Welcome to the HIV megathread!
This thread will be used to discuss all kinds of HIV related topics such as:
- What is HIV?
- WHO disease staging system for HIV infection and disease
- How HIV is transmitted(2)
- Can you get HIV through kissing?(2)
- Can you get HIV through oral sex?(2)
- Probabilities of HIV transmission (2)(3)(4) (5)(6)
- Reducing Risk (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7) (8 )(9)(10)(11)
- Needle Exchange Locations (US)(2)
-How risky is risky sex? HIV, condoms and the PARTNER study Video
- Am I infected?
- HIV anxiety linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (2) (3) (4)
- When to get tested (2) (3)
- Dealing with a positive result
- Attitude (optimism)
- Life expectancy (2) (3)
- Disclosure. Who, why, when, how? (2)
-HIV Disclosure To Children
- Relationships
- Family
- Sero-concordant
- Sero-discordance
- Blame
- Stigma (2) (3)
- Serophobia(2)
- Personal stories
- Blogs
- Forums (2)
- HIV and Me (Documentary)
- HIV Life Cycle (Animation)
- HIV Replication Steps (Animation)
- How HIV reproduces in your body (Animation)
- Seroconversion (2)
- Hepatitis C (2) (3) (4) (5)(6)
- Co infection (2)
- STIs (2) (3) (4)(5)
- Anti retro-viral drugs available (2) (3)
- When to start treatment
- What drugs will work for you?
- How some drugs work (Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitors) (Animation)
- Possible side effects
- Drug Interaction Charts (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
- Adherence (Time zone changes)
- Vitamins, Minerals and Herbal Supplements (2)
- PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) (2) (3)(4)(5)
- PEP (Post-exposure prophylaxis) (2)(3)
- CD4 & Viral Load, the basics
- Undetectible Viral Load (2)
- Living with HIV
- Mental Health
- Healthy living
- Can HIV+ people have children? (2) (3)
- Conceiving Naturally(2)
- Sperm washing
- Insurance
- Travel
- Travel insurance
- Criminalization (2)(3)(4)
- Discrimination, know your rights
- Law(2) (3)
- HIV Is Not a Crime, 2011 Film by Sean Strub
- Non documentary films and documentary style films
- HIV and drug culture (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
- Injecting drug users(2)
- Getting High on HIV Medication (Documentary)
- Efavirenz: New starting point for 5-HT2a agonists
- Slamming parties and the possible link to HIV
- HIV 'then' and HIV 'now'
- Infographic: HIV/AIDS—Then and Now
- Myths debunked(2)
- Living Beyond Loss
- Functional cure / future cure:
VISCONTI study;
Berlin patient;
American baby;(2)
DAVEI;
stem-cells;
DNA Scissors;
Genetic Engineering;
New weakness found in HIV;
CCR5 Gene Therapy Milestone;
[url=http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-undetectable-two-patients-following-cancer-treatment]Bone marrow transplants / CCR5 gene;
CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology;
Vaccine;
Proteins[/url] (etc.).
-Stand Tall
.HIV
General Links:
http://www.bhiva.org/
http://www.tht.org.uk/
http://www.aides.org/
http://www.thebody.com/
http://www.aidsmap.com/
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
http://www.poz.com/
http://www.thelancet.com/themed/hiv-aids-2013
http://www.gmhc.org/
http://www.reddit.com/r/hivaids/
http://www.reddit.com/r/hepc/
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/439371/UFC-HIV-awareness-campaign/
Awareness Days (2)
The USA Center for Disease Control’s AIDS hotline is 1-800-342-2437.
The UK national AIDS helpline is 0800 567 123, there is an ethnic languages service available on 0800 917 2227.
The definitive list of Australian AIDS organisations can be found at http://www.medicalonline.com.au/medi.../resources.htm - there are toll-free numbers included in the list.
AID Atlanta
(404) 872-0600 www.aidatianta.org
AIDS Project Los Angeles (323) 993-1500 www.apia.org
Gay City, Seattle (206) 860-6969 www.gaycity.org
Gay Life, San Francisco AIDS Foundation
(415) 788-LIFE www.gaylife.org
Gay Men's Health Crisis New York City
(212) 367-1000 www.gmhc.org
National AIDS Hotline
English: (800) 342-2437 Spanish: (800) 344-7432
Stop AIDS Project, San Francisco
(415) 575-0150 www.stopaids.org
Australian Federation of AIDS Organizations (2) 221 2955
Eire (AIDS Helpline, Dublin) (1) 872 4277
France (AIDS Ftdtration Nationale)
(1) 53 26 26 26
Germany (Deutsche AIDS-HILFE) (30) 69 00 87-42
Dutch HIV Association (20) 685 0055
Sad-Schorer
(20) 662 4206
Terence Higgins Trust Helpline 0171 242 1010
UK National AIDS Helpline 0800 567 123
National AIDS Helpline (Northern Ireland) 0800 137 437
This thread is very much a work in progress. Let us if you have ideas for improving this thread.
