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Frequently Asked Questions About Hepatitis

What is Hepatitis? What is the difference between Hepatitis A, B, and C? What are the signs and symptoms of active Hepatitis infection? Is there a vaccine, treatment, or a cure for Hepatitis? Where can I get Hepatitis A and B vaccines? How can I avoid getting Hepatitis? How can I learn more about Hepatitis? What is Hepatitis? Hepatitis means "inflammation of the liver". There are seven known types of...

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hepatitis/hiv postive

i am hiv/hepatitis-b positive.i have had to stop med's due to increase in liver number or hept-b level in the liver.what meds do u recommend for persons who are both hiv/hept-b infected.thank you for your response....

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

The best drug is lamivudine or 3TC. You may have already taken it. Famclovir has a little activity and abacavir has a very little activity. You may have to take pegylated interferon to get your liver under control before you can take your HIV meds.... Read more »

HIV and Hepatitis B co-infection

Hello Doctor: Im an HIV+ male (41yrs) with consistent 500+ CD4 counts and viral load consistently around 20,000. About a year ago however, in between vaccinations for hepatitis, I contracted hepatitiss B as this shoed up in my blood analysis....

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Excellent questions.1. It is unfortunate that you acquired hepatitis B before fully being immunized. However, I would wonder if your doctor firmly established that you just got your infection (eg, was a anti-core IgM antibody performed? If so, then... Read more »

NIH Statistics...

These statistics were in the Wall Street Journal based on a National Institute of Health study for the year 2001:Disease and # of CasualtiesHIV/AIDS 14,175Diabetes 71,372Breast Cancer 41,809Alzeimers 53,852Prostate Cancer 30,719Obviously that's...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

If I understand your source, the numbers of HIV-associated deaths relate to deaths of all HIV-related causes, not only those who died of drug complications. In our experience, drug-related complications only cause death in an exceedingly small... Read more »

Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B vaccines

What does the Hepatitis vaccine protect from? I recently received a hepatitis vaccine, and I am wondering if it protects me from both hepatitis A and hepatitis B?...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Thank you for your question. The answer to this question depends on which vaccine you got. There are presently two different hepatitis vaccines:If you were vaccinated against the hepatitis A virus (which involves 2 shots over a 6-12 month period),... Read more »

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NIH Research

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NIH of Maryland is in NEED of volunteers to participate in a phase three study using IL-2....You can call your operator to obtain a toll free number to NIH.. Linda Coe is the person taking the applicatons...PLEASE trake the time to at least check it... Read more »

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500 LETTERS CALLING FOR MORE MONEY FOR A CURE. BEFORE DECEMBER 1.
Please forward this message, but only after you?ve mailed off at least one letter.

http://www.aidspolicyproject.org/nih-letter.html

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