Hiv In The Medical Field

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Should those with AIDS/HIV be allowed to work in the medical field???

I am wondering if are those infected with the AIDS/HIV virus are allowed with to work in the medical field. If yes why?? Doesn't this pose a threat to people who are not infected with this virus??? I know that the disease is not spread through...

Response from Lynne Gabriel

WorkPositive, Inc.

This is an answer to a similar question, previously answered:Depending on the state, Health care workers have the same right of confidentiality about their HIV status as anyone living with HIV. Moreover, because all health workers take universal... Read more »

Work in medical field with HIV?

My partner is HIV+, and has recently gone back to school to become a medical assistant. Doing well... Read more »

Response from Nancy Breuer »

can I continue in this field for long

I am hiv positive and work in the field of construction how long would i be able to continue, or do... Read more »

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Articles

Q&A: Errol Fields on Young Black Gay Men and Perceptions of HIV Risk

Last week, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health released the results to a recent study about young black gay men and its findings are interesting. Errol Fields, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. By interviewing 35 young black gay men, ages... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

In Lesotho, Outbreak of HIV Leaves Fields -- and Lives -- Barren

Even in the best of times, the southern African country of Lesotho grows only half the food it consumes. The present year is the fourth with erratic rains, affecting the 70 percent of residents who farm for a living. Because one in three adults is... Read more »

Notes From the Field: GALEN in Action

The International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC) has long argued that in order for antiretroviral therapies to be properly introduced and scaled up in resource-limited settings, increased attention must be paid to ensuring that... Read more »

The GHESKIO Field Hospital and Clinics After the Earthquake in Haiti -- Dispatch 3 From Port-au-Prince

After Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake, the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) in Port-au-Prince became a refugee camp and an emergency field hospital, in addition to remaining a clinic for AIDS and TB... Read more »

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HIV Positive Doctors and Medical Students

Posted by JumptheHorizon, 4 Replies

Hi everyone,
I have good reason to be worried that I have HIV, and am waiting the time to be retested (first was negative, which was about one month after I think I could have been infected, but my lymphocytes were down).

Anyway, what is the story for... Read more »

Way out in left field

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

I was diagnosed in August of 2003 w/ a vl or 750,000... and CD 4 count of 169/w no symptoms. Since then I have been on Combivir and Sustiva, my VL is undetectable and CD4 is 280. I was initially devastated. I have 2 small children, that are neg... Read more »

HIV Positive dentist

Posted by doglove, 5 Replies

I have been studying towards a career in the health professions. Just recently I have decided to go for a dental career. I am seriously reconsidering this as people might stop coming to me if they find out I am positive. It's a lot of money to... Read more »

Womens and how they differ from men medically

Posted by riverprincess

Other than the obvious on the outside. The medical field has only just discovered the different issues that arise from hiv and the meds we take. We need to become more pro-active with our health ladies. And even beyond the pos issues , women are... Read more »

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