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I have been interested in this topic since school but more so now for there  are so many people out there infected with this deadly virus and spreading so fast daily, also in baby's that is what hit me , being born with HIV, what a tragedy, I am so sorry to everyone with this but now we can pay attention to the new research Dr are working on about this... Thank you for sharing my blogs with all your friends..I really hope this helps, god bless us all....Maria
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There is currently no cure for AIDS or HIV infection. Although antiretroviral treatment can suppress HIV – the virus that causes AIDS – and can delay illness for many years, it cannot clear the virus completely.

However, there is hope and optimism around the possibility of a genuine cure for HIV being developed within the next few decades. The launch of a new strategy to develop a cure, involving scientists, policy makers, funders and people living with HIV, in July 2012, marked an increased focus on the development of a cure as a potential approach to curbing the HIV and AIDS epidemic.1

Why is it so difficult to cure HIV and AIDS?

Curing AIDS is generally taken to mean clearing the body of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The virus replicates (makes new copies of itself) by inserting its genetic code into human cells, particularly a type known as CD4 cells. Usually the infected cells produce numerous HIV particles and die soon afterwards. Antiretroviral drugs interfere with this replication process, which is why the drugs are so effective at reducing the amount of HIV in a person’s body to extremely low levels. During treatment, the concentration of HIV in the blood often falls so low that it cannot be detected by the standard test, known as a viral load test.

Unfortunately, not all infected cells behave the same way. Probably the most important problem is posed by “resting” CD4 cells. Once infected with HIV, these cells, instead of producing new copies of the virus, lie dormant for many years or even decades. Current therapies cannot remove HIV’s genetic material from these cells. Even if someone takes antiretroviral drugs for many years they will still have some HIV hiding in various parts of their body. Studies have found that if treatment is removed then HIV can re-establish itself by leaking out of these “viral reservoirs”.

A cure for HIV must either: 1) remove every single one of the infected cells (known as a sterilising cure or eradication) or 2) control HIV effectively by keeping the virus dormant, after the discontinuation of treatment (known as a functional cure).2

Reputable research on curing HIV and AIDS

The possibility of ‘a functional cure’

The results of a study involving fourteen French people living with HIV are one indicator that a ‘functional cure’ for HIV may be possible. The people involved, known as the ‘Visconti cohort’, started taking antiretrovirals very soon after they became infected. After three years of medication, they stopped taking ARVs, which would usually result in the HIV-infection resurging. However, on this occasion they were able to stop taking the medication and yet remain with low levels of virus in their systems for an average of seven years.3 

Purging the HIV reservoir

Many researchers believe the best hope for eradicating HIV infection lies in combining antiretroviral treatment with drugs that flush HIV from its hiding places. The idea is to force resting infected CD4 cells to become active, where upon they will start producing new HIV particles. The activated cells should soon die or be destroyed by the immune system, and the antiretroviral medication should 'mop up' the released HIV. Chemical agents used to activate resting cells are called antilatency agents.

Early attempts to employ this technique used interleukin-2 (also known as IL-2 or by the brand name Proleukin). This chemical messenger tells the body to create more CD4 cells and to activate resting cells. Researchers who gave interleukin-2 together with antiretroviral treatment discovered they could no longer find any infected resting CD4 cells. But interleukin-2 failed to clear all of the HIV; as soon as the patients stopped taking antiretroviral drugs the virus came back again.4 5

There is a problem with creating a massive number of active CD4 cells: despite the antiretroviral drugs, HIV may manage to infect a few of these cells and replicate, thus keeping the infection alive. Scientists are now investigating chemicals that don’t activate all resting CD4 cells, but only the tiny minority that are infected with HIV.

