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Table of Contents

The Good Doctor

Dying for a Vaccine

Ashok to the System

Banking on Disaster

International Dream Team 1998

Not Your Average Joe

S.O.S.

To the Editor

Conference Call

Poz Picks

AIDS Is Over

Mourning Star

Obits

Penny Wose, Pound Foolish

River Runs Dry

In the Blood

Nine Lives

Off the Shelf

Power Nutrients

Saved by the Cell

Time Warp

Catch Air!

Urine Luck

External Affairs

HIV, Sir!

Phone Sex

Germs in Sperm

Autograph Book

Baby Dolls

No Needles

POZ Partner

Strike a Pose

CPR for HAART Failure

Salvadoran Savior

POZ Index

Indelicate Balance

Mistruths and Consequences

Positive Planet



What You're Talking About

Mouth Full of Problems: A Crisis in HIV Dental Care (24)

Sex Crime (23)

HPV Vaccine for Boys: Public Comments Welcome (18)

Sir Elton John Denied Request to Adopt HIV-Positive Ukrainian Child (13)

HIV-Positive Sailor Sentenced for Consensual, Unprotected Sex (8)

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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July 1998


Germs in Sperm

by Scott Hess and Edited by RonniLyn Pustil

German mom-to-be gets HIV

A German woman who got HIV after being artificially inseminated with “fresh” sperm may prompt that country to impose stricter quarantine rules for donors. “The donor tested negative—the virus was present but not detected because it was a fresh infection,” said the University of Bonn’s Dr. Bertfried Matz, who published a research letter on the case in The Lancet. Three weeks after receiving the sperm, the 35-year-old mother-to-be became ill, then tested positive with a strain of HIV identical to that of the donor’s, who was then retested and turned up positive. Had the recommended quarantine period on donated sperm been observed, Matz said, the infection could have been avoided. Freezing and storing sperm for three to six months—after which time the donor is retested—has been a must in the United States since the ’80s, following eight cases of sperm-donor HIV infection. Since then, there have been no reported cases in this country. Germany currently only recommends waiting.


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