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Porn industry as U.S. HIV Shedding

Numerous companies in the adult entertainment industry billions of dollars worth of California has stopped filming after the actor was found positive for HIV.

HIV cases by clinic health care fund adult film industry (AIM) - which carried out tests required every month for 1200 actors - detection. However, the identity of actors infected with HIV were not disclosed.
AIM Clinic is trying to identify and test the performance you've starred with the actor to see if anyone with HIV or not.
Once information is disclosed, some companies have stopped production and expected other companies would follow.
Thursday 4, the two companies Vivid Entertainment and Wicked Pictures in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, the center of the adult film industry lucrative, has announced suspension of production. By yesterday, two other companies as Digital Playground and Hustler Video also similar decision.
Since 2004, 25 cases of HIV infection was detected at the AIM clinic and at least eight of whom are distinguished acute adult movies, Robert Kim-Farley, officials of the Ministry of Public Health Los Angeles, said.
Health officials said the problem of low use of condoms in porn industry makes the actors are at risk of HIV and other diseases.
California officials are considering tightening the regulations include rubber used in adult film production in the state.

The diseases caused by 'sex'

Below is the information shared by your doctor Quynh Le, experts from non-governmental organization of U.S. reproductive health care (Pathfinder International) to help the youth prevention of sexually transmitted disease status Education:
Disease sexually transmitted diseases can be spread from your partner, through semen or vaginal fluids. Some common diseases or were known to many people, including HIV, herpes and gonorrhea. Many diseases spread through sexual contact can spread through the oral, anal and vaginal sex if through these lines.
The only way to be 100% effective to prevent transmission is abstinence sex. However, the condom is also a very good measures to protect against most of these diseases. Vaginal diaphragm can also be effective protection. Other contraceptive methods such as medication, intrauterine no disease-preventing effects.
Significant factor is that some people are sick sex incubation period may have a negative test result. So, for those who have risk behaviors such as sex is not safe or sharing needles and syringes, if initially negative test should be retested a few weeks later.
The disease is spread through sexual
There are many diseases transmitted sexually. Some can be treated (such as gonorrhea, syphilis), a treatable and not fatal (like HIV).
HIV
Immunodeficiency virus in humans, called HIV is one of the sexually transmitted diseases are best known and certainly one of the most dangerous diseases. HIV attacks the immune system, making people with other infectious diseases.
When the immune system destroyed by HIV, patients will be syndrome acquired immunodeficiency (AIDS). It may be used to restrict the multiplication of HIV, however, patients still inevitably be long-term mortality.
HIV can be transmitted through sexual contact, contact with HIV infected blood or fluids of another person with HIV. HIV can be transmitted through other routes such as birth (mother to child transmitted infections), or sharing needles.
HIV was first detected in homosexual men, however, until now the spread between the same gender and sex are similar. HIV is spread through sexual contact vaginal or anal transmission easier by mouth.
Here are some facts about HIV:
- HIV does not currently be cured, but can take medicine to control.
- There are no vaccines for HIV prevention.
- HIV can infect anyone, regardless of race, gender, age or sexual orientation. - Just one in four people infected with HIV do not know they are infected.

