HIV and AIDS
Tags: HIV (Viruses); AIDS (Disease); SEXUAL intercourse; HEALTH
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- Young Men. // Population Reports;Spring2004, Vol. 32 Issue 2, p18
Reports on the findings of a health survey about the sexual activity among young men in several regions including sub-Saharan Africa. Proportion of adolescent men who have had sex before marriage; Measure of the period in which young men are potentially most exposed to risk of HIV or AIDS;...
- Three Million AIDS Cases Seen. // Society;May/Jun91, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p3
This article reports on a study released by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) which estimates that more than three million people in the Western Hemisphere will be infected with the AIDS virus by the mid-1990s. The health organization said that in some countries of the Caribbean and in...
- HIV Disease: Current Concepts. Keeling, Richard P. // Journal of Counseling & Development;Jan/Feb93, Vol. 71 Issue 3, p261
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes a chronic, progressive, immune deficiency disease, the most severe phase of which is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV is a newly characterized human retrovirus transmitted only by direct exposure to blood or blood derivatives, certain...
- Duty of confidentiality and HIV/AIDS: PD v Harvey. Mair, Judith // Health Information Management Journal;2009, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p49
The issue of doctor-patient confidentiality in situations where the doctor can reasonably foresee that third parties associated with the patient could be put at risk by the patient's medical status is a continuing conundrum. In a case heard in the New South Wales Supreme Court in 1999, BT v Oei...
- Concern over AIDS changed sexual behavior among one third of unmarried U.S. women. Remez, L. // Family Planning Perspectives;Sep/Oct91, Vol. 23 Issue 5, p234
This article presents a study that examined sexually experienced, unmarried U.S. women who have changed their sexual behavior in response to the threat of AIDS. The most common change is limiting their number of sexual partners to one man. Most U.S. women, however, perceive their risk of...
- Why aren't we talking more about HIV? Corvino, John // Between the Lines (10807551);10/7/2010, Issue 1840, p8
In this article, the author focuses on the issue regarding the less discussion about HIV and AIDS among LGBT people in the U.S. The author states the significance of knowing the partner's HIV status before lovemaking. The author cites the increasing number of gays with HIV, particularly those...
- Time of Exposure and Risk of HIV Infection in Homosexual Partners of Men with AIDS. Osmond, Dennis; Baccuetti, Peter; Chaisson, Richard E.; Kelly, Thomas; Stempel, Robert; Carlson, James; Moss, Andrew R. // American Journal of Public Health;Aug88, Vol. 78 Issue 8, p944
Abstract: We interviewed, and tested for HIV antibody, 117 homosexual men who had been regular sexual partners of men who developed acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); 85 tested seropositive. Receptive anal intercourse with the index AIDS case and number of different sexual partners with...
- How safe is safe sex? Whetstone, Muriel L. // Ebony;Jul1994, Vol. 49 Issue 9, p96
Discusses what safe sex is and how safe it really is. Comment by US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders; HIV, the virus that causes AIDS; Discussion of male and female condoms.
- Letter from Brasilia: AIDS: It came for the carnival. Marsden, P.S. // BMJ: British Medical Journal (International Edition);2/9/91, Vol. 302 Issue 6772, p337
Reports the experience of the author in attending to AIDS victim in the United States. Lists of people prone to AIDS; Treatment of the virus infection; Prevalence and spread of the disease related to the sexual activity of the community.
