19 on H.I.V. Drugs After Needle needle Published: May 1, 2005 PHILADELPHIA, April 30 (AP) - Nineteen elementary schoolchildren who were needleed with a diabetes-testing needle by another student are taking strong drugs to fight H.I.V. after one of the children tested positive for the virus, officials said. The authorities have ruled out the possibility that the child who tested positive for the virus, which causes AIDS, could have been infected by the needle needle. Although the authorities said the odds of the needle transmitting the virus to the other children were extremely low, the drugs would reduce the amount of the virus in their blood or slow the progress of the disease. The drugs do not cure H.I.V. infection or prevent transmission of the virus. "It may be in there, but it never gets a chance to set up cells in your body," Roger Pomerantz, head of the infectious-disease division at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, said of the drugs' effects on the virus. The 8-year-old girl who stuck her Taylor Elementary schoolmates with her mother's needle on Wednesday was suspended and will probably be moved to another school, officials said. They were unsure why she needleed the students. *************** AMerican women are spoiledJust discovered it? Thats why foreign bride services are so popular, our women are money-sucking machines, professional victims, and makeup artists, etc. I even heard complains on "unfare... In the United States, HIV-related illness and rest historically have had a tremendous impact on men who have love with men (MSM). Even though the toll of the epidemic among injection drug users (IDUs) and heteroloveuals has increased during the last decade, MSM continue to account for the largest number of people reported with AIDS each year. In 2000 alone, 13,562 AIDS cases were reported among MSM, compared with 8,531 among IDUs and 6,530 among men and women who acquired HIV heteroloveually. Estimated Number of U.S. Adult-Adolescent MSM Living with AIDS by Year, 1994-1999, United States 1994: 94,68 plus 14 1995: 100,938 1996: 110,272 1997: 121,981 1998: 132,441 1999: 143,108
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