Reproduction Of Hiv

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Getting Pregnant and HIV: List of HIV-Friendly Reproductive Services and Providers

Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find a friendly health care provider who is knowledgeable about HIV and pregnancy. Some health care providers simply are not aware of the wealth of relatively new information about pregnancy planning for their... Read more »

Women Living With HIV Launch Human Rights Survey; Call for Integrating Sexual and Reproductive Health Services With HIV Services to Address Epidemic Among Women

Please take the survey and spread the word ! National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2010 comes just weeks after the United Nations announced that HIV is the leading cause of death among women globally. In the U.S., a woman tests positive... Read more »

HIV & Pregnancy: Reproductive Justice Tools for Women Living With HIV

Background Women living with HIV, like all women, have the right to decide when, or whether or not to have children and the information and services necessary to make voluntary and informed decisions. With improved HIV treatments, the likelihood of... Read more »

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Reproductive Possibilities

Michael, I am a nurse looking for information about the issues surrounding HIV+ women and PLANNED pregnancy. I have done lengthy literature reviews and have found little on this subject. I find that most of the information surrounds women who find...

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W.

Psychotherapist and Author

I am not at all knowledgeable in the area of HIV and reproductive health and do not know the literature or resources. Perhaps if you resubmitted your question to the Body's medical expert he culd direct you to the right places to get the kind... Read more »

reproductive system

can you tell me wat happens when you have aids...

Response from Shannon Southall

Rocky Mountain CARES

HiA person is given an AIDS diagnosis when the CD4 cells go below 200. What has happened is the virus has done its job and has depleted the immune system. And now the person living with HIV has acquired an immune system that has become deficient.... Read more »

question about reproduction

Now that HIV isnt a death sentence, and we can treat it more like a cronic illness and live maybe a long and normal life. My new wife would like to know if there is a way we could have a child together. I'm HIV she's not. On my current...

Response from Judith Currier, M.D.

University of CA, LA School of Medicine

The issue of having a child when you are seropositive and your partner is negative is a very real problem. I do not think there is information to suggest that it would be safe to have unprotected intercourse since there may still be HIv in the... Read more »

Viral Load reproduction and numbers

Dr., I found out in November 2000 that I was Hiv+,my VL at that time was 125,000 and tcells were around 800. Since then my VL went up to >200,000 and my T's have come down to about 650. My doctor started mre on Trizivir as of 2 weeks ago,...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

After acute infection, the viral load can reach in the 100,000s within a few days. In most people it comes down over the next few weeks to some lower number. HOwever, in some folks the viral load can persist at that level for months or years. It... Read more »

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HIV Symptoms

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

I have had a series of gynecological problems such as an urinary tract infection and an inflammation of the cervix ever since I was 16. I am now 21. I have also had several yeast infections, but they have always cleared up with over the counter... Read more »

Recruiting HIV positive women

Posted by Anonymous

The INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF WOMEN LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS is the only international organisation run by and for HIV positive women. We exist to promote the voices and improve the situation of HIV positive women throughout the world.

As a part of an... Read more »

New HIV virus - Is this the final answer?

Posted by TwinsDad, 2 Replies

My question is:
Why we Humans do not create a new virus strain that will merge with the original HIV virus and create a different mutation that will replicate until it reaches several mutations that are not bad for our organism or changes the... Read more »

Drug Holidays may be over for HIV patients.

Posted by sunkyst, 3 Replies

Good article on a new study about HIV drug holidays.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/ReproductiveHealth/story?id=2687714&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 Read more »

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