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...infection rates appear to have boosted underground sales of the drug, public health officials fear, and other studies among African women in Cameroon and Ghana, although not as successful, have further bolstered sales. A 2006 study by the Centers for Disease Control found that 7% of men who attended gay pride events in four U.S. metro areas used tenofovir as a prophylactic, while 20% said they knew other gay men who did. A more recent survey of 1,819 gay or bisexual men in California, published in the Journal of AIDS, found a low rate of prophylactic ARV use - less...
...infected later - or that HIV itself will become drug resistant. Greene says individuals using a single antiretroviral drug run a higher risk of developing resistance - combo drugs seem to lower the probability. Human trials of combined retrovirals are under way - in high-risk groups such as sex workers and gay men, both in the U.S. and elsewhere - but results of those studies won't be available for at least another year...
Meanwhile, physicians are seeing an increase in HIV infection rates among sexually active gay men in the U.S., accompanied by rising syphilis rates, which can complicate treatment. In Africa, Greene says, there are "some islands of success" but troubling increases in HIV transmission in other regions. Public-health experts acknowledge that there is no one magic bullet, no single approach to defeat AIDS, and that even the potential success of prophylactic antiretroviral drugs is only one arrow in the medical quiver. "There are all kinds of variables," Greene cautions, including drug-resistance issues, evolving viruses, individual patterns of infection...
...years ago, Tuesday, that President Clinton rolled out the policy that came to be known as "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which relaxed the long-standing bar against gay men and women serving in the U.S. military. While the move was initially hailed as progress for the rights of gays in the military, today many see it as a liability...
...toll after "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" led to increased focus on homosexuality in the ranks. She recalls having to administer a survey on the topic to 250 subordinates in the wake of the new policy. "We all sat down taking this survey asking, 'Do you know a gay person, and, if you did, what would you do?' " Dannah recalls. "I was physically sick after I did it - I went into the bathroom and threw up because of the stress of standing in front of the command and saying, 'We're now doing a survey about gays...