All you need to know about HIV

[peter69on]

Even if they found the cure. I wonder
will they ever disclosed to the world.

[andyk]

Originally Posted by peter69on

Even if they found the cure. I wonder
will they ever disclosed to the world.

=> BRO,juz wonder why U think liked that ? It means whoever or which drug co found the cure will be very,very famous & make billions !!! And maybe the CD makers will lose some biz !!!

[peter69on]

Originally Posted by andyk

=> BRO,juz wonder why U think liked that ? It means whoever or which drug co found the cure will be very,very famous & make billions !!! And maybe the CD makers will lose some biz !!!

I got the feeling that these people are making more people from
sponsors and funding in all these researchers. Everynow and then just produce a better medicine that can contain hiv and cost of that medicine is further increase higher. These medicine can prolong another few years but is more expensive. So which one will chose? the expensive one. Therefore, the cost will be slowly going higher every now and then.

If the cure were to be found,people would sooner or later duplicate. Hiv would be as simple as flu. It is a cruel fact. The latter definetely generate more money compared to the cure.

Of course, i hope i am wrong. But i believe things are always not so simple
and kind as it suppose to be make up by as these people. They arent angel
too. Perhaps, the cure has long been discovered years ago.

I saw a news recently wwhere a hiv person become negative after he had gone through a organ transplant. It is so alien and strange to me.

[coolio77]

hey big and senior bros,

I wana make my question short and clear.

BBBJ-I know risk lower than FJ w/o CD but it's been known physical contact=no risk. FJ and BBBJ however are little bit different. If BBBJ with cuts/wounds of course BIG risk. If female is infected, just wana know based on the big bros and perhaps some with professional experience, will the male be infected?

I'm referring to all STD(heard it's renamed to STI) and AIDS and HIV...any form contractal from us samsters facing if we're not careful..

thanks..

[adamleek]

Dear all bro,

I am very confusing with my health now.. Coz of the TV show "Bu fan de Ai". i got no coughing like him.. but Flu getting worst.. even taking medicine also quite useless.. sore at my back and eyes.. but no other related syntom.. does it mean that i have HIV ? I am just quite new to commercial sex .. feel so uneasy and uncomfortable now.. will have a HIV test soon..

[Big Sexy]

AFP - Monday, December 1
Singapore likely to see record HIV cases in 2008: govt - Yahoo! Singapore News

SINGAPORE, Dec 1, 2008 (AFP) - The number of HIV cases in Singapore is likely to hit record levels in 2008 as more go for tests to detect the virus, the government said.
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There were 382 new cases of HIV infections in the first 10 months of the year among local residents, the ministry of health said on its website.

"In comparison, there were 423 HIV cases notified for the whole of 2007," the statement said.

"It can be expected that the total number of notified HIV cases in 2008 will exceed that of last year."

Last year's total was the highest in a single year since records began in 1985.

As of October, a total of 3,865 people in Singapore were found infected with HIV, including at least 1,144 who later died.

Singapore has toughened health laws in a bid to stem the spread of AIDS, which is commonly transmitted by unprotected sex.

Since this year, it is an offence for people who know they are infected with the virus not to inform their partners of their status before engaging in sexual intercourse.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS, which breaks down the body's immune system, leaving an infected individual vulnerable to a range of diseases. AIDS has no known cure.

[Big Sexy]

Male circumcision lowers cervical cancer risk: study
18 Dec 2008
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox, Health And Science Editor –
Male circumcision lowers cervical cancer risk: study - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three studies published on Wednesday add to evidence that circumcision can protect men from the deadly AIDS virus and the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.

The reports in the Journal of Infectious Diseases are likely to add to the debate over whether men -- and newborn boys -- should be circumcised to protect their health and perhaps the health of their future sexual partners.

Dr. Bertran Auvert of the University of Versailles in France and colleagues in South Africa tested more than 1,200 men visiting a clinic in South Africa,

They found under 15 percent of the circumcised men and 22 percent of the uncircumcised men were infected with the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which is the main cause of cervical cancer and genital warts.

"This finding explains why women with circumcised partners are at a lower risk of cervical cancer than other women," they wrote in their report.

A second paper looking at U.S. men had less clear-cut results, but Carrie Nielson of Oregon Health & Science University and colleagues said they found some indication that circumcision might protect men.

The circumcised men were about half as likely to have HPV as uncircumcised men, after adjustment for other differences between the two groups.

PREVENTING AIDS

In the third report, Lee Warner of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and colleagues tested African-American men in Baltimore and found 10 percent of those at high risk of infection with HIV who were circumcised had the virus, compared to 22 percent of those who were not.

"Circumcision was associated with substantially reduced HIV risk in patients with known HIV exposure, suggesting that results of other studies demonstrating reduced HIV risk for circumcision among heterosexual men likely can be generalized to the U.S. context," they wrote.

Studies supporting circumcision to reduce HIV transmission had all been done in Africa and U.S. studies were less clear.

Dr. Ronald Gray of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and colleagues said they found the reports encouraging.

"In the United States, circumcision is less common among African American and Hispanic men, who are also the subgroups most at risk of HIV," they wrote in a commentary.

"Thus, circumcision may afford an additional means of protection from HIV in these at-risk minorities."

But they noted that the American Academy of Pediatrics does not recommend routine circumcision for newborns.

"As a consequence of this AAP decision, Medicaid does not cover circumcision costs, and this is particularly disadvantageous for poorer African American and Hispanic boys who, as adults, may face high HIV exposure risk," Gray and colleagues wrote.

"It is also noteworthy that circumcision rates have been declining in the U.S., possibly because of lack of Medicaid coverage."

Medicaid is the state-federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled.

