Is Hiv A Government Experiment

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What Is AIDS, HIV and HIV Disease?

What Is HIV? What Is AIDS? What Is HIV Disease? What Is HIV? Each letter stands for the following terms: H -- Human -- because this virus can only infect human beings. I -- Immuno-deficiency -- because the effect of the virus is to create a deficiency, a failure to work properly, within the body's immune system. V -- Virus -- because this organism is a virus, which means one of its characteristics is that it is...

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help dr.McGovern I'm scared!!

hi Dr. McGovernI was exposed to the blood of a person that I later found out had yellowish eyes. She also told me she had been feeling kind of fatigued. She told me this was probably due to bad circulation and doesn't want to get tested for...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

Sometimes when people have a potential exposure, they experience a lot of symptoms due to anxiety. I would simply follow-up with your physician for examinations, serial testing (at 3 months and 6 months) and then you will be reassured.Dr. McGovern... Read more »

How the government effects HIV epidemic

How does the government in struggling countries affect the HIV epidemic?...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

This is a great question with many different answers. Various countries have responded to the HIV epidemic in different ways. Some have been highly successful, like Brazil, but others have been slow to respond.A great source of information on this... Read more »

Government Agency singles out people who are HIV+??

At the local welfare office, when a person who is known to be HIV+ applies for food stamps, daycare, medical, etc, their case is identified and given to a specific worker known to carry the HIV+ caseload. No special training has been given to this...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

This sounds like one of those policies intended to help recipients--have one person be the "expert" on HIV-related issues and have all HIV+ recipients served by that individual--that has an unintended bad outcome. I encourage you to write... Read more »

HIV & Government Security Clearance

I am currently unemployed, and living in the metro DC area where there are a good number of "defense" companies and contrators that are doing a lot of hiring, but most all of the jobs require different levels of government security...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

I've checked with several lawyers on this one. None of them is aware of any HIV-related restrictions on domestic work, but HIV could well be a security clearance problem for a job requiring work outside the U.S. They all suggested that you... Read more »

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Looking for experiences from HIV + travel to EU

Posted by deutschman, 2 Replies

First, thanks for looking at this post (and hopefully responding). I have known that I am HIV + for about 2 years and am finally feeling healthy again (CD 4 count is almost to 400). I'm regularly taking Atripla. Here's my concern. I would like to... Read more »

Job related HIV experiences

Posted by Anonymous, 4 Replies

Hi,
I was wondering if having HIV has ever become a problem for anyone in the workplace? Has anyone ever had an experience of discrimination? Does anyone keep their HIV a secret to prevent this? Or has anyone ever had a possitive experience result... Read more »

Experiences of women with HIV

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

HI! My name is Sarah Larsen. I am a graduate nursing student at California State University Bakersfield. I am doing my thesis project on the experiences of women living with HIV. All my projects requires is an interview! If you are a woman... Read more »

hiv through one oral sex experience?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I had oral sex once 5 weeks ago and have never had any other kind of sex. I went down on the girl for about 5 seconds and she gave me a bj. I don't know her very well and am concerned. I've had a cough for over two weeks and some chest pain. I've... Read more »

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