- HIV causes AIDS.
- HIV infection have no symptoms (signs). Can not tell who is HIV positive, if only their looks.
- Can be infected with HIV from these fluids of infected persons. Sexuality does not use protective measures, shared needles or other exposure.
- Those who have sex with many people who regularly have sex without using protection measures have a higher risk of HIV infection and spread.
If you suspect they may have been exposed to HIV, and if you're unsure, you should visit your doctor for medical examination and advice immediately.
Herpes
Herpes virus (HSV) also causes sexually transmitted most popular. Like HIV, herpes can be transmitted through sexual contact, blood and other fluids in contact with other people. But unlike HIV, Hespes not lethal and does not degrade the immune system.
Herpes causes blisters in the skin of acne in the areas affected. People with herpes can be spread to others when the acne is shattered, but also can be spread even when the acne has not yet broken. It may be used to treat herpes but can not be cured.
11% women and 23% of men infected with HSV-2, is a popular type of herpes cause genital herpes. Up to 90% who tested positive for HSV-1, is the most common type of herpes in mouth herpes. Herpes is very common because most doctors do not conduct tests unless the patient complained of herpes break (to determine the diagnosis) or the proposed tests.
HPV
HPV is a virus. There are many types of HPV. Some types cause rough spots on the genitals. Some other causes of cervical cancer in women. So women should have sex Pap smear (vaginal session) periodically to detect early cervical cancer.
While the immune systems of people not affected, does not find a way to treat HPV. The doctor may remove the rough spots if they are causing troubles.
Gonorrhea and Chlamydia
The bacterial infection is transmitted sexually. They may also cause infections in other locations such as eye or throat. As well as other infectious diseases, gonorrhea and chlamydia are treated with antibiotics.
Most people infected have no symptoms, especially in women. In people with symptoms, the painful urination is a sign of the most popular. In women, both gonorrhea and chlamydia infection can make the uterus and fallopian tubes, causing the inflammation primary frame. Sub-frame member infections can lead to infertility and increased risk of remedial action outside the womb.
Syphilis
Syphilis is a bacterium. Syphilis infection has three stages. Initially, patients will have ulcers where they are infected with syphilis. In the next stage, the infected person is very typical traces with very special characteristics that appear symmetrical, ie if it appears at hand, it also appears in the left arm. If it is at bottom right, it also appears in the left buttock.
Both ulcers and you'll own. During the period from one to ten years after infection, tertiary syphilis will begin to appear. At this stage, the lesions like tumors, neurological damage or heart disease will appear.
Syphilis can be treated with antibiotics.
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Louse is lice live mu mu hair. They are not annoying as much as lice or scabies. Mu lice can be transmitted by direct skin contact with infected person, contact with clothing, bedding ... but can not be transmitted through fluids or blood.
The discussion with your partner about the disease through sexual transmission are also important.
Many people do not know they are infected and some know they are infected they did not say it before sex. Should women propose men consistently used condoms before sex, and they should also know how to wear a condom for your partner.

South Korea the world HIV Day 21 th

HIV celebration of World No. 21 took place in Seoul on Monday (1 / 12).

With the theme "Overcoming prejudice and discrimination towards the world of symbiosis," event was organized to raise awareness about HIV prevention and support and enhance the community's concern for people infected HIV.
At the ceremony, representing the Government has awarded medals to those who actively participate in HIV prevention activities.
According to the Ministry of Welfare and family, there are about 60,000 HIV infected people in South Korea and this number is increasing by every year.
Since 1988, the UN has taken on 1 / 12 every year as World Day of HIV aims to improve human rights for people with HIV.

HIV attacks film sex

Officials of American medical institution has aimed at the porn industry with a turnover of billions of dollars of California, appearing after the information said there are 16 HIV cases since 2004 due to filming but not be disclosed.
The above information was revealed last week after a woman is tested positive for HIV shortly after filming sex involved, but raises new fears about the disease AIDS in film industry for adult.
Porn industry of California said it is the first HIV cases since 2004. But in fact, 22 actors porn industry has resulted in positive comments with HIV, of which only 6 cases were publicized as the most new infections and 5 cases in 2004.
Since 2004, when an actor then a multi-pass HIV to three female actors and other actors provide a "palace" of HIV, the adult film industry with revenues of U.S. $ 12 billion per year requested question actors should be tested for HIV regularly.
Most tests were due to the health care organization of industry sex act, where professional certification actors have negative test results if they want to practice.
Health officials in California worried that the filmmaker may not comply with guidelines set forth, which asked them to tighten security measures to prevent infection disease century.
Porn industry in America largely "red flag" in the suburban San Fernando area of Los Angeles with about 200 production companies, attracting actors 1200. Since 2004, actress 1357 have resulted positive for gonorrhea and 15 people for results positive for syphilis.

