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HAART and The Treatment of HIV/AIDS

By on Saturday, July 18th, 2009 | No Comments

    The availability of HAART since 1996 has had a dramatic effect on the face of HIV AIDS. HAART is a customized combination of different classes of medications that a physician prescribes based on such factors as the patient’s viral load, CD4+ lymphocyte count, and clinical symptoms. CD4+ lymphocytes are white blood cells that [...]

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Origins of HIV/AIDS

By on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | No Comments

The origin of HIV/AIDS has cme into the media spotlight as we learn of its existence in the human population much early then was orignally thought. This new information came to us by way of DNA analysis of the current HIV virus. Scientists now guess that HIV jump to human populations from monkeys in the [...]

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The Tranmssion, Testing, and Symptoms of HIV/AIDS

By on Friday, June 12th, 2009 | No Comments

HIV can be hard to diagnose, if you think you might have contracted hiv you should ge test as soon as possible. Symptoms often can take a long time to develop after the intial exposure to HIV, but common symptoms of AIDS include thrush or chronic yeast infections, skin discoloration, easy bruising, nausea, vommiting, and [...]

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HIV/AIDS Basics

By on Friday, June 12th, 2009 | No Comments

AIDS/HIVwas first reported in the United States in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide epidemic. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. By harming the body’s immune system, HIV will eventually damage the body’s ability to fight off infection. People who have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS can get dangerous infections [...]

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Entering HIV Treatment

By on Monday, June 1st, 2009 | No Comments

Each HIV infected patient who is entering into care should have a full medical history, physical, lab evaluation and counseling. This is to confirm the presenence of HIV, get historical and laboratory data, discuss treatment of HIV with patient, and initiate care as suggested by HIV primary care guidelines. Baseline data then is utilized to [...]

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HIV Spread and Prevention

By on Thursday, May 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Despite substantial advances in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virusAIDS/HIV infection, the estimated number of annual new HIV infections in the United States has remained at 40,000 for over 10 years. HIV prevention in this country has largely focused on persons who are not HIV infected, to help them avoid becoming infected. However, further reduction [...]

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