread Of AIDS
(5 December 2002)
The social behavior of sex workers and transportation workers along the U.S. – Mexico border has the potential to spread HIV and AIDS through North America...
Study Finds No Cases Of HIV From Oral Sex
(25 November 2002)
Researchers say HIV infection through unprotected oral sex is a very rare event and is rarer than HIV infection through receptive anal sex using a condom...
New Avenue Of HIV Attack On Immune System Found
(14 October 2002)
Researchers in Minnesota have discovered a new process by which HIV damages the immune system...
New Drug Suppresses HIV
(30 September 2002)
The protease inhibitor lopinavir/ritonavir suppressed HIV to undetectable levels over a four year trial...
Alcohol, Thrill-Seeking And HIV A Bad Mix
(16 September 2002)
HIV-positive men who seek new experiences and think alcohol improves sex are more likely to have unprotected sex...
Uncircumcised Men Have Greater HIV Risk
(5 September 2002)
Internal layers of foreskin are more susceptible to HIV infection than external layers of foreskin, which explains why uncircumcised men seem to be at much higher risk for HIV acquisition...
Potential HIV Vaccine Shows Promise
(22 August 2002)
AIDS researchers have developed a candidate vaccine strategy that, for the first time, shows an ability to elicit antibodies that block the infection of multiple HIV virus strains...
Growth Hormone Fights HIV
(15 July 2002)
Growth hormone appears to stimulate the production of T cells - vital for a healthy immune system - in HIV-infected patients...
Drug-Resistant HIV On The Rise
(8 July 2002)
A rising number of Californians are being infected with HIV that is already resistant to some classes of antiretroviral drugs...
Amphetamine Speeds Up HIV Infection
(17 June 2002)
Researchers have found that exposing virus infected cells to methamphetamine increases those cells' ability to replicate the deadly virus as much as 15-fold...
Undiagnosed Gonorrhea And Chlamydia Common
(27 May 2002)
In Baltimore between 1997 and 1998, undiagnosed gonorrhea and chlamydia infections occurred in a combined one in twelve, or 8 percent, of young adults...
HIV Vaccine Trial Begins
(16 May 2002)
A vaccine that dramatically slowed the reproduction of the AIDS virus in laboratory monkeys is now to be tested on healthy, non-infected human subjects...
Manganese Blocks HIV Replication
(29 April 2002)
Scientists have found that simply increasing manganese in cells can halt HIV's unusual ability to process its genetic information backwards, providing a new way to target the process's key enzyme driver...
HIV Can Serve As Opportunity For Positive Change
(8 April 2002)
A new study suggests that many HIV-positive individuals believe that their infection and its life-threatening consequence served as a personal milestone that positively changed many aspects of their lives...
HIV/AIDS Could Trigger Economic Downfall
(11 March 2002)
With 20% of the population HIV positive, Mozambique education faces a bleak future with not enought teachers and too many students at home caring for sick relatives...
Condoms Dramatically Reduce Spread Of HIV In Thailand
(1 February 2002)
Public health efforts in Thailand have successfully reduced the sexual transmission of HIV and AIDS, but the transmission of the disease through drug injection is increasing...
Unsterile Needles The Origin Of AIDS?
(15 January 2002)
Could a relatively harmless monkey virus called Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) have mutated into the deadly AIDS virus as a result of the repeated use of unsterilized hypodermic needles...
Herpes Increases Risk Of HIV
(28 November 2001)
Most people who have genital herpes are unaware that the infection dramatically increases their risk of acquiring HIV...
Herpes Associated With Schizophrenia In Offspring
(22 November 2001)
Mothers with a herpes infection at the time of birth are more likely to give birth to children who develop schizophrenia...
HIV Therapy May Encourage Unsafe Sex
(14 November 2001)
Some gay and bisexual men believe AIDS therapy reduces the risk of transmitting the virus to sexual partners leading to an increase in unprotected sex...
Stress Accelerates HIV And Hinders Antiretroviral Drugs
(1 November 2001)
Research on the molecular mechanisms linking stress and HIV reveals that stress enables HIV to spread more quickly and prevents antiretroviral drugs from restoring immune system function...
Alcohol, Sex And AIDS
(16 October 2001)
A little-known link between injection drug use and heterosexual transmission of the virus that causes AIDS may be alcohol consumption. Now, a new study examines what role alcohol consumption may play among drug injectors who have unsafe sex...
New Mechanism For Supressing HIV
(8 October 2001)
Studies have shown that Peptide-T — a synthetic compound of amino acids — can suppress HIV by preventing the virus from entering healthy human cells...
Herpes - The Hidden Epidemic
(20 September 2001)
The Mayo Clinic reports that 135 million Americans have herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), and 90 percent of the population has HSV-1 by age 70...