Thirty-three million people globally are infected with AIDS, which has no cure and no vaccine. HPV is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the world, with 20 million people in the United States infected. It causes cervical cancer, which kills 300,000 women globally every year.

[Big Sexy]

HIV infects women through healthy tissue: U.S. study
By Julie Steenhuysen Julie Steenhuysen – Wed Dec 17, 12:27 pm ET

This handout illustration shows how the HIV virus slips between loosely Reuters – This handout illustration shows how the HIV virus slips between loosely connected skin cells to reach …

HIV infects women through healthy tissue: U.S. study - Yahoo! News
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Instead of infiltrating breaks in the skin, HIV appears to attack normal, healthy genital tissue, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study that offers new insight into how the AIDS virus spreads.

They said researchers had assumed the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, sought out breaks in the skin, such as a herpes sore, in order to gain access to immune system cells deeper in the tissue.

Some had even thought the normal lining of the vaginal tract offered a barrier to invasion by the virus during sexual intercourse.

"Normal skin is vulnerable," said Thomas Hope of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine said in a telephone interview.

"It was previously thought there had to be a break in it somehow," said Hope, who is presenting his findings at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting in San Francisco.

He said until now, scientists had little understanding of the details of how HIV is transmitted sexually in women.

Hope and colleagues at Northwestern in Chicago and Tulane University in New Orleans developed a new method for seeing the virus at work. They studied newly removed vaginal tissue taken from hysterectomy surgeries, and introduced the virus which carried fluorescent, light-activated tracers.

Then they watched under a microscope as the virus penetrated the outer lining of the female genital tract, called the squamous epithelium. They also observed this same process in non-human primates.

In both cases, they found HIV was able to quickly move past the genital skin barrier to reach immune cells, which the virus targets.

Hope said the study suggests the virus takes aim at places in the skin that had recently shed skin cells, in much the same way that skin on the body flakes off.

The finding casts doubt on the prior theory of the virus requiring a break in the skin or gained access through a single layer of skin cells that line the cervical canal.

And it might explain why some prevention efforts have failed. Hope said one clinical trial in Africa in which women used a diaphragm to block the cervix had no effect at reducing transmission of the virus. Nor have studies of drugs designed to prevent lesions in genital herpes proven effective.

Hope said the findings emphasize the need for treatments such as a vaccine to prevent infection.

And it makes clear the need for the use of condoms, which are highly effective at preventing infection.

"People need to remember that they are vulnerable," Hope said. "The sad part is if people just used a condom, we wouldn't have this problem," he said.

In the United States, HIV is mostly passed among men who have sex with men. Females account for 26 percent of all new HIV cases in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Globally, HIV is more commonly spread by heterosexual sex. The virus has infected 33 million people globally and has killed 25 million.

(Editing by Will Dunham)

[iwalu]

Bro,
"It is worse with multiple partners and those with HIV infection."
Do you mean multiple partners are tarma session?

Or different partners on different day?

[Big Sexy]

multiple partners = 2 or more sex partners
we are talking about the numbers of sex partners, be it same day/session or different day/session.

Originally Posted by iwalu

Bro,
Do you mean multiple partners are tarma session?
Or different partners on different day?

[worrying]

where in sg offers the p24 antigen test or HIV PCR test?

[burnout]

Hi all bros,

I have this scenario

one nite i was pretty drunk and got hook up with a Nite club girl then when i
was abt to penetrate her my little bro suddenly go soft( i also don know why) then i thought maybe is because of the condom so i took it out and try continue but still cant get it up ( damn Paiseh )

I think this is a blessing in disguise as i know for sure once its hard again i would definitely penetrate her raw. Now my question is her juice aactually flow down to my penis but i didnt penetrate her at all. Will there be any risk ?

Please advise all kind bros

[worrying]

Originally Posted by profane

Hey dickhead, HIV can be found in the blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid or vaginal fluid of a person infected with the virus.

So as long there are no open wound on your dicky then you are safe.

If not, GOD Bless!.

doesnt have to have a cut rite? at the urethra also will tio wat.. if need a cut on a dick...then it's quite unlikely to get hiv via raw..


anyway, i think all the symptoms for hiv infection is bullshit...in the sense that those are generic symptoms for ANY viral infection.

we shld just wait for the 6 week mark and test. im done with symptoms.

[burnout]

Originally Posted by burnout

Hi all bros,

I have this scenario

one nite i was pretty drunk and got hook up with a Nite club girl then when i
was abt to penetrate her my little bro suddenly go soft( i also don know why) then i thought maybe is because of the condom so i took it out and try continue but still cant get it up ( damn Paiseh )

I think this is a blessing in disguise as i know for sure once its hard again i would definitely penetrate her raw. Now my question is her juice aactually flow down to my penis but i didnt penetrate her at all. Will there be any risk ?

Please advise all kind bros

any1 got some sincere advise?
beside all the crap

[worrying]

something i got from the body

Forum on Safe Sex and HIV Prevention: Non-Specific Symptoms


Regarding ARS, symptoms generally appear 1-3 weeks of contracting the virus. Sometimes symptoms may not appear until 4-6 weeks. It is called a syndrome (Acute Retroviral Syndrome), because it is a collection of symptoms that can be extremely variable form person to person. In fact, symptoms alone are notoriously unreliable in predicting HIV infection. It is estimated that 40-90% of acutely infected folks will have some ARS symptoms. But to specifically answer your question, the following is a list of symptoms associated with ARS and the percentage of time the symptoms are present:

Fever 96%

Adenopathy 74%

Pharyngitis 70%

Rash 70%

Myalgias 54%

Headache 32%

Diarrhea 32%

Nausea or vomiting 27%

Hepatosplenomegaly 14%

Thrush 12%

Neurologic symptoms 12%

The duration of symptoms is generally 1-3 weeks.