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Legal Aid Clinics for HIV-Positive People to Open in 10 Districts of Indian State

The AIDS Prevention and Control Project in the Indian state Tamil Nadu will establish 10 legal aid clinics for people living with HIV/AIDS in 10 districts of the state, S. Vijayakumar, project director and member secretary of Tamil Nadu State AIDS... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Georgia: AID Atlanta Men's STD Clinic Now Open

AID Atlanta, in partnership with the Georgia Department of Human Resources, finally opened the new Men's STD Clinic on Oct. 7 after months of delays due to funding shortfalls. The clinic provides patients with free screening and treatment for STDs... Read more »

Ohio: Cuts in Aid for HIV Drugs Bring New Set of Troubles

Cuts made last July to Ohio's AIDS Drug Assistance Program resulted in nearly 1,000 people being dropped off the rolls by December. Facing a $3.9 million deficit three months into the current fiscal year, ADAP instituted a waiting list, and... Read more »

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financial aide for treatment?

Does the U.S. government offer any kind of financial aide for HIV positive people without insurance, low income, etc... ...

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

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thanks for your post.The US federal government and local state governments have a variety of programs to provide assistance for persons with HIV. Not everyone qualifies for every program, so you'd need to ask local agencies about your... Read more »

CPR/First Aid restrictions in school

I am HIV+ for 10+ years (thankfully very healthy!).I work in the office of an elementary school and serve as a backup to our clinic coordinator. We are required to be certified in CPR and first aid. I recently went through this training and asked...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

Congratulations on your good health and your great attitude. You are clearly an asset to the school. Now as to the CPR instructor, there's a bit more education needed there. In the entire case history of HIV/AIDS in the US, there is only one... Read more »

acyclovir as a preventative for AID related lymphoma

In one of your recent lymphoma Q&A's you said that there is no evidence that acyclovir will help in treating Hodgkins Disease. I've recently read a study done at the University of Toronto (published this year) which found a...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

You ask an excellent question. Most of what you say is precisely on target. The University of Toronto study (Clinical Infectious Diseases 2000;30:757) did indeed show that long-term administration of high-dose acyclovir may prevent... Read more »

appetite aid

What would help an elderly man who doesn't have hardly any appetite?...

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

Program for Wellness Restoration

You need to know if you have depression or any other clinical issue. Some doctors prescribe Remeron (an antidepressant) since its main side effect if appetite increase. Also, Marinol , a pharmaceutical product that has the main active ingredient of... Read more »

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Blood on Cotton Ball & Band Aid - not mine

Posted by Olive, 1 Reply

Hello,

I hope the experts can help me out. I went to get a routine HIV test done at a local clinic here in Kenya. The syringe was new, however after drawing the blood the nurse put a cotton ball on my injected area to cover the blood....I noticed... Read more »

mthod may aid hiv patients

Posted by raymond, 1 Reply

look up miamiherald.com/healthmedicine may 7 2013 Read more »

HIV/AID and the Senior Citizen

Posted by Anonymous

I would like to interview an HIV/AIDs positive senior citizen for a Social Work Research Paper that I am working on that must be submitted to my professor on 11/09/03. The person who will allow me to conduct the interview's Identity will be... Read more »

Bigotry only aiding in more HIV cases!

Posted by paman1964, 3 Replies

Bigotry and HIV becomes a bad combination when you cannot bring someone you love to meet your family and so on!
Ignorance is a major cause of the spread of HIV! Read more »

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