HIV AIDS:
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Jan 29th, 2005
Just a decade ago treatment of HCV in persons infected with HIV was not a priority because they died from AIDS before developing serious complications of hepatitis C infection. As new anti HIV drug treatments extend the lives of HIV positive individuals, studies like this one provide essential guidance on treating other serious health problems affecting people living with HIV
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Jan 14th, 2005
A recently published UNAIDS report shows that 5 million people became newly infected with HIV last year, more than any other year since the beginning of the AIDS/HIV epidemic.
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Nov 20th, 2004
In developing countries, women and girls usually care for HIV and AIDS patients and orphans. World Vision supports local groups that care for HIV and AIDS patients and orphans and assist AIDS affected families.
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May 30th, 2004
Although the scientific evidence is overwhelming and compelling that HIV is the cause of AIDS, the disease process is still not completely understood. This incomplete understanding has led some persons to make statements that AIDS is not caused by an infectious agent or is caused by a virus that is not HIV.
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May 30th, 2004
Prior to 1996, scientists estimated that about half the people with HIV would develop AIDS within 10 years after becoming infected.
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May 30th, 2004
HIV destroys a certain kind of blood cell (CD4+ T cells) which is crucial to the normal function of the human immune system. In fact, loss of these cells in people with HIV is an extremely powerful predictor of the development of AIDS
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May 30th, 2004
AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
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May 29th, 2004
The earliest known case of HIV-1 in a human was from a blood sample collected in 1959 from a man in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. (How he became infected is not known.) Genetic analysis of this blood sample suggested that HIV-1 may have stemmed from a single virus in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
