Virginia's appeals court upholds oral sex statute
November 9, 2005
RICHMOND (AP) -- The Virginia Court of Appeals yesterday upheld the conviction of a Virginia
Beach man who police say solicited oral sex from an undercover officer in a department store

A Prayer for
The Apologists
Show them the mercy
They showed the children.

Iconoclaster,
Okay, my first question may seem a bit "general," but I want to start
with *the most* basic understanding of biology with this *little*
icebreaker:

I live in the Bay Area and yesterday the residents of San Francisco voted
to ban handguns within the city limits.
The reason of course is guns are dangerous and kill people, so I wonder
how they justify banning guns while permitting the uncontrolled spread of

    Yesterday's Boston Globe had an obit about Leroy Whitfield,
    a non-believer in HIV as the cause of AIDS. As he got closer
    to dying his beliefs started changing--but not quickly
    enough to save him.

(Atlanta-AP) November 8, 2005 -
A former Emory University medical student who is HIV positive has been sentenced to two years
in prison after pleading guilty to reckless conduct in Fayette County Superior Court.
Authorities say Garry Wayne Carriker engaged in unprotected sex but ...

http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/sept/article468.html
The Myth Of The Correlation Between AIDS Infection Rates
And Black Men On The 'Down Low'
By Timothy N. Stelly, Sr.

NATAP http://natap.org/
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Patterns of the hazard of death after AIDS through the evolution of
antiretroviral therapy: 1984-2004

Hello everyone:  I've been on meds for six years now and have always had an
undetectable viral load in my blood, but I just recently had my semen tested
and the HIV showed up.  My doctor (about a year ago) mentioned that if this
were the case he could put me on one of the drugs ...

What, did I post another outdated lie? LOL
Women Alive; Spring 2001
Cathy Olufs (formerly Elliott-Lopez)
Twenty years ago on June 5th 1981, the Centers for Disease Control published the first reports

Wait a minute, this was written in 2001, never mind, it MUST be a lie.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Twenty years of Aids-and counting: There are millions dead and many more infected, and we are
still in the epidemic's opening chapters

A while back we were arguing about the rate of HIV infection among
gay men in the USA.  Some claimed it was identical to the
heterosexual rate, so I combined CDC and Census data and came up
with an average 10% national infection rate for MSMs.  That figure

Mocroft A, Vella S, Benfield TL, Chiesi A, Miller V, Gargalianos P,
d'Arminio Monforte A, Yust I, Bruun JN, Phillips AN, Lundgren JD.
Changing patterns of mortality across Europe in patients infected with
HIV-1. EuroSIDA Study Group. Lancet. 1998 Nov 28;352(9142):1725-30.

--talkabouthealthnetwork is back on-line so I repost my last message--
Friends,
Last week I wrote on this board :

H.I.V. Drugs Not at Fault for Causing Gain in Girth
By DAVID TULLER
Published: November 1, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 31 - The new class of drugs called protease inhibitors