What Year Was Hiv Discovered

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False Information in HIV/AIDS Prevention Study Discovered Two Years Ago, Not Included in Final Study, HHS Says

Despite recent reports that federally funded research on an HIV/AIDS prevention model may have included falsified information, HHS on Friday said that the data collectors involved were discovered two years ago and that the falsified information was... Read more »

New Path to Therapeutic HIV Vaccine Discovered by Studying Immunologic Profile of Rare HIV Controllers

Oslo -- Based on encouraging results from pre-clinical research, Bionor Immuno AS, today announced intentions to take the therapeutic and potentially preventative HIV-vaccine candidate Vacc-C5 into a Phase I/II clinical trial. The research results... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

HIV Testing Project Discovers 18,000 New Cases

A CDC initiative to expand HIV testing and link those infected to care resulted in more than 18,000 new diagnoses, the agency reported Thursday. Launched in 2007, the three-year, $111 million Expanded HIV Testing Initiative operated in 25... Read more »

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discovering a friend is postive

my friend just learned that he has aids and that he doesn't have much to live, what happens now and how long does a person usually live upon discovering this diagnosis? he told me that the doctor told him that he waited too long but how i ask...

Response from Keith Henry, M.D.

University of Minnesota, School of Medicine

HIV infection most often takes many years (average 10 but wide range) to damage the imune system before symptoms develop and life threatening infections are seen.I hope your friend has access to a good HIV specialist--often HIV treatment can reverse... Read more »

New once-a-year vaccine discovered in Spain

Hi doctor, I just read the news on the newly discovered vaccine in Spain that would elliminate the daily retroviral meds. Do you think it will take a long time to have it available in America? if ever? Thank you very much for your answer....

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

Rocky Mountain CARES

Hi and thanks for posting.Let's be clear here. <a href="http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/therapeutic_vaccine_1667_23352.shtml" target=_new>What you've referred to</a> isn't a vaccine, it's a candidate... Read more »

just discovered my fiancee is Hiv positve and am negative

I just discovered my fiancee is HIV positive and i am negative. we started unprotected sex 6 weeks before the test. i am afraid i might have contracted this dieases because i had small nail cut on my penis during this period we had sex. Can i start...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) should be started as soon as possible following exposure. PEP is not effective if started more than 72 hours post-exposure.If you start PEP after it is likely to be effective in preventing transmission, you can... Read more »

New Antibody Discovered for HIV

I have just watched a CNN interview with Dr. Fauci that revealed the discovery of a new antibody to fight the transmission of the HIV virus. Will this new antibody also become the basis for a possible cure for the disease. It sounds to good to be...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,This information is still hot off the press and very preliminary. Perhaps we'll hear more at the upcoming International AIDS Meetings in Vienna. See below for what we know so far. Stay tuned to The Body and we'll keep you informed as... Read more »

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Researchers have discovered the Achille's heel of HIV

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Researchers have discovered the Achille's heel of the HIV virus: VPU protein

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Clue to Why Human Body Can't Fight HIV Discovered

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it was discovered that i was hiv+ at the end of 93

Posted by Anonymous

It was discovered that I was HIV positive at the end of 93. I
have been with the same partner since 83. We (both) have never
played out side of our relationship. My partner is HIV negitive.
His last check up was the end of 96. The last time we had... Read more »

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