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An increased risk of death from diseases other than AIDS has been tied to a therapy designed to help HIV-positive people.

Jim Neaton, a University of Minnesota biostatistician who led the study, says that the results indicated that patients receiving antiretroviral therapy for HIV had increased risk of death linked to three biomarkers.

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For more than 150 years, scholars and educators have debated whether homosexuality is an objective disorder or whether social oppression, not homosexuality, leads to the higher rates of depression, drug use, and HIV in gay men.

In a study of 422 Midwestern gay and bisexual men, Simon Rosser, a University of Minnesota epidemiologist, found that in all cases, internalized negative attitudes about homosexuality predicted poorer mental health.

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Online communities may be displacing physical communities for gays around the world. That's according to a new study by Simon Rosser, an epidemiologist at the University of Minnesota.

With HIV cases on the increase, Rosser says the Internet could and should be used to promote HIV prevention.

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This week is National Condom Week, an awareness campaign that promotes the use of condoms for safe sex and unwanted pregnancies. But are all condoms safe? We asked Jim Rothenberger, a public health educator with the University of Minnesota.

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