How to Have Anal Sex That’s Fun and Safe

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Jack from Orange County asks, “I want to have anal sex!  How can I keep myself safe and make it feel good?”

Let’s Talk About Sex with Garza & Dulce is a safer sex video series that provides information and tips on how to minimize your risks of acquiring HIV and sexually transmitted infections in a variety of situations. Watch our resident sexperts Garza and Dulce de Leche as they address viewer questions about sex in a candid and fun format. Make sure to leave a comment below!

The “HIV cure” – A cure for one, not for all.

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“Doctors Claim HIV-Positive Man Cured by Stem Cell Transplant” – Fox News: December 14, 2010

“Stem Cell Transplant cures HIV in ‘Berlin Patient’”- Huffington Post:  December 14, 2010

“Evidence for the cure of HIV infection”- Blood: March 10, 2011

Beginning in 2009, rumors suggesting the discovery of a miraculous “cure for HIV” made their way to major news publications and scientific journals throughout the world. The exciting news revolves around Timothy Ray Brown, a forty year old resident of Berlin infected with both HIV and leukemia. Dubbed the “Berlin patient,” Brown received a stem cell transplant in 2007 to treat his leukemia. The cells he received lacked a key piece that HIV needs to infect cells- a molecule called CCR5. The result was astounding: follow up tests could not detect any active HIV in his blood. Over three years later, they still can’t! Finally, after 30 long years the world has found a cure for the treacherous HIV virus that has killed over 25 million people! Right?

5 Things You Need to Know about the HIV Prevention Pill

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It’s the little blue pill that could!  TIME magazine’s “Top Medical Breakthrough” of 2010 was a study called iPrEx which showed that taking a pill a day, called Truvada^®, can reduce the risk of contracting the virus by an average of 42% in men who have sex with men at risk for HIV.  This approach, called pre-exposure prophylaxis (or PrEP), has the potential to be a promising new tool we can add to the HIV prevention tool box.

But the study raised as many questions as it answered.  Now that the dust has settled a little, I want to probe a little deeper into the results and highlight some of the important points about what we do and don’t know about PrEP.