Early Therapy For HIV Promising
(17 September 2001)
A HIV treatment using a high potency, three-drug combination treatment given in the earliest stages of HIV infection may preserve or enhance a patient’s immunity against HIV...
HIV Infection From Oral Sex Is Rare Event Says Study
(3 September 2001)
A study by researchers found the probability of HIV infection through unprotected receptive oral sex with a man to be statistically estimated as zero...
Why Some HIV Patients Shun Treatment Completely
(18 August 2001)
HIV-positive patients from rural areas may shun life-extending medical treatments rather than risk breaches of confidentiality, according to a new study...
No Effective Treatment For Mutating HIV
(10 August 2001)
New medications are urgently needed for individuals who have drug-resistant HIV, and academia, industry and government must work together to bring them into the clinic, urge AIDS researchers...
How Safe Is Oral Sex?
(6 August 2001)
A new study shows how infected breast milk and semen overcome the body's natural saliva defense against oral HIV transmission…
Lubricant Reduces HIV Transmission
(24 July 2001)
Researchers in Texas have found what could prove to be a slick new weapon in the battle against AIDS. Experiments indicate that three over-the-counter sexual lubricants inhibit HIV production by more than a thousand-fold when mixed with virus-infected seminal fluid...
Minor Mutations In HIV Virus Have Major Impact
(20 July 2001)
In what could be a setback for HIV vaccines currently in development, researchers say that HIV can mutate in order to hide from an immune attack, and, once these mutations occur they persist...
Multiple Sexual Partners Increases Risk Of Prostate Cancer
(14 July 2001)
Men already know that sex with multiple partners, especially unprotected sex, can increase their risk of contracting HIV and various venereal diseases. They also can add that it may raise their odds of getting prostate cancer in middle age...
STD Rate Nearly 1 In 5 Among Adolescent Females
(11 June 2001)
Researchers found undiagnosed sexually transmitted diseases in 18 percent of teenage girls who provided vaginal samples...
Antioxidants May Prevent HIV Dementia
(14 May 2001)
Antioxidant drugs may help prevent the effects of HIV on the brain, according to a preliminary study using cell cultures...
Positive Data On Vaccine To Combat HIV
(12 April 2001)
Researchers today announced positive pre-clinical data for a HIV vaccine that is designed to directly address the problem of viral mutation...
Depression And Anxiety To Blame For Fatigue In HIV Patients
(26 March 2001)
Rather than the disease itself, a combination of depression and anxiety could be responsible for HIV positive patients' excessive tiredness...
Electronic "Mother" For HIV Patients
(19 March 2001)
A portable device that's "a cross between a pager and your own mother" can, within half a year, lead to a significant drop in the amount of virus HIV patients carry in their blood...
New AIDS Vaccine Prevents Disease In Monkeys
(10 March 2001)
A multiprotein AIDS vaccine has prevented the development of AIDS in monkeys infected with a highly virulent analogue of HIV seven months after vaccination...
New Approach To AIDS Treatment
(20 December 2000)
A naturally-occurring protein in blood prevents the AIDS virus from reproducing and from being spread to healthy cells...
New HIV Vaccine Study
(11 December 2000)
Researchers are testing a new HIV vaccine to determine if it is safe and whether it induces an immune response in the body...
Interrupted Therapy For HIV
(28 November 2000)
Regular holidays from HIV drugs may help the immune system control the virus on its own, at least in monkeys...
Immune System Can Control HIV
(28 September 2000)
A research team has shown that HIV-infected individuals who begin antiviral therapy during the earliest stages of their infection eventually can stop taking drugs and keep the virus under control with their immune systems alone...
No AIDS-Related Viruses Found In 1950's Polio Vaccine
(14 September 2000)
New findings provide strong evidence to refute the theory that an oral polio vaccine administered to people in the Belgian Congo in the late 1950s provided the route of transmission for HIV from chimpanzees to humans...
AIDS Virus Targets The Gut
(24 August 2000)
Unprotected oral and anal sex with an infected partner holds a greater risk than previously believed...
Antiretroviral Drugs Do Not Prevent Sexual Transmission Of HIV
(19 August 2000)
Antiretroviral therapy for HIV patients can be a double-edged sword. Investigators showed that while the drugs can greatly reduce the amount of infectious HIV in semen (viral load), a substantial percentage of men may still be able to transmit the virus sexually...
Syphilis Increases Transmission Of HIV
(6 August 2000)
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is more easily transmitted to or from people with syphilis. This knowledge could lead to treatments to slow progression of the disease...
Denial Speeds Progression Of HIV To AIDS
(2 August 2000)
New research shows that men infected with HIV will more rapidly develop AIDS if they use strategies of denial to cope with the disease threat...
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