Is The Usa Closer To A Cure For Hiv

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Getting closer to a hiv cure ???

Hi Dr Keith, please keep up the great work you do keeping us alive and hopeful living with hiv, can you please answer is this getting closer to a cure for hiv ???Dr Keith did the paciants cd4 count all jump over 200 cd4 after the gene theary...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

I was at that presentation who was very intriguing but a long way from broad applicability and would likely be very expensive so even if further studies over the next years are successful cost would likely be a factor for broad use but important... Read more »

Cure for HIV/AIDS (CURE 2009) (CURE 2009)

Hi,I have been wondering why it is so difficult for HIV/AIDS cure to be found especially for... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

No cure or vaccine on the distant horizon. Really? (CURE 2009) (CURE 2009)

You are claiming many times that a cure or a vaccine is not even on the distant horizon and that we... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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Articles

Getting Closer

Dr. Robert Murphy: "We know that with the drugs that we use, we can drop the virus to undetectable levels, but ... we can't cure the virus." Yes, the search for a cure continues. "Now more than ever," says Robert Murphy, MD, an HIV specialist... Read more »

A Closer Look at the Revised U.S. HIV Treatment Guidelines (Part 1)

This is part 1 of an update of the U.S. DHHS HIV Treatment Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. For part 2, please click here . I'd like to welcome you to a breaking HIV/AIDS news report. On Dec. 1, 2007, the U.S. government released the first,... Read more »

A Closer Look at the New U.S. DHHS HIV Treatment Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents (Part 2)

This is part 2 of an update of the U.S. DHHS HIV Treatment Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents. For part 1, please click here . On January 29, 2008, the U.S. government released the second part of its new HIV treatment guidelines. This second... Read more »

The First Man to Be Cured of AIDS: An Update on the Amazing Story -- This Month in HIV

[Editor's Note: Since we conducted and posted this interview in 2009, there have been many developments in the story of Timothy Ray Brown, formerly known only as the "Berlin patient." In addition to this article, we encourage you to read "Tentative... Read more »

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USA Visa

Posted by Anonymous

I am from a developing country and these questions are of interest to me :

1) Does the USA grant Visa to someone who is HIV+ ?

2) How long does the FDA take to approve a new drug ? ( Only once a drug is approved by FDA can we expect it to be sold in... Read more »

HIV and immigration OUT of USA

Posted by Dizengoff, 4 Replies

I am HIV+. My life is now over before it even began. All I want is someone to share my life with. I have tried, and cannot get a boyfriend... I have a responsibility to tell them I am positive, and that always scares them off... so I figure I should... Read more »

Best place to live in USA with HIV?

Posted by TonyBakerOK, 5 Replies

Hello.

I have been positive since 2005, and have lived in Tennessee, Texas, California and Currently Oklahoma.

It seems like every state is different when it comes to HIV services and Ryan White stuff.

I just moved HOME to Oklahoma and I am miserable,... Read more »

Traking sexually diseases in USA?

Posted by Anonymous

Hello,
I wonder if someone will have a positive HIV test or other sexaually disease if that person will have to tell your CDC of all does persons with names and so on and will then CDC track all these person down and test them???

Im from Sweden and if... Read more »

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