Use of human blood stem cells to destroy HIV

One study showed that use of human blood stem cells to produce cells capable of killing cells find HIV infection.
The results could lead to production of a genetic vaccine is not only good news in the fight against HIV but also can be applied against a variety of chronic diseases caused by viruses.
In works on, the researchers of the University of California AIDS Institute and colleagues from the T cells "destroy" anti-inflammatory function, called CD8 T cell leukemia, from a person infected HIV.
They then identify molecules called T cell receptors - molecules oriented T cells recognize and destroy HIV infected cells.
Although these cells have the ability to kill cells infected with HIV, but they are not sufficient in quantity to eliminate the HIV virus in the body.
So researchers have conducted human T cell receptors and genetically modified stem cells of blood, then they put the stem cells in the thymus tissue, grown in mice, to reaction studies in a living body.
Stem cells have been put into production of large quantities of mature CD8 cells capable of multi-look kill cells containing HIV proteins.
The researchers also found that receptors on T cells against HIV remains to be reconciliation with similar body organs must be consistent with transplant patients.
However, results of studies show that this method could become an effective weapon in the fight against AIDS and other researchers also hope to expand to destroy viruses by this approach.
Leading members to participate in research, Associate Professor Department of Hematology and Cancer Scott G. Kitchen, David Geffen School of Medicine of the University of California, the AIDS Institute said: "These studies lay the foundation for the development of treatment involves restoring the immune response compromised by a series virus, or even the different types of tumors cause. "

Principles persons living with HIV

Studies have shown, the development from HIV to AIDS can be extended to 15-20 years or even longer depending on the maintenance of health, compliance with the rules of nutrition, sexual activity of HIV-infected patients.
Many patients now fortunate to have family care, but also a lot of people know they have HIV, but was too scared to take initiative without medical facilities, or learn self-care knowledge minh.HIV

Don'ts:
Do not smoke, because it is very harmful to the lungs and other parts on your body and will make other types of patients the opportunity to attack more easily.
Alcohol is especially harmful to your health, especially affecting the liver. In addition, alcohol can make you easily have the sexual acts that forget the safety precautions.
Avoid unnecessary drugs, because they often have side effects and can affect food and nutrition of you. If you use drugs, please read the manual.

The average life expectancy of 42 Americans ranked the world

Center for Health Statistics of the U.S. National NCHS (National Center for Health Statistics) said that although the average life expectancy of Americans has grown strongly over the past century, but still pretty low heading, world ranked 42 gender.

Results from the analysis of statistics shows that in 1900, average life expectancy of Americans is 47.3 years old in 1950 is 68.2 years old in 1970 is 70.8 years old in 1990 is 75 , 4 years old in 2000 was to increase to 77 years and in 2004 was 77.9 years old. The average life expectancy of 77.9 years old American ranked 42 in the world, fell 11 spots from two decades ago.
Doctor Christopher Murray - Institute of Analysis and Evaluation of health at the University of Washington - that "something is contrary to the law of the richest countries in the world, spending more money for hard work people's health but not longevity in other countries. "
The NCHS report said people in the tiny Andorra in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain is the world's highest life expectancy, average age 83.5. Followed by Japan, Macau, San Marino and Singapore.
The countries where people have an average life expectancy is lowest in sub-Saharan Africa, regional rates of HIV / AIDS is highest in the world and usually occurs where famine and conflict . In this area, the life of the people of Clear-Dirty-Ireland is the world's lowest, averaging 34.1 years of age, followed by Zambia, Angola, Liberia and Zimbabwe.
There are many factors that reduce the longevity of Americans compared to other countries, in which the largest element in the U.S. by up to 45 million people without health insurance, nearly one third of people aged 20 years old more obese and two thirds were overweight.
Blacks in America have an average life of 73.3 years, five years shorter than whites. Particularly for black men in America, the average life expectancy also lower, at only 69.5 years. America is also the rate of children under age 1 die is higher than Cuba, Taiwan and other industrial countries.

The world has 39.5 million people living with HIV / AIDS

The United Nations has said that HIV continues to spread with 39.5 million people worldwide are infected with this deadly virus. According to updated reports on the AIDS pandemic, the world has this year added 4.3 million people infected with HIV.

Killing of more than 25 million people since the first cases were discovered in 1981, AIDS became one of the worst diseases in history.
The area has the most HIV-infected people in Africa with 22.7 million, accounting for 64% of the world.
However, this deadly virus is spreading fastest in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, with an increase to 70% within 2 years.
South and Southeast Asia, the number of new HIV infections increased from 15% in 2004 compared with 12% in North Africa and the Middle East. The number of women infected with HIV has risen to a record 17.7 million people worldwide, more than 1 million people compared with two years ago.
Concerned at the rapid spread of HIV, but the UN was positive first step in the treatment thanks to the attention of politicians and officials of many organizations and individuals.

