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Vital Signs

Martha Living

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Ready or Not




Double Positive

Less Than Zerit

Butt Out

Just Dose It

Who’s Your Daddy?

Beauty and the Beach

I Give At The Office

Giving It Up

Dial-up Prevention

The Ryan White Pages

Escape Artist




Badge of Dishonor

The Tribe Has Spoken

Iranian Bombshell

Monkey Business

Bungle in the Jungle

Dancing With the Stars

Better In The Bahamas?

Doggone It

Fear Factor

The Blame Game




Editor's Letter-August 2006

Mailbox-August 2006

POZ.com Personals Catch of the Month-August 2006



 

Most Talked About

(Un)deniable Evidence: A college professor takes on AIDS naysayers in his latest book (33)

Mom Imprisoned for Posting HIV Patient’s Medical Info Online (28)

New California Budget Slashes $55.5 Million From AIDS Funds (24)

CVS Criticized for Condom Lockup in Communities of Color (21)

Negotiating a Fair Price for the Norvir Tablet (12)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Shingles

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)

What is AIDS & HIV?

Hepatitis & HIV


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August 2006


Who’s Your Daddy?

by Kellee Terrell

Sperm washing lets positive men parent without fear

Over the past 15 years, some 2,000 positive men worldwide have fathered HIV negative kids using a technique called sperm washing. Sperm (which is generally believed, but not proven, to be HIV-free) is spun in a centrifuge, separating it from the infectious semen. It’s then extracted and frozen until insemination. Out of thousands of rinse cycles, not a single woman or child has contracted HIV when this process was used. But reproduction experts may still want a foolproof technique for determining that the initial sperm is indeed HIV-free.

Enter some Japanese scientists, who say they can prove just that—with a method sensitive enough to detect even a single particle of HIV genetic material. The group has also finessed the separation technology to further reduce the risk of sperm mixing with HIV after washing.

The process isn’t cheap; like fertility treatments, it can run to tens of thousands of dollars. But insurance often covers at least part of the bill (learn more at www.bedfordresearch.org). The cigar’s on us.


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