Other Diseases Involved With HIV

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Can HIV compromize the immune system without another disease involved?

Are there studies about HIV positive people with severly compromized immune systems with none of the diseases associated with AIDS? I'm interested if the HIV virus itself has been proven to destroy the immune system of an otherwise healthy...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

The HIV virus destroys CD4+ T-cells resulting in a chronically activated and damaged immune system without any other germs necessary for the process.... Read more »

HIV- always involved with HIV+

My partner of 1 year is HIV-. I am +(15 years) and healthy.Both his previous relationships were... Read more »

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W. »

Getting involved with one's own treatment

I am HIV+ and find it very hard to "take control" of my treatment. When I read treatment... Read more »

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W. »

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Articles

Global Fund Should Focus on "Wider Factors" Involved in Fighting Diseases, Editorial Says

The "only sound public health and human rights approach" for the Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to take is to begin addressing the "wider factors" involved in fighting the three diseases, a Lancet Infectious Diseases ... Read more »

Vietnam, U.N. Launch Program to Increase Involvement of HIV-Positive People in HIV/AIDS Initiatives

The Vietnam Women's Union and the United Nations Vietnam Country Team last week launched an initiative to promote increased involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS in programs designed to combat the disease, the Thai News Service reports. The... Read more »

African Governments Fighting HIV/AIDS Face Inadequate Health Infrastructure, "Insufficient" Involvement of HIV-Positive People, Officials Say

Inadequate health infrastructures and "insufficient" involvement of people living with HIV/AIDS pose challenges to African governments in the fight against the epidemic, officials said at the close of the U.N. Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Q&A: CDC's Clinical Studies of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention: Community Involvement in These Studies

What is being done to solicit input from the communities in which these trials will be conducted? What is being done to solicit input from the communities in which these trials will be conducted? CDC will continue to work closely with... Read more »

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risks involved with cunnilingus?

Posted by Anonymous

Hi,

I have recently become involved with a woman who is HIV+. We have gotten to a point in our relationship where we have started to become sexually active. Myself being negative, we have taken all the percautions necessary to avoid my becoming... Read more »

alcohol was involved

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

hello i had unprotected sex with a girl i met at a bar. stupid i know. in any case two weeks later i had inflamation of where my testicles are. it was swollen for about a week and in beetween my groin and legs had bad rashes red and itchy. that... Read more »

oral sex and chances of getting disease

Posted by yasar2040, 1 Reply

Hi,

I am a married man, my wife does not like to have oral sex. But I have been really crazy about it.

I had taken a massage service by a lady, out of excitement I paid extra money and asked lady to massage private part. I also touched my tongue to... Read more »

4 stages to HIV disease

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

AMFAR AIDS HANDBOOK (Chapter 4, Page 53 )

There are four stages to HIV disease

1) Acute Infection Stage (500-1200 CD4s)- begins immediately after hiv enters the body and starts multiplying in infected cells. Acute infection ends about 2-6 weeks... Read more »

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