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Wait till AIDS starts?

this is going to be hopefully my last one before i take my friend to the doctor. she doesn't want to go see a doc until she feels some AIDS like symptoms. she just needs some depression drugs. is that a bad idea? she doesn't seem to be...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thanks for your post.I do not think that one either needs to or should wait until becoming symptomatic with AIDS prior to seeing a doctor. This would be like driving a car without a seat belt and putting the belt on after a serious accident. It is... Read more »

I was diagnosed with AIDS then started treatment

In January I was diagnosed with a cd4 count of 50 and a viral load off the charts. I was... Read more »

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D. »

New AIDS pt. just starting in future (cocktails or injetions?)

Dear Carol, I am the mother of pt. He will be entering a study, Stanford Univ.( after July... Read more »

Response from Carol Salisbury, APRN-BC, MSN »

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Articles

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Think AIDS ... Before You Start, Before You Shoot, Before You Share

Dear Partner, The world celebrates World AIDS Day on the 1st of December, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime has created a campaign website to mark the day focusing on young people and drug use: www.unodc.org/thinkaids . Among the estimated 16... Read more »

Bush's Global AIDS Initiative Could be "Tarnished" by Slow Start, AIDS Advocates Say

President Bush's five-year, $15 billion global AIDS initiative could be "tarnished" by an "anemic" start, Gannett/Detroit News reports. AIDS advocates had hoped for $3 billion in fiscal year 2004 for "massive" treatment and prevention efforts in... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Michigan: Black AIDS Campaign Starts

Michigan is staging a six-week effort to highlight HIV/AIDS' disproportionate impact on the African-American community. Running through March, the initiative will include scores of events in 17 Michigan cities. In Detroit, campaign activities are... Read more »

Ending AIDS Pricetag Starts at $6 Billion as Donors Pull Back Amid Slump

Treating all developing-world HIV patients who meet the current World Health Organization (WHO) standard for antiretroviral therapy initiation would cost an additional $6 billion a year, the agency estimates. Expanding treatment to include everyone... Read more »

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starting a HIV/AIDS charity

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

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lm an HIV positive African woman living in America.Long before l tested positive ,I wanted to start an orgaization to help people with HIV/Aids in my country of birth and Africa .Now l feel the need everyday as l read about the many hardships... Read more »

Starting meds soon, can he start now?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

My partner has an appointment for the middle of next week to get set up for meds. He was diagnosed this past summer and had a CD4 count of 199 at that time and PCP (that's how we found out). He had previously been misdiagnosed as having Crohn's... Read more »

To start or not to start.........

Posted by ameoli, 3 Replies

Hello all ~

Brand new member here. My father was diagnosed just over a year ago, and has not yet started meds. Within that time he moved to another city, and found a new doc. The first doc told him to wait as long as possible before starting meds,... Read more »

Where to start

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

If your told by your boyfriend past lover that you need to take a HIV/AIDS test do you run and do it or do you think thats just scary talk into breaking up with your boyfriend so they can have a chance to get him back? well what ever the reason it... Read more »

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