Dr. Parveen Chopra's Health Blog
HIV
Who should get tested for HIV?
Aug 29th
On National HIV Testing Day, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, urges everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 years to be tested for HIV at least once in their lifetime in keeping with the recommendation of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). People at high risk for HIV infection — including substance abusers and their sexual partners, gay and bisexual men, female partners of bisexual men, and individuals with multiple sex partners — should get tested at least once a year.
Circumcision is Not Passport to Unsafe Sex
Aug 17th
There have been studies in America which indicate that risk of getting HIV infection is reduced 60% in circumcised men. Rate of circumcision amongst American baby boys appears to be declining – fewer than half of baby boys from 2006-09 from about two-thirds through the 1980s and 1990s.
Pushing Female Condoms to Fight HIV
Jul 30th
Charlene Cotton will talk to anyone about sex. Several days a week she stands behind a table decorated with a bowl of flavored condoms and safer sex pamphlets, calling to women passing on the street, “Come check out my table. Don’t be scared.”
Living for 30 Years with HIV
Jul 26th
When you hear about a man with HIV positive status, what do you think? –it is thought that he would develop AIDS in a couple of years and will pass away in a few years- not decades anyway!