Treatment News : Treating Leaking Gut May Slow Progression of HIV Disease
A kidney drug was able to decrease gut related immune activation in monkeys https://www.poz.com/articles/leaking_gut_761_25741.shtml
In HIV News: Vitamin D Deficiency Impact; Hepatitis C Research Recap; Lower Prostate Cancer Risk; and More
If you have trouble reading this e-mail, you can read the online version at: www.thebodypro.com/newsletter.html Top Stories on TheBodyPRO.com: June 10, 2014 FEATURED STORIES Vitamin D Deficiency When Starting Treatment Linked With Increased HIV Progression Having low levels of vitamin D when starting treatment is associated with a more than doubled risk of HIV …
Hot Topics: Slowing CD4 Decline; Pill Care on Road Trips; Assessing Your Brain Health; and More
If you have trouble reading this email, you can see the online version at: www.thebody.com/topics.html June 10, 2014 Visit the Forums Read Past Email Newsletters Change/Update Subscription Can I Slow My CD4 Decline Without Taking Meds? I’m a woman who’s been living with HIV for four years, but hasn’t started medications. I’m in good health, …
Injection Every 3 Months to Prevent HIV- Study in San Francisco Enrolling Now
There’s a new clinical trial about to get started in SF looking for 25 men or transwomen who are at relatively low risk for HIV to test the safety, tolerability and acceptability of a very long acting (injected once every three months) for Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). If that sounds like you or someone you know, …
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HIV-Positive Venezuelans Are Desperately Seeking HIV Medications- Please Help
Even though Venezuela is the third largest oil exporter to the United States and has the largest oil reserves in the world, you would not know that if you visited the country now. The country’s infrastructure is in ruins. State officials have been able to pocket much of the oil revenues and imposed illogical dollar …
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AIDS SURVIVORS SUMMIT SAN FRANCISCO CONVENED ON JUNE 5, 2014 NATIONAL HIV/AIDS LONG-TERM SURVIVORS AWARENESS DAY
San Francisco, CA — June 5, 2014 is the first-ever National HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivors Awareness Day (NHALTSAD). On that day, Let’s Kick ASS—AIDS Survivor Syndrome convenes the AIDS Survivors Summit/San Francisco 2014at theSan Francisco LGBT Center on June 5, 2014 from 1:00-9:00 PM. Let’s Kick ASS is bringing together survivors, both HIV-positive and negative, with key Bay Area AIDS organizations in an effort …
Bill sponsored by HIV-Positive Legislator Advances Tuesday to Help People with HIV-related Lipodystrophy
The bill was sponsored by Carl Sciortino, one of the nation’s few openly gay and openly HIV-positive legislators. The 35-year-old has since stepped down from the legislature to serve as executive director of the well-respected AIDS Action Committee. The story of the young, handsome Sciortino is remarkable in and of itself. The child of a self-proclaimed Tea Party …
Statin Therapy Does Not Improve Cardiovascular Risk for Patients With HIV and Low HDL
The main lipid abnormality of people living with HIV is low high density lipoprotein (HDL). There are 5 subfractions of HDL: 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b, and 3c, from largest (and most effective in cholesterol removal) to smallest (and least effective). Neither pravastatin nor rosuvastatin changes the distribution of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) subfractions in patients who are …
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New CDC Guidelines: People at Risk for HIV Should Consider Truvada PrEP
Healthcare providers should advise people at “substantial risk” for HIV infection about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) using tenofovir/emtricitabine, or Truvada, according to new guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This includes HIV negative people in an ongoing sexual relationship with HIV positive partners, gay or bisexual men who have had sex …
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PMMA-microspheres for the treatment of HIV-associated buttock lipodystrophy.
Soft tissue augmentation with PMMA-microspheres for the treatment of HIV-associated buttock lipodystrophy. Authors Serra MS, et al. Journal Int J STD AIDS. 2014 May 22. pii: 0956462414536878. [Epub ahead of print] Affiliation Abstract BACKGROUND: Progression of lipodystrophy syndrome is a big challenge in HIV treatment. Nowadays, fat loss at the lower part of buttocks has become another …
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The untold side of the movie “Dallas Buyers Club”
The movie Dallas Buyers Club brings attention to a little-recognized part of the AIDS activist movement: the desperate struggle to provide anything that might treat the disease when no treatment was available. AL-721, Compound Q, Peptide T—buyers clubs formed around the country to bring in potential treatments, whether pharmaceutical or botanical, for both the virus …
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Activists Condemn Gilead for Exhorbitant Price of Their New Hepatitis C Drug
For Immediate Release December 9, 2013 Contact: Lynda Dee 410-332-1170 or lyndamdee@aol.com Fair Pricing Coalition Condemns Gilead Sciences on the High Price of New Hepatitis C Drug Sovaldi™, and Urges Rapid and Wide Dissemination of Support Program Details for Uninsured and Underinsured People Living with Hepatitis C The Fair Pricing Coalition (FPC) today condemned Gilead …
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