Value Of Getting Treated Early For Hiv

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IRIS: A Concern for People Starting HIV Therapy

Introduction What Is Inflammation? What Is IRIS? How Is It Diagnosed? Who Is at Risk? What Are the Symptoms? How Do You Treat IRIS? What Can Help to Ask My Doctor? Special Concerns for People Living With HIV Special Concerns for Women, Children and People Over 50 What Does the Research Show? Commentary Introduction It's a mouthful of a phrase, but immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is a serious...

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Is treating HEP C early worth it?

I have been coinfected with HIV/HEP C since at least 1988. My HIV is stable, viral load undetectable, t cells currently 285. My Hep C has caused minimal scarring to my liver (Biopsied last month) but my hep c viral load is over 10 million copies. My...

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

Sound like a slam dunk to me! You have good HIV control, a good biopsy and a great genotype! You do however probably have to treat for 48 weeks. If you are getting treated for your depression now, then you have little to worry about. You can take... Read more »

treat early/wait

Dr.,I can see the advantages of starting treatment in the acute stage in terms of salvaging a great portion of the immune system, but do you think this outweighs the likely risk of drug resistance down the road? Do you count on new drugs being...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

This is really a question that gets to the heart of our current debate regarding the timing of HIV therapy initiation - the trade off between the beneficial effects of viral suppression versus the cost of drug resistance and toxicity.The calculus... Read more »

HIV Test and Index Value (SIGNAL-TO-CUT OFF RATIO) (INDEX VALUE)

I am sending donation for your grate service. I would like to know about Index Value in HIV 1&2 Antibody Test. After six months from the possible exposure I have conducted a HIV 1&2 Antibody & p24 Antigen Compo Test. The Test Result...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Your test result at six months of "0.11" is "nonreactive." That means you are definitively and conclusively HIV negative. The "index value" (also called the "signal-to-cutoff ratio") is a technical term... Read more »

I value your opinion! (WHY ARE PEOPLE WITH AIDS STILL DYING?)

Hello Doctor BobI no this is a safe sex forum but had a questions I would like to ask you, as I value your opinion so much. Why do you still hear of people dying of AIDS with the medications that are available now? (when you have access to...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello Annie,I'm perhaps the most optimistic person on the planet, but I'm also a realist. The reality of HIV/AIDS is that it remains an incurable progressive terminal illness. Even with treatment AIDS patients continue to succumb. The... Read more »

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People treated very early may be "prime candidates" for HIV cure studies

Posted by ashler1977, 1 Reply

Very early antiretroviral treatment limits the size of HIV reservoir

http://www.aidsmap.com/Very-early-antiretroviral-treatment-limits-the-size-of-HIV-reservoir/page/2587303/ Read more »

My doctor is refusing to treat my HIV until I sign

Posted by Garth, 2 Replies

Hello world,
As a newly diagnosed HIV gay man, living in Edmonton Alberta, ( diagnosed 1 year now) I am facing what I beleive to be discrimination and bullying by my doctor. My counts when first diagnosed were CD4 500 and viral load 16,000. Over... Read more »

Is folliculitis a sign of early HIV? Im 8 weeks into my exposure.

Posted by treeoflife1, 1 Reply

Had a negative 7 week oraquick test, i have 2 infected hair follicles on my arms....

Also would anyone know if getting my wisdom teeth taken out would delay my time for seroconversion? Read more »

early hiv, worried

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Hi folks, just wondering if you guys who are HIV+ out there can remember when you first got infected, if you experienced any of the suite of symptoms known as acute retroviral syndrome (ARS, also called AVS acute viral syndrome). This means, sore... Read more »

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