The Internet: Bringing people with STDs closer, for comfort

Online Dating Insider:
Evans writes a couple of posts about private-label dating sites that sponsor HIV/STD infected users

The Dating Weblog:
The Dating Weblog lists these as leading sites in STD social media,
-The Edge: based out of Boston, HIV dating site
-BeOneCity: based out of Los Angeles, working on creating a site particular to the heterosexual community
-PositiveSingles, PozitiveLiving, PozMatch.com, Positive Personals
-forums for information and not just meeting others

Scientificblogging.com:
HIV denialist organizations like "Reappraising AIDS" make it their mission to spread misinformation. They have a basic distrust of authority and of institutions of science and medicine. One of the prominent HIV denial groups currently is Christine Maggiore's “Alive and Well” (formerly “HEAL,” Health Education AIDS Liaison) (http://www.aliveandwell.org/). Maggiore's life story is at the center of this group. Diagnosed with HIV in 1992, Maggiore claims she has since been symptom-free for the past 14 years without the use of antiretroviral drugs, including protease inhibitors [10]. She has risen to prominence, and been embroiled in controversy, in recent years after giving birth to and openly breast-feeding her two children, Charles and Eliza Jane. She had neither child tested for HIV, and did not take antiretroviral medication during her pregnancy or subsequent breast-feeding [11]. Eliza Jane died in September 2005 of HIV-related pneumonia [12], though Maggiore remains unconvinced that HIV had any role in her daughter's death [13], and continues to preach her message to other HIV-positive mothers.

Picturephoning.com
Mobile phone pictures used to diagnose STDs online: "People too shy to visit an STD clinic can upload images of their intimate problems - and get an almost instant medical opinion. The pioneering service allows men and women to reveal worrying lumps or rashes without the ordeal of a face-to-face consultation. The pictures will be examined by doctors, who will send out any advice or prescription by post or email." permalink (May 26th, 2008)

Textually.org
There is a new SMS search service that allows South Africans to locate the closest HIV/AID testing site. This same service, hosted by Karabo.org.za, Levi Strauss teamed with South Africa, provides anonymous and confidential mobile counseling services. The Cape-based organization called "Cell Life" has teamed up with mobile technology: Hannan Crusaid's 40 counsellors have been trained to use cellphones equipped with a special menu that allows them to capture data about patients' symptoms and pill taking as well as other factors that might affect their health such as lack of money to pay for transport to the clinic, or a shortage of food. The information is relayed instantly over Vodacom's GSM network to a central database, which can be accessed by clinic staff over a secure connection. In addition to their scheduled visits, counsellors arrive unannounced once every four months to do a pill count. The information they collect is compared with clinic data on the number of pills issued to patients, and enables staff to spot looming trouble. The cellphones are not used to remind HIV patients to take their pills, partly because they are encouraged to manage their own health, but also because it would not be practical to send mass alerts on a long-term basis.