One such chemical is valproic acid, a drug already used to treat epilepsy and other conditions. In 2005 a group of researchers led by David Margolis caused a sensation when they reported that valproic acid, combined with antiretroviral treatment, had greatly reduced the number of HIV-infected resting CD4 cells in three of four patients. They concluded that:

“This finding, though not definitive, suggests that new approaches will allow the cure of HIV in the future.”6

Sadly, such optimism was premature; studies later suggested that valproic acid has no long term benefits.7 8

Another option being investigated to 'activate' resting HIV-infected cells is the use of histone deacetylases (HDAC) inhibitors. Histone deacetylases are enzymes that control the proteins involved in binding DNA. They effectively 'silence' groups of genes, including some HIV genes. Stopping them from doing this would allow for those resting HIV-infected cells to be reactivated. Agents that aim to stop histone deacetylases from 'switching off' or 'silencing' genes are called histones deacetylase inhibitors. SAHA (vorinostat) is a potent histone deacetylase inhibitor which is being tested in cell cultures for HIV.9

Any antilatency agents combined with ART aiming to 'reactivate' resting HIV-infected cells and then 'purge' these cells should reach all HIV-infected cells, including those in the difficult to reach areas like the gut-associated lymphoid tissue and the brain.10 However, this is where the real difficulty lies. Some researchers argue that this 'complete reactivation' could be unnecessary because those cells that are really hard to reach may be so dormant that the body will be able to control them anyway.11 However, whether or not this is true is unknown.12

Discouragingly, a 2013 report following a study at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute found that the ‘reservoir’ of inactive viruses could be up to 60 times larger that previously suspected. This means that the potential for ‘reactivating’ resting HIV-infected cells could be severely limited.13

Bone marrow transplants and gene therapy

In November 2008, a pair of German doctors made headlines by announcing they had cured a man of HIV infection by giving him a bone marrow transplant.14 The transplant - given as a treatment for leukemia - used cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation known as Delta 32 that confers resistance to HIV infection. Twenty months after the procedure researchers reported they could find no trace of HIV in the recipient's bone marrow, blood and other organ tissues. Other experts at the time called for more tests to verify the cure claim.15

In a journal article published in December 2010, the doctors concluded that the patient had indeed been cured of HIV infection. Their evidence showed a successful reconstitution of CD4 T cells at both the systemic level and in the gut mucosal immune system.16

Bone marrow transplantation is too dangerous and costly for widespread use as a cure. Many patients die as a result of chemotherapy or reactions to the transplant, which is usually a last resort in treating life-threatening diseases. As Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, put it:

“It’s very nice, and it’s not even surprising. But it’s just off the table of practicality.”17

Nevertheless the German transplant does raise hope for related approaches.18 If scientists can find another way - such as gene therapy - to confer the same sort of protection against HIV as Delta 32 provides, then they may be able to stop the virus replicating. Research in this area is in its very early stages; it may be many years before a useful treatment is found, if at all.19

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The first and only person ever to be cured of HIV/AIDS is a leukemia patient treated in Berlin with HIV-resistant stem cells.

Although the Berlin patient was treated in 2007, researchers are only now officially using the word "cure." That's because extensive tests -- including analyses of tissues from his brain, gut, and other organs -- detect no sign of lingering HIV.

Few people with HIV would want to go through the grueling and life-threateningcancer treatment that was part of this cure. And so far, the cure has not been duplicated in other HIV-positive leukemia patients who underwent similar treatment.

Yet the finding already has transformed AIDS research. What really happened? What does this mean for people who have HIV/AIDS?

Since the first drug for the treatment of HIV was approved in 1987, there has been a clear need for accurate, evidence-based information about HIV treatment. Both people with HIV and health professionals have always needed to know what to expect from drugs, side-effects and how to take the drugs. Later on, as new drugs have appeared, reliable information on choosing the appropriate drug regimen has become crucial.

HIV treatment update, NAM’s monthly newsletter, was created to help people become familiar with their treatment options and to encourage informed communication between people with HIV and doctors.

Since the first edition in 1992, HTU has been evolving and changing in response to the information needs of people with HIV. It has changed its name (originally AIDS treatment update, or ATU), changed its design to make it more engaging and easier to read, and been overseen by several editors. Now in its 208th edition, HTU continues to bring the latest developments in treatment to people with HIV and remains a source of information that thousands of people worldwide rely on to keep them informed.  

As you may have read in the June edition, there are further changes afoot for HTU. After much careful consideration, balancing up the current funding climate and the results of our readers’ surveys, HTUis to become a quarterly publication. Each edition will be expanded and it will also be publishedonline at the same time as it is printed. We remain committed to supporting readers in decisions about their health and the reduced frequency and increased content means we can continue to deliver this valuable service in these times of austerity.

