aids

The last big viral pandemic was HIV back in the 1980s. Despite having effective therapies and it being harder to catch a blood borne / sexually transmitted virus than a respiratory virus we have failed to eliminate HIV and still just under a million people a year die from HIV infection...

In the news yesterday here in Germany is a press release by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) about HIV statistics/estimates for 2014. http://www.rki.de/DE/Content/Service/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2015/08_2015.html The numbers are, quickly: 83,400 people in Germany are HIV-positive 13,200 of...

Governor Mike Pence has declared a medical emergency in Scott County, Indiana which is reportedly the epicenter of an epidemic of HIV cases. All confirmed cases have been related to needle sharing and intravenous drug use of the opioid painkiller Opana, according to Pence. Link below contains a...

Nutjobbery of the highest order. Religious zealots who think god will save them and their kin from disease are a bane to humanity. Mind you, seeing as how god presumably gave these diseases to the people in the first place, perhaps it should be him who has to save them should he so desire...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-04/stem-cell-therapy-wipes-out-hiv-in-two-patients/4798396

"Natural medicine" healer charged with maliciously infecting 16 people with HIV Horrific if true Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2295140/Swiss-police-storm-flat-arrest-music-teacher-healer-accused-infecting-16-HIV.html#ixzz2NtzaTvVL

How big a role does rape play in HIV statistics in the most heavily influenced countries (South Africa)?

I couldnt think of a better place to come to find some answers. Now to keep things brief, the term "Berlin Patient" when typed into Google will return alot of results on a story of a German man who supposedly is "cured" of the HIV virus. This comes as amazing news to me, and with that news i...

http://www.examiner.com/la-in-los-angeles/truvada-proves-its-effectiveness-at-fighting-hiv

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0010/0010_01.asp Ok this is both a Jack Chick tract comedy session and a question. Does there exist a country in Africa that is doomed because of aids?

Or so says a non-Catholic Harvard scientist named Edward Green. He claims that as a whole, condom education has not been effective, and a more plausible preventative measure is primarily promoting faithfulness and abstinence. If you google: 'liberal academic edward green' and 'edward green...

I have a friend. The friend is straight but my friends brother has aids. Yesterday after work I relaxed with a few brews and my friends brother was in the bar. I shook hands with him and I saw all over his arms Karposis sarcoma. The lesions look bad and while I did shake his hand I wondered...

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http://www.newsoxy.com/health/stem-cell-aids-13655.html Research seems to show that stem cells can generate blood cells that are immune to aids infection and actually destroy the virus.

That's the title of a new paper by Edzard Ernst and Michael Baum (Am J Med. 2009 Nov;122(11):973-4). Enjoy!

Combo vaccine reduces risk of HIV infection, researchers say Unfortunately, it's only about one-third effective, but it's a start.

“South Africa’s most respected practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine,” Dr Feroz Osman-Latib, claims to have formulated a tea called “Revivo” for the treatment of HIV – see here and here. Specifically, the main claim is that this concoction has “been proven to reduce HIV viral load and...

I was just reading a Wiki about Magic Johnson: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Johnson I remember thinking as a kid "Man! That sucks, this dudes checking out in a couple of years" and here I am not too far from 30 and Magic is still going strong. I was wondering how much longer it is...

Link: [Pope Benedict XVI: condoms make Aids crisis worse ] Excerpt: Blutoskitorial: Hey. You no play-a da game; you no make-a da rules. Capiche?

This time with a letter to Private Eye… And here’s the relevant part of the Eye article which has upset the SoH:

The headline for today's Independent This is cool news. But have any working gene therapies been developed yet?

I'd like to draw your attention to the worrying activities of this homeopath "treating" AIDS patients in Africa, a man who some had described as potentially the new Rath - and the work being done to uncover this by some bloggers from the Bad Science forums. Gimpy first blogged about Jeremy...

http://www.theperthgroup.com/INTERVIEWS/cjepe.html Anyone know what this group is talking about? An AGW denier is also believer this. Once again, a few, heroic, scientists are out there taking on the deluded majority, and waiting to be called the next Galileo.

The LA Times has announced the death of AIDS skeptic and activist Christine Maggiore on the 27th December. She came to prominence in the 1990s following her own HIV positive diagnosis, writing a book “What if everything you knew about AIDS was wrong?” and set up an organisation “Alive and Well”...

I had a search for threads on this disgusting idea, but it doesn't seem to have been discussed here previously. Even worse, searches for it return no pages debunking the absurd premise behind the fraudulent compounds, nor the idiotic pseudoscience which they claim works, so a thread on here...

From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/26/world/africa/26aids.html?hp According to an Harvard study, a conservative estimate of 365000 people died prematurely of AIDS due to the anti-science, HIV-denying, backwards policy of Mbeki and his infuriating health minister Tshabalala. I'm glad those...

Hi, According to mohanaturo over at YouTube, homeopaths in India have cured not only cancer but also AIDS. I was puzzled why I never heard about it since I am sure it would have been a world-wide news event. Thanks to Google I managed to find several news articles from India regarding a...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113507555.html A doctor has accidentally cured a patient from AIDS, it appears, by transplanting bone marrow from a HIV-resistant donor.

18-20.10.2008, "The Spirit and Knowledge Fair", Helsinki, Finland. We entered the scene around 12:00 and the place was packed, there was no room in the cloakroom. According to their website they average about 3000 - 5000 people every year since 1983. This is the oldest annual fair of this kind...

Good news, the vitamin pill seller, Matthias Rath, has dropped his legal case against Ben Goldacre and the Guardian. Not that Rath had a leg to stand on, but as Ben says, there's money in alternative medicine, and some of that money is being used to threaten people who question the claims made...