Basic Training About Hiv In Long Term Care

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Choosing an HIV Care Provider

Why Is Choosing an HIV Care Provider Important? Treating HIV disease is very complicated. There are choices to consider at every stage of the disease. It's best if you and your health care provider work together as a team. That makes it easier to choose and stick to your treatment plan. "Care provider" means a doctor, a physician's assistant, or a nurse practitioner. There are several issues you may want to consider in choosing an HIV care...

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New onset Diabetes in Long Term HIV patients.

As a 51y/o male and 26yr HIV+ long term survivor on Lexiva and Truvada with CD4~400/Viral Load-undetectable, I now have been told I have Diabetes based on several fasting blood sugars and HgbA1C results. Should the treatment of this Diabetes be any...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Basically, no. The treatment of diabetes in the setting of HIV infection mirrors that in teh un-infected individual. Oral medications such as metformin, rosiglitazone and pioglitazone are popular agents and each can be used in HIV+ folks.... Read more »

Do HIV carrirers test negative (HIV CARRIERS) (HIV BASICS)

DO HIV carriers test negative? (I did an HIV 1&2 test which came back negative. But someone told me that I could still be a carrier. The test was done six (6) months after my last possible exposure. ...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,There is no such thing as an "HIV carrier." See below.Dr. Bobis there such thing as HIV- carriers?Mar 13, 2007 Hello Doc, I have tested negative for HIV out to six months and believe I am negative per the recommendations of this site... Read more »

Long term care insurance

Since it's still a rarity to obtain life insurance if you're HIV pos I assume the same is true of long term care insurance? or if offered it will be extremely expensive? Any experience with this?...

Response from Lynn L. Franzoi

Worldwide Benefits for Fox, Inc.

Unless you apply for coverage under a group long term care ("LTC") policy offered through your employer during an open enrollment or intial enrollment period, my experience has been that it would be very difficult to get LTC coverage. You... Read more »

Obtaining Long Term Care Insurance

I am HIV+ and have been trying to obtain long term care insurance. So far, none of the majors will provide coverage.Can you recommend a company who does provide coverage for those who are positive....

Response from Steve Berg

Insurance & Benefits Advocate AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA)

Unfortunately, I do not. Generally, as with most insurance for people with HIV, it is obtained through an employer's benefits package. Most people end up having to rely on the benefits provided through Medicare and Medicaid.... Read more »

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HIV/AIDS LONG-TERM SURVIVORS sought for in-depth i

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Gay men who have lived consciously aware of their HIV+ status since at least 1986 are sought to provide their personal experiencesemotional, psychological, spiritual, medical, social, legal, &c.for a book to document and preserve the experiences... Read more »

Long-term HIV and Aids survivors' health worrying

Posted by ScotCharles

From KaiserNet

January 8, 2008

Some experts and doctors recently have voiced concerns that people who were diagnosed with HIV and Aids in the early years of the epidemic are experiencing "premature[e]" or "disproportionate numbers" of ailments... Read more »

Long Term Disability Insurance and HIV

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

$13,000. Worth of advice
about group disability insurance coverage.

When I first became fully disabled and unable to work I was worried but felt comfortable in knowing that I was covered by my employers long-term group disability policy. I knew that... Read more »

Long term survivor

Posted by DAF, 4 Replies

I am aperson living with AIDS, I have srvived three opertunistic infections. I have known about my status for 22 years and in retrospect I was one of the early cases to be infected,. In the time period from 1978 to 1981.

My qyestion is are there any... Read more »

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