So, I went to the doctor’s office today have blood drawn; Being that I am not feeling well, AGAIN, I asked to see the Walk-in physician.

I explained to him that I was feeling the same symptoms as i did three weeks, for which they called EMTs and sent me to the hospital for chest x-rays. Doctors at the ER ruled pneumonia and diagnosed me with sinusitis, mild bronchitis, and asthma. They gave me a Z-pack and an expectorant then sent me on my way.

I started feeling better while on the medication… Then suddenly this last Sunday, I started feeling the very same symptoms coming on. Headache, cough, fatigue, trouble breathing et al.

Well, they got me on something stronger this time. Crossing fingers that Avelox will knock it out.

Over the past decade across high-income countries such as Canada and Australia and regions such as Western Europe an unexpected and disturbing trend has emerged – an increase in syphilis and HIV infections among men who have sex with men (MSM). Now researchers in Israel have found similar trends in HIV in that country. Furthermore, researchers there have found another troubling trend: A significant proportion (about 30%) of MSM newly infected with HIV have strains of this virus that are resistant to some anti-HIV therapies.

The Israeli report, published in the June 1, 2011 issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases has incited an editorial to accompany it that calls out for concerted action to help communities of MSM become more resilient so that they can re-embrace safer-sex behaviours and help reduce the spread of HIV. The editorial cautions against the incorrect assumption made by some MSM that use of potent anti-HIV therapy, commonly called HAART or ART, will render them or their partners sexually non-infectious.

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