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...antiretroviral drug tenofovir, for example, which was used in the recent Texas study, is often packaged as a potent cocktail with Viagra and Ecstasy or Valium, and sold in dance clubs for $100. Studies in monkeys in 2004 that suggested tenofovir could diminish HIV 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self-Medicating With AIDS Drugs | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

When scientists in Texas reported in January that they had successfully used antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to prevent HIV transmission in lab mice, colleagues received the news with great enthusiasm - and no small amount of concern. Positive study results like these offer hope that ARVs may someday help stem the rate of new infections worldwide, but public-health experts in the U.S. worry that they may also prompt people in affluent at-risk communities to leapfrog the emerging science and self-medicate. "It's inevitable," says Dr. Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Self-Medicating With AIDS Drugs | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

...Internet." Despite the restrictions, the festival was allowed to go ahead (unlike some in previous years) and was well attended. Also, since the SARS outbreak in 2003, the government has become more enlightened about AIDS. Cui notes that "there are lots of education programs on safe sex and HIV prevention in gay communities and on the Internet, and there is also lots of funding available to safe-sex campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Beijing | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...Internet." Despite the restrictions, the festival was allowed to go ahead (unlike some in previous years) and was well attended. Also, since the SARS outbreak in 2003, the government has become more enlightened about AIDS. Cui notes that "there are lots of education programs on safe sex and HIV prevention in gay communities and on the Internet, and there is also lots of funding available to safe-sex campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postcard: Beijing | 1/17/2008 | See Source »

...though, the festival was allowed to go ahead (unlike some previous years) and was actually well attended. Since the outbreak of the SARS epidemic in 2004, the government has completely reversed its policy on AIDS, and Cui notes that "there are lots of education programs on safe sex and HIV prevention in gay communities and on the Internet, and there is also lots of funding available to safe sex campaigns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name — Discreetly | 1/13/2008 | See Source »

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