Когда моя трехлетняя дочь нечаянно села в варенье, только что снятое с огня, крику было много. А у меня стояла настойка софоры (на бутылку водки стакан софоры).

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Teaching Adolescents About Condoms

Science Daily — Teaching adolescents to use condoms when abstinence fails is a reasonable strategy for preventing HIV, according to a new research study in PLoS Medicine.

This finding might appear common sense, but the best way to teach HIV prevention to young people has in fact has been controversial.

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Understanding Why Infection With HIV-2 Is Not As Bad As HIV-1

Science Daily — There are two distinct, but related, HIV viruses that humans can become infected with — HIV-1 and HIV-2. Individuals infected with HIV-2 progress to AIDS at a dramatically reduced rate compared with individuals infected with HIV-1; in fact, most individuals infected with HIV-2 die of unrelated causes.

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SIV Infection Of Natural Hosts Provides New Insights Into HIV Disease Complexity

Science Daily — Three related papers published in the Sept. 1 edition of The Journal of Immunology provide key new insights into the complexity of HIV/AIDS.

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На собственном опыте убедилась, что чайный гриб - замечательное средство от ожогов.

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High-risk Behaviors Could Lead To HIV Epidemic In Afghanistan

Science Daily — In a report that is among the first to describe the prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C viruses in Afghanistan, a researcher from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine voiced concerns that increasing injection drug use and accompanying high-risk behavior could lead to an HIV epidemic in Afghanistan.

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AIDS Vaccine Field Moves Toward Larger-scale Efficacy Trials: Volunteers?

Science Daily — Leading researchers from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Military HIV Research Program (USMHRP) presented final results from a collection of independent studies reexamining the medical criteria for including African volunteers in AIDS vaccine trials.

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Alcohol Consumption Linked To HIV Disease Progression, Study Shows

Science Daily — Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found a link between alcohol consumption and HIV disease progression in HIV-infected persons. 

Alcohol use is common among HIV-infected persons, and its impact on HIV disease progression has been examined in in-vitro, animal and human studies.

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HIV Denialists Spread Misinformation Online: Consequences Could Be Deadly

Science Daily — The Internet is serving as a fertile medium for "HIV denialists" to spread false ideas about HIV/AIDS, which could have terrible public health consequences, say scientists in a policy paper in PLoS Medicine.

"It may seem remarkable that, 23 years after the identification of HIV, there is still denial that the virus is the cause of AIDS," say Tara Smith (University of Iowa College of Public Health) and Steven Novella (Yale University School of Medicine).

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Workshops, online programs and databases are just some of the ways that Kansas State University shares knowledge about the biosciences, food safety and animal health with the professionals who help ensure the safety of our food supply. (Continuation content ‘Food Safety Workshop For Professionals In Bioscience, Food-Related Industries’…)