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 Post subject: FDA ban on gay blood donors outdated, discriminatory - US la
PostPosted: Sat Aug 03, 2013 10:31 am 
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FDA ban on gay blood donors outdated, discriminatory - US lawmakers

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (Democrat-Massachusetts) and 86 other Congressional representatives signed a letter to the Food and Drug Administration calling for an end to the policy, which forbids men who have had sex with other men (MSM), at any time since 1977.

The reasoning for the ban, according to the FDAs website, is based on the idea that men with a history of male-to-male sex is associated with an increased risk for exposure to and transmission of certain infectious diseases, including the HIV virus, that causes AIDS.

Yet the American Medical Association, the largest group of doctors in the US, has called for a reversal of the ban, declaring the policy outdated.

The lifetime ban on blood donation for men who have sex with men is discriminatory and not based on sound science, AMA Board member said in June. This new policy urges a federal policy change to ensure blood donation bans or deferrals are applied to donors according to their individual level of risk and are not based on sexual orientation alone.

Senator Warrens letter, signed by both Democrats and Republicans, was inspired by a constituent who contacted her to say he hoped to donate blood for the Boston Marathon bombing victims but, as a gay man, was denied.

For me, this has been a basic issue of fairness and of science blood donation policies should be ground in science, not ugly and inaccurate stereotypes, Warren wrote on her website, adding that the mans letter inspired her to dig deeper into this discriminatory ban and I didnt like what I found. Current policies are contrary to science.

Critics of the ban say it is one of the lingering results of the 1980s-era stereotype that AIDS was primarily a gay disease, an idea medical science has rendered irrelevant.

Despite the growing animosity, the ban remains in place throughout much of the world. Spain, Australia, Italy, Russia, Uruguay, Mexico, and Poland are among the few nations without a ban. Several others mandate a time restriction for men who have had sex with men, often one year but in some cases they may not donate for five years since their last sexual encounter.

Current medical regulations in the US require a 12-month waiting period before blood donations are allowed from people who have had sex with an HIV carrier or someone with viral hepatitis. Screening tests for those diseases, though, are capable of identifying HIV within nine days and hepatitis C in approximately seven days, according to the Red Cross.

For years the FDA has preached patience, calling for time so that tests can assure that blood recipients are not placed at an increased risk of HIV or other transfusion transmitted diseases.

That promise, for Warren, American Medical Association, and others, has taken too long to come to fruition.

Our current policies turn away healthy, willing donors even when we face serious blood shortages, the letter went on. Further, the existing lifetime ban continues to perpetuate inaccurate stereotypes about gay and bisexual men, and fosters an atmosphere that promotes discrimination and discourages individuals from seeking HIV testing and treatment services.





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 Post subject: South Africa still haunted by AIDS stigma
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When HIV rate skyrocketed in 1990s, President Nelson Mandela ignored calls to direct a prevention campaign; he later apologized, but the disease continues to ravage South Africa




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 Post subject: New advance: Engineered immune cells seem to block HIV
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Scientists modified T cells in immune system to mimic a rare genetic mutation that makes people resist HIV infections




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 Post subject: Hospital warns 4,000 patients of possible HIV, hepatitis exp
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Hospital warns 4,000 patients of possible HIV, hepatitis exposure

They may have been exposed through insulin pen, but hospital says risk is "extremely low"




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 Post subject: Via Stem Cell Transplant, German Doctors Say They"ve Cu
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Via Stem Cell Transplant, German Doctors Say They"ve Cured a Patient"s HIV

HIV-1 particles assembling at the surface of an infected macrophage. Gross L, PLoS Biology Vol. 4/12/2006, e445 via Wikimedia

A huge story with implications that aren"t all immediately understandable is emerging in Berlin this week: doctors treating an HIV-infected with leukemia believe they have, in a roundabout way, cured his HIV infection via a stem cell transplant containing cells that happened to be impervious to HIV infection. And while the story by no means indicates that a cure for HIV has been discovered, the unexpected finding certainly opens the door to further review and great optimism in a frustrating battle that has now spanned several decades.


The "Berlin patient," an American citizen living in Berlin, received a stem cell transplant back in 2007 as a treatment for his leukemia. Before the transplant he received chemotherapy treatment and total body irradiation that eradicated most of his immune cells, and received further immunosuppressive drugs to prevent his body from rejecting the stem cells.


But these were no ordinary stem cells - a mutation found in just one percent of Caucasians in northern and western Europe causes CD4 cells to lack the CCR5 receptor, a receptor requisite for early-stage HIV to infect CD4 immune system cells. People with this mutation are more or less immune to HIV infection.


Those anti-HIV stem cells took root in the Berlin patient and repopulated there. At the same time, the host CD4 cells that hadn"t been destroyed in chemotherapy and radiation completely disappeared. After 38 months, doctors still couldn"t find HIV infection in the Berlin patient - in other words, it seems by all measures that his HIV has been cured.


