Strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved
Dudes!
A man has been cured of being HIV positive by a stem cell transplant operation!
[url]http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40662122/ns/local_news-spokane_wa/[/url]
Its about fuckin time!
Its the microscopic risk for yourself today
[QUOTE=ButtLover; 1100507]Hi.
I think most people agree that HIV is transmitted through unprotected sex,
The next question we must ask ourselves is,
Do I want to help reducing the risk by using a condom? Or shall I try to convince myself how microscopic the risk is, because it's so damn good without condom.
BL[/QUOTE]All statments about probability are correct as viewed from the individuals perspective. In response to the original barebackers opinion though, we need to point out infection rate does not matter with regard to bareback (with WG) being bad!
The doctors do quite correctly tell you to protect yourself no matter how low you might perceive the risk. They are NOT spreading paranoia they are NOT lieing. They are simply doing statistics.
Lets do some basic scenario analysis. Lets assume we a have an essentially uncureable disease with results in death (OK, not in the developed world anymore but HIV is still bad).
Scenario A) You have a population where infection rate is low (maybe 1/10000). If people protect themselves to the point that the disease cannot spread anymore, the problem disappears. Number of death is low. Individual risk is low. Public damage is low.
Scenario B) Same as above. You have a population where infection rate is low (maybe 1/10000). But people don't protect themselves because "The individual risk is low at a 1/10000 infection rate". In this case the disease WILL spread. Infection rate will go up. I WILL become a major risk to fuck without protection eventually. People will notice when infection rate has reached 1/100 or higher (high enough so they personally know infected people). But by now the public damage will be enourmous.
Conclusion: "The individual risk is low a 1/10000 infection rate" argument is stupid. Because its your PERSONAL risk right NOW. But you forget about the risk to society.
Conclusion: If the disease is spreading and deadly, is is ALWAYS correct for doctors to ask for protection no matter how low or high the infection rates is right now. The infection rate will become high quickly no matter how low it starts.
Study Examines Risk of Heterosexual HIV Transmission in China
The study is available online in advance of publication in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections.
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8,2010) A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health examines the burden of HIV and sexually transmitted disease among male clients of the commercial sex industry in China's Sichuan province. Since 2007, heterosexual transmission has replaced injecting drug use as the primary transmission mode of all HIV infections in China.
"We found a large burden of syphilis infection coupled with high-risk sexual and substance use behaviors among male clients of sex workers," said Cui Yang, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow with Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology."Without effective interventions to prevent HIV transmission to the male client population, the current epidemic may expand into the general population."
For the study, Yang and her colleagues examined the prevalence of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in a sample of 600 male clients of female sex workers in three urban areas in Sichuan province, China. Blood test results indicated that HIV prevalence was 1. 5 percent; 5. 3 percent were positive for syphilis and 8. 7 percent positive for HCV. The overall prevalence of consistent condom use with female sex workers was 30 percent. The study also found a significant correlation between syphilis infection among male clients and not having local household registration, snorting heroin and washing genitals after having sex with a female sex worker.
"Our data raises concerns about the future heterosexual transmission of HIV to the general population in China since unprotected sex with female sex workers has become the norm," said Kenrad Nelson, MD, senior author of the study and professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Authors of "HIV, syphilis, hepatitis C and risk behaviours among commercial sex male clients in Sichuan province, China" include Carl Latkin and Cunling Wang of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Rongsheng Luan of the West China School of Public Health at Sichuan University.
The research was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health.
HPV is now the main cause of head and neck cancer in USA
19 October 2010.
"The single greatest factor associated with the cancer is the number of partners on whom the person has performed oral sex. Individuals who had performed oral sex on six or more partners over a lifetime face an eight-fold higher risk of acquiring HPV-related head or neck cancer than those with less than six partners."
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Oropharyngeal Cancer Epidemic and HPV
7 November 2010
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