Results tagged “hiv”

--Maybe Fung Wah isn't so bad after all. The local press picked up on a b0st0n LiveJournal story that a Peter Pan bus driver felt that his passengers on a trip to Boston should be punished and forced to stay on the bus in Framingham because one of them called the company about his poor driving. The driver's sorry ass is about to get fired. [WBZ, b0st0n Live Journal]

The Boston Public Health Commission placed a billboard featuring a giant pair of hands unwrapping a giant condom in an awkward spot – across the street from a Catholic School in Dorchester. Somehow, it never occurred to the people locating the billboards that the officials of the Saint Kevin School might get a tad upset. No one asked the kids what they thought – they are probably getting quite a kick out of it, and...

On December 1, 1981 the first AIDS (SIDA in several languages) diagnosis was made. Today, in rememberance of that date of diagnosis, is World AIDS Day 2005. Before that science had provided no explanation for a rapidly increasing death. By 1986 donated blood has been routinely screened for HIV. In a practice of questionable morals and rationale, the Red Cross would not accept blood donations from persons who had engaged in homosexual acts (some chapters have changed this practice). Since 198,7 and the first United Nations AIDS program sponsored World AIDS Day, awareness become greater, treatments have become stronger, but the mystery of HIV/AIDS still remains unsolved.

"Knowing how gp120 changes shape is a new route to inhibiting HIV - by using compounds that inhibit the shape change," Stephen Harrison, head of the research team, said. (from chinadaily.com)