What Should Be Done To Limit The Passing Of Hiv To Others

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House Passes Amendments to Limit Number of Federal Employees Attending International Conferences

The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved two amendments to spending bills limiting the number of federal employees who can attend international conferences, the Washington Times reports. The House last week approved the fiscal year... Read more »

Prevention Pointers for People With HIV: How to Avoid Passing Your Virus to Someone Else

The easiest ways to pass HIV to someone else are in blood or sexual fluids. Having sex without a condom or sharing drug-injection works can infect a partner with your HIV. If you inject drugs, you can stop with a drug-substitution program (for... Read more »

House Passes CAFTA; Bush Expected to Sign Pact; HIV/AIDS Advocates Say Agreement Could Threaten Treatment Access

The House on Wednesday approved 217-215 the Central American Free Trade Agreement, a deal aiming to reduce trade barriers between the U.S. and six Central American nations that supporters have said will stimulate economic and democratic growth in... Read more »

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recovery limit(s) ?

I've made excellent progress since full blown AIDS 3 yrs ago. Remained undectectable since my 1stMonth on meds (combovir/viramune) ,Last 2 years cd4 ~550-750 & %cd4pos lympth ~ 20%.My question is. What exactly is limiting future long term...

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

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Losses of CD4 clones (specific cells that fight specific kinds of infections or react to certain foreign proteins or antigens) may be permanently lost or not recoverable to "normal" levels when HIV has destroyed a critical amount of these... Read more »

Undectable, Can I pass an insurance lab test for aids?

I was diagnoised HIV+ in 98' with a viral load over a millon and a CD4 of 40. At one point my CD4 was at three. I have since then, gotten my CD4 up to 612, and my viral load has been undectable since 99'. Can I pass the insurance lab...

Response from Nancy Breuer

WorkPositive, Inc.

Congratulations! From 3 to 612 is a great leap. You must be taking the medications exactly as they are prescribed, which is the biggest secret to improving your CD4 count and bringing down your viral load. Keep doing it!Now the questions:... Read more »

RE: TESTING LIMITATIONS--HIV-2??

Thank you Doc. All of my antibody tests were HIV 1/O/2 by quest,labcorp, and rapid tests oraquick and clearview complete. I also had specific HIV-2 EIA done at 55 weeks of last exposure and was negative. Is that good enough? Is the HIV-2 window any...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Not surprisingly, you've already had numerous tests for HIV-2. HIV 1/O/2 tests for HIV-1, HIV-2 and group O. Your EIA HIV-2 is also an HIV-2-specific assay. Is this good enough? Not only is it good enough; it's also highly excessive.... Read more »

Lower HIV Limits

Any comments on the latest ruling by the federal appeals panel that says that insurance companies have every right to limit there liability in hiv, over ruling a prior federal judges decision. In the particular case 2 men sued mutual of Omaha for...

Response from Lynn L. Franzoi

Worldwide Benefits for Fox, Inc.

Although this was the decision in the Mutual of Omaha case, there have been other decisions that were the opposite. Often, different Districts will have widely varying opinions on a single subject. Eventually, it will be up to the Supreme Court to... Read more »

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Passing on HIV via Saliva

Posted by SaltyWater, 2 Replies

Now I know you can't catch HIV by kissing, but imagine this scenario

You know someone is HIv and your cool with it. You know you cant catch it by french kissing, but suppose the negative person had core / cold core on the edge of his mouth, if the... Read more »

How is HIV passed from one person to another?

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

HIV transmission can occur when blood, semen (cum), pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum), vaginal fluid, or breast milk from an infected person enters the body of an uninfected person.
HIV can enter the body through a vein (e.g., injection drug use), the... Read more »

limiting one self

Posted by Angel_Ronnie

i can't believe that how my life has changed just before my fathers passing. In june/july i was sent to Mozambique for 4 weeks now next week is ethiopia for a week i am so looking forward in this trip as it is long over due that i see africa and... Read more »

Love has no limits

Posted by begladtohelp

At the age of 69 I am very much in love with a man from another country whom I am helping get through college and obtain his citizenship in our country. This is definitely not a 'sugar daddy' relationship; we have been through some very difficult... Read more »

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