no LOL in HIV

Whether your surfing endless pages of search results just to find a nearby clinic, or trying to find out if that so called “fact” your friend told you is actually true, finding the information you need on the web can be hard sometimes. That’s why we’ve compiled a boatload of resources that will not only save you time, but could save a life as well.

Here on the 411 page, with resources aplenty. You’ll find  a listing of clinics and organizations in your area, facts and popular myths. And just for good measure, we’ve put a ton of definitions right at your fingertips.

We know the ‘rents may have some questions too, so we even threw in a great resource page just for them.

Now let the schooling begin:

Myths

If a man pulls out before “cumming” (ejaculating), then sex is safe and you won’t become infected.

Only gay people get HIV.

Today, there is a cure for HIV.

Getting tested is dangerous.

You have to have your parents permission to get tested.

Having sex with a virgin will cure HIV.

Asians are not at risk of HIV.

You can’t contract HIV through oral sex.

HIV is airborne.

Facts & Stats

Two teens, in the United States, are infected with HIV every hour.

1 in 5 teens have had sex by the age of 15.

1 of 4 people infected with the virus don’t even know and are unaware of there own status.

1 million infants around the world are born with HIV.

It can take a decade or more for HIV to develop into AIDS.

The New York Times publishes its’ first news story on AIDS on July 3, 1981. 

The odds of an HIV positive mother passing the HIV virus to her child, with anti-retroviral treatment, is 2% or less.

In the United States, women account for 25% of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses.

AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death among Hispanic women 35-44 years old, in the United States.

According to CDC study of 5,589 MSM, 55% of young men (aged 15-22) did not let other people know they were sexually attracted to men.

According to research published in Nature, in 2008, genetic analysis pushes the estimate origin of HIV back to between 1884 and 1924. AIDS wasn’t recognized formally until 1981 when it got the attention of public health officials in the United States. That traces HIV virus back 100 years.

Mosquitos do not transmit HIV. Worldwide, there has never been a documented case of HIV infected from a mosquito bite. The HIV virus cannot survive in insects and bug bites do not inject blood into your body.

HIV does not show symptoms for a long time; people who have HIV do not always get sick quickly.

Unprotected anal sex is the highest risk sexual activity, both partners are at risk for exposure to sexually transmitted diseases.