the man who used hiv as a weapon?
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This powerful documentary tells the intimate and shocking accounts of five men who were abused by Daryll Rowe - the first ever person in the UK to be convicted after deliberately infecting men with HIV. The men in this film have waived their anonymity to speak publicly for the first time.
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At the end of last year, Kats who was going through what seemed like severe trauma and mental breakdown revealed that he was living with HIV. The revelation shocked many of his fans and inevitably sucked in Fille and their daughter.
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Drug abuse and addiction have been inextricably linked with HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the epidemic. While intravenous drug use is well known in this regard, less recognized is the role that drug abuse plays more generally in the spread of HIV by increasing the likelihood of high-risk sex with infected partners.
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The HIV infection is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). After HIV is in the body, it starts to destroy CD4+ cells, which are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease.
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Antiretroviral treatment (ART) reduces the level of HIV in your blood so that it cannot damage your immune system. If you do not take your medication correctly (at the right time every day), the level of HIV in your blood may increase and the treatment may stop working. This is known as developing drug resistance.
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['Live with or have sex with someone who has hepatitis A.', 'Travel to countries where hepatitis A is common.', 'Are a man who has sex with other men.', 'Use illegal drugs.', 'Have a clotting-factor disorder (such as hemophilia)']
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HIV can be transmitted by needle-sharing; HIV/AIDS can be transmitted through bodily fluids . If you come into contact with blood, semen, or vaginal secretions infected with HIV, you can contract the disease.
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These viruses can cause cancer in people with and without HIV, but the risk might be higher in people with HIV because their immune systems are less able to control the viral growth. For example, anal cancer and some mouth and throat cancers are linked to infection with HPV, the same virus that causes cervical cancer.
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The now retired 38-year-old Mabizela is an HIV/Aids councillor and spends most of his time giving advice to young people on how to avoid drug and alcohol abuse. ... "We are at war with drugs and alcohol and we can't run away from that.
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['people who have unprotected sex.', 'men who have sex with men.', 'people living with HIV.', 'individuals with more than one sexual partner.']
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Even when HIV-positive blood comes in contact with another person's open wound, it rarely leads to transmission. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta studied thousands of such cases and determined the risk of infection is — out of 1,000.
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Laws in favor Along with Brazil, Argentina was one of the first countries to provide free treatment to people living with HIV. The National AIDS Law, among other mechanisms, mandated the government and all other health providers to provide medical, pharmacological and psychological treatment to people living with HIV.
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Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier identified the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS in 1983, while working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They originally called it lymphadenopathy associated virus (LAV).
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AIDS is a set of symptoms (or syndrome) caused by the HIV virus. A person is said to have AIDS when their immune system is too weak to fight off infection, and they develop certain symptoms and illnesses (known as 'opportunistic infections ').
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Seb was told he has HIV in hard-hitting Corrie scenes last year. In the soap's first ever HIV storyline he was delivered the news in hospital and told he could live a "long and full life."
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Most commonly, people get or transmit HIV through sexual behaviors and needle or syringe use. Only certain body fluids—blood, semen (cum), pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, and breast milk—from a person who has HIV can transmit HIV.
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The group of viruses HIV belongs to is known as retroviruses.