How Long Can It Take For Hiv To Develop Into Aids

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World Bank Announces Plan to Implement Long-Term Development Projects to Fight HIV/AIDS in Africa

The World Bank on Wednesday announced a four-year plan to tackle HIV/AIDS in Africa that shifts its mission from providing emergency relief to implementing long-term development projects, Reuters reports (Wroughton, Reuters, 5/14). The strategy... Read more »

AP/Long Island Newsday Profiles Effort to Address HIV/AIDS Through Community Development in Kenya

The AP/Long Island Newsday on Sunday examined the efforts of a mother-daughter team to reduce HIV/AIDS through community development in Kenya. Rosemell Ong'udi and her daughter, Loyce Mbewa-Ong'udi -- who runs the Rabuor Village Project --... Read more »

Most Pharmaceutical Companies Receive Poor Grades on HIV/AIDS Drug Development Innovation, According to AIDS Treatment Activist Coalition Report Card

New York, N.Y. -- With the estimated 1.2 million people with HIV/AIDS in the United States expected to live close to a normal life span, the majority of pharmaceutical companies are not developing innovative, new long-term treatment options that... Read more »

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Information on aids resistant people who test positive for HIV but never develop active AIDS.

I need information on HIV positive people who never develop active aids. Particularly important is the relevance of DNA in aids resistance....

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Hi. Thank you for your question.Since AIDS has only been around for about15-20 years, we cannot say for sure that there are HIV positive people whowill never develop AIDS. The disease hasn't been around long enough to knowwhat will happen... Read more »

Is it possible to take meds and supress HIV and never develop AIDS?

I'm recently diagnosed positive and I have yet to receive my blood results. But if worse comes to worse and I have to take meds, what I want to know is if it's possible for someone to take meds and adhere to it well and live a healthy...

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

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hi J and thanks for your post.Let's hope that you're just a worried well and don't have to confront your questions in person.Yes, indeed, medication have come a very long way and it is entirely possible to be adherent to HIV... Read more »

HIV+ not developing aids

I have heard that some people who get infected with hiv, never develop aids, andstay healthy. Is this true? What is thepercentage? What are the factors involved in this non-progression to aids? Thanks...

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

There are many different definitions of "long-term non-progressors." One includes patients who have normal and stable CD4 cell counts for over seven years without antiretroviral therapy. Another includes patients with HIV infection for... Read more »

How long does it take to develop lymphoma?

I was wondering how long is someone HIV positive before they develop lymphoma and how high would their VL be to cause lymphoma. The reason I am asking this is that a friend tested neg last March and tested pos in Dec 2000,then was diagnosised with...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

Lymphoma (as well as Kaposi's sarcoma) can occur at ANY time during the course of HIV infection. There is NO magic CD4 count number, above which one is safe from lymphoma. This is quite different than say PCP pneumonia (which typically occurs... Read more »

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Help develop HIV service - email study

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Please help me by completing a (hopefully thought-provoking) questionnaire and emailing it back to me.

My name is Christiaan Morgan, and I am currently working as a clinical psychologist at a central London sexual health clinic. I am also... Read more »

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Long-term HIV and Aids survivors' health worrying

Posted by ScotCharles

From KaiserNet

January 8, 2008

Some experts and doctors recently have voiced concerns that people who were diagnosed with HIV and Aids in the early years of the epidemic are experiencing "premature[e]" or "disproportionate numbers" of ailments... Read more »

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