Daily Archives: September 7, 2010

Take the time: Health and Wellness Center offers students free HIV testing 0

One in five Americans are unaware they have Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
The Boise State Health and Wellness Center wants to change how the sexually transmitted virus affects BSU students by offering a free HIV test in a new lab in the Norco building behind the Boise State [...]

Many HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder 4

A third of HIV-positive gay men have post-traumatic stress disorder, UK investigators report in AIDS Patient Care and STDs. Events including starting treatment, HIV-related illness, and witnessing an HIV-related death were all linked to the development of symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. Emotional responses to such events – rather than actual physical threat – [...]