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China Should Provide Country's 140,000 AIDS Orphans With HIV/AIDS Information, Financial Assistance, UNICEF Says

There are an estimated 140,000 children in China who have lost one or both parents to AIDS-related illnesses, according to figures released Sunday by UNICEF China , the South China Morning Post reports. The organization also called on China to... Read more »

More U.S. Residents Gather Health Information, Including HIV/AIDS Information, From Fictional TV Shows, Los Angeles Times Reports

Increasing numbers of U.S. residents gather and trust health information, including HIV/AIDS information, seen on fictional prime-time television shows, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to a survey conducted by CDC in 1999, 50% of the 38... Read more »

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Swaziland: HIV/AIDS Education -- Disabled Persons With HIV/AIDS Face Unequal Access to Health Information

In a recent report, A.K. Yousafzai of University College London and colleagues found that disabled persons with HIV/AIDS faced difficulties in accessing health information. This qualitative study employed focus group discussions among disabled and... Read more »

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Information on aids resistant people who test positive for HIV but never develop active AIDS.

I need information on HIV positive people who never develop active aids. Particularly important is the relevance of DNA in aids resistance....

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your question.Since AIDS has only been around for about15-20 years, we cannot say for sure that there are HIV positive people whowill never develop AIDS. The disease hasn't been around long enough to knowwhat will happen... Read more »

I AM A SEVENTH GRADER WHO NEEDS INFORMATION ON AIDS

WHO IDENTIFIED AIDS FOR THE FIRST TIME AND WHEN WAS IT?...

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

Dear 7th If you are doing a report on HIV -- there are ways to do this. There is at least one great book about this aspect of HIV -- called And the Band Played On which is a journalist's review of all the work that went into finding HIV for... Read more »

A co-worker just informed me that he has Aids

A coworker of mine just told me that he has been living with AIDS for the past Ten years. I am informed on this issue so I know that I cannot contact through sharing food or anything, but I am still concerned that saliva might transmit it. For...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

Your concern is one of the most common concerns American have about this disease: can saliva transmit HIV? Fortunately, the answer is that there is no evidence that saliva can transmit HIV. The only four fluids we are likely to contact that transmit... Read more »

AIDs Information

Hello,I am trying to understand one aspect related to AIDS. For this, will please inform:1. Whether AIDs patients gets hypotonicity, thin blood, low osomolarity or low ESR resuting circulating or eddoth. vascular cells to swell?2. Whthether immune...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

I don't know the answer your questions.... Read more »

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Manager, Center for HIV Information SF

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Manager, Center for HIV Information

Position Description
The UCSF Center for HIV Information (CHI) is a faculty-directed program of the Department of Medicine with a remarkably successful track record for developing key information resources on... Read more »

School project... in need of information please

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Hi. I am doing a project for my AIDS in Society class which entails interacting with the HIV/AIDS community; those infected and those affected by the disease. If anyone would be willing to correspond through email on issues of the disease, dealing... Read more »

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Exploring: NIAID, NIH, U.S. DHHS

March 2005
HIV Infection and AIDS: An Overview
INTRODUCTION
AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) was first reported in the United States in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide epidemic. AIDS is caused by HIV... Read more »

general information about subtype detection

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Do conventional AIDS tests detect all subtypes?

Routine AIDS tests which are currently being used for blood screening and diagnostic purposes detect virtually all subtypes of the human immunodeficiency virus. (Most companies have modified their... Read more »

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