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Tinder Includes an STD Testing Locator

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"Tinder Includes an STD Testing Locator "

The STD locator calculates the distance to the nearest STD testing clinic.

BEACON TRANSCRIPT – The creators of Tinder, the online dating platform, has announced that it will be including a special function to the popular application. Tinder includes an STD testing locator after receiving several complaints from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a non-governmental and non-profit organization which raises awareness regarding AIDS and other forms of STDs through campaigns.

At the beginning of 2015, Tinder, along with other online dating platforms, faced the scold of the AHF. The NGO accused Tinder and other online dating sites of contributing to the spread of STDs. In the beginning, Tinder denied these accusations, and so the AHF had to take more coercive measures into order to force sites like Tinder to cease their activity.

Thus, the NGO started to put up billboards all over New York and Los Angeles. Apart from billboards, the AHF also started several advertisement campaigns, all aimed to show that popular online dating sites like Tinder contribute to the spread of sexually transmitted disease. Moreover, the AHF accused the site of being responsible for the ever increasing cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea.

It was not long before Tinder would react to this new development. Tinder’s management sent an open letter to the NGO, asking them to stop their siege on the online dating site.

In order to reach an agreement, Tinder decided to include an online STD site testing locator, if the AHF will remove the billboards and cease their aggressive advertising campaigns. Under the new terms and conditions, the AHF agreed to bury the hatchet, so to say.

Tinder includes an STD testing locator and the spirits seem to have calm down. Users navigating through Tinder will now see a new option called STD locator. The embedded hyperlink takes the user to the Healthvana site. On this site, users will see the location of several clinics, where they could go and get tested for STDs.

Whitney Engeran Cordova, a sociologist working for the AHF, declared that the NGO is truly committed to set higher standards in term of STD awareness. Thus, she is quite satisfied to see that a giant dating site like Tinder managed to subscribe to the same standards.

Moreover, users who wish to follow the hyperlink embedded on the popular dating site will have exclusive access to materials regarding sexually transmitted diseases. And the application even calculates the nearest clinic where they can get tested for free.

Tinder includes an STD testing locator on the platform in order to curve the rate of STD transmission.

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Early Intervention May Prevent Transmission of HIV

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Early Intervention May Prevent Transmission of HIV

Beginning antiretroviral therapy very early is extremely effective in preventing the sexual transmission of the HIV virus in couples that are heterosexual where one of the individuals is infected with the virus and the other one is not. A decade-long trial involving participants in India and other countries claims that early intervention may prevent transmission of HIV.

The new discoveries were presented at the 8th International AIDS Society Conference on the HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention on Monday in Vancouver, Canada. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, Anthony Fauci said that the new research makes it clear that when a person who is infected with the HIV virus receives antiretroviral therapy in order to keep the virus under control, the treatment is extremely effective at stopping the transmission of the HIV virus sexually to a heterosexual partner that is uninfected with it. Fauci added that heterosexuals who can accomplish and maintain the virus under control, have lower risks to transmit the disease to their partners.

The study began in 2005 in April and it enrolled 1,763 couples of 18 years or older and heterosexuals from Zimbabwe, the United States, Thailand, South Africa, Malawi, Kenya, Brazil, Botswana and India.

Each of the couples had one partner infected with HIV and the other uninfected. The infected partners were randomly designated either to begin the antiretroviral therapy immediately, when their immune systems were somewhat healthy, or to postpone the beginning of the treatment until their immune systems were weak or they began developing an illness associated with AIDS. The experiment at the time was consistent with the World Health Organization guidelines.

All of the participants in the study were given counseling regarding how to shield their partners from the transmission of the HIV virus sexually and condoms. At the end of the research, 1,171 of the couples remained inside the clinical trial. The results of the study showed that beginning the antiretroviral therapy very early proved to reduce the transmission of the HIV virus sexually by 93 percent during the study.

Only eight of the cases of transmission of the HIV virus sexually took place in uninfected partners with HIV patients who were given antiretroviral therapy. The study claiming that early intervention may prevent transmission of HIV is incredibly important in the battle with the deadly virus.

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