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Supreme Court ruled March 4 Lori and colleague Dr. Julianna Lisziewicz that a federal law which prohibits sexual have reported similar results in another 42 harassment in the workplace applies to cases patients, and found successful suppression of involving harassers and victims of the same sex. H IV in 24 newly infected patients who were In a case closely watched by sexual minority treated with hydroxyurea, ddl and the protease rights groups, the decision provides victims of inhibitor indinavir. same-sex harassment with their first-ever feder More research is needed, however, to deter al remedy. mine if hydroxyurea can replace protease In a unanimous vote, the court revived the inhibitors in long-term therapy. Trials are set to federal lawsuit of a Louisiana man who says he begin later this year at eight to 10 U .S. centers, was sexually pursued and harassed by his male although they have not been chosen yet. supervisor and two other men during the four A t a cost of no more than $30 a month, months that he worked on an oil rig in the Gulf Galpin said, hydroxyurea is markedly less of Mexico. expensive than treatment with combinations of According to The Associated Press, the protease inhibitors and reverse transcriptase court made it clear that someone claiming inhibitors, which cost about $1,300 per month. same-sex harassment must prove the alleged discrimination was based on gender, and “not merely tinged with offensive sexual connota tions.” afer ex ay till The decision made no specific mention of ave isks harassment based on sexual orientation. hile giving and receiving oral pleasure is generally considered to be "safer sex,” a fresh examination of previous studies suggests ourt trikes own the practice does carry a risk for transmitting laska s arriage an HIV, according to a Reuter report. According to work published in the journal judge has ruled against Alaska’s ban on Sexually Transmitted Infections, past research same-sex marriages, ordering the state to indicates the virus can be passed from penis to show why it should be able to regulate whom mouth, or vagina to people marry. mouth, during oral The ruling forces the state to prove a com sex. pelling reason why such unions should be illegal. There also have According to The Associated Press, last year been a few recorded Jay Brause and Gene Dugan of Anchorage chal instances of HIV lenged a 1996 law banning same-sex marriage. transmission from The couple tried to get the state to recognize its mouth to penis, but relationship of nearly 20 years, arguing that the this type of infec law violates the state Constitution. tion is only possible On Feb. 27, Superior Court Judge Peter in the unlikely event that “blood-stained saliva Michalski threw out the state’s bid to dismiss was involved,” says lead author Dr. Sarah the case and ruled that choosing a partner is a Edwards, of the Department of Genitourinary fundamental right. M edicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in John Gaguine, the assistant attorney gener Cambridge, U.K. al who argued the case, said the state will likely HIV is not the only concern, the researchers ask the state Supreme Court to review say, because receptive oral-genital sex may carry Michalski’s decision. a small risk of contracting the hepatitis C virus or an oral case of human papilloma virus. Oral contact with the anus also involves possible ow cost reatment exposure to hepatitis A and B. ust ight ork Researchers say the risk of contracting such diseases during oral sex is still much smaller ome A ID S researchers are hailing the when compared to anal or vaginal intercourse. arrival of hydroxyurea, calling it the first But Edwards adds, “T he relative importance inexpensive AID S drug and touting its poten or oral sex as a route for the transmission of tial for the 50 percent of HIV-positive people in viruses is likely to increase as other, higher risk the United States who cannot afford protease inhibitor therapy, reports the Los Angeles Times. sexual practices are avoided for fear of acquiring H IV infection.” Some claim the drug, taken in conjunction with two other A ID S drugs, has induced remis sion in three HIV-positive patients who have now gone for more than a year without further irm atches ay en treatment. with urrogate others Used for decades in treating leukemia and recently approved for cases of sickle cell disease, Los Angeles company called Growing hydroxyurea affects host cells rather than the Generations is matching gay men who virus itself. As a result, HIV cannot develop want to have children with surrogate mothers, resistance to it. Moreover, researchers believe says a Feb. 22 Los Angeles Times article. that hydroxyurea can lessen chances of HIV Growing Generations is the only surrogate- resistance to other drugs as well. parenting agency in the United States exclu Laboratory testing performed by Drs. Jeffrey sively serving gay men, according to Shirley E. Galpin and Franco Lori indicate that Zager, director of the Organization of Parents hydroxyurea enhances the effects of ddl, a Through Surrogacy, an Illinois-based national reverse transcriptase inhibitor also known as nonprofit group that includes prospective par didanosine, which is already being used to ents, surrogacy clinics, psychologists and attor interrupt the reproductive processes of HIV. neys. 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