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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Finding Ways to Help the Youngest With HIV

The Pediatric AIDS Clinic at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital is conducting what is believed to be the only study on HIV-positive children and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Grace McComsey, chief of Pediatric Infectious... Read more »

The History of Pride From a 29-Year Survivor of HIV and AIDS

Dab Garner First, I should let everyone know I grew up in a small city in northeast Florida during the 60s and 70s in a religious, conservative and military family. I also knew from a very young age I was "different" from the other boys, but did... Read more »

AIDS' Youngest Sufferers Left Behind in Drive to Scale Up Treatment

Of the estimated 2.2 million children worldwide who are infected with HIV, less than 1 percent are receiving antiretroviral (ARV) therapy. Without the medicine, most will die before their fifth birthday. Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa -- home to... Read more »

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What about survivor's guilt: long term AIDS survivors

Is there any research or information available about survivor's guilt; thosewith HIV or AIDS who become long term survivors? Especially in light of thenew medication therapies and idea of AIDS shifting from terminal to chronic....

Response from Michael Shernoff, M.S.W.

Psychotherapist and Author

Dr. Walt Odets has written extensively about survivor guilt of HIV negativemen in his book Life in the Shadows: Being HIV-Negative in the Age of AIDS(1994). A little has been written about the survivor guilt of people who arelong term survivors and... Read more »

HIV/AIDS and Survivor's Guilt

My partner of 13 years is an 18-year survivor of HIV/AIDS. Until late November 2005, he had not had any serious opportunistic infections. However, beginning at that time he experienced a series of traumatic infections that brought him near death...

Response from Ewald Horwath, M.D.

University of Miami School of Medicine

I suppose you could refer to this as survivior's guilt, but it is way out of proportion to the situation. He has a serious illness and suffers greatly with it. His survival is hardly a cause for guilt.When feelings of guilt are this pervasive,... Read more »

Cognitive Issues for 16yr HIV survivor

I'M WORRIED THAT THE HIV HAS TAKEN CONTROL OVER SOME OF MY COGNITIVE AREAS. LAST 12 MONTHS, I HAVE EXPERIENCED SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS...NAMES AND FACES, I DON'T SEEM TO HAVE ANY ENERGY AND SEEM TO LOOSE WORD FINDING. IS THERE ANY THING...

Response from Nelson Vergel, B.S.Ch.E., M.B.A.

Program for Wellness Restoration

In a study, about half of us long term survivors had some sort of mild to moderate cognitive loss. However, what you are describing sounds a lot more severe to me. I would do the following if I was you:1- Have your doctor check your blood levels... Read more »

Rape Survivor - HIV NEGATIVE at 3 months/13 weeks?

I (I'm a female) was raped by a formal friend who tested HIV negative and is with the police. I developed all the anxiety symptoms.. but at 2 months, I started coughing with a sore throat. I had no fever, no swollen lymph nodes for 3 months,...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Whether your attacker was a "formal friend" or former friend, I'm glad he's been apprehended by the authorities.Your HIV fears are unwarranted. Your attacker tested HIV negative and you've had three negative HIV tests... Read more »

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HIV/AIDS LONG-TERM SURVIVORS sought for in-depth i

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

Gay men who have lived consciously aware of their HIV+ status since at least 1986 are sought to provide their personal experiencesemotional, psychological, spiritual, medical, social, legal, &c.for a book to document and preserve the experiences... Read more »

I am a 15 year HIV positive survivor

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I am a 15-year HIV positive long-term asymptomatic survivor. I
have been vvery fortunate with my meds... I have never had a drug
reaction from anything I have taken to control the replication of
my virus. I have had an undetectable viral load since... Read more »

Long-term HIV and Aids survivors' health worrying

Posted by ScotCharles

From KaiserNet

January 8, 2008

Some experts and doctors recently have voiced concerns that people who were diagnosed with HIV and Aids in the early years of the epidemic are experiencing "premature[e]" or "disproportionate numbers" of ailments... Read more »

HIV+ brain cancer survivor marathon runner

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