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Britain Allows Some Gay Men to Donate Blood -- Why Not the US?
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsBritain is reversing its ban on gay men donating blood, but there's a catch: Homosexual blood donors have to swear they haven't had sex with another man in the past 10 years. British health officials are expected to implement the change in the coming weeks, reversing a decades-long ban that gay rights advocates had decried as discriminatory. They argued that many gay men practice safe sex in monogamous relationships or are abstinent altogether, and thus were being excluded from charity blood drives by a blanket ban solely because of their sexual orientation. Getty Images Britain ...
More Families Are Adopting HIV-Positive Children
By not in system - AOL NewsThe immediate task might be coaxing a toddler into one more swallow of nasty-tasting medication. Longer term, there are tough choices to be made about telling that child - and the surrounding community - why those daily doses may be needed for the rest of his or her life. While most adoptions present challenges, there's a distinctive set of them facing parents who decide to adopt children living with HIV. A twice-daily medication regimen, lingering prejudice and fear, uncertainty about the child's longevity and marriage prospects. Mary Ellen Moody, AP The Vander Zwaag family poses ...
Elizabeth Taylor's Greatest Role: Nation's First AIDS Advocate [VIDEOS]
By not in system - AOL NewsEven more than her collections of husbands and jewels, Elizabeth Taylor's legacy may well be her philanthropic efforts -- particularly her commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS. Taylor was the first public figure to speak out against the disease at a time when it was still surrounded by misinformation and fear. "We all heard of it, and nobody was doing anything about it," Taylor said on "Larry King Live" in 2003, according to ABC. "And it made me so angry that we all sat around the dining room table, 'Isn't this awful, isn't this tragic? Oh, my God.' But nobody was doing anything. And that ...
Liz Taylor's Life in Film and Husbands
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsElizabeth Taylor, who died early this morning at the age of 79, had a prolific life in marriage, film, philanthropy, sickness and diamonds. A consummate Hollywood starlet, Taylor spent only 12 years of her life under the radar before she burst into stardom with her role in 1944's "National Velvet." She was truly "famous for being famous," as Adam Bernstein writes in her obituary in The Washington Post, appearing on the cover of Life magazine 14 times and on the cover of People more than 25 times. She is survived by four children, 10 grandchildren, four great grandchildren and godchildren ...
Transplant Patient Got AIDS From New Kidney
By not in system - AOL NewsATLANTA -- A transplant patient contracted AIDS from the kidney of a living donor, in the first documented case of its kind in the U.S. since screening for HIV began in the mid-1980s. It turns out the donor had unprotected gay sex in the 11 weeks between the time he tested negative and the time the surgery took place in 2009. In a report Thursday on the New York City case, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that organ donors have repeat HIV tests a week before surgery. "The most sensitive test needs to be done as close as possible to the time of transplant," said Dr. ...
Gene Therapy Raises Hope for a Future AIDS Cure
By not in system - AOL NewsIn a bold new approach ultimately aimed at trying to cure AIDS, scientists used genetic engineering in six patients to develop blood cells that are resistant to HIV, the virus that causes the disease. It's far too early to know if this scientific first will prove to be a cure, or even a new treatment. The research was only meant to show that, so far, it seems feasible and safe. The concept was based on the astonishing case of an AIDS patient who seems to be cured after getting blood cells from a donor with natural immunity to HIV nearly four years ago in Berlin. Researchers are seeking a ...
A Promising New Approach to Cure AIDS [VIDEO]
By not in system - AOL NewsIn a bold new attempt to cure AIDS, scientists used genetic engineering in six patients to develop blood cells that are resistant to infection with the virus that causes the disease. ...
Opinion: A Healthy Crisis at a UN-Backed Health Fund
By not in system - AOL NewsThe UN-backed effort to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria is in trouble. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Recently it came to light that the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria reported that at least $34 million in grants -- used to procure drugs and other commodities for the world's poor -- had been stolen, along with some of the commodities themselves. Last month, Germany joined Sweden in demanding an investigation of the waste and fraud; Germany has suspended financial transfers of more than $250 million until it is completed. In the U.S., the House ...
French Aristocrats Debut 'Luxury' Condoms
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsThere's certainly a market for luxury cars and luxury condos. But what about luxury condoms? A pair of self-described French aristocrats have launched a high-end condom company that aims to offer customers protection -- as well as an air of prestige. The minds behind The Original Condom Co. say there is a demand for classier prophylactics in the same way there is a demand for luxury brands like Rolls Royce, Cartier and Dior. The Original Condom Co. What does your condom say about you? The prophylactics manufacturers at The Original Condom Co. say they've made a classier condom ...
Belgian Catholic Leader Says Church Does Not Have to Compensate Sex Abuse Victims
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThe controversial prelate appointed less than a year ago by Pope Benedict XVI to push the liberal-leaning Catholic Church in Belgium in a more conservative direction has sparked yet another uproar by telling a government commission that the church has no obligation to compensate victims of sexual abuse by priests. "The civil court must determine the compensation and the offender [the accused priest] must pay," Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels told a parliamentary commission in testimony three days before Christmas. According to the National Catholic Reporter, which ...
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