World: Number of cases of HIV / AIDS reduced

Annual report released on 24/11, AIDS agency under the United Nations (UNAIDS) said the number of new cases of HIV infection / AIDS and deaths from this disease are reduced by the program prevention and effective.
According to reports, 60 million people worldwide infected with HIV and 25 million people died of HIV / AIDS since the virus was first discovered three decades ago.
However, the number of new infections decreased 17% in eight years, notably in Africa, with Eastern and Southern Africa 25% 15% Sahara desert. Number of cases of new infections in South and Southeast Asia also fell 10% during this time.
Total in 2008 in the world has added 2.7 million people living with HIV / AIDS. The report also said the number of deaths worldwide from this disease decreased more than 10% in 5 years to 2 million people in 2008.
According to UNAIDS, this progress was achieved thanks to the assistance program cheap drugs helped many patients are treated.
UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said that if better management of resources and prevention programs in the areas of HIV / AIDS is most rampant world can make progress faster and save more more people in the fight against the disease of this century.
Director General World Health Organization (WHO), Margaret Chan calls on countries and international organizations to double efforts HIV / AIDS. /.

Characteristics of HIV drugs: another 13 year lifespan

Mixed prevent virus HIV drugs help patients live an average 13 more years, even if they started using drugs at age 20 may live to age 43 years, research was published in Lancet.
The study was conducted on 43 thousand HIV-infected patients living in the United States, Canada and some European countries - who were treated with a mixture of drugs to control HIV virus.

Dr. Robert Hogg, the British Columbia Center - a center for advances in the treatment of HIV / AIDS in Vancouver (Canada) and colleagues found that: In the period from 1996 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2005, there was a significantly increased life expectancy - about 13 years for patients aged 20 and patients aged 35 also have the same life expectancy increases.

The report also said the average life expectancy of people with HIV-negative at age 20 in these countries is 80 years old. "A person aged 20 starting combination therapy can live to 43 years old."

In another study also published in Lancet, Robert Bollinger doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and an international research team has discovered that if the infant daily medication Nevirapine - a anti-AIDS drugs are now widely used to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child and may increase the resistance of the virus until they are 6 weeks of age could protect them from AIDS.

A study was conducted on 1900 infants showed that if they take medication for weekly instead of simply taking the mother during pregnancy and the baby taking birth mother as soon as he can reduce infection rates up to 46%.

Doctors believe the breastfeeding mother will bring benefits in excess in poor countries, where lack of water and can hardly meet the treatment formula for infants.

Currently about 33 million people worldwide infected with AIDS virus and 25 million people have died since the epidemic began raging 80 years.

HIV patients from the first in China

After six years of being diagnosed with the disease for centuries, Wen Tong Thanh, a farmer in the village of Turkey Directed Questions (English Xuyen District, Jilin City, China) recently and have tested negative for HIV .

Xinhua news agency from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Jilin Province, China said.
In 2001, once involved in blood donation, Wen Tong Thanh was the medical staff of the CDC Xuyen district in England have reported positive results with HIV. CDC result was confirmed Jilin Province in 2003.
However, the recent recovery in July, Thanh Tong Wen of tests at the Clinical Hospital I, University of Jilin in the North American back negative for HIV. Wen Tong The decision to conduct the test again at the Hospital I, Medical University of China and three other hospitals. The tests were negative for HIV.
The test results by the CDC and the CDC of Jilin province was conducted Xuyen He later assert, Wen Tong Thanh negative for HIV.
Liu, Bao Do, former dean of HIV / AIDS CDC's Jilin Province, said, no matter what happens to the food samples, as well as previous tests. However, Professor Wu Man, member advisory council on HIV / AIDS Ministry of Health of China skeptical about the positive test results before.
He said that after active treatment, some patients not HIV, but HIV antibodies exist, so the test result is positive. Professor Yu said, the CDC error rate lower than the 0.01% level.
The agency will continue to function examined blood samples of Thanh Tong Wen, the CDC kept from Jilin Province in 2003. If all verification tests are accurate, this could be the first Chinese who have tested negative for HIV disease after infection century.
In 2003, Andrew Stimpson, a young Englishman, had tested negative after 14 months were identified as positive for HIV. There is an explanation that scientific about this rare case.

AIDS virus may disappear after surgery

One observer of the German physician causing a large coil: two years after a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia, a patient with AIDS had no traces of the virus and not have to continue treatment with drug-resistant reverse transcriptase.
This explains how? Exactly, the bone marrow transplant is never a cure AIDS cases treated, but it suggests the idea that a genetic therapy will make the transition effective immunity can. The problem is finding a possible method to prevent immune cells to block HIV CCR5 expression.

