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Various commentators remarked on the Drudge Report's sharing of the story. [4] [2] Gay commentator Dan Savage rejected the story as failing fact-checking. [4] Rolling Stone reported that there were 40,000 HIV infections in the United States every year with 10,000 of those due to bug chasing. [4]
The Gift is a 2003 documentary film by filmmaker Louise Hogarth documenting the phenomenon of deliberate HIV infection; such practices are known colloquially as bugchasing, for seeking and providing voluntary HIV infection, respectively. The film follows the stories of two "bug chasers" who are seeking "the gift" of HIV infection.
Bugchasing (alternatively bug chasing [1]) is the rare practice of intentionally seeking human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection through sexual activity. [2] Bugchasers—those who eroticize HIV—are a subculture of barebackers, men who have unprotected sex with other men. It is statistically rare for men to self-identify as bugchasers ...
In honor of HIV Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day, June 5, these folks share some of their personal journeys of living with HIV for decades.
People who are HIV positive speak about the challenges they face, how dealing with the disease has changed, and their survival stories. As more is being learned and discovered about HIV and AIDS ...
The goal was to reach the estimated 1.2 million people living with HIV, including some who don’t know they have the disease. Overall, estimated new HIV infection rates declined 23%from 2012 to 2022.
In the short film Bug Chaser, Shucart played the role of a gay man who finds himself with an unexplainable infection after a one-night stand. [11] "What I think the movie does beautifully is capture the fear and anxiety that comes with hooking up that every gay man can relate to." [12] Under the name Brenden Gregory, he appeared in Interior.
Kimberly Ann Bergalis (January 19, 1968 – December 8, 1991) was an American woman who was one of six patients purportedly infected with HIV by dentist David J. Acer, who was infected with HIV and died of AIDS on September 3, 1990.