Archive for the ‘RAPONAIDS’

  • German Pop Sensation Confesses Nadja Benaissa To Having Sex With Men While HIV Positive; Attempted To Pay Off Infected
    Share German pop sensation Nadja Benaissa has confessed that she has had intimate relationships with men while she was HIV positive. The bigger problem is that Benaissa didn’t tell these men that she had the disease. HIV is a very serious disease and should not be taken lightly. Benaissa should have told each of the men that she was with about her condition before...
    by hiphopucit at August 18th, 2010 at 11:08 am
  • Could This “Tenofovir” Medication End HIV?
    Share Standing ovations are a rare occurrence at scientific conferences, but at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna this week, a husband-and-wife team of researchers received no less than three from a filled-to-capacity room of hundreds of scientists, activists, and reporters. The reason for the thunderous out-of-seat applause? The couple’s team had...
    by hiphopucit at July 22nd, 2010 at 09:07 am
  • Studies Show That HIV Has More To Do With Poverty & Less With Race
    Share   When it comes HIV in the inner city, poverty, not race, is the most important factor, according to a new government study presented at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria, reports the Associated Press. The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and presented at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, found that...
    by hiphopucit at July 19th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
  • Sudies Show That HIV/AIDS Programs Benefit Black Couples
    Share A new couple-focused study benefited African-Americans by lowering the rate of risky behavior among partners in which one is HIV positive, reports Health Day News. Researchers chose 260 African-American couples differing in HIV status and offered them eight weekly two-hour session dealing with “communication, problem-solving and other interpersonal factors...
    by hiphopucit at July 16th, 2010 at 09:07 am
  • White House Announces National HIV/AIDS Strategy
    Share It’s been some 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed in the United States. Twenty years have gone by since the passage of the Ryan White Care Act, the largest federal program for people living with the disease. But since then–despite 1.1 million people living with HIV in this country, and the fact that AIDS is the number one killer of...
    by hiphopucit at July 15th, 2010 at 09:07 am
  • Prostitute Charged With Knowingly Infecting Hundreds Of Men With HIV [VIDEO]
    Share Nigaila Gibbs, a 20-year-old St. Louis area prostitute, was jailed Thursday after she allegedly had sex with hundreds of men while knowing she was HIV positive. According to St. Louis County police, an undercover officer arrested Gibbs at her apartment after she reportedly tried to prostitute herself to him while knowing she had HIV. Investigators say Gibbs has...
    by hiphopucit at July 8th, 2010 at 10:07 am
  • Why Straight Men Avoid The Fight Against HIV/AIDS
    Share In a previous editorial, I shared three reasons that Black men matter in the fight against HIV/AIDS, whether they’re straight, gay or bisexual. To summarize, Black men matter because Black men–straight, gay, bisexual or confused–are at disproportionate risk for HIV infection. Black men matter because they can play a critical role in protecting their...
    by hiphopucit at June 22nd, 2010 at 08:06 am
  • Cassidy Denies Being Infected With HIV
    Share Philly rapper Cassidy has responded rumors being circulated that he has HIV/AIDS and was responsible for infecting a young woman. A picture of a Philadelphia woman along with a statement accompanying it claims the woman slept with Cassidy multiple times in a Hackensack, New Jersey hotel. After numerous encounters, the woman claimed she and Cassidy had unprotected...
    by hiphopucit at March 27th, 2010 at 08:03 am
  • Rumor: Is Cassidy HIV Positive? Did He Infect Someone Else?
    Share This is Bananas! Hopefully there isnt much truth to this and continues to be as it stands a rumor for everyone involved including the young lady. I have some important information about the rapper Cassidy that girls need to know. I met cassidy some time last summer at a concert he was doing in Philly. After the concert he invited me and my friends to play pool with...
    by hiphopucit at March 26th, 2010 at 09:03 am
  • Ludacris & Jamie Foxx Join The Fight Against HIV/AIDS [VIDEO]
    Share Atlanta-based rap star Ludacris is using his fame to enter a new level of raising awareness of HIV/AIDS. The rapper, along with actor/comedian/singer Jamie Foxx have teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to promote I know, a recently launched social media effort set up to encourage dialogue about the disease among African-Americans...
    by hiphopucit at March 22nd, 2010 at 10:03 am