Alzheimer's And Hiv

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Older People and HIV

How Many Older People Have AIDS? About 29% of all people with AIDS in the United States are age 50 or over. In 2001, this proportion was 17%. In some cities, as many as 37% of people with AIDS are older than 50. The number of older people diagnosed with AIDS is increasing. There are three types of older people with HIV: People who have been living with HIV for many years; older HIV-infected people who are just learning their HIV status; and...

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Pls help: What to do now? 23 year old w AIDS/schizophrenia/parkinsons and now with meningitis and Alzheimer

Hello Dr. Herny,Its Evan and Magda again. We wrote to you about our nephew a few days ago. Thank you so much for your prompt reply.Unfortunately we got some not so good news since the last time we wrote to you. As we mentioned in our last post, our...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Sounds like a very tough situation-not possible or appropriate for me to comment without being able to evaluate the patient/situation directly. Improvement is possible in some difficult late stage situations if the main problem is HIV that can be... Read more »

Alzheimer's or Dementia?

My partner has been pos since 1993. Until a couple years ago he was in good health. Now his viral load is around 250 and his CD4 is 187, which isn't great, and he's starting to forget things really often - not normal things like where his...

Response from Graeme Moyle, M.D.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

There are lots of potential reasons to start forgetting things many of which don't relat to dementia. Sometime poor sleep, too much alcohol or other drugs or depression can mak people more forgetful or absent minded. Infections, malnutrition... Read more »

How can someone contract HIV? (HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES, 2008)

How can someone contract HIV? I mean if you have sex with multiple HIV negative people, can you contract it? I dont understand. Can someone get it by having unprotected sex with multiple HIV negative people? I dont understand....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,I absolutely agree: You certainly don't understand! Can you contract HIV from having sex with multiple negative people? No, of course not. HIV is a sexually transmitted disease in which an HIV-infected person can transmit the virus to an... Read more »

can you get hiv/aids if you.. (QTND: HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES, 2008)

me and my partner have been curious about trying anal sex. we are both hiv/aids free and free of any other std's. we were curious, can we get aids from anal sex even if you both are disease free?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Gosh, and folks wonder why we need age-appropriate, science-based sex education back in our schools!?!?!?Your's, my friend, is a QTND (Question That Never Dies) and has a common sense ATNC (Answer That Never Changes). See below.Dr. Bobgay... Read more »

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HIV and "normal" lifespan

Posted by Blixer, 3 Replies

I ran across this on the John Hopkins site posted by someone asking a question there and thought it was interesting:
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I'm 53, HIV+ since 1999, on Truvada/Sustiva since January 2005. Undetectable since April 2005, 600+ CD4. I'm... Read more »

Attitudes towards HIV and aids

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

Hi,
I am a student at Fordham and our professor gave us a research project concerning "The attitudes towards HIV/AIDS.
We are to find a research problem and a research question.
I would like to ask all of you, as to what do you think my research... Read more »

BBC Report on Brain Scan of HIV Effects

Posted by ScotCharles

Link below to copies of MRI brain scans of HIV+ people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/4319952.stm

Scans show how HIV attacks brain

HIV, which attacks the body's natural defences, also damages the brain, three dimensional medical scans... Read more »

HIV and the brain - update

Posted by ScotCharles, 6 Replies

My neurologist at UCLA, Dr. Elyse Singer, has been warning since the mid 1990's that HIV's effect on the brain and nervous systems was a ticking timebomb. The meds never completely eradicate the virus from the body and never effectively cross the... Read more »

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