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Topping Negative At 16 Weeks

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negative top with poz bottom, can meds help me stay negative?

I am a hiv negative top in a relationship with a positive bottom. Are there any medical trials currently available that are researching the possibility of meds helping me stay negative while having unprotected anal sex?...
Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation
Hi,Significant advances in biomedical prevention methods to decrease HIV transmission have recently been announced. See below. Despite theses advances, the most effective way for you to protect your HIV-negative status is to use latex condoms for... Read more »

Negative top in a Poz bottom

I have am a HIV neg man at the age of 38 and have been topping a 36 y.o. man that has been HIV Poz... Read more »

HIV/HCV 6 month antibody negative 36 weeks pregnant HELP!

Dr. Bob,I had unprotected sex on December 28th 2010. I have tested 27 weeks HCV antibody negative... Read more »
Articles
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Vertex Study Will Evaluate 12-Week Treatment Period for Some Hepatitis C Patients

Cambridge, Mass.-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. is launching a study to determine whether some patients taking its hepatitis C drug Incivek (telaprevir) can benefit from a shorter course of treatment. Approved five months ago by federal... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hepatitis Drug's New Name: Incivek

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s hepatitis C drug telaprevir, which won the endorsement last week of an expert panel of Food and Drug Administration advisers, has been given its brand name: Incivek (pronounced in-see-veck). FDA's decision on whether to... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hepatitis C Drug Raises Cure Rate in Late Trial

A Phase III trial of Vertex Pharmaceuticals' experimental hepatitis C virus drug telepravir boosted cure rates of infected patients taking standard treatment, the firm recently announced. With standard therapy and telepravir, 75 percent had a... Read more »
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Black Patients Fare Well on Vertex Hepatitis C Drug

In a Phase III study, Vertex Pharmaceutical Inc.'s experimental hepatitis C drug telaprevir boosted sustained viral response rates among black patients, suggest data presented to the 61st annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of... Read more »
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Not 100% confident on 13 and 17 week negatives

Posted by Impossible, 2 Replies
http://www.thebody.com/cgi-bin/bbs/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=infected&Number=193856&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1

Read the second post in this thread assuming this guy isn't lying he was negative on ELISA (or EIA)... Read more »

negative at 6 weeks, positive at 13 weeks?

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
I've got another week to go until my 13 week test. My 6 week came back negative. What are the chances that the 13 week could be positive if the 6 was negative? Did any of you test negative at 6 weeks and then positive at 13 weeks?
Scared Shitless
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What do you mean I'm NEGATIVE ? !!!

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies
Hello, my name is Steve and I've just tested negative at eleven weeks. I'd like to share my story because its very similar to some of the others that have appeared here. Sorry its a long story, but its consumed my whole life for the past (nearly)... Read more »

23 weeks negative

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply
Hello,

I tested 23 weeks negative last week, how accurate is this result, am I negative at all? Please answer, thank you all.



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