Hiv And Oxygen

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oxygen and HIV

I am from India and want to know whether HIV survives after coming in contact with oxygen. It is in the background that many alternate therapists here are recommending breathing exercise like deep one and by alternate nostrils and also heavy...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

The use of exposure to oxygen (in the form or ozone or other processes) to affect the virus has been evaluated in a number of studies going back to the 1980s. This has never been shown to be effctive on its own. This being said, a number of good... Read more »

HBOT (hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment) and HIV / AIDS

I've read bits and pieces about the positive effects of HBOT for both managing the progression... Read more »

Response from Eric Daar, M.D. »

Hyperbaric Oxygenation / Scuba Diving

I recently read that HIV Positive divers increase the risk of HIV working its way through the brain... Read more »

Response from Keith Henry, M.D. »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Merck & Co. Says European Regulators Recommend Approval of HIV Drug Isentress

European regulators have recommended approval of Merck & Co.'s HIV drug Isentress in combination with other antiretroviral (ARV) treatments, the drug maker announced on Thursday. Isentress is designed to treat HIV in adult patient who have... Read more »

European Union to Approve One-Pill-a-Day Treatment for HIV Patients

On Monday, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Gilead Sciences Inc. said European regulators have approved their HIV drug Atripla, clearing the once-daily combination treatment for sale in the 27 EU member nations. Atripla is the first one-pill, once-a-day... Read more »

Gilead Seeks First-Ever Approval for Drug to Prevent HIV

On Thursday, Gilead Sciences Inc. announced it has asked US regulators to approve its once-daily pill Truvada (emtricitabine/tenofovir) as the world's first drug to prevent HIV infection. Gilead has sold Truvada for years as an HIV treatment; the... Read more »

Blood Test to Detect HIV in 20 Minutes Nears Approval

Federal regulators are expected to give approval soon to an easy-to-use finger-prick blood test that can diagnose HIV infection in 20 minutes. The action will come more than four years after public health officials declared the urgent need for such... Read more »

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a considerable amount of HIV blood in a glass

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I am wondering if 20-30 ml of wet HIV-infected blood remained in a glass for more than twelve hours, will the blood be still infectious even if it is still wet after that 12 hours?? Read more »

HIV+/Military/Suicide

Posted by Anonymous, 7 Replies

I don't know, ever since I've been infected I just keep wanting to die. I joined the service a decade ago to fight, now I have the chance, and with orders to the Sandbox in hand I pop HIV+. It doesn't make sence, I am in such a low risk group but... Read more »

My boyfriend is HIV positive....

Posted by ladycatalpa, 4 Replies

My boyfriend and I had been friends for almost 5 years before we got together so I knew he was HIV+ before we started this relationship. He contracted it through a blood transfusion when he was 3. He's also a hemophiliac. I thought I knew what I... Read more »

Possible HIV transmission/infection ???

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

Hello,

Hope someone can enlighten me on this encounter I had.

I've come across a stranger in the men's public toilet on 21 Apr 99, he was 'sort of' stroking his private parts when I went in.

I occupied the adjacent urinal and was just about to ease... Read more »

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