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According to health officials at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, newly divorced women comprise a special population of HIV victims because of the behavior and body of the middle-aged woman.
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Case Western University researcher Allison R. Webel found out from women's focus groups that the love of a pet is important for women living with HIV/AIDS. In addition to maintaining other important social roles, women said pets, especially dogs, help them live healthier, organize their day and even stay on track with taking their medication.
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Called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, the new approach is a strategy of providing medications to at-risk people before they are exposed to the virus. Having shown great promise in recent phase 3 clinical trials, PrEP may soon be rolled out for public use.
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A tenofovir-based HIV gel used in protection against AIDS was recently removed from a study aimed at developing an antiviral resistance drug treatment in sub-Saharan Africa. The HIV gel initially showed significant results in HIV prevention in previous studies, but now has been determined by a monitoring board of review to be ineffective towards preventing the transmission of HIV in its current gel form.
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HIV infections have increased by almost 500 percent since the 1990"s. Researchers were baffled by the reason, so they decided to study the virus itself. In the analysis, they found a large number of cases could be traced to a common source. The virus, in a majority of cases, was already resistant to drug therapy.
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The CDC reports high numbers of HIV positive men who have sex with other men with Hepatitis C in New York City. According to an investigation, the men did not have other risk factors for contracting the virus. The finding, according to officials, is important for raising awareness for screening and early treatment.
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The first class of drugs developed to treat HIV, which includes zidovudine (AZT), stavudine, and lamivudine, can both extend patients’ lifespan and cause premature aging. New research appearing in Nature Genetics reports that the older HIV drugs damage the DNA in the energy sources of cells—the mitochondria.
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Monday June 27 is National HIV Testing Day. The purpose of the day is to promote HIV testing, improve self-awareness of one’s HIV status, and enable earlier diagnosis of HIV infection. Too many continue to be unaware of their HIV status which delays treatment. Approximately 20% of the estimated 1.2 million persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the United States at the end of 2008 were not aware of their infection.
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The June 5, 1981 issue of CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) reported on 5 cases of a disease we now know as AIDS. From those early days of HIV/AIDS 30 years ago, great strides in prevention and treatment have been made. In the early days, HIV/AIDS was a death sentence. Now there is an estimated 1,106,400 adults and adolescents living with HIV in the United States.
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A man who tested positive for HIV in 1995 and who received a bone marrow stem cell transplant from someone with immunity to the disease has what doctors call a “functional cure.” According to the Daily Mail Online, researchers say that tests “strongly suggest that cure of HIV infection has been achieved” for Timothy Ray Brown.
