What Started The Aids Virus

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Be careful about the information you're getting -- check it out with your health care provider or other sources to make sure it's accurate. Keep Track of Your Immune System In addition to your regular medical exams, there are two special blood tests to keep track of HIV disease. They are the viral load test and the CD4 cell test. The viral load test (see Fact Sheet 125 ) helps show how strong the HIV virus is in your body. It measures the...

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correct combination?the right time to start?Previous drug use and effect on the virus?

Hi,firstly wanna compliment you guys on what you are doing for hiv pos people info could result in longer lives.Was always in denial about the matter.I was tested Dec 2001 and recently had tests done where my Vl 22000 and CD4 227 my doctor put me on...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Neil, thank you for your question.The combination that your doctors have chosen should be a very good one and recently studied in the Gilead Sciences 903 clinical trial. While d4T (Zerit) has fallen out of favor in the US because of a increased... Read more »

genital warts (HPV, 2011) (HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS AND HIV/AIDS, 2011)

if a person have genital warts does it mean that he/she is going to have a positive syphilis test like VDRL or RPR?...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,No. Genital warts are caused by a virus, the human papilloma virus (HPV). Syphilis is caused by a bacteria, Treponema pallidum. You can read much more about HPV and syphilis in the archives of this forum. I'll repost below a sample of what... Read more »

Giving the virus a virus

Maybe I am 20 years late with this question, as it has probably already been tried, but here goes:Is is possible that we could isolate an enzyme, that would alter the DNA of the aids particles, to the extent that the alteration would either inhibit...

Response from Judith Feinberg, M.D.

University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine

Researchers are working on substances that block the receptor sites for the virus on immune system cells, so you are right on track about that. I don't think the concept of "infecting" HIV with another virus is a viable approach.... Read more »

I was diagnosed with AIDS then started treatment

In January I was diagnosed with a cd4 count of 50 and a viral load off the charts. I was hospitialized with PCP spent weeks in the hospitial and was on my death bed. Since then I started a drug regime of sustiva and combivir. I am doing great...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

Hello, glad to hear that you are responding well to therapy. No way have you reduced your life expectancy to less than 10 years because of an AIDS diagnosis.Our team takes care of many patients that had PCP in 1996 or 97 with CD4 counts less than... Read more »

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Is there any test which look for HIV virus itself

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Hi everybody I am wondering is there some kind of test which look for virus itself?
I am becoming paranoid about hiv i tested 8 months after my last sex and i am still woried becouse i started doubting everything medicine science even my own body.
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Gallo's New Virus

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c 2001 by satirist Marcel Girodian

FAMED AIDS SCIENTIST DISCOVERS NEW VIRUS

By Gina Kolada
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Washington D.C. (December 17)--Dr. Robert Gallo, discoverer of the AIDS virus, stunned the scientific community today with the discovery of a... Read more »

AIDS Cure Quest to Kill `Sleeping' Viruses

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AIDS Cure Quest to Kill `Sleeping' Viruses Enlists Merck Cancer Medicine

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OZONE PROVEN TO KILL AIDS VIRUS

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I PURCHASED A MEDICAL OZONE DEVICE.VERY HIGH QUALITY DEVICE.IF USED PROPERLY IT IS COMMONLY REPORTED TO KNOCK OUT AIDS.THE CONCEPT AND DEVICE IS DEFAMED BY FDA AND AMA BECAUSE OF SPECIAL INTERESTS AND IGNORANCE IN THE HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY.THE... Read more »

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