So, this week, our subscribers are receiving their final monthly edition of HTU – and it is alsoavailable on our website. You can read it online, download it as a PDF, or use the ‘flipbook’ function to read the PDF online.

This month’s edition includes:

Everything okay down there?

Anal cancer is much more common (50 times) in gay men with HIV than in the general population. It is still very rare, but should we be demanding screening – and vaccination? Read on >>

Where next for HIV prevention?

There has been a huge amount of news on HIV prevention recently and, in the UK, campaigners and researchers have been debating what should happen next. Read on >>

Talking to the Lords

NAM’s senior editor, Keith Alcorn, recently gave evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on HIV and AIDS in the UK. He hopes they can exert some pressure to revitalise HIV policy. Read on >>

There is still so much work to do

Silvia Petretti, of Positively UK, recently spoke at the United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS, in New York. She came back more convinced than ever of the need for meaningful involvement of people living with HIV. Read on >>

News in brief

Some of the key news stories from the past month including:

• HIV drugs may have caused premature ageing
• Coffee helps hepatitis C treatment

Read on >>

What is HIV treatment update?

HIV treatment update focuses on HIV treatment and care news, latest scientific developments, and wider health, social and legal issues, with a practical take on what this all means for people living with HIV in the UK. HTU’s editor, Gus Cairns, regularly invites experts to contribute to the newsletter on their specialist areas.

How do I get a copy?

HIV treatment update is available free to people personally affected by HIV. You can subscribe to a free emailed PDF edition wherever you live. If you live in the UK, you can choose to have a print edition.

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HIV and Baby Makes Three Busts Pregnancy Myths With True Life Stories

Health writer Heather Boerner now knows that a couple that includes one HIV-positive partner can successfully conceive an HIV-negative baby and keep the negative partner HIV free -- even if the couple has unprotected sex. However, like many others who may not have been following the news on HIV treatment as prevention, just a few years ago she believed not using a condom during sex with an HIV-positive partner meant you'd get HIV, period.

After meeting a serodiscordant couple who had an HIV-negative child via condomless sex and effective HIV treatment and care, she knew this was a story that needed to be told to people outside the HIV community.

Now, Boerner wants to create an interactive Kindle Single to share this and other stories and facts with a wider audience, so that others can learn from these couples' modern version of "having it all": a loving spouse, a healthy baby and HIV.

How did you come to be a health journalist, and to write this story?

I wrote this story a little while ago, so I just reread it. I just feel like, "Oh, I love this story." It's probably my favorite thing I've ever written.

I had been a newspaper reporter for seven years already at that point. I'd been on newspapers since I was in high school. I'm one of those rare people who knew what they wanted to do when they were 15. I had covered all sorts of things. Then I decided I was tired of working at newspapers, and I wanted to do longer form stories.

I'd never really done a lot of health journalism before. What happened is kind of a combination of circumstance and my own personal experience -- which is that I was something like 29, and I realized I really needed to get a hold of my own health

I stopped eating sugar. I lost a bunch of weight. I really started putting my health first, and it made me interested in health as a journalist. I became interested in my own health, and in the health of other people and what it means to take care of yourself.

I wrote for Planned Parenthood's website. I wrote a lot about sexual health. I mostly write about chronic illnesses. I'd written a lot about lupus, hemophilia, diabetes and multiple sclerosis. That's actually how I came across this whole issue. It was through writing about hemophilia. I'd written for a hemophilia magazine called HemAware; it's the magazine of the National Hemophilia Foundation. They assigned me a story on HIV discordant couples and parenthood -- because, as you probably know, a lot of guys living with hemophilia contracted HIV in the 1980s when there were tainted blood products, before they were able to figure out how to screen the blood for HIV -- before they even knew that HIV was out there.

So I came across all these couples, and they talked about the variety of ways that you can become a parent. I talked to a couple that adopted; I talked to a couple that did IVF (in vitro fertilization) and ICSI (intracytoplasmic sperm injection), which is the safest possible way: You wash the sperm. You inject the single sperm into a single egg. It's extremely high-tech. And they were able to have a baby.

