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Im not sure if this is the forun for this so anyways I tested positive around a year ago,had no clue what was going on.I had been not well for about a week,finally had a doctor come to my house and he felt that I should go to the emergency...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

It is hard to say for certain whether you had a significant acute infection with pneumonia and now things have settled down. If your your CD4 count was 450 in the hospital prior to starting HIV treatment and your viral load was that high, this could... Read more »

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What if anything does Aids do to your insides?Can the patient Die if they get aids?... Read more »

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D. »

info on longterm aids & meds needed

I was first diagnosed with HIV in 1989. I was diagnosed with AIDS in 1996 and began meds at that... Read more »

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AIDS Treatment Fact Sheets: Interview with Bob Munk, New Mexico AIDS InfoNet

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general information about subtype detection

Posted by Anonymous

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 »

Info from NYC dept of health? Is 4 weeks suffice?

Posted by Anonymous

How soon after exposure can HIV infection be detected?
With the HIV antibody tests used in New York State, virtually all people who are infected will test positive within one month of being infected. Most people will test positive even sooner.

The... Read more »

Some interesting info about the WINDOW PERIOD...

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

Hi, ive been posting some messages for a while in this forum. This, I think, will be the last. I wrote a message to a very important hiv prevention and information organization in France, sponsored, endorsed and authorized by the government of... Read more »

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Posted by Anonymous

From: Greg Folkers
Newsgroups: sci.med.aids
Approved: Yes: Jeff Rizzo ,greening@zuni.chaco.com (Dan
R. Greening)
Subject: RE: Questions on Acute HIV Infection
Message-ID:
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 08:31:38 CDT
Organization: unspecified

Spydoor wrote:

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