Treatment And Prevention Of AIDS And HIV

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

From Treatment to Prevention: The Interplay Between HIV/AIDS Treatment Availability and HIV/AIDS Prevention Programming in Khayelitsha, South Africa

The authors undertook the current study to describe the role that public access to antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) has played in the development and efficacy of HIV/AIDS prevention programs in Khayelitsha, a poor township in South Africa's Western Cape.... Read more »

A Shift in Strategy to Treatment as Prevention for HIV/AIDS

Organizers are calling for big increases in HIV testing and treatment as the 19th International AIDS Conference (IAC) takes place in Washington this week. Testing-and-treating is now central to the U.S. AIDS prevention strategy, and experts say... Read more »

Focus on Women: Challenges in the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS

These remarks were made by Linda Villarosa, contributing writer for The New York Times , at the amfAR-sponsored continuing medical education symposium "Focus on Women: Challenges in the Prevention and Treatment of HIV/AIDS." I'm sorry Marcia... Read more »

Ask the Experts

Aids prevention treatment in pregnant womanfollowing rape

What would be the alternative treatment prevention open to a pregnant womanwho has been victimized by rape and exposedto AIDS infection. What drug(s) would provide the list side effect risk tothe unborn child?...

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "alternative." There is growinginterest in post-exposure prophylaxis for sexual exposures, based on theapparent success of giving antiretroviral therapy to health-care workersafter needle stick... Read more »

HIV Preventive treatment

I am on preventive treatment for HIV since 1 week (after a sexual agression). I'm taking Combivir and Viracept 2 times a day (1 pill of combivir and 5 pills of Viracept) for one month. I just want to know if I can take some recreational drugs...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Do not do recreational drugs, especially while on the HIV medications. Serious interactions between these substances can occur with life-threatening consequences. Fun may be in the eye of the partier, but I would look for more healthy and safer... Read more »

Hiv prevention (PEP) (TREATMENT AFTER EXPOSURE)

Dear Rob,I recently had sex with a man i do not know, without my knowledge he removed the condom. I went to the Er and was prescribed Viread and combavir, will this lower my chances of contracting Hiv?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Yes, PEP, if appropriately prescribed and taken, can decrease the chance of infection following an HIV exposure. PEP is most effective when started as soon as possible (and no later than 72 hours) after an exposure. I'll reprint some... Read more »

How best to prevent facial wasting after treatment interruption?

I have been on a drug "holiday" for the past 18 months, after 12 years of HIV therapy. I stopped my meds with high CD4 count of 1100 and undetectable viral load. The reason I stopped therapy was because, even though I felt great, I had...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

Hello, and thanks for posting. You do not seem vain and asking to take an effective regimen with the lowest chance of lipoatrophy is a perfectly reasonable request. It would be important to know what your regimen was before the treatment... Read more »

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Director of Treatment & Prevention Advocacy

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Director of Treatment & Prevention Advocacy
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The Director of Treatment & Prevention Advocacy is responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of Project Informs HIV/AIDS research and... Read more »

NEW HIV/AIDS TREATMENT

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We are trying to get HIV Groups & Organizations, Medical and Pharmaceutical Institutions, and Universities and the Medical & Scientific Communities aware, informed and interested in MM-1,... Read more »

NEW HIV/AIDS TREATMENT

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