Rare Blood Disease And Hiv Aids

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Blood Work: Two Common Tests to Use for Monitoring HIV Disease

Introduction CD4 Cell Count Tests Why Do You Use CD4 Counts? CD4 Counts and When to Start Therapy What Do CD4 Counts Mean? Viral Load Tests How Often Should Viral Loads Be Tested? What Tests Are Used? Getting Viral Load Tests Viral Load and Women Interpreting Test Results Disease Progression and Therapy Commentary Introduction Two of the most common tests that you and your doctor will use to monitor your health are...

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Why do AIDS patients get rare diseases?

I'm really confused. Why do AIDS patients contract rare diseases? So called 'indicator diseases'?Rare forms of pneumonias, cancers etc. Why not just the common cold?...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

People with HIV get specific unusual diseases because their immune system has been severely damaged. Ordinary germs can infect healthy people-- you don't need to have an immune deficiency to get a cold. Not all immune deficiencies are alike.... Read more »

Rare immune diseases similar to AIDS

My I.D. doctor told me there was arare disease that causes the same infections as aids.However, these people test neg. for hiv.She couldnt remember the name.Do you know about this and is it transmitted the same ways as hiv?...

Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.

Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program

Thank you for your question. Your doctor could have been referring to a number of rare immune disorders including (but not limited to) Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) and Idiopathic CD4+ Lymphocytopenia (ICL). The most important point to... Read more »

RARE HIV STRAINS INTO PERSPECTIVE

Hello Ryan, thanks for all the insight. You do a valuable service! There seems to be a lot of worry on this forum regarding rare strains of HIV to include HIV-2 as well as the O & N strain of HIV-1. Wouldn't it be safe to say that if ALL...

Response from Ryan M. Kull, C.S.W

Columbia University's Health & Related Services

Yes, there is a lot of worry on this site about strains of HIV that might be undetectable by standard antibody or viral tests on the market. Understandably so. After reading some of the following information, I hope that people's fears will... Read more »

New rare HIV strain test

Dear Dr.Thank you for answering my question.I totally agree with your opinion that any HIV can be detected by anti-body screening test.However it just like you have turkey on thanksgiving day and I've never seen what a turkey looks like in real...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,My assessment and advice remain unchanged.(See below)Why are you having CD4 tests run when you have absolutely no need for those tests? As for your two values, 942 and 833, these are, not unexpectedly, both completely normal! There is... Read more »

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HIV infection from dried blood?

Posted by panic05, 5 Replies

I got a question on HIV infection from dried blood. I know no one has been infected with HIV due to contact with toilet seat so far. But I am still worrying about its possibility.

Today, I went to a public washroom. After flushing the toilet, I... Read more »

6 month is rare to seroconvert

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

How long after a possible exposure should I wait to get tested for HIV?

The tests commonly used to detect HIV infection actually look for antibodies produced by your body to fight HIV. Most people will develop detectable antibodies within 3 months... Read more »

A very rare case

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http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/hiv.htm

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Now the rare persons is changed!

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

If you read this "UPDATED" information from The CDC you can see that they have changed their position on the Window Period. Before they answered that persons can take 6 months to develop Antibodies, Now they are stating that the RARE persons take up... Read more »

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