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Tuesday, November 04

Bloody Hell!

"The blood transfusion service has rejected calls from gay men's groups to lift the ban on them donating blood. It has told the Scottish Parliament petitions committee HIV is rising in gay men and donor selection is the only way to keep blood products safe. The Scottish National Blood Transfusion...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 11-04-2008
Tuesday, October 28

Left Out.

"Gay men in Burundi have been ignored in local HIV/AIDS campaigns, resulting in widespread ignorance about the virus among this largely invisible group." [Mamba] Permalink | post a comment | Add to del.icio.us | Digg Post tags: Burundi, Gay, Health, HIV/AIDS, News

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-28-2008
Tuesday, October 07

Happy Penis?!

"Circumcision, which can slow the spread of the AIDS virus from women to men during sex, doesn't appear to provide the same protective effect for men having sex with other men, U.S. researchers said today. While circumcised gay men were 14 percent less likely to be infected with the AIDS virus...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-07-2008
Friday, October 03

Don't Smoke.

"Bluefield State College and Covenant House have each received $50,000 state grants for programs aimed at reducing smoking in the gay community. The grants from the state Division of Tobacco Prevention will fund yearlong anti-smoking programs in central and southern West Virginia. Tobacco Prevention...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 10-03-2008
Thursday, July 24

Disclosure...

“According to a new study, 40% of gay men in New York City, who have had sex with other men, hide their sexual orientation from their doctors… The study found that men who stated that they had sex with other men were twice as likely to be tested for HIV. 63% of men who admitted [...]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 07-24-2008
Friday, June 20

Duh.

” Doctors have long suspected that people with herpes are more likely to catch HIV. So they thought that by treating herpes, they could also cut a person’s HIV risk. But a new study that tested this strategy found the assumption may have been wrong.” [365 Gay]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-20-2008
Monday, June 16

Bad Medicine.

South African Matthias Rath has been ordered to stop selling his “AIDS curing” multivitamins VitaCell. One activist celebrated the ruling thus: “This judgment is a victory for the rule of law and the scientific governance of medicine. Over the last decade in this country that rule of...

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-16-2008
Tuesday, June 03

Family Fun!

What would Mickey say?! In honor of Gay Days at Disney, health officials are out in full force distributing condoms and administering HIV tests. [WDBO]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 06-03-2008
Friday, May 02

Slow Going.

Gays are slowly but surely coming into their own over in Vietnam. They may want to hurry up, however, because HIV/AIDS awareness has been ignoring them and it’s costing a heavy price: lots of lives. [Thanhnien News]

Posted to Qticker World | Aggregator (Weblog) by external blog Queerty on 05-02-2008

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