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Hiv Percentage For Tops
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Risk percentage to neg. topI keep hearing that the risk of anal sex with the receptive partner being neg. is approx. 50 in 10,000 or 5 in 1000 exposures. My question is what is the risk for a neg. top with a pos. bottom? I havent' been able to find those statistics....
Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.
The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hi,You must not have been looking very diligently, as I've quoted this estimated risk statistic many, many times before. So here we go again, even though I'm beginning to feel like "The Department of Redundancy Department." The...
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PercentagesHi, I know you have addressed this many times, but can you please explain why you harp that the... Read more »Granulocyte/Lymph percentage??????I have been positive almost 25 years, 41 yo male. I take Norvir, Reyataz and Truvada along with... Read more »
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Table 2. Estimated Percentage of Injecting Drug Users at Risk for Acquiring Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection (n = 9,565) Who Engaged in Behaviors Associated With HIV Infection, by Selected Characteristics -- National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, United States, 2009Table 2. Estimated Percentage* of Injecting Drug Users at Risk for Acquiring Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection (n = 9,565) † Who Engaged in Behaviors § Associated With HIV Infection, by Selected Characteristics -- National HIV... Read more »
Study Examines How Population's Percentage of Female Commercial Sex Workers Affects HIV/AIDS Prevalence"Size Matters: The Number of Prostitutes and the Global HIV/AIDS Pandemic ," PLoS One : John Talbott of Africans Against AIDS used cross-country linear and multiple regressions based on new UNAIDS data to determine that the number of female... Read more »
Vertex HIV Drug Candidate Development Halted by GlaxoSmithKline Because of Formulation ProblemGlaxoSmithKline has stopped collaborating with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. on the HIV drug candidate brecanavir (VX-385), Vertex said in a recent Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The drug, which was in mid-stage clinical testing, would be... Read more »
Glaxo-Vertex Study Tests Anti-HIV DrugsOn Tuesday, GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. said early results from a clinical study show their HIV drug Lexiva is comparable to Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s combination drug Kaletra. The study's 887 patients received twice a... Read more »
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CD4 Percentage
Posted by SimonB, 1 Reply
Hello!Sorry if this is a bore, but I'm recently diagnosed and although know the basics, my first appointment revealed a low CD4 percentage (13%) which caused my doctor some worry and I have to go for another round of tests in a month. VL was 133'000... Read more » Percentage at 9 weeks!
Posted by Anonymous
Please Calm down, A test at 4 weeks is about 95% accurate and in sweden and the study done in sweden shows 99.9% accurate at 8 weeks and 99.9 or 99.99% is the best to give. I personally dont understand why it should be a big diffrence in people...
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Window period percentage
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
Here's the fact's on the window period1 month - 50% 2 months-80% 3 months-97% 4 months->98% 5 months->99% 6 months->99.99% These are the facts, except them or not If you test negative @ 3 months you can be very sure you're negative especially if it... Read more » Total Top No Longer Fooling Himself
Posted by JakeLA, 10 Replies
I was more than taken aback when I learned 4/4/06 the DNA HIV test I had taken two days prior had come back positive. I am 29, bi but mostly gay, white male with a graduate degree and a voracious sexual appetite, who is now experiencing IRONY at...
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