Word: hiv
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...Virginia, says many teens have become desensitized. Oral sex "might mean what a French kiss meant to us when we were kids," he says. Teens often shrug and say that oral sex never made anyone pregnant. Parents need to remind them, though, that it can transmit dread diseases, including HIV and the papilloma virus, against which even condoms offer little protection...
Fortunately, the AIDS story has not been all gloom and doom. Less than two years after AIDS was recognized, the guilty agent--human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV--was identified. We now know more about HIV than about any other virus, and 14 AIDS drugs have been developed and licensed in the U.S. and Western Europe...
...Asia, with its huge population at risk, that will have the biggest impact on the global spread of AIDS. The magnitude of the pandemic could range from 100 million to 1 billion, depending largely on what happens in India and China. Four million people have already become HIV-positive in India, and infection is likely to reach several percent in a population of 1 billion. Half a million Chinese are now infected; the trajectory of China's epidemic, however, is less certain...
...clinics. Now some hospitals and medical institutes are opening rape clinics and training staff in rape-crisis management, as well as drawing up protocols for the forensic examination and care of rape victims. Post-rape antiretroviral drugs are, however, still not available in government hospitals. (So far, Smith is HIV-negative, but she will continue tests for at least a year.) "Now old taboos are going, and people are coming forward with family support to report rape," says Dr. Adrienne Wulfsohn, director of the Albertina Sisulu Rape Crisis Center near Johannesburg. But, she adds, "we need to fundamentally change...
...HEPATITIS Here's a benefit from AIDS research that has little to do with the disease itself. A study finds that lamivudine, one of the three drugs in today's AIDS cocktails, is effective against hepatitis B. Both HIV and the hepatitis virus rely on similar enzymes to replicate, and lamivudine inhibits those enzymes. Taken once a day for a year, it restored normal blood counts and kept liver damage in check in about half the patients studied...