Vaccines To Replaces Hiv Medications

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Seventh Annual HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Emphasizes Need for Vaccine, Appreciation for Vaccine Trial Participants

Tuesday marks the seventh annual HIV Vaccine Awareness Day , which aims to "emphasiz[e] how today's science may produce tomorrow's ultimate weapon against AIDS," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (Guthrie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution ,... Read more »

Increased Research, Determination Needed in HIV/AIDS Vaccine Efforts, HIV Vaccine Enterprise Head Says

The disappointment that followed the cancellation of a Merck vaccine trial in September 2007 has been replaced by a renewed determination among the scientific community, Alan Bernstein, executive director of the Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise ,... Read more »

Therapeutic HIV Vaccines

What Is a Vaccine? A vaccine is a medical product designed to stimulate your body's immune system in order to prevent or control an infection. An effective vaccine trains your immune system to fight a particular microorganism so that it can't... Read more »

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Risks of Hip Replacement in Hiv patients

It has been an ongoing battle for me to find a doctor to do a hip replacement on me in CT. The first orthopedic surgeon I was directed to was going to do it. Even had a date set up, then all of a sudden he said that the risks were to great and that...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

I have had numerous patients do well with hip surgery (or other surgery) in the setting of HIV infection. I would be surprised if the CT in your note refers to the state then HIV docs at one of the major HIV clinics (i.e at Yale) usually have a... Read more »

Risks of Hip Replacement in Hiv patients

Response from Brian Boyle, M.D., J.D.

Cornell University, Weill Medical College

Presuming that your CD4 count is OK (roughly >200) and you don't have any other health issues (e.g., diabetes), the risks should be minimal. Some studies indicate a slight increase in risk of infection, but this is not so high that the... Read more »

Acute HIV, Diahrre & Medication; Medical reasons for early testing?; Acute HIV treatment??

Dear Dr Bob,first of all let me thank you SO MUCH for running this fantastic site, and for providing such a positive inspiration for coping with HIV.Now several questions (please answer, altho by comparison with some of the qus asked here, these are...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Nick,Thanks for your kind comments.Proceeding directly to your specific questions:1.Even though I have no idea what "possibly lesious" means, I would absolutely agree your HIV risk is negligible to nonexistent.2.Whether it's... Read more »

Vaccine with medications

I resently read that you might be able to use a vaccine soon to treat HIV? The thought being that a person could take medication for a year to drive down the virus to undectable leves(<50) After one year they would recieve the vaccine and the...

Response from Brian Boyle, M.D., J.D.

Cornell University, Weill Medical College

Therapeutic vaccines are in research and it is likely to be at least several more years before anything is available for clinical use.... Read more »

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HIV Vaccine Scam

Posted by Anonymous, 5 Replies

(article courtesy of RedFlagsDaily.com)

I told you so. I told you so in the scientific literature. I told you so on the internet. I told you that an HIV vaccine would never work.

This week, the long-awaited results from an independent trial of the... Read more »

ANTIBODY TESTING WILL BE REPLACED

Posted by JOHN_IN_LONDON, 3 Replies

I think almost every doctor is really excited with how fast technology is moving in the hiv diagnostic area,real time pcr testing will i think eventually replace the boring antibody testing procedure.as we all know viral load testing,and dna pcr... Read more »

vaccine hope-just thought this might help

Posted by Anonymous

Wednesday, 14 June, 2000, 18:05 GMT 19:05 UK
Live HIV vaccine 'is possible'
Scientists are developing a live vaccine for HIV that
cannot infect the people it is supposed to protect.

New Scientist magazine reports that a US team has
created a hybrid of... Read more »

HIV and Hip Replacements

Posted by Anonymous

I've been positive for about 13 years now, but under treatment only for 3 1/2 years. My viral load is undetectable on the ultrasensitive test, and my CD4 count is 957... I am in great shape regarding my HIV... My problem is that due to causes... Read more »

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