"I understood as a health writer that HIV had changed, that there were effective treatments now. But I think in the popular consciousness -- and my consciousness -- unprotected sex was a death sentence. You know: Always use a condom. ... That's the public health message that we all get. So when they told me this, I was completely stunned, and excited."

And then I talked to this couple, the Hartmanns, and they told me that they had unprotected sex. I'm a child of the '80s, and my understanding of HIV didn't advance a whole lot past that. I mean, I understood as a health writer that HIV had changed, that there were effective treatments now.

But I think in the popular consciousness -- and my consciousness -- unprotected sex was a death sentence. You know: Always use a condom. Always use a condom. That's the public health message that we all get.

So when they told me this, I was completely stunned, and excited. It really caught my imagination, and so I wrote that article. This was, I don't know, like four or five years ago now. And I stayed in touch with the Hartmanns. I kept wanting to go back and write the story about: How is it possible to have unprotected sex? I would tell people about this; I would say, "Did you know this was possible?" And people would stare at me with their mouths open. I realized I really wanted to do the story.

That's how I ended up talking to other researchers, talking to doctors, finding other couples. And that's how I ended up doing this story.

I think that there are a lot of myths out there around pregnancy and HIV.

Absolutely. What was interesting in writing this story is, I talked to these couples. In the story, I follow two couples, basically, from the moment they fall in love to their first children. And first of all, what struck me: In this particular story, the person with HIV is the man in these heterosexual couples. Dan Hartmann told me, "I never thought I would have a child." He was diagnosed when he was 12. At the time, no one expected anyone with HIV to live very long. So, to be in this world, and be able to have a child, and then talk to these women who are HIV negative -- they're going to their doctors and their doctors know nothing about HIV. They know about pregnancy, but they don't know about pregnancy for people with HIV.

What I found was that doctor after doctor refused to talk to them about it -- or there wasn't enough information, because the research just hadn't been completed yet. That was one of the compelling things to me about this: There was a disconnect between the research that was being done and the information that was available for couples.

There often seems to be a sluggish uptake for primary care doctors -- or even specialist physicians like obstetrician/gynecologists -- to absorb some of the research that's out there.

Absolutely. I think it's really a sign of how HIV has changed that now we need to talk about it; now,OB/GYNs really need to know about HIV to help their HIV-negative patients who are with HIV-positive people. And the whole pregnancy counseling thing that happens in the normal course of a heterosexual woman's doctor's appointment is interrupted by this. Because doctors just have limited knowledge; they just don't know.

What they know is the public health message, which is, "Don't have sex without a condom."

Can you tell us a little bit about the two couples that you interviewed forHIV and Baby Makes Three? Can you tell us how you came to meet the two couples, and how old their children are now?

Sure. The first couple is the Hartmanns, as I mentioned. I came across them in writing this previous article that I did about HIV-discordant couples and parenthood. They're just this amazing couple. They had lived in the Bay Area; they now have moved to the Washington, D.C., area. I believe Dan is a graphic designer.

They just had this story that's a very rare story -- which is that they met in high school. Susan was in the audience when Dan got up in front of his entire high school and told them that he had HIV. They had an assembly around it.

They didn't date in high school, but then they reconnected in their 20s. They were living across the country from each other, and they reconnected and they fell in love. She got pregnant in 2009. I believe she had Ryan in 2009, and they're doing really well, really healthy. They just seem like a really happy couple, and a happy family.

The other couple that I interviewed, I call them in the story Poppy and Ted Morgan. Those are actually pseudonyms. Because of the stigma around HIV, Ted isn't out to everyone about having HIV. So he asked that we use a pseudonym.

They are an interesting couple. In some ways, I feel like they're a little bit more representative of both the struggles that couples face in having a child, and of what people think about HIV. Poppy grew up in this family in the suburbs of Chicago where she described it as being very sheltered. When her parents found out that she was dating someone with HIV, they were extremely unpleased. And when she married him, they didn't talk to her for five years.

