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Hiv Secondary Prevention
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HIV Prevention Education and HIV-Related Policies in Secondary Schools -- Selected Sites, United States, 2006Persons who engage in sexual risk behaviors are at increased risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. School health education can help reduce the prevalence of sexual risk behaviors among students. 1 In addition, school health... Read more »
Increased HIV and Primary and Secondary Syphilis Diagnoses Among Young Men -- United States, 2004-2008"National data document increases in HIV and syphilis diagnoses in young black men who have sex with men (MSM), but trends could be driven by increases in a few large areas," the authors wrote. In the current study, they described the extent of... Read more »
Estimates of Primary and Secondary Syphilis Rates in Persons With HIV in the United States, 2002The current study was designed to estimate the rate of primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis in HIV patients in the United States in 2002. The researchers approximated the number of new cases of P&S syphilis in HIV-positive patients and... Read more »
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Secondary prevention and fear of infecting othersHi Rick, really get a lot from your site! Thanks for all the info. Have got a question and hope you may be able to resolve. I date a positive woman, have for nearly a year now. We practice safer sex - OUTERCOARSE - she isn't comfortable with...
Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.
Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program
Thank you for your question:You are actually dealing with two separate issues here, so I will address them separately.In response to the comment that she visits the Body, but only the Treatment forums:We commonly see this happen in people who are...
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HIV prevention commercialsI have been seeing these horrific ads about HIV that are being aired recently where they go into detail about how you "don't get just HIV" and how you can get dementia, anal cancer etc. It is usually late at night and I have to change...
Response from David Fawcett, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
South Florida Center for Counseling and Therapy
Public service announcements can cause strong feelings, as you know. There is a lot of discussion about the value of scare tactics. Some say they fight complacency, others note the harm they can cause, including reinforcing stereotypes. This is...
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Viral Load, CD4 and CD8 with secondary STDI was just diagnosed with asymptomatic HIV a week ago. I've seroconverted sometime in the past six months. We have the followup labs back and I'm not too certain what they mean and what I should do next. The viral load is 188,000(bDNA),...
Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.
Stanford University, School of Medicine
Your CD4 count, and therefore your immune system is in pretty good shape. You are not at risk for any serious HIV associate complications at this point. Your CD8 count is minimally elevated and is reflective of your immune system's war with the...
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Undiagnosed secondary infectionDear Dr,I am a person living 10+ years w/HIV and have a friend whom has been in the Uof Wisc. Med Ctr. for two weeks while they try to determine what is wrong.Symptoms include fever and chills, hardening of the pectoral muscle, inflamation of the...
Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
There isn't enough information for me to tell what is going on here. They may need to do a biopsy of this area to find out. Myositis (infection of muscle tissue) can occur in HIV+s....
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HIV Prevention Job Oppotunities In LA
Posted by Anonymous
Entry level HIV Prevention job opportunities in Los Angeles. Seeking energetic individuals for outreach workers and prevention case managers.Please visit www.thewallasmemorias.org Read more » Bush ignores HIV prevention methods that work
Posted by bradford, 2 Replies
U.S. President George Bush ignores HIV prevention methods that work!Who is informing the president on HIV and AIDS? Failure of the American president to recognize the need to promote condoms has not only undermined over two decades of HIV prevention... Read more » U.S. Bullying Interferes With HIV/AIDS Prevention
Posted by bradford
U.S. Bullying Interferes With HIV /AIDS Prevention The United States government would have the world believe it has been a major contributor in the fight against AIDS but many are unaware of the harmful tactics and funding shortfalls. Throughout the... Read more » Bilingual HIV Prevention Case Manager Seattle
Posted by Anonymous
Lifelong AIDS Alliance Bilingual HIV Prevention Case Manager Description: The Prevention Case Manager is responsible for the provision of prevention case management services for HIV+ clients in need of HIV risk reduction counseling. This... Read more »
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