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A virulent strain of HIV which health experts fear could be impossible to treat has been discovered in the United States; strain also associated with rapid onset of AIDS.

San Francisco public health officials issue alert about LGV, a rare sexually transmitted disease, after it turned up in a few MSM patients in the city after recent outbreak in Rotterdam.

Most gay men have never heard of Lymphogranuloma venereum, or LGV, but the CDC warns that the rare STD is heading to North America from Europe.

The anti-impotence drug Viagra could be reclassified in the US, in a bid to limit the links between gay men who use it and rising HIV and STD infection rates.

Like all drugs - and erections - what goes up, must come down.

What do the doctors have to say? Read about the do's, don'ts and do-it-rights.

Also known as nongonococcal urethritis or NGU, chlamydia could be transmitted through unprotected anal sex as well as oral sex if a condom wasn't used.

Action for AIDS, urges more men to get tested as new HIV infection rates doubles from 28 in 2000 to 54 in 2003.

How and when - if ever - do you have the, "Have you been tested?" conversation? And if you do, would and should you trust someone with HIV/AIDS to tell the truth when there is little incentive for him to do so, knowing that his chances of bedding that someone would be significantly reduced?

A growing market for gay porn videos featuring bareback sex stirs controversy in the adult video industry. Michael Slezak examines the trend and the influence of the media on public behaviour.