She's had to deal with a lot of stigma. But they also have this story that's sort of remarkable, where Poppy moved to San Francisco in 1999 -- they live in San Francisco, still. And she worked at a school. She showed up at the school the first day, and who opens the door, but Ted. He holds out his hand to shake her hand and says, "Hi, I'm Ted. Welcome." She said she looked into his eyes, and she thought, "Oh, my God, this is the guy. This is my guy."

This was not necessarily a welcome thought. She was in a relationship already. It was her second day in San Francisco. And she worked with him. So she was like, "I don’t know. This might not be a great idea."

So they didn't date right away, because she was in a relationship. But a year and a half later, they started dating. Poppy's also, I think, typical of a lot of women -- not all women, of course. Women vary just like men vary. But she always wanted to have a child. You know, you ask some people and they just think, "Eh, maybe I'll have a child and maybe I won't." But she always wanted to have a child.

She told me this story about how she would put the cutlery away when she was growing up. She would put the forks and spoons and knives away in the drawer, and she would pretend they were babies that she was putting to bed. So she always wanted to have a child.

So she met Ted and she started imagining a baby with pink cheeks like Ted's. They started dating, and they dealt with this kind of stigma. There's something that happens when you're afraid -- and I'm not talking about Ted specifically here. I'm just talking in general, when people are worried about how other people will perceive them when they're keeping something to themselves. And we know as queer people that if you keep that to yourself, it becomes a secret and it becomes this painful spot in your life. That's sort of what happened for him.

So then they go through the process of trying to get pregnant. And it's a long journey for them. They met in 1999, and Poppy got pregnant in 2012. They had their daughter (who I call in the story Pom-Pom, because that's her actual nickname: Pom-Pom and Poppy) -- they had Pom-Pom in April of this year. She's adorable, and she looks like her dad. After Poppy wanting a baby that looks like her husband for all these years, she looks like her dad, and has strawberry blond hair and his big toes, his stunning toes.

The day that Pom-Pom was born, Ted apparently picked her up and said, "Oh, man, I'm sorry. You're going to put holes in all of your shoes." You know, with these toes, because he has the same toes.

That's where they're at now. And they're still living happily in San Francisco.

One of the big news stories this year was about that baby who was born in Mississippi and was subsequently "cured" of HIV. One of the ways that we've talked about the story on the site is that it's not just a story about carrying a baby; it's more a story about a woman who fell through the cracks of the medical system.

Yeah, because she disappeared for several months.

Right. And I think the stories you're presenting are showing the benefits of being engaged in your health.

Absolutely. And being engaged in treatment. That's one of the primary messages in this story. The story follows these two couples, but then I would also speak to researchers. I spoke to Dr. Pietro Vernazza in Switzerland. I spoke to Dr. Myron Cohen in North Carolina. I spoke to Seth Kalichman in Connecticut. And they all have different perspectives, obviously

  One of the primary studies that we follow is HPTN 052 -- people who are familiar with HIV are familiar with the big study on treatment as prevention. I followed his research through the process, and one of the things that's really true about his study is that the couples are in really good care. They're regularly seen. They're seen way more regularly than most people are seen today. They're counseled about extramarital sexual relationships. They're counseled about other STDs [sexually transmitted diseases] they have. They're checked regularly. There's a level of care that these couples receive that's not typical.

One of the lessons of that study is that that sort of care shows results. It keeps your viral loadundetectable, and it changes the game.

Who do you think will be the audience for your Kindle Single? What will the interactive format be like?

I think there are a couple of different audiences for this. The audience that I really hope will find this are HIV-discordant couples who will relate to what the couples that I feature in the story experience. Because what I found in talking to people is that there's just not a lot of information out there. I mean, there's information, but people have to hunt it down. I think it's a little different now than it was when I started working on this, but people feel really isolated and alone.

So I really hope that those people find it. I hope people who are interested in HIV find it. But I really hope that anyone interested in science stories will read it. And I really hope people with an interest in having a baby will read it. One of the things that attracted me to it as a human being is I'm 39 and I'm at that age where I either have to have a child or not.

