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family member has aids and treats everyone bad

one of my family members has aids thru a blood transfusion and he lives with me but he is so mean to all of us he says that i cant cook or clean right and that i would be better off not around at all i do everything for him and also make the dr...

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W.

Psychotherapist and Author

If you have not already done so you need to totally confront the person who is treating you so badly. Just because he is sick is no reason for him to be ungrateful or a bully. I think you need to lay down the law and tell him that if he can't... Read more »

AIDS can be easily treated in most people,

In a recent question, you responded by stating "AIDS can be easily treated in most... Read more »

Response from Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A. »

can you still be treated with aids?

Hello. My name is Crystal. My brother just recently found out he had aids when he was... Read more »

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AIDS Healthcare Foundation Says Drug Used to Treat AIDS Wasting Not Essential for Treatment

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation , the largest nongovernmental provider of health care services for people with HIV/AIDS in the United States, last month said that the drug Serostim, which is used to treat AIDS-related wasting, is not essential for... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Kansas: $13,000 Grant Aids County in Treating TB

The state Department of Health and Environment has awarded a $13,000 grant to help the Sedgwick County Health Department fight TB, said Cindy Burbach, county division director of health protection and promotion. The funds will help pay for X-rays... Read more »

Brazil Requests Voluntary Licensing for AIDS Drugs to Treat More Patients, Reduce Costs of Importing Patented Drugs

The Brazilian government on Tuesday "moved a step closer" to breaking antiretroviral drug patents when it asked U.S. drug companies Merck , Gilead and Abbott Laboratories to grant the government voluntary licensing to produce generic versions of... Read more »

New Global Report Launched by the International AIDS Society Recommends a New Paradigm for Treating Injecting Drug Users: "Seek, Test, Treat and Retain"

Vienna, Austria -- Against the backdrop of some of the globe's fastest growing HIV epidemics in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a report launched today at the XVIII International AIDS conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna makes the case for a new model... Read more »

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treating hiv holistic healthwise

Posted by taian, 2 Replies

anyone involved treating hiv with herbology,using colloidal silver regime or other w/good results Read more »

Treated as worthless

Posted by Lomitadaren

This is a prime example of how vulnerable we (PWA) People living with Aids are, and how even when there is Gross Medical Malpractice by a supporting medical provider, we are treated as unimportant, irrelevant, and bothersome.
Millions of dollars a... Read more »

My doctor is refusing to treat my HIV until I sign

Posted by Garth, 2 Replies

Hello world,
As a newly diagnosed HIV gay man, living in Edmonton Alberta, ( diagnosed 1 year now) I am facing what I beleive to be discrimination and bullying by my doctor. My counts when first diagnosed were CD4 500 and viral load 16,000. Over... Read more »

People treated very early may be "prime candidates" for HIV cure studies

Posted by ashler1977, 1 Reply

Very early antiretroviral treatment limits the size of HIV reservoir

http://www.aidsmap.com/Very-early-antiretroviral-treatment-limits-the-size-of-HIV-reservoir/page/2587303/ Read more »

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