Now, his road to recovery from HIV was excruciating and by no means should this single case of recovery be declared a cure. But it does provide a lot of hope and perhaps new mechanisms for deterring the spread of HIV in infected patients and perhaps, someday, a means to defeat the disease in vivo through gene therapy or transplants. More than anything, it defies the idea that HIV is incurable.


That"s not the only stem cell news coming out of Berlin this week. Researchers there have also grown the world"s first hair follicle from stem cells, creating a potential cure for baldness. We don"t mean to cheapen the HIV breakthrough by lumping it in with something so cosmetic as a cure for male pattern baldness, but rather to show just how much promise this branch of scientific research likely still holds. If researchers can find potential cures for both a life-threatening disease and a widespread condition affecting millions around the world in the same vein of science in the same week, imagine what other potentially life-changing discoveries may be hiding in stem cell science.


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 Post subject: Donald Sterling lashes out at Magic Johnson
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Embattled LA Clippers owner says basketball legend "should be ashamed of himself," says hes not a good role because of his HIV status




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 Post subject: Donald Sterling Still Has Problems With Magic Johnson
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Jealousy, not racism, fueled Donald Sterlings rants about black people to assistant V. Stiviano, the banished Los Angeles Clippers owner told CNNs Anderson Cooper in an interview that aired Monday.

During the exclusive interview, Sterling also criticized Magic Johnson, blaming the basketball great for his delayed apology to the controversy and chastising Johnson for his 1991 HIV diagnosis.

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 Post subject: Magic Johnson: "Im going to pray" for Donald Sterl
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Magic Johnson: "Im going to pray" for Donald Sterling

NBA legend responds to comments from L.A. Clippers owner about Johnsons support of minority communities, battle with HIV




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 Post subject: Re: Woman Has New Gorilla-Derived HIV
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 Post subject: AIDS epidemic may be over by 2030 UN
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Deaths related to AIDS have fallen by at least 35 percent since the peak year of 2005, when the highest number of deaths from HIV was recorded.

"The AIDS epidemic devastated families, communities and had a major impact on countries where the epidemic took hold. But over the last 15 years, there has been remarkable progress and we have moved from despair to hope," said Michel Sidibe, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, presenting a newly-released Gap report.

According to Sidibe, the infection can be ended in every region, every country, in every location, in every population and every community.

The world would prevent 18 million new HIV infections and 11.2 million AIDS-related deaths between 2013 and 2030 if the deadly virus is beaten by 2030, according to the study.

If we accelerate all HIV scale-up by 2020, we will be on track to end the epidemic by 2030, said Sidibe. If not, we risk significantly increasing the time it would takeadding a decade, if not more.

The study highlights the increase in access to ART (antiretroviral therapy), the management of HIV/AIDS which includes the use of multiple antiretroviral drugs in an attempt to control the infection. In 2013, an additional 2.3 million people gained access to the life-saving medicines, which brought the global number of people accessing ART to nearly 13 million by the end of 2013.

"It is easy to forget where we were 30 years ago - overcrowded AIDS wards, little funding for and even less understanding of HIV," Sidibe told AFP.

Also the numbers of people affected by new HIV viruses are continuing to decline in many parts of the world.

There were 2.1 million new HIV infections in 2013a decline of 38 percent from 2001, when there were 3.4 million new infections.

According to the report, the scientists are one step closer to eliminating new HIV infections among children. The progress is dubbed dramatic by the authors of the report, which says that for the first time the total number of children newly-infected dropped below 200,000 in the 21 priority countries under the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children and keeping their mothers alive.

Second baby born with HIV cured, five additional remission cases may exist

In 2013, 240 000 children were newly-infected with HIV. This is 58 percent lower than in 2002, the year with the highest number, when 580 000 children became newly infected with HIV.

The document, adds that there fewer deaths recorded from AIDS worldwide than earlier.

In 2013 there were 1.5 million AIDS-related deaths. AIDS-related deaths have fallen by 35 percent since 2005, when the highest number of deaths was recorded.

The report reveals that just 15 countries account for more than 75 percent of the 2.1 million new HIV infections that occurred in 2013.

There will be no ending AIDS without putting people first, without ensuring that people living with and affected by the epidemic are part of a new movement, said Sidibe. Without a people-centered approach, we will not go far in the post-2015 era.

However, the study also showed disturbing numbers: 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV today do not know that they have the virus

The progress is also hindered by the lack of data on people most affected by HIV, widespread stigma and lack of investment. It confirms that countries that ignore discrimination and condone inequalities will face serious public health and financial consequences of inaction.

Whether you live or die should not depend on access to an HIV test, Sidibe noted. Smarter scale-up is needed to close the gap between people who know their HIV status and people who dont, people who can get services and people who cant and people who are protected and people who are punished.



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