There's a whole world of this issue of fertility, and this relationship women have with their bodies and with their fertility. If you're a straight woman, you spend your entire life trying to keep yourself from getting pregnant. And then, when you decide to get pregnant, it's not always easy. It's a shock. It's a shock to the system. You think, "One wrong thing, and I can get pregnant." And then you find out, "Oh, gosh, this is actually work."

What I really want is for people to see that the experiences of these couples are the same as most couples trying to get pregnant and having some sort of challenge. So there are several audiences, essentially.

In terms of the interactive features, how I hope it will look: My goal is trying to raise $6,500, which is quite a lot for an article. I mean, if I get to $2,500, I will be able to publish it just as an e-book, with no photos, no interactive features.

But as I was thinking of this, I thought what we really need to do is take advantage of this medium. It's now possible for people to not just read, but interact with the story. And so what I'm hoping to do if we can reach $6,500 -- and beyond, honestly -- it's like the number of animations and things I'll be able to do will be based on how much we raise. I have all sorts of ideas of what I'd like to do. I'd like to do an interactive map, where you can click on it and look at the different states, and see what the regulations are in that state, in terms of pregnancy and HIV, in terms of reproductive technology.

I'd like to do a timeline where you can scroll at any point in the timeline, from 1999 to the present day, and see where the couples are at, and where the research is at.

Ideally, I'd like to do photos of the couples, maybe some audio slideshows within the book, as well as videos of the couples. What I really hope is that couples will share this with other couples that are trying to do the same thing. I would love to start seeing videos of couples and their children, so we break this silence about what it looks like to have HIV today, and what it looks like to live with HIV, and to have a whole life with HIV, and to have a wife and a child.

Those are all the things that I'd like to do. I really think it's an exciting time, in terms of publishing, to be able to do all these things, to be able to bring people into the story.

The other thing is animation. It's really hard to explain in words what your likelihood is of getting HIV from a single incidence of unprotected sex. But to do an animation that shows the likelihood, that shows how HIV replicates itself in your system -- these are all things that, for people in the HIV community, it's probably obvious, but I'm hoping that there will be people who read this story who aren't familiar with HIV, and aren't familiar with the science today. I really want to share that, kind of make it easy for people to understand and feel like they can relate.

An interesting timeline that's kind of contemporaneous with the progression of what you're describing in terms of research into treatment as prevention is the timeline of the publishing industry: The kind of publication you're describing wouldn't have been possible 10 years ago.

No. Absolutely not. One of the things I think is interesting about this idea of a Kindle Single -- and, for people who don't know what a Kindle Single is: It's a certain branding within Amazon of stories and articles, fiction and nonfiction pieces, that are between 5,000 and 30,000 words. So it is that novella length. And I've read several articles about how, when we were doing print books, it's not financially feasible to publish a novella by itself. That's why books are 200 pages or more.

So we're in this moment now where it's possible to take a 9,000-word article and publish it stand-alone, and get it out to people all over the world. In fact, someone suggested to me that part of the funds go toward translating it to other languages. I laughed and said, "Well, let's get this out in English first, and then do that." But I think that that's a really good point. Because this is happening in the developing world. It's happening in China, in Eastern Europe, and Africa. It would be really great to be able to disseminate it more widely. And that's the option we have now, with the Internet.

Can you talk about how you chose to do crowdsourcing?

I pitched this story to a number of places, and it was never quite the right fit. I kept going back to: I should just publish this myself. And that's a daunting task, right? I started thinking, "Oh, I don't know if I can afford to do that."

Then I realized, as I was looking on Facebook at another one of these crowdsourcing campaigns, that I don't have to go into debt to publish this thing. Because of crowdfunding, it's allowed the project to be bigger than it would be if I published it myself. If I were funding it myself, I wouldn't be thinking about the interactive features; I would be thinking about, let's get the words out, and that's it.

Today, I can go out and I can say, "Let's do graphics. Let's do animations. Let's do photography. Let's bring this story alive." And people are getting on board, which is really exciting.

It must be great to see people invested in your work in a way that's not just about reading it, but actually saying, "I want to make this come alive."

