Tag: HIV

The adult film industry is up in arms over 'Porn WikiLeaks' -- a new site offering the real names, birth dates and other private information belonging to more than 15,000 adult actors and actresses. As Gawker reported last week, Porn WikiLeaks obtained this information from a patient database at an STD testing clinic in California. In addition to the porn stars' real names, the leaked ...

The White House just released its National HIV/AIDS strategy yesterday, and it ambitiously aims to reduce new HIV infections by 25-percent by 2015. How will it accomplish this goal? The plan outlines the use of more social networking, but not much new funding. According to the new policy, "The United States currently provides more than $19 billion in annual funding for domestic HIV prevention, ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. We say this without a shred of endorsement, but Gilt Groupe is effing awesome for the sartorial types who don't have that magic machine that shoots money at you (or ...

In developing nations, many treatable diseases kill thousands because there's no cheap and accessible way for diagnosis. But a Harvard professor may have discovered an affordable way for people to diagnose a disease from their homes. According to CNN, Harvard chemistry professor George Whitesides created a "paper chip" prototype, barely bigger than your fingerprint, that would cost pennies to ...

There are already plenty of ways to memorialize people online: Tributes.com is trying to push newspaper obituaries into the print grave, while MySpace accounts have been unofficially memorializing lost friends and family for years, and Facebook officially launched memorial pages back in October. Chris Bartlett saw how these online services were creating timeless tributes to the fallen, and ...

Say what you will about texting being impersonal or a waste of money, but a project in South Africa shows the messages can help thousands of people. A number of organizations have united to form Project Masiluleke, which sends out free messages every day to millions of people, urging them to call a confidential phone number with any concerns about AIDS or HIV. So far, calls have quadrupled due ...