Contraceptive Failure Rate

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Hormonal Contraception: HIV Transmission and Progression Rates

Hormonal contraception (HC) is used widely -- an estimated 14 million women in sub-Saharan Africa use either injectable or oral hormonal contraception -- yet the impact on HIV remains unresolved despite twenty years of research. Two oral... Read more »

N.C. Comprehensive Sex Ed Advocates Seeking Broader Curriculum, Including Information About Contraceptives, STDs

Comprehensive sex education advocates in North Carolina this year plan to encourage the state Board of Education to broaden the existing sex education curriculum beyond its "abstinence-until-marriage" focus, which mentions contraceptives only to... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Update to CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2010: Revised Recommendations for the Use of Hormonal Contraception Among Women at High Risk for HIV Infection or Infected With HIV

Prevention of unintended pregnancy among women at risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or infected with HIV is critically important. One strategy for preventing unintended pregnancies in this population is improving access to a... Read more »

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failure rate

when you talk about a failure rate of HIV Meds of 5 percent a year. Does that include those who are not adherent or just patients who faithfully take meds. Also, I'm not good at math but does that mean each year an individual runs the risk of 5...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

That general failure rate refers to a population of patients with mixed levels of adherence as well as to the given first drug regimen. Patients who fail a given initial therapy in western countries can often achieve re-suppression with a properly... Read more »

real effectiveness of condoms/ What is the failure rate of condoms for heterosexual couples attempting to prevent pregnancy?The Body: Rick Sowadsky M.S.P.H., C.D.S, Answers to Safe Sex Questions

Question 1:Is it true the CDC said the failure rate of condoms is 17% for heterosexual couples attempting to prevent pregnancy? Would the failure rate of condoms for couples attempting to prevent HIV transmission be higher than the failure rate of...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your questions.When we calculate the failure rate for condoms, we look at the pregnancy rateper year that occurs in couples who use condoms. For latex condoms, thetypical failure rate is about 12%. However, if condoms are used... Read more »

Stage 2 Renal Failure

I recently had a 24hr creatinine collection taken. My results should creatinine at 1.4 and GFR at 63. I am 40 years old 6ft 180lbs. and have been on reyataz, truvada, and norvir for 1 year. (1st regimen) I am shocked. Am I going to be on dialysis...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

The situation is not dire. As assessment of protein levels in your urine as well is warranted as is a renal workup which often includes an ultrasound and renal consult. If you have diabetes or high blood pressure those conditions need to be treated.... Read more »

Treatment Failure Within 2 Years?

Dr. Henry,I've read a lot of info about most people experiencing treatment failure within 2 years. This was very disturbing to me. All my docs and other experts keep telling me I should live an almost normal life-span. If this is true, then...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Treatment failure is a risk if patients miss lots of doses and/or there are lots of interrptions in treatment (due to insurance issues, social setting, et cetera). Our large HIV clinic has experienced true virologic treatment (with drug resistance)... Read more »

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A nationwide team of orthodox AIDS researchers led by doctors Benigno Rodriguez and Michael Lederman of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland are disputing the... Read more »

Early HIV Treatment Failure Linked to Didanosine/T

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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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Perpetual med failure yet healthy

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I am a 37 y/o male who has lived with HIV for 12 years and AIDS for 9 of them. Last year I got my frst opportunistic infection, cryptosporidium. Othehrwise I have been pretty healthy.

I have taken all kinds of meds from AZT to T-20 to various study... Read more »

A Story of Failure

Posted by Survivor, 4 Replies

W.A.D. snippet from MSNBC

We are approaching the twenty fifth year of the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. The drugs brought a 70 per cent decline in the death rate in this country from their discovery in the early 1990s to the mid-1990s. But they are not a... Read more »

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