This thread will be used to discuss all kinds of HIV related topics such as:
- What is HIV?
- WHO disease staging system for HIV infection and disease
- How HIV is transmitted(2)
- Can you get HIV through kissing?(2)
- Can you get HIV through oral sex?(2)
- Probabilities of HIV transmission (2)(3)(4) (5)(6)
- Reducing Risk (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7) (8 )(9)(10)(11)
- Needle Exchange Locations (US)(2)
-How risky is risky sex? HIV, condoms and the PARTNER study Video
- Am I infected?
- HIV anxiety linked to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) (2) (3) (4)
- When to get tested (2) (3)
- Dealing with a positive result
- Attitude (optimism)
- Life expectancy (2) (3)
- Disclosure. Who, why, when, how? (2)
-HIV Disclosure To Children
- Relationships
- Family
- Sero-concordant
- Sero-discordance
- Blame
- Stigma (2) (3)
- Serophobia(2)
- Personal stories
- Blogs
- Forums (2)
- HIV and Me (Documentary)
- HIV Life Cycle (Animation)
- HIV Replication Steps (Animation)
- How HIV reproduces in your body (Animation)
- Seroconversion (2)
- Hepatitis C (2) (3) (4) (5)(6)
- Co infection (2)
- STIs (2) (3) (4)(5)
- Anti retro-viral drugs available (2) (3)
- When to start treatment
- What drugs will work for you?
- How some drugs work (Reverse-Transcriptase-Inhibitors) (Animation)
- Possible side effects
- Drug Interaction Charts (2)(3)(4)(5)(6)
- Adherence (Time zone changes)
- Vitamins, Minerals and Herbal Supplements (2)
- PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) (2) (3)(4)(5)
- PEP (Post-exposure prophylaxis) (2)(3)
- CD4 & Viral Load, the basics
- Undetectible Viral Load (2)
- Living with HIV
- Mental Health
- Healthy living
- Can HIV+ people have children? (2) (3)
- Conceiving Naturally(2)
- Sperm washing
- Insurance
- Travel
- Travel insurance
- Criminalization (2)(3)(4)
- Discrimination, know your rights
- Law(2) (3)
- HIV Is Not a Crime, 2011 Film by Sean Strub
- Non documentary films and documentary style films
- HIV and drug culture (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
- Injecting drug users(2)
- Getting High on HIV Medication (Documentary)
- Efavirenz: New starting point for 5-HT2a agonists
- Slamming parties and the possible link to HIV
- HIV 'then' and HIV 'now'
- Infographic: HIV/AIDS—Then and Now
- Myths debunked(2)
- Living Beyond Loss
- Functional cure / future cure:
VISCONTI study;
Berlin patient;
American baby;(2)
DAVEI;
stem-cells;
DNA Scissors;
Genetic Engineering;
New weakness found in HIV;
CCR5 Gene Therapy Milestone;
[url=http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/hiv-undetectable-two-patients-following-cancer-treatment]Bone marrow transplants / CCR5 gene;
CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing technology;
Vaccine;
Proteins[/url] (etc.).
-Stand Tall
.HIV
General Links:
http://www.bhiva.org/
http://www.tht.org.uk/
http://www.aides.org/
http://www.thebody.com/
http://www.aidsmap.com/
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/
http://www.poz.com/
http://www.thelancet.com/themed/hiv-aids-2013
http://www.gmhc.org/
http://www.reddit.com/r/hivaids/
http://www.reddit.com/r/hepc/
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/439371/UFC-HIV-awareness-campaign/
Awareness Days (2)
The USA Center for Disease Control’s AIDS hotline is 1-800-342-2437.
The UK national AIDS helpline is 0800 567 123, there is an ethnic languages service available on 0800 917 2227.
The definitive list of Australian AIDS organisations can be found at http://www.medicalonline.com.au/medi.../resources.htm - there are toll-free numbers included in the list.
AID Atlanta
(404) 872-0600 www.aidatianta.org
AIDS Project Los Angeles (323) 993-1500 www.apia.org
Gay City, Seattle (206) 860-6969 www.gaycity.org
Gay Life, San Francisco AIDS Foundation
(415) 788-LIFE www.gaylife.org
Gay Men's Health Crisis New York City
(212) 367-1000 www.gmhc.org
National AIDS Hotline
English: (800) 342-2437 Spanish: (800) 344-7432
Stop AIDS Project, San Francisco
(415) 575-0150 www.stopaids.org
Australian Federation of AIDS Organizations (2) 221 2955
Eire (AIDS Helpline, Dublin) (1) 872 4277
France (AIDS Ftdtration Nationale)
(1) 53 26 26 26
Germany (Deutsche AIDS-HILFE) (30) 69 00 87-42
Dutch HIV Association (20) 685 0055
Sad-Schorer
(20) 662 4206
Terence Higgins Trust Helpline 0171 242 1010
UK National AIDS Helpline 0800 567 123
National AIDS Helpline (Northern Ireland) 0800 137 437
This thread is very much a work in progress. Let us if you have ideas for improving this thread.
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