I hope this is the appropriate group to ask this.

Is it possible to get HIV by inserting a finger into an infected womans
vagina?  This question assumes that the finger is "normal" and does not
display any obvious abrasions or lacerations.

Thank You

AIDS CLINICAL CARE JULY 1995 p.60

Kaposi’s sarcoma, including the HIV-related form, is more common in men
than women. A provocative international study proposes both an
explanation and a novel treatment: the pregnancy hormone human chorionic
gonadatropin (hCG).
     Noting that KS lesions in two African HIV-positive women disappeared
after the women became pregnant, researchers performed several
experiments suggesting that hCG inhibits KS tumor growth. First,
immunodeficient mice injected with KS tumor cells derived from an AIDS
patient were spared from tumor development if they became pregnant or
were inoculated during early pregnancy (those inoculated in later
pregnancy developed relatively small, non-metastatic tumors). Similarly,
growth was inhibited in KS cells exposed to sera from pregnant mice or
pregnant women. Next, both purified hCG and the hormone’s betachain
inhibited–in dose-dependent fashion–growth of KS cell lines derived
from patients with and without HIV. Finally, mice given hCG before
injection of KS cells were protected from tumor development, hCG
apparently killed the KS tumor cells selectively through apoptosis.
     The authors note that luteinizing hormone (LH), which is secreted
cyclically by all menstruating women, bears some structural resemblance
to hCG, and speculate that LH may also have antitumor properties. Their
intriguing findings bear further investigation.

Lunardi-Iskandar Y et al. Tumorigenesis and metastasis of neoplastic
Kaposi’s sarcoma cell line in immunodeficient mice blocked by a human
pregnancy hormone. Nature 1995 May 4; 375: 64-8.
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Hello !
we are yet Cris & Jo, the two friends from  Venezia, Italy, that
searched help for Alice, the 9 years old child afflicted with familial
dysautonomia.
We want thanks all of you that numerous had answered to our request of
help, giving us informations and data useful and necessary…
We don’t want be pathetic, but we had never thought to find so many
willingness and solidarity and affection.
Moreover, we want thank you all from Alice’s parents, that are now in
a particulary difficult psychic situation.
We talked about few cases in the world because Alice has a particular
type of familial dysautonomia, that presents some symptoms of the
normal syndrome of F.D. but also other different symptoms. We
underline this fact because many people said us that F.D. is not so
rare as we think.
Thank you from the heart to you all !

                                                        Cris & Jo

Cris & Jo
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Hi

I am a breast cancer patient and found recently that I have metastesis to the
lungs.  I can’t find much information on Taxol, but know that it has been used
to treat KS.  I start on it next week and would appreciate information from
people who might be able to tell me of side effects or any other important
stuff that the doctors tend to forget to tell you.

I have been stopping in to check out info here for a while.  Good luck to all
of you.  Keep up the fight.

Kathleen

I am beginning research on Dementia/ADC and would appreciate any
info/recommendations on books or journal articles.
Please e-mail me
Thank you

The following was posted on bionet.molbio.hiv:

As editor of the Preventive Medicine UP-DATE (PMUD) I met with
a) Dr. Garth Nicolson, Professor of Pathology and Internal Medicine,
Chairman Dept. of Tumor Biology, MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor In-
stitute, Univ. of Texas, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Houston TX 77030   and
b) Nancy Nicolson, PhD, President, Rhodon Foundation for Biomedical
Research, also Texas Univ. same address.
Since the data discussed are of extreme priority, it was agreed that
I would post the key findings on the Net.
The findings are:
1) Working, in a pilot study, with Gulf War veterans who suffered
from a variety of illnesses, they found that these Gulf War Syndrome
illnesses were caused by genetically altered mycoplasmas. While
mycoplasmas are usually not often associated with severe symptoms,
these altered mycoplasmas are dangerous and infectious.
2) The above conclusion was based on the observation that the myco-
plasmas found in blood samples of Desert Storm veterans contain
unusual DNA sequences that are most likely not found in the wild.
Detected were: the HIV-1 envelope gene and/or the HIV-1 polymerase
gene in subsets of Desert Storm veterans AND THEIR FAMILIES as well
as mycoplasma genitalium and mycoplasma incognitus (microorganisms
studied by Dr. Shyh Lo, formerly of Taxon Biosystems, now affiliated
with the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC). The
"pieces" detected were not the entire HIV genome.
PMUD:"Could these mycoplasmas be the elusive Co-factors for HIV to
cause AIDS?"
Researchers:"Definitely!"
PMUD:"How about prof. Peter Duesbergs views that HIV does not cause
AIDS?"
Researchers:"Duesberg was always and totally on target. HIV is only
a trigger."

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do not regret the past.do not fear the future

I am trapped in a nightmare.  I was married a week ago.  My
wife is from out of the country.  While going through routine
blood tests for immigration purposes she came back HIV+.  
Elisa and Western Blot.  Neither of us is in a high risk
group.  We are going to get tested again at the local HIV
clinic.  It will be two weeks before we know.  I’m wondering,
what is the percentage of false positive or botched tests done
by a big blood test lab?  The test she received was done
overnight.  She and I both were tested last year and came back
negative.  If she is HIV+, we can’t figure out how.

Steven B. Harris, MD, just reproduced passages from a 15-page plea
for contributions from Ellison (co-author of a book with Duesberg)
to pay for legal fees because Ellison is being sued (by Duesberg).

All I can say is:  RES IPSA LOQUITUR.

Bravo, Steve.

Amittai F. Aviram