Teaching Plan For Newly Diagnosed Hiv Patient

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Newly Diagnosed or Long-Term Survivor -- What Everyone Should Know About HIV and Their Rights

Confidentiality Rights -- the AIDS Confidentiality Act First, your HIV status should not be disclosed by you to anyone except those people who absolutely need to know (doctors, health care providers, etc.), close friends, most-trusted confidants,... Read more »

Los Angeles Times Profiles Ventura County, Calif., Program Aimed at Newly Diagnosed HIV Patients

The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined a Ventura County, Calif., program aimed at obtaining treatment for newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients as "confidentially as possible and as gently and quickly" as possible. Many of the patients speak only... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Number of Named Partners and Number of Partners Newly Diagnosed With HIV Infection Identified by Persons With Acute Versus Established HIV Infection

Acute HIV infections are linked to a disproportionate share of forward transmission in certain populations, note the current study's authors. They hypothesized that patients acutely infected might be able to identify more named partners than those... Read more »

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Newly diagnosed and gaining weight

34 male newly diagnosed 2.8.00 hospitalized intensive care with PCP for 8 days (4 days put into coma and mechanical ventilator inserted) when they awoke me I was told I had hiv, cd4 104 and vl 62000. started meds 2.22.00 sustiva, zerit, videx. vl...

Response from Marc Hellerstein, M.D., Ph.D.

University of California Berkeley & San Francisco

Great summary of your medical and personal situation! There are a lot of things to think about, from what you brought up.First, what kind of weight do you want to have on your body, and what kind of weight will help or harm your health? Having extra... Read more »

Newly diagnosed with HIV

I really appreciate your rapid response.Unfortunately, the HIV diagnosis is confirmed, apparently after 3 blood tests. The CD4 is also more or less at 94 although it has shown slight variations over the 3 tests. I am being put on "Truvada"...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thanks for your follow up.Sorry to hear that the tests were confirmed.Moving onward, I'd again reaffirm that you should be on HIV treatments- Truvada is a very reasonable component of first-line therapy; preferred by the current US Department... Read more »

Newly diagnosed with hep c,also have hiv..........

I recently found out I have hep c and may have been co-infected all along. I have been hiv for about 16 years. My HCV viral load is 7 million. My doctor says the hep c hasn't been a problem for me and doesn't recommend treatment at this...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

I agree that it is certainly possible that your hepatitis C may have been present for a long time.You have a high viral load. Besides that I do not know anything about the status of your liver disease without knowing the results of a liver biopsy. A... Read more »

LOST - daughter newly diagnosed with HIV

We have a 27 year daughter who was diagnosed HIV positive> 2 days ago during standard insurance> tests.She has very low viral level and didn't need any medication yet.> She is professional (has 2 degree from university )very...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

A positive HIV test in someone with no obvious exposure is certainly unexpected. One always wonders about a false positive test result. When you say the viral load was very low do you know what the number actually was and was it confirmed? The... Read more »

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Newly diagnosed girl is pushing me away.

Posted by LUVmyHIVposGIRL, 10 Replies

Greetings,

First off, let me say how comforting your website has been since my girlfriend and I found out she is HIV+. The best thing I have done for myself it to get educated as much as possible about HIV. I went from hysteria to relative calm the... Read more »

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NEWLY DIAGNOSED

Posted by scorpio77, 3 Replies

I AM 32 AND TESTED POS IN NOV 09. I WAS GOING FOR A REG PRENATAL VISIT WHEN I GOT THE NEWS. I AM CURRENTLY 7 1/2 MOS PREG AND SEVERELY DEPRESSED. I AM SO SCARED OF DYING AND WHAT THIS IS GOING TO DO 2 ME. I FEEL LIKE IM LIVING IN A NIGHTMARE. JUST... Read more »

newly diagnosed

Posted by nwkmateo, 5 Replies

Hello. I was diagnosed 3/27/2012 with HIV. I've been so busy trying to reassure my loved ones that I will be okay that I've ignored my own need to be reassured. I'm hoping the interactions I make on here will help get me to that goal.

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