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HIV/AIDS Among American Indians and Alaska Natives

Fast Facts HIV infection affects American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in ways that are not always apparent because of their small population size. Compared with other races/ethnicities, AI/AN have poorer survival rates after an HIV diagnosis. AI/AN face special HIV prevention challenges, including poverty and culturally based stigma. HIV is a critical public health issue among the approximately 5.2 million American Indians...

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abundance of white cells seen on pap culture HIV?

Hi Dr.Glenn I'm hoping that you can ease some of my fear. I went to my local health department last week because I was having some very mild vaginal itching. The nurse practitioner gave me a pap to see if i had a simple yeast infection. when...

Response from Erik Glenn, M.A.

Chicago Black Gay Mens Caucus

Thanks for your question,The only way to know if someone has been infected with HIV is to get a HIV test. That's the only way.It's true that a lot of white blood cells can indicate an infection, that's make sense since you were... Read more »

CD8 depleted culture gor new strain

Dear Dr. MHMerry Christmas and Happy new year!Here, I want to ask you another question about detecting the new strain of HIV. In your privous post, you ever saying that "Truly HIV-1 infected, with relatively advanced disease, but a strain of...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

HIV culture in general is not available in hospital or even in alot of commercial labs. CD8 depletion will remove certain suppressive effects that limit growing HIV in culture, but that is generally required to coax very small amounts of infectious... Read more »

viral culture question

Hi Doc,Here is a different sort of question, would subtype 0 or the newer subtype N strains be detected by a standard viral culture? From what I have read, any type of hiv would cause "syncytia" and therefore be detected(?)...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

They would be culturable and not all HIV is syncytia forming.MH... Read more »

Increased sensitivity of a viral culture when CD8 cells are taken out

Happy holidays, Dr. Holodniy,I read an answer of yours to a question posted earlier this year in which you said that the sensitivity of an HIV viral culture on cells is in the range of 85 to 90.I have also read that viral cultures are much more...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

There are many variables which affect the sensitivity of HIV culture. Removal of CD8 cells would increase the sensitivity. There are no published studies which address and compare the sensitivities rigorously. Since this is not a routine clinical... Read more »

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Viral culture test for hiv. gmanbill?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Can anyone tell me if having a viral culture is a good idea,
for finding hiv.ive already had dna,bdna,pcr,antibodys,antigen.

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