People with HIV are living longer with the use of antiretroviral drugs, but some of that may come at a cost. Researchers have noticed that certain types of cancers, such as anal, lung, Hodgkin’s, melanoma or liver cancer are more common in this group. People with HIV have a 60% higher chance of developing these cancers than do people who don’t have HIV.
Researchers looked at 66,840 patients who had cancer and did not have HIV and 33,420 who had cancer and did have HIV. The types of cancers the researchers were looking for (anal, lung, liver, etc) were cancers that …read more

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 10% of the world’s population has some sort of disability. Disabilities, be they blindness or restricted physical movement, can interfere with access to healthcare and they can make a person more vulnerable to certain illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS, say WHO experts.
If you’d like to listen to a podcast about this topic, click on the radio to listen to Persons with disabilities particularly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS:

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For many girls raised in relatively wealthy countries, it’s hard to understand what life can be like for girls who aren’t as fortunate. And sadly, there are girls like that around the world, those who are poor, who are hungry, who are orphaned – girls who have no-one to turn to.
The Kingdom of Lesotho is a small landlocked country (11,720 square miles), surrounded on all sides by South Africa. Lesotho is also one of the many countries that has been hard by HIV and AIDS.
According to AVERT, an international AIDS charity ,
Lesotho is a small country where 18,000 people died …read more

May 18 is HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, but sadly that doesn’t mean a day for making you aware of the vaccine. The world has been living with HIV for more than 25 years now, and there’s still no vaccine.
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day is an opportunity to strengthen the commitment to finding a safe and effective HIV vaccine to end the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It’s also a time to give thanks to the thousands of volunteers, scientists and health professionals working to end the pandemic.
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, nearly 34 million people are living with HIV …read more

When I was a teen (in the dark ages), the most women had to worry about if they were sexually active was getting pregnant or catching a treatable sexually transmitted disease (STD). Because of the pregnancy concern, the Pill was a major breakthrough for women, changing their lives.
Unfortunately, the world has changed significantly since the 70s. Now, sex without a barrier method of protection is like playing Russian Roulette. I don’t think we should even call barrier protection birth control. That’s a misnomer, in my mind. Those barriers are life-savers. They prevent the transmission of illnesses like HIV, which may …read more

This is pretty powerful. Along with Bobby Shriver and global brand names such as The Gap, American Express and others to appeal to our sense of compassion and charity, Bono has done it again.
He has put his faith in Americans (I think some know that many Americans are more selfless than we are sometimes perceived) and all giving individuals around the world to help with the fight of disease, poverty and devastation (specifically AIDS) in Africa.
Join Product Red and put confidence in Bono’s heart that we are capable of helping…and buy some great stuff, including the fabulous new Red …read more