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This Is the Pop Star on Trial for Spreading HIV

Maureen O'Connor · 08/16/10 05:25PM

Nadja Benaissa, a member of German girl band No Angels, is on trial for knowingly spreading HIV through unprotected sex. And her songs are infectious, too! But seriously, she testified today, and it was sad and scary.

An Inception? That's Impossible.

Max Read · 07/19/10 01:15AM

[The extravagantly-costumed guests of the Vienna HIV charity Life Ball look more like characters from a dream than anyone in Inception. Pic via AP.]

The 'Lindsay Lohan Has HIV' Twitter Scam That Fooled Everyone

Maureen O'Connor · 04/30/10 03:55PM

Three days ago, a widely-reported story emerged that Michael Lohan had posted to Twitter that Lindsay was HIV-positive. Michael said it was a hacker. Lindsay said it was her dad. Nobody realized that the hack itself was a fake.

New HIV Strain Discovered by Scientists

The Cajun Boy · 08/03/09 12:03AM

A Cameroonian woman living in Paris has been diagnosed with a strain of HIV scientists say originated in gorillas. HIV-1, the primary source of human infections, originated in chimpanzees. The woman is this new strain's first documented human case. [BBC]

Today in Contractible Illnesses

cityfile · 06/11/09 03:34PM

Yesterday, Glamour magazine reported that a staffer had contracted swine flu. This afternoon, NBC sent out a memo warning that a couple of employees at 30 Rockefeller Plaza had come down with the flu and while the network didn't indicate if it was of the swine variety, we don't believe company-wide emails usually get sent out every time a grip on the set of Saturday Night Live develops a slight cough. But it's not just swine flu that is making the rounds. The porn industry in Southern California is reeling from the news today that an unidentified actress has tested positive for HIV, the first case to hit the adult entertainment business since 2004. [NYO, LAT]

Uh...

Pareene · 05/15/08 09:46AM

A Dallas man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for spitting at a cop. He was charged with assault with a deadly weapon, because he's HIV-positive. So his spit is made of death!!! Except, uh... we were taught many years ago that much as you can't get pregnant from oral sex, you can't actually get the AIDS from fucking spit. Look, here's the CDC:

Perez Hilton stars on "viral" hottie rating site to promote HIV awareness

Melissa Gira Grant · 05/01/08 07:20PM

PosOrNot.com, conceived as a public education campaign about HIV/AIDS, apes HotOrNot, asks visitors to the site to guess the HIV status of those pictured, based on photos and social network-style profile excerpts. Look, even professional hater Perez Hilton donated his image to the viral antiviral effort! Then again, encouraging testing using a faux dating site is probably wiser than a campaign to get Web-cruising users to disclose their status on a real hookup site, where everyone is allegedly very good looking.