Women with the disease a global century

Century HIV disease, AIDS is rampant all over the world wrong. Sadly than women infected with numerous diseases cured this way many times higher than men. Why? According to the World Health Organization in late 2007 the number of people infected with HIV and AIDS is 30.8 million of which over half are women. 98% of women that live in developing countries. HIV and AIDS are in danger of affecting women seriously by its vulnerable biologically and by the role of women in society.
In general, women have higher HIV risk than 2 times compared with men through sex is not safe. In some countries, women are less likely to persuade men to use condoms during sex, they were largely determined by the thoughts of men.

In addition, millions of women around the world also indirectly infected with HIV and AIDS. Woman's pregnancy and the risk of transmission from mother to child is very great. Or as HIV and AIDS centers, patient care responsibilities or orphans of HIV and AIDS are part of the female nurse, so the spread has a higher effect.
There have been several measures introduced to reduce the burden of disease in women, such as promoting the protection of human rights of women, strengthening education and awareness, encouraging the development of technology new, enhanced disease prevention for women.
Women, HIV and AIDS - the global picture
The rate of women living with HIV and AIDS pandemic is often not the same between the European region and the world. Western countries, Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Oceania women infected with HIV generally lower proportion than in Africa, the Sahara area access, the Caribbean.
Sub-Saharan Africa
In 1985, HIV prevalence among women and men in this area almost equal, but his later years, the percentage of women infected with HIV increased rapidly compared with men. In 2007, 8.3 million men around the area of HIV, while women are 12 million people, and this also increases the levels of several communities in recent years.

Is a sub-Saharan region of Africa, this is always located in the area red flag in the map of HIV and AIDS World Health Organization. Here, the annual number of women infected with HIV and AIDS is always higher than 2 times compared with men. The woman is not protected by any method when having sex.
Caribbean
This is a region where an increase in the number of women infected with HIV is truly alarming. The young women here have a high risk of infection for men and 2.5 times as well as sub-Saharan Africa, where women are not protected when having sex with men.
Commercial sex is considered a key road leading to the spread of HIV and AIDS in the Caribbean this. There are nearly 35% of prostitutes are infected with HIV here, and with a place where women do not know when or unprotected sex, then make sure the infection to others is very high, then the man ever "go girl" in this area back home and spread the infection to their wives is almost certain.

In Haiti, from 1985 to 1987: the number of women infected with HIV increased to 63% from 1999 to 2003: this percentage is 22%. Although the HIV infection rate for women increased less than in previous years but this is still a frightening figure for other areas of the world.
American States
According to incomplete statistics, in U.S. women infected with HIV in 2004 is 127.061 people, and early in 2008, this number had increased to 146.692 people.
72% of women in this way with HIV through sex is not safe, 28% of children are infected through injecting way as ...
In the Americas region in general and Latin America in particular, the proportion of women migrants is very high, accompanied by infectious diseases, including HIV and AIDS pandemic. Where the majority population of HIV through sex is not safe, including gay people also do not constitute a small proportion of HIV transmission in this region.
Asia
Estimated, in Asia to nearly 5 million people are living with HIV and AIDS, of which about 35% are women. HIV infection rate among women is also different countries and places most affected by India. Although most Asian countries are often the feudal country, a woman must keep the road a lot but spread is from husbands or their boyfriends. 90% of the women in Asia are infected with HIV by her husband having unsafe sex with a prostitute or drug injection.
In India, some 2.5 million people infected with HIV of whom 40% women, a poor economy and perceptions of women are limited barriers preventing measures against the infection HIV on women in particular and the community in general.

Saliva test to find HIV in minutes

American dentists are providing a service the new saliva test can detect HIV within a few minutes.
Catrise Austin doctor used this technique for about 100 tests for HIV patients in the hospital's VIP Smiles in New York from July this year, Fox News said.
The test is simple: saliva taken from the upper and lower gums of the patient, put into test, called OraQuick Advance, $ 15 costs.
Within 20 minutes, the gauze will change color, indicating that negative or positive, similar to home pregnancy test stick.
Nationwide, some public health facilities, including in New York City trial transferred to HIV testing for Dentists.
There is every 10 Americans who visited a dentist (not a doctor) every year, and about a quarter of those infected with HIV do not know about your situation.