A few weeks ago, Steve Weinstein, editor-In-Chief of the Boston-based Edge, commented on “Disco dosing”, the alleged Gay-men practice of taking a cocktail made of a psychostimulant, methamphetamine, an antiretroviral, Tenofovir, and a drug used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension Viagra, better known for its ability to correct erectile dysfunction, before going clubbing. Such mix even has a name: “MTV”.
Disco dosing has been around for years. It was reported that Gay men were taking the antiretroviral Tenofovir before going on the prowl for the weekend and enjoy unprotected sex, hopping …

In an editorial for Health-e Anso Thom reminds us how People Living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) are easy preys for AIDS-revisionists and charlatans who make money on the back of the defenceless and vulnerable.
Thom reports on how South African national health minister Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has been prompt to take off of the selves potentially unsafe conventional medicines but also how she was and still is less prompt to act when it comes to “natural remedies” promoted by charlatans such as Dr Rath and his Health Foundations or Zeblon …

Thailand is often hailed as a success story in the fight against HIV and AIDS when back in the 90s the Thai government implemented a 100% condom policy in brothels and amongst sex workers. But there is an area where Thailand has failed deplorably, it is in providing treatment and care to its injecting drug users of whom half are thought to be HIV-positive.
“The people we work with who are drug users, many of them injecting drug users, almost all of them are HIV-positive, yet none of them have access …