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It kills more people in the U.S. each year than breast cancer, lung cancer and HIV/AIDS combined. The condition is called sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) – and it only takes minutes to claim a person’s life.
 
“Sudden cardiac arrest is a real national tragedy,” Dr. Leslie Saxon, chief of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Southern California, told FOXNews.com. “It’s most often due to a sudden, very rapid heart rhythm. The heart goes so fast a person dies right away unless they’re shocked out of it with a defibrillator.”
While it hasn’t been confirmed what caused Michael Jackson to go into full cardiac arrest — the Associated Press reported Friday the singer was with a cardiologist when he collapsed and a person with knowledge of the situation said he appeared to have had a heart attack.
Paramedics arrived at his rented Los Angeles home around 12:30 p.m. Thursday and sources with the Los Angeles Fire Department said he wasn't breathing and had no pulse.
They tried resuscitate Jackson and took him to UCLA Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead
 
 
 
Parents who give birth to HIV/Aids positive babies usually find it hard to tell the children about their status. But experts advise that the children be told, as early as eight years, writes Evelyn Lirri

Ruth Kabahumuza discovered she was HIV/Aids positive in 1998 during one of her antennal visits.  She was two months pregnant then. The news came as a shock to her because it was one of the least things she expected would happen to her at the time. 

“I started shedding tears, the counselor talked to me and requested me to come with my husband for blood test,” she said.
              'HIV Boy' slur sparks lawsuit against
 
 
A gay man fired from a global branding company is suing his ex-employer, accusing his former boss of mocking his sexual preferences and branding him "HIV Boy."
Christopher Perez contends he was dismissed as a marketing manager at Wolff Olins last August after he complained about the anti-gay taunts from his supervisor at the firm.
The suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court says complaints from Perez's co-workers about the antics of marketing director Dean Crutchfield were ignored by the company. "Mr. Crutchfield was the CEO's best friend and (Human Resources) did nothing about Mr. Crutchfield's outrageous behavior," the suit says.
Perez joined Wolff Olins in January 2007, the suit says, after being recruited to the firm by Amy Weiner Recruiting, where Crutchfield's wife worked.
 

Nominations for the Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS

Nominations for the Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights are accepted for any individual or non-profit organization whose work has directly contributed to addressing HIV/AIDS and human rights issues. Anyone may submit a nomination.Nominations are invited both for individuals and organizations working at the community level and for those operating at national and international levels.

 
For the most part, there seemed
 
to be a rather harmonious tone set last week between the South African government, civil society, scientists and health professionals at the 4th South African AIDS Conference held in Durban. This in itself is remarkable. A barometer for whatever is going on in the fight against HIV in the country, the conference has always been marked by controversy. But there has been a change in the country’s administration since the last national conference in 2007, with a new Minister of Health, Barbara Hogan, who is known for her strong managerial skills,
 
 
 After gaining national notoriety in the
 
late 1990s for being accused of transmitting HIV to at least 13 young women in Chautauqua County, New York—including a 13-year-old—a 32-year-old man formerly known as Nushawn Williams was denied parole for a fifth time on April 6, The Buffalo News reported. “This individual perpetrated some heinous crimes against some very young victims, and he forever changed their lives,” says Chautauqua County Sheriff Joseph A. Gerace. “He deserves to be in jail for as long as he possibly can be.”
 
 
 
 
 
Instead of infiltrating breaks in the skin, HIV appears to attack normal, healthy genital tissue in women, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday in a study that offers new insight into how the AIDS virus spreads.They said researchers had assumed the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, sought out breaks in the skin, such as a herpes sore, in order to gain access to immune system cells deeper in the tissue. 
 
 
LAS VEGAS—At 20 months of age, Yordanny Zier could not know that her mother was a crackhead, a woman who says she spent much of 12 years in Las Vegas whoring for a fix.
And Yordanny could not know that her mother exposed her to HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
She lies in her crib, a dark-haired beauty drooling on her pretty blue outfit. Her eyes never leave her mother. She makes no effort to get up, does not cry or whimper or giggle or smile as a visitor enters the room.
Quiet. She is so quiet.
 

 
Norwich resident Wendy Brown has lived with full-blown AIDS since 1991. 

Now 53, she contracted the disease by sharing needles during cocaine binges with her boyfriend, who never told her he had AIDS.

She later watched him die. 

Brown said she knows three prostitutes in the city who have died from the disease. A former prostitute herself, Brown wept when she thought she gave her current partner AIDS. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
A rule that prevents many HIV-positive immigrants and travelers from entering the United States will likely be lifted before the year is up, after the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this month recommended changing the regulation.
Immigration and HIV/AIDS advocacy groups have been working to repeal the 22-year-old rule, which they call discriminatory, dangerous, and debilitating to the strength of the U.S. scientific community.
A large number of foreigners with the human immunodeficiency virus would benefit from the change, the groups say, when these individuals would finally be able to enter the country to see loved ones, attend medical conferences, or seek advanced medical treatment.
"The GMHC (Gay Men's Health Crisis) has been working to repeal the ban for over two decades," said Nathan Schaefer, the director of public policy for the HIV/AIDS advocacy group, the Gay Men's Health Crisis, in New York. Schaefer says that no major international HIV/AIDS conferences have been able to take place in this country because of the travel ban. "It has a negative human rights and public health impact and it has been an outdated and discriminatory policy."
 
 
 
Antimicrobial treatments for bacterial vaginosis (BV) are effective, but taking lactobacillus tablets alongside metronidazole antibiotic therapy increases effectiveness over taking this antibiotic alone, according to a Cochrane Systematic Review. The researchers also concluded that intravaginal lactobacillus was as effective as oral metronidazole, although they did note unexplained drop-outs from the trials.
 
BV is a very common vaginal infection. Traditionally, antibiotics in tablet or gel form have been given to treat the disease, but some have unpleasant side effects. BV is usually a mild disease and can pass unnoticed but is associated with an increased risk of HIV transmission.

 

 

  • How safe are Barbershops?

    While it is acknowledged that the majority of HIV infections occur through sexual liaisons, there is a significant number that might have got the virus through other means like unsafe use of razor blades and shaving machines. Taking a walk to one of the barber shops in cape town it came to my surprise that they only used

  • Over 3000 children diagnosed with HIV in Lusaka after hospital introduces opt-out HIV testing

    5 June 2009 (aidsmap) - Implementing a policy of routine opt-out HIV testing led to the diagnosis of 3000 HIV infections in children admitted to hospital in Lusaka over an 18-month period, investigators report in a study published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. 

    “Increased HIV testing has been proposed as an important component of HIV prevention and a pathway to support universal access to antiretroviral therapy”, write the investigators. “This is particularly important for infants where the rate of disease progression is extremely rapid, the risk of early death is high, and antiretroviral therapy can decrease mortality significantly in the first year of life”, they add

 
The move by the Government and other partnering agencies to review the laws with a view to tackling discrimination against homosexuals and persons living with HIV/AIDS is a step in the right direction, Social Development Minister Amery Browne has said.Browne made this point on Friday during an interview with the Express following the conclusion of a function held to officially open and launch the Pearl Gomez-James Senior Activities Centre in Barataria.Browne acknowledged that discrimination among certain vulnerable groups in society was something that needed to be addressed.He confirmed that there was "a process in train right now with the Ministry of the Attorney General, the National AIDS Coordinating Committee and several other Ministries focused on reviewing the existing laws with regards to stigma and discrimination and making recommendations that will be for the drafting of new legislation; that is an active, process ongoing".