Quick HIV Testing in Community Settings
Rapid HIV testing in a range of settings can effectively target multiple populations at high risk for HIV infection. Offering rapid HIV testing in outreach and other community settings provides opportunities to identify HIV infections, symptoms and signs and to link persons with positive test results to prevention and medical care.
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Early testing for HIV is key to curbing the disease among teens
Half of all new HIV infections in the United States occur among 13 to 24 year olds, but teens and adolescents rarely seek HIV testing.
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The HIV Test: What You Know Can Help You
PAHO member countries are spreading the message that knowing one's HIV status is the first step in prevention, treatment, and care.
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Health Department Among Those Participating In National HIV Testing Day
The Marion County Health Department will join other community-based organizations in providing free HIV testing as part of National HIV Testing Day on Wednesday, June 27.
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HIV Message to Black community: Get informed, tested, treated
February 7th as an opportunity to recognize that HIV and AIDS disproportionately affects the Black community.
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Scientists find potential 'off-switch' for HIV virus
While there is no cure for lingering viral infections such as HIV and herpes, study suggests it may be possible to deactivate such viruses indefinitely with the flick of a genetic switch.
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Immune system control of HIV may depend on inherited factors
Findings may provide important clues for vaccine development for HIV.
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Effective HIV control may depend on viral protein
Specific protein targeted may be more important for controling HIV than breadth of CD8 response.
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HIV treatments improve health, but nutritional issues remain
Despite the success of highly active antiretroviral treatment, people with HIV may still be at higher risk for nutritional deficiencies and abnormalities.
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Effective HIV control may depend on viral protein
HIV infected individuals in whom virus specific CD8 T cells are targeted against the Gag protein have lower viral levels than do those with CD8 responses directed against other viral proteins.
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Better chance for HIV patients to reach undetectable viral load
Darunavir with FUZEON provides HIV patients a better chance to reach undetectable viral load.
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HIV Measurement Appears To Be Less Reliable Than Thought
The initial HIV RNA level in untreated HIV infected patients appears to have little value in predicting the rate of CD4 cell count decrease.
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CDC Recommends Routine, Voluntary HIV Screening
New recommendations designed to find early symptoms of HIV and increase early diagnosis of HIV infection as a pathway to improved treatment and prevention.
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Panel Updates Guidelines for Treatment of Adult HIV Infection
With antiretroviral therapy for adults with HIV infection symptoms continuing to evolve, the International AIDS Society has issued updated recommendations for the treatment of HIV.
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HIV Hiding From Drugs in Gut, Preventing Immune Recovery
Treatment strategies for HIV and symptoms need to be reevaluated, indiates this findings.
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Patients and Their Doctors Have Different Perceptions About HIV and Its Treatment
HIV positive patients and their doctors have very different views about the disease and its treatment.
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HIV Vaccine Takes Different Tack To Boost Immune Response
HIV infection or prevention could be controled one day by an unorthodox vaccine.
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Scientists unlock more secrets of HIV and SARS
In HIV research, cientists have cracked one of the key biological processes used by viruses such as HIV and SARS when they replicate.
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Immune Response to HIV in The Brain
Now that we are better at treating the immune/viral aspect of HIV, in many ways AIDS has turned into a chronic disease.
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Cells Have A Natural Defense Against HIV
The findings could lead to a possible new strategy for treating HIV infection symptoms and AIDS, one that might complement current therapies and would probably be less susceptible to viral drug resistance.
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Front-line HIV Drug-Resistance Testing Should be New Standard of Care for Untreated Patients
Researchers demonstrate resistance testing at the time of HIV diagnosis improves survival and is cost effective.
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Injection of Synthetic Polymer May Improve Facial Wasting Syndrome Associated with HIV Treatment
Advances in treatments for HIV, including combination antiretroviral therapy, have enabled patients with the disease to live longer and healthier lives.
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Initial Antiretroviral Treatment of HIV Infection
Once daily antiretroviral combination for HIV treatment more effective and better tolerated than traditional drug "cocktail."
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A Protein Guides HIV Integration Into Human Genome
As it infects a cell, HIV inserts a permanent DNA copy of itself somewhere into one of the cell's chromosomes, and production of new viruses starts.
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The Risk of Bone Damage in HIV Patients
NIH researchers find that combining steroids with protease inhibitors results in a drug interaction that may increase the risk of bone damage in HIV patients.
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Low-Cost Drug Gaining Favor for Use in HIV-Infected Children in Poor Countries
The recommendations include guidelines when to begin treatment given the child's age and whether the patient has symptoms of HIV disease.
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Frog Secretions Block HIV Infections
The findings could lead to topical treatments for preventing HIV transmission.
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Clinic Discontinues Use of Oral HIV Test, Loses Confidence in Reliability
OraQuick Oral HIV test that reveal if a person has HIV symptoms registered 13 false positives in November.
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Anabolic Steroids Help People With HIV Gain Weight
People with HIV symptoms who are treated with anabolic steroids to prevent AIDS wasting may realize modest gains in weight and muscle mass.
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Media Can Help Increase HIV Testing
Symptoms of HIV are better found during HIV testing and when the media encourage HIV testing, more people get tested.
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Wider Screening for HIV Is Cost Effective
Routine voluntary screening for HIV is as cost effective as other common health care interventions and should be adopted far more widely.
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Asymptomatic HIV-Infected Newborns May Benefit From Early Drug Treatment
Identifying and treating HIV infected newborns is a race against the clock. HIV infected infants treated with one or two antiretroviral drugs within two months of birth were less likely to develop AIDS.
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Routine HIV Screening Should Be Expanded
Expanding the scope of routine HIV screening is important, the researchers said, because patients can be infected, as well as infectious, for many years before they start showing symptoms of HIV.
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Number of HIV Symptoms More Accurately Predicts Patients' Quality of Life Than Disease Stage or CD4 Cell Count
Health related quality of life for people infected with HIV depends most on the degree of symptoms they suffer.
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Why is CDC recommending that all pregnant women be tested for HIV?
There are now medical therapies available to lower the chance of an HIV-infected pregnant woman passing HIV to her infant before, during, or after birth.
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I'm HIV positive. Where can I get information about treatments?
CDC recommends that you be in the care of a licensed health care provider, preferably one with experience treating people living with HIV. Your health care provider can assist you with treatment information and guidance.
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What if I test positive for HIV?
If you test positive for HIV, the sooner you take steps to protect your health, the better. Early medical treatment and a healthy lifestyle can help you stay well.
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If I test HIV negative, does that mean that my partner is HIV negative also?
No. Your HIV test result reveals only your HIV status. Your negative test result does not indicate whether or not your partner has HIV.
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Where Can I Get Tested for HIV Infection?
Many places provide testing for HIV infection. Common testing locations include local health departments, clinics, offices of private doctors, hospitals, and sites specifically set up to provide HIV testing.
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How long after a possible exposure should I wait to get tested for HIV?
Ninety seven percent will develop antibodies in the first three months following the time of their infection. In very rare cases, it can take up to six months to develop antibodies to HIV.
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