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National HIV Testing Day
Monday, June 27th is National HIV Testing Day. The Center for Disease Control estimates that more than one million people in the United States are living with HIV. Furthermore, one in five (21%) of those people living with HIV are unaware of their infection.
If you are having unprotected sex, you are putting yourself at risk for HIV, STDs and unwanted pregnancy. So don’t do it.
LifeStyles Condoms is sharing info about free testing locations throughout the country on their Facebook and… More »
National HIV Testing Day
This Sunday, June 27th is National HIV Testing Day. Throughout the weekend and beyond, LifeStyles Condoms will be sharing alarming statistics about HIV/AIDS in the U.S. on its Facebook and Twitter platforms. Their efforts are to raise awareness and incite conversation as well as to encourage people to get tested.
Did you know…
1 in 5 people living with HIV has no clue they’re infected.
More than 1.1 million people in the United States now live with HIV.
The 20% of people who don’t… More »
Women OK with Circumcised Men
Hold the presses. Men who are circumcised, you no longer have to feel inferior to those who are uncircumcised. And men who still are intact – there’s no reason to gloat. A new study from Uganda has found that women can be satisfied by a circumcised man just as well as an uncircumcised one.
The circumcision issue is a hotly debated one, regardless of the part of the world you live in. In countries with high rates of HIV infection and… More »
The Cure for AIDS is… Lupus?
Researchers at the University of Texas Medical School believe they may have found a weak point in the human immunodeficiency virus.
HIV is invulnerable to vaccines because its envelope is always mutating. As such, antibodies cannot attach to it. However, the virus does require one part of its envelope to remain constant in order to attach to host cells.
That constant part, a tiny stretch of amino acids numbered 421-433 on envelope protein gp120, is the part that silences antibody-producing cells. The… More »