Blood Diease Linked To Hiv

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Blood Work: A Complete Guide for Monitoring HIV

Introduction Lab tests, or blood work, can give important clues about your overall health and HIV disease. Many of these tests should be done shortly after learning that you're HIV-positive. This will establish a "baseline" measure of your immune health and show how active HIV is. Knowing this information will help you watch for changes in your health over time as well as check the impact of any treatments that you take. Factors such as age,...

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Celiac diease and HIV

My partner has recently been diagnosed HIV+.He is also Celiac but he manages his gluten diet very well.Can Celiac disease have a huge impact on HIV progression?...

Response from Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A.

Program for Wellness Restoration

We have no data on trying to answer your question. However, I would ensure that he discusses HIV medication choice with his doctor (and GI doctor if he has one) to chose HIV meds that are not known to cause more GI problems (most Norvir boosted... Read more »

blood to blood (HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES) (HIV FROM TWO HIV NEGATIVES)

If you're having unprotected sex and both of you bleed, can this cause HIV to form, or if you're both clean, will nothing happen?Sex ed never teaches you about how it forms....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Here we have another example of the consequences of abstinence-only sex education! Can there be any doubt we need to bring back science-based sex education?Questioner, HIV is a virus that is transmitted from one infected person to an... Read more »

symptoms=diease

looks like this website is trying to comforting people, all I see is woohoo on the subject. I am telling you symptoms always = diease, And you never listened...no matter how much you cry or ask, it is already in your system. if you tested neg after...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,It seems like you are still having significant difficulties accepting your HIV-negative status. Please note when I say symptoms do not equal disease, I am advising people HIV-type symptoms cannot be relied on to diagnose HIV disease. Only an... Read more »

Not irrational fear, it is diease

Dr. Bob,I am telling ya. I urge you to tell the CDC to look at the Worried Well people, please!!!. They are the most dangerous people because they can spread these unknown dieases to their partner as you can see. This is urgent!!! Please, stop...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,WW's are "dangerous people because they can spread these unknown diseases to their partner, as you can see" ???? Actually, no, I don't see that at all. And exactly why would I stop advising WW to seek counseling when you... Read more »

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Do not give blood as an hiv "test"!

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

http://www.thebody.com/cdc/news_updates/update.html#03

The above link describes a recent case where someone was hiv+ and they donated blood. This resulted in infecting an innocent person through a blood transfusion. Please do not donate blood as a... Read more »

HIV/AIDS site link

Posted by Anonymous

An interesting link with some information you may not have seen before... check it out - http://www.polder.net/aids/index.htm

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Early HIV Treatment Failure Linked to Didanosine/T

Posted by TwinsDad, 1 Reply

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Aug 23 - The combination of the antiretroviral agents didanosine, tenofovir, and efavirenz is associated with a high virological failure rate in treatment-naive patients with HIV, British investigators report.

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Link to NYT article on HIV/Ageing includes charts

Posted by ScotCharles

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/health/06HIV.html?_r=2&em&ex=1199768400&en=4154b9c032ffd428&ei=5087%0A&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Read more »

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