And to get to do things like offer the perks. My particular project is on Indiegogo, but there's obviously Kickstarter, as well. And in both of those, for each donation level you offer perks. Obviously, I offer the book, but then I also offer a bonus chapter on what the children's lives are like now. One of the perks is a podcast that I'm going to put together with some folks at the Bay Area Perinatal AIDS Center at the University of California - San Francisco. They're heavily involved in this. They have a perinatal HIV hotline that is designed for clinicians, but ends up being used by couples because they're desperate for information. And so they're going to talk about the state of the science, and what the options are, and all of that.

So it's creating a community. Just putting together the project creates a community; and then funding the project creates a different community of people who are invested enough to put in $5, $10, $100, whatever it is. It's a lot of work, obviously, but it's really exciting, and it's really fun.

"Treatment as prevention is a good, in and of itself, but it makes stuff like this possible. This is one of the meanings of treatment as prevention to me -- this ability to have children."

Do you have any final words before we wrap up?

Obviously, I would love it if people would come to the page, read it, watch the video, contribute, share it with people.

The thing that I really want to leave people with, and the thing that I left this project with, is an understanding of HIV as being a different world than it was. It's understood within the HIV community, but it's really not understood in the "lay world." In the rest of the world, in the rest of the culture, people still think of HIV as this death sentence.

And to me, this story is about one of the things that it means to have treatment as prevention. Treatment as prevention is a good, in and of itself, but it makes stuff like this possible. This is one of the meanings of treatment as prevention to me -- this ability to have children.

I would love it if people would come to the Facebook page -- the Facebook page is HIV and Baby Makes Three -- and be part of the community. It's really been an exciting project.

FACTS:

September 19, 2012

Pregnancy and childbirth are two of the most challenging experiences a woman -- and her partner, if she has one -- can go through. Anticipating and then navigating this joyous, nerve-racking time while living with HIV can be daunting, but many families have done it before, as have many health providers. Read on for information, stories and advice that we hope will help you on your journey -- and stay tuned for new resources in this series through the end of 2012.

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Rapist moms,dads need DEATH to cure

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In an Orlando federal courtroom this week, prosecutors and witnesses described, in disturbing and graphic detail, the heinous exploitation and abuse the couple's toddlers endured at the hands of their parents — even after they divorced.

Jonathan Adleta lived his dream until March, when the FBI received a tip that his 29-year-old former wife was communicating with a North Carolina man who was arrested on charges of having sex with a child.

That's when federal authorities began unraveling a cross-country web of sexual abuse that culminated in convictions for both parents — and could land 25-year-old Jonathan Adleta in prison for life.

Sarah Adleta, a University of Central Florida student, pleaded guilty in May to two charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. She faces 15 to 30 years in federal prison and will be sentenced next month. On Thursday, jurors found Jonathan Adleta guilty of two child-sex charges. He'll be sentenced in December and faces 10 years to life in prison.

The charges against him stem from abuse that occurred in December, when Sarah Adleta and the couple's two children traveled to his home in Oklahoma so he could have sexual contact with his daughter.

But to tell the Adletas' story, prosecutors had to take jurors to the beginning.

In opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Gable characterized Adleta as a father who had a "sexual appetite" for his own daughter.

Sarah Adleta testified that when she began dating Jonathan in 2008 — she was living with her family in Oviedo and he in an apartment in the Goldenrod area — he began showing her stories about fathers and daughters having sex, to gauge her interest in the possibility.

Their daughter was born in March 2009, and Sarah Adleta became pregnant with their son not long after.

Sarah Adleta, who testified for several hours this week wearing Orange County Jail garb, said she initially struggled with the concept and thought Jonathan Adleta would lose interest in it.

But she loved him, needed his financial security and said she would do whatever it took to not lose him, she told jurors.

Gable told jurors the couple made sex with their children "part of their parenting plan."

They married in 2010.

The marine was deployed to Afghanistan, and when he returned, the family moved to California, where he was stationed. There, his ex-wife said, he had more sexual contact with the children.

     In late 2011, Jonathan Adleta filed for divorce, and Sarah Adleta later returned to Central Florida. But even with thousands of miles between them, she allowed her former husband to continue to prey on his daughter electronically through the videoconference program Skype.

