http://www.wisdomofwhores.com Of sex and science. Elizabeth Pisani's blog about HIV and other sundry things. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:45:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Jacob Zuma is sorry about having unprotected sex with someone three decades younger than himself, who is not one of the five women he's married. That's a little better than last week's "You should be proud that I've admitted paternity and paid a fine. What are you all so ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/02/09/countries-get-the-hiv-epidemics-they-deserve/ Remember the fabulous singing Nobel prize winner? Now PCR ads are getting sexy again. Though I do have to wonder how may pints the founders of TwistDx had had when they registered their company name. Try saying it out loud even before a pint... Thanks to Seif, who has yet to ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/02/04/getting-your-dx-in-a-twist/ Who would have thought that showing your tits became a better strategy for pulling partners the older you get? Since I've never tried e-dating, it has never occured to me that it's a spectacular source of data for epi-nerds interested in sexual networking. My eyes have been opened by OKCupid, ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/02/01/data-are-sexy-great-use-of-statistics/ The other night, I was dining with someone who didn't know their acronym from their elbow. I had to explain MSM (mice that have sex with mice; no, wait...) and had a special rant about LGBT. For the unitiated that's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender. It just trips off the ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/01/30/bullshit-bingo-lgbt/ How ethical are HIV prevention trials? Every time we announce results of a trial that compares new HIV infections in a group with or without some new intervention (a microbicide for example, or a vaccine), some journalist or other jumps on the fact that researchers are just watching people get ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/01/24/is-cdcs-hiv-prevention-trial-in-thailand-ethical/ Great news from Vancouver: the city's safe injecting facility, Insite, is allowed to continue saving lives. For now. It's the second time that Insite has won a case brought by the right-wing rottweilers of prime minister Stephen Harper. This victory was in the Supreme Court of British Columbia. But Harper ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/01/19/oh-canada-insite-stays-but-for-how-long/ These gems from the delightful "blog" of "unecessary" quotation marks need no comment. Though the comments on "this post" are quite fun. And from my best side: Thanks to dkj for driving me to them. http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/01/12/unnecessary-sex-in-a-truck/ For 20 years, American governments across the political spectrum have ignored a mountain of evidence showing that needle exchanges and other safe injecting programmes are the single most effective HIV prevention tool we have. But just before Christmas, with a minimum of fuss, Congress dropped the ban on federal funding ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/01/08/us-lifts-ban-on-funding-needle-exchanges/ Though I work in a world of addictions, I try and keep mine in the closet. But with others springing out of the closet right left and centre, I'm going to come clean. I'm addicted to rugby. Rugby is said (largely by people who see no glory in the bad ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2010/01/03/straight-talk-in-rugby/ Christmas in London -- what better way to celebrate than carol singing in the streets of Soho with singers from Westmister Abbey and the International Union of Sex Workers? The Rector of St Anne's parish in Soho swished out in front in long robes and fuschia beret but it was ... http://www.wisdomofwhores.com/2009/12/26/seasonal-cheer-and-new-year-challenges/