What Does Arv For Hiv Stand For

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Should I start ARV treatment

1)Yesterday my doctor gave me my test results and my CD4 count is 211, my Viral Load is in the 17k+. He's not sure if I should start treatment because the blood tests he did (eg. blood plasma) show that I'm still "healthy" (in...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,1. I would strongly urge you to begin combination antiretroviral therapy without further delay. Are you under the care of an HIV specialist physician? If not you should consult one ASAP. Your immune system, as demonstrated by an absolute CD4... Read more »

Hiv neg child from a hiv + mom without using ARV'S

Hi doc. Is it possible that an hiv+ mom can give birth 2 a hiv neg child without takin any... Read more »

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Does ARV cure Hiv

I have being wondering if ARV when taken long time can it cure serve as a cure for Hiv i was told... Read more »

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C. »

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Articles

AIDS 2010 Studies, Releases: Treating HIV-Positive Patients With ARVs Drove Down Number of New HIV Infections, Study Finds

"Treating HIV patients with cocktails of AIDS drugs helps to stop them spreading the infection further and more than halved the number of new HIV diagnoses in a study in Canada, scientists said on Sunday," Reuters reports. The study, which was... Read more »

IAS Conference: Low-Cost CD4 Tests; HIV Prevalence Among Pregnant Zimbabweans; Treating HIV-TB With ARVs; Vaccine Trials

The following are stories fromthis week's5th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention meeting in Cape Town, South Africa: SciDev.Net : Steven Reidof theImperial College London spoke of three... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Barriers Associated With Intentional Versus Unintentional ARV Non-Adherence Behavior Among HIV-Positive Patients in Clinical Care

Thanks to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, "HIV has become better characterized as a chronic disease rather than a terminal illness, depending in part on one's ability to maintain relatively high levels of adherence," the authors wrote. Research has... Read more »

Zimbabwe HIV/AIDS Activists Concerned ARV Drive May Be Faltering

Zimbabwean HIV advocates are discouraged by Health Minister David Parirenyatwa's recent comments regarding the high cost of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs and difficulties in implementing an ARV treatment roll-out. Advocates said that without national... Read more »

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Hiv 1/2 reliability vs Hiv-2 stand alone test ?

Posted by SRCHFRANS34, 1 Reply

Does anyone know the % of accuracy for Hiv-2 antibody detection with current Elisa 1/2 antibody tests ? Some of the 4-5 year old posted answers in the archives say 70% accuracy for Hiv-2 , has that changed with today's 1/2 tests ? I'm Finding a... Read more »

ARV???????

Posted by babygirl30, 1 Reply

I have read alot of posts and many of them talk about ARV.What is that? Is it just another name for HIV? Read more »

First Day ARvs Today

Posted by green_xuanya, 1 Reply

In January 2010, I was diagnosed to be HIV+. I was in denial for a couple of months - I was depressed, I tried to escape but who am I fooling - just myself. So this week, I came back to the doctor Wednesday, had my tests on Thursday and got my ARVs... Read more »

ARV

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

What is Aids Related Virus, ARV, and what does it cause? My cousin's son was recently diagnosed as having ARV and he is less than a year old. Any information would be greatly appreciated.

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