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Protect Yourself and Your Future

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We have selected several of the best entries from our Gift of Giving contest, which asked women to share their best health advice, and here is one of them. Please share your best health advice with us here. Your advice could be the answer that someone has been waiting for.


     
     
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HIV - Have you been tested?

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Yesterday was National HIV Testing Day. Americans, especially between the ages of 13-64 are encouraged to get tested for HIV in an effort to have everyone ultimately tested for this disease that often leads to death if not diagnosed and treated.

The bad news is that HIV/AIDS still has no cure, and although many people are living healthy lives after an HIV diagnosis, the reality is that many will succumb to the disease of AIDS - particularly poorer individuals who may have no access to health care and may not even know they have HIV in the first place (and thus spreading the virus).


     
     
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An Underempowherment of Women: The sheer needlessness of HIV/AIDS

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I hate to be such an old misery guts on a nice day like Father's Day.

But why is the news on AIDS still so terrible?

Why has a completely avoidable disease taken millions of women's lives and rendered children unwanted, unloved and uncared for? And why are so many babies still born with this disease?


     
     
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Black Plague found to cure AIDS virus

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Black Plague found to cure AIDS virus

By: Amie Peters

Imagine finding out that you are infected with the AIDS virus. All of a sudden your life is measured in months and medical bills. This stress places immense strain upon your already fragile immune system and you begin to contemplate whether or not you can make it until your next hospital visit, let alone next Christmas.


     
     
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WATCH THIS: Dr. Marrazzo Explains The Best Way To Advocate For Yourself If You Have An STD In A Doctor's Office

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Dr. Marrazzo practices Infectious Disease Medicine and Internal Medicine in Seattle, WA and explains how a woman should advocate for herself if she thinks she has an STD in her doctor's office.


     
     
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WATCH THIS: Dr. Jeanne M. Marrazzo Introduction

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Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine. Division of Infectious Disease, University of Washington in Seattle. Medical Director of the Seattle STD/HIV Prevention & Training Center.


     
     
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WATCH THIS: Dr. Marrazzo, What Is A Sexually Transmitted Infection?

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Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, Infectious Disease, STD/HIV Prevention Epidemiology explains what a sexually transmitted infection is & what women need to know about them.