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Hiv And Aids-seropositivy And Mortality

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

China HIV/AIDS Mortality Rate Can Be Reduced: UNAIDS Executive Director

In an interview with Xinhua Tuesday in Beijing, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe stressed that the mortality rate for HIV/AIDS can be reduced through early treatment and other measures. "Just 10 years ago, no one would have believed that we... Read more »
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

PlusNews/IRIN Examines HIV/AIDS Elements of New Adult Mortality Data

PlusNews /IRIN examines what the global adult mortality data , released Friday in the journal Lancet , suggests about HIV/AIDS. According to the news service, the study, based on an analysis of adult mortality rates between 1970 and 2010 in 187... Read more »
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

CDC Studies Show Racial Disparities in Health Care, Including Higher HIV/AIDS Mortality Rate Among Blacks

CDC in the Jan. 14 issue of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published several studies addressing racial disparities in health care, including higher rates of death from HIV/AIDS-related causes among African Americans compared with... Read more »
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AIDS mortality decrease

Do you have any figures on AIDS mortality rates since the onset of HAART? Ive seen figures for 1995 -1997, but what about 1999-2000?...
Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

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

Rocky Mountain CARES
There has been well publicized figures on the decrease in mortality in the US among persons with HIV infection and AIDS from the CDC's HOPS (HIV outpatient study) cohort. The most recent presenation of this data was at this years Conference on... Read more »

Aids mortality in HAART era

Is mortality in +ve HAART treated people (strict adherence, start above cd4 350 etc) likely to converge on the 'normal' or average of people without infection?What are the trends in causes of death between the +ve and -ve in the advent of...
Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine
In your scenario, the likelihood of an AIDS associated death in someone starting treatment above 350 CD4 cells is very, very low. Deaths from other causes (cancer, heart disease, etc) are now becoming the leading cause of death in HIV infected... Read more »

HIV mortality in HAART era

Hello Dr. Squires, I just read your answer of 10 August 2000 which stated that researchers have calculated that an HIV+ individual on successful HAART may be able to live 60-70 years. Are these predictions based on current drugs, so that the life...
Kathleen E. Squires, M.D.

Response from Kathleen E. Squires, M.D.

University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine
The calculations were modeled based on clinical records derived from a number of large HIV clinics. While the numbers are very encouraging, I would caution that there are a number of assumptions that are being made including, that individuals will... Read more »

HIV and mortality

This is a somewhat long and tough question. I seem to get very vague answers from my docs. I keep getting told that with medication compliance and regular blood work I should live to a normal expectancy BUT what I read seems to contradict this....
Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hi,I too tend to believe the claims of a "normal life expectancy" are overly optimistic. I'm one of the most optimistic guys on the planet and I certainly hope to die of old age. However, I'm also a scientist and a realist. HIV... Read more »
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SIDA: ENFERMEDAD MORTAL O HASTA ENVEJECER??

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
Esto es importante y no kiero falsedades... es ,mortal o se puede vivir 70 aos con ella?? y con la medicacion claro???
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Ferritin as a predictor of HIV mortality?

Posted by ScotCharles, 1 Reply
As I have posted my ferritin levels have increased from 424 to 724 in five months, a nearly exponential rate of increase. I test positive as a carrier of the hemochromotosis gene, but I do not have the gene on both chromosomes, so I shouldn't get... Read more »

LA HEPATITIS TAMBIEN ES MORTAL? TIENE CURA?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
bueno .. saludos a todos... les cuento q he tenido relaciones sin proteccion hace un tiempo. Luego de seis meses y a pesar de mis sintomas di negativo en el examen de vih1 y vih2 a pesar de muchos sintomas.
Bueno el hecho es q al leer los distintos... Read more »

World AIDS Day 2006: raising 'HIV/AIDS' Awareness

Posted by Anonymous
World AIDS Day 2006: Raising 'HIV/AIDS' Awareness

We urgently need to raise 'HIV/AIDS' Awareness to stop the epidemic spread of AIDS-related Myths, HIV-related Lies and Pharmogenocide: Iatrogenic 'AIDS' ('AIDS' caused by anti-retroviral' drugs).

World... Read more »
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