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effects of hiv cocktail on diabetic

Police officer must take hiv cocktail due to bite on hand from drug user. Officer is diabetic. Can they take this cocktail and what side effects occur...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

A one month course of antiretrovirals rarely would have any lasting effect on diabetic status. For some regimens and diabetics there could be a modest aggravating effect during the 4 weeks on treatment. KH... Read more »

Hiv cocktails

In 2001 I started the sustiva and truvada cocktail I was very fortunate to have had no major side... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

does the H.I.V. cocktail damage the heart

My nephew now on H.I.V. therapy for many years just had a heart attack. Although I am certain part... Read more »

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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Gilead and J&J Expand HIV Cocktail Partnership

Gilead Sciences Inc. and Johnson & Johnson's Tibotec division announced Tuesday they will work together to develop a new HIV pill that contains Tibotec's Prezista and Gilead's Emtriva. The tablet also will include Gilead's drug candidates... Read more »

HIV/AIDS Drug Cocktails Saving Lives: Study

In a three-year study, the average death rate declined by half for people with HIV/AIDS receiving antiretroviral treatment. Dr. Miguel A. Hernan, of the Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues noted that while the 1996 introduction of AIDS... Read more »

A Policy Cocktail for Fighting HIV

"In the absence of a vaccine, three bold new approaches to controlling the HIV/AIDS pandemic are being discussed by those working in medicine and public health. These approaches are still in the conceptual and testing phases, but if applied as a... Read more »

Anti-HIV Medications + Street Drugs: Some Cocktails Don't Mix

Beginning in October, the PWA Health Group started an intensive treatment education program for active and former drug users. Because there is so little hard information available on the specific hazards of mixing street drugs with anti-HIV... Read more »

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Is the triple cocktail helping to spread AIDS?

Posted by Anonymous, 6 Replies

I've written what is currently the only computer application solely dedicated to the mathematical analysis of HIV. It's called HIV pathogenesis modeler, and can be downloaded at:
http://www.agmh.org/softw.htm

While using the SI model in the program, I... Read more »

Cocktail Daze

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

With the new guidlines coming into effect in Jan what will doctors tell their patients who are now taking the cocktail. "Oh I'm sorry you did not need to take it after all" or " I guess I don't really know what I'm doing please don't sue me." One... Read more »

Looking for people using drug cocktails

Posted by Anonymous

I am a graduate student at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. I am working on a story about reactions to drug cocktails and protease inhibitors. If you have had a positive reaction, for example, your T-cell count has gone up after taking them,... Read more »

Faith versus Cocktails

Posted by Anonymous, 7 Replies

I.ve been positive for 12 years, 4 years ago I started monitoring my bloodwork after my lover past away. My T-cell count was between 200-300 4 yrs later they finally dropped to 178 since July then to 132, then finally to 93 currently. Despite my... Read more »

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