By the spring of 2012, Jonathan Adleta had found a new girlfriend who agreed to let him victimize her daughter.

The girlfriend, 23-year-old Samantha Bryant — a Texas mother he met on a dating website — testified this week that she watched as Jonathan Adleta molested her daughter. On at least one occasion, she took pictures of the assault.

Bryant, who was visibly shaken and cried throughout much of her testimony, said Jonathan Adleta asked her to write fantasy-type stories about him having sex with his daughter and her daughter. She did. She also complied when he asked Bryant to perform sex acts on her own daughter.

Bryant was eventually charged with and pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her daughter and allowing Jonathan Adleta to sexually abuse the girl.

In December, Bryant and her two children spent Christmas in Oklahoma with Jonathan and Sarah Adleta and their two children. Sarah Adleta told jurors that there, her former husband sexually abused their daughter in his bedroom and called her in to watch.

Sarah Adleta, who was emotionless during much of her testimony, began to choke up as she explained what she witnessed.

"She seemed very resistant," she said of her toddler, adding that the child was "really upset" and "frightened."

But Sarah rendered no aid to her crying girl.

Weeks later, after she and the children returned to Oviedo, Jonathan Adleta suggested that his former wife should find another man to abuse their daughter so she would become comfortable with the sex acts, to prevent her from 'freaking out" in the future.

During that time, Sarah Adleta was communicating with Aaron Dixon, a North Carolina man who was later arrested on child-sex charges in an unrelated case. She told jurors she performed sex acts on the children while Dixon watched via Skype.

In her closing argument Thursday, Gable told jurors that the last time the Adletas spoke, they discussed Sarah Adleta's taking their daughter to Dixon so he could sexually abuse the girl.

Jonathan Adleta, the prosecutor said, liked the idea.

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A common question from men and women is 
What are blue balls-
what cause's it-
how long does it last-
How to stop from getting it?

Do you know the connection between blue balls and sex? Have you ever
heard someone ask you, "What are blue balls?" "Blue balls" is a slang

term referring to testicular aching that may occur when the blood that fills

the vessels in a male's genital area during sexual arousal is not dissipated
by orgasm.

When a man becomes sexually excited, the arteries carrying blood to the genital area enlarge, while the veins carrying blood from the genital area are more constricted than in the non-aroused state.

This uneven blood flow causes an increase in volume of blood trapped in the genitals and contributes to the penis becoming erect and the testicles becoming engorged with blood. During this process of vasocongestion the testicles increase in size 25-50 percent.

If the male reaches orgasm and ejaculates, the arteries and veins return to their normal size, the volume of blood in the genitals is reduced and the penis and testicles return to their usual size rather quickly.

If ejaculation does not occur there may be a lingering sensation of heaviness, aching, or discomfort in the testicles due to the continued vasocongestion. This unpleasant feeling has popularly been called blue balls, perhaps because of the bluish tint that appears when blood engorges the vessels in the testicles.

another fact in different word:

Blue balls is a slang term^[1] for the condition of temporary fluid congestion (vasocongestion) in the testicles and prostate region, accompanied by acute testicular pain,^[2] or a prolonged dull aching pain emanating from the prostate, caused by prolonged and unsatisfied sexual arousal in the human male.^[3] The term is thought to have originated in the United States, first appearing in 1916.^[4] Some urologists call the condition "epididymal hypertension". The condition is not experienced by all males.^[5]

How long do they last you ask??
As long as the area is swelled, try an ice pack or re leave yourself


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Masturbate!! MY WORDS: LOL and im a female

from another:
Blue balls lasts as long as the stimulation that is keeping you erect, or until your erection response collapses in exhaustion. You're getting blue balls during dances because you're sexually stimulated by the people, the situation, your clothes rubbing against your penis, or a combination. 

A very pleasant way to relieve the discomfort of blue balls is to masturbate until you have an orgasm. Then you will enter the refractory period and all the swelling will go down. Another thing that can help is to put cold compresses around your pubic area to encourage blood to flow away from the area, reducing swelling. Masturbating to orgasm can reduce your sexual tension, so if you do that shortly before the dance, it should make the blue balls condition less likely.

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