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Health Department Media Campaign Shows How HIV Can Compromise Health

December 2010

New Health Department Media Campaign Shows How HIV Can Compromise Health and Well Being, Even when Treatment Controls the Infection

Video spots promote condom use and partner reduction among gay men and other men who have sex with men

When you get HIV, it’s never just HIV. Treatment can control the virus and save your life, but the infection still has lifelong consequences that can range from dementia to bone loss and cancer. That is the message of a new Health Department educational campaign that debuts this week on television and the Internet. The campaign speaks directly to the city’s most heavily affected population – gay men and other men who have sex with men – in an effort to combat complacency about HIV.

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