Inmates Reaction To Hiv Aids

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Program Once Reserved for Alabama Inmates With HIV/AIDS Expanded to All Inmates

The Alabama Department of Corrections has expanded to all inmatesa re-entry program that provides newly released inmates with HIV/AIDS "with information on obtaining licenses [and] other documents and preparing for returning to life outside prison,"... Read more »

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Alabama: HIV Inmates to Get More Contact With Other Inmates, Commissioner Says

New policy changes will allow segregated HIV-positive inmates in Alabama's prison system to have more contact with the general inmate population, Corrections Commissioner Richard Allen said Wednesday. Alabama segregates HIV-positive inmates for... Read more »

Michigan Lifts Ban on HIV-Positive Inmates Serving Food; South Carolina Inmate Segregation Comes Under Fire

The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) has lifted its 11-year-long ban on HIV-positive inmates serving food, according to a report in The Michigan Messenger . Food service is considered one of the highest-paid and most-coveted jobs in the... Read more »

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Need information for HIV inmate.

I came across The Body website while searching for information to send my nephew who was just diagnosed with HIV 04/06. He is in Nevada State Prison and information is extremely limited. There is so much info but non pertains to someone in the...

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

Rocky Mountain CARES

Dear Auntie M,I'm sorry to hear about your nephew; I'm personally not familiar with the Nevada Department of Corrections system, so I'll have to speak only in general terms.The key issues with someone in his situation is related to... Read more »

Med Reaction In Late Stage AIDS/Hemolytic Responses

Hello:Recently, after 19+ years of resisting meds and remaining stable I began Truvada plus Isentress (January 2012; infection 9/1992). I've have never had CD4 counts above 400 throughout those years, and generally they were stuck in the...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Your response is better than the average, fabulous actually. It could be a number of factors including your residual underlying immune system (and having lived for so long successfully with infection) and the virus strain. Yes, IRIS could occur, but... Read more »

HIV and Allergic reactions

Does HIV make one more prone to being allergic to drugs. My daughter has been positive for 7 years and now has a cd4 count of 114. She had surgery a few months ago and has had 3 or 4 infections since then. She was put on an antibiotic and had a...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

It's a good question to which there is not a clear answer. I have taken care of patients who have reactions to many different classes of antibiotics, which is unusual. But there is no mechanism that adequately explains why this would be so at... Read more »

adverse reaction to HIV meds

On 2-5-03 the doctor I was working with stuck me with an HIV+ needle. The doctors I was sent to through workman's compensation treated me like all of the adverse reactions I was having were all in my head. When I presented the doctor with the...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

Many if not most persons taking triple HIV meds for post-exposure prophylaxis will experience at least annoying side effects. Though some of the side effects may be due to mitochondrial toxicity it would be highly unusual to have severe... Read more »

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allergic reactions

Posted by TRex, 2 Replies

Has anyone who is HIV positive had a lot of allergic reactiosn to antibiotics? I had two allergic reactions (the Bactrim one was the one who made me ask for the HIV test).the other one is Keflex. I am on Augmentin now and woke up with another... Read more »

Horrible Allergic Reaction to Atripla

Posted by MikeInPhilly2, 1 Reply

Hello All,

I was diagnosed HIV + on July 5th, 2011.

My doctor and I decided to move immediately and aggressively against the virus and she prescribed Atripla.

I did OK for the first week or so. Then I broke out in a rash that while not very sightly,... Read more »

DNF Forms and International Media Reaction

Posted by Anonymous

It isn't hard not to notice that the same story (same wording)
is being printed all over the place. I can't be sure, but it looks like
the international press is just taking dictation from TAC.
Or maybe they just work for the same employer - the... Read more »

HIV-Negative AIDS?

Posted by Anonymous

According to Autoimmune Technologies, they explain ICL as follows: "Idiopathic CD4+ T-lymphocytopenia, or ICL, is an immunodeficiency syndrome in which human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, cannot be detected. Because HIV is the causative agent of... Read more »

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