Word: hiv
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Uncircumcised men are three times as likely to develop penile cancer, but, again, the absolute risk is quite low. Only about 9 U.S. men out of 1 million ever develop the disease. Circumcised men are one-third to one-half as likely to become infected after exposure to HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases. But they are not by any means immune, and the difference in infection rates would probably diminish among men who use condoms and practice safer...
...year-old who was raped repeatedly could not get medical attention. Some time later, the girl was treated by UN medics and they found that she had a severe infection and was HIV positive," she said...
...Another 16-year-old who was raped repeatedly could not get medical attention. Some time later, the girl was treated by UN medics and they found that she had a severe infection and was HIV positive," she said...
Although mandatory HIV testing of newborns would be an invasion of the mother's privacy because it would reveal her HIV status as well, Etzioni said he felt the decision was clear...
...suspended sentence, on the grounds that he had already been punished enough over the five years of the trial. Former prime minister Laurent Fabius and former social affairs minister Georgina Dufoix were acquitted for their involvement in the scandal, in which some 4,400 individuals were infected with HIV from tainted blood productsin 1985; 40 percent of those people have already died. A not guilty verdict had been anticipated, according to TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley, "although Herv? was expected to be publicly blamed, because he had legal control of the health administration and should have been the most hands...