This would definitely be the HIV medication combo that I would take if I was HIV negative and wanted to treat a potential HIV exposure (condom breakage, needle stick, etc). Prior studies were done using Truvada alone (two drugs combined in one pill), but adding raltegravir to Truvada makes a lot of sense. Raltegravir (brand …
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From: https://www.positivelyaware.com/2012/12_01/hiv_wellness_series.shtml Living with a chronic illness like HIV can present certain nutritional challenges. Without effective HIV medication treatment, replicating virus can tax the body, destroying lean body mass and impairing immune function and quality of life.1, 2 While this destruction of lean tissue can be controlled with effective HIV antiretroviral combination therapy, other challenges like fat …
Please forward to others who would like to participate Find the survey here. San Francisco, CA-A coalition of HIV advocacy groups are calling on all people with HIV to take 10 minutes to complete a survey they hope will help speed the pace of HIV cure research. At issue are the kinds of risks that …
HIV Expert Offers Tips for Better Health Tuesday, 29 November 2011 11:49Written by Denise Royal Nelson Vergel is the picture of health. Looking at him, you would never know that he’s been HIV positive for more than 25 years. His chemical engineering degree and love of science led him to become a leading treatment advocate …
Program for Wellness Restoration (PoWeR, https://powerusa.org/ ) is going through a tough financial time now that most industry educational grants have been eliminated. We ask you to think about us when conmsidering organizations to make tax deductible donations before the end of the year. In 2011, PoWeR has been able to accomplish the following with …
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Timothy Ray Brown, aka “The Berlin Patient,” is the first person to be declared cured of HIV. A Seattle native living in Berlin until his recent move to San Francisco, he was diagnosed with leukemia in 2006 while living with HIV. Timothy underwent an innovative treatment for his cancer that resulted in not only a …
Sexual disturbances develop in some patients treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy. To evaluate sexual dysfunction and the influence that different antiretrovirals could have on those parameters, a study was conducted a prospective study in patients with stable clinical condition attending an HIV outpatient clinic. A total of 351 evaluations were performed in 189 HIV-infected men, …
Small sample but very hopeful Subject: NATAP/Aging Wk: Cognitive therapy in Aging Patients >50 Cognitive Therapy Gives Boost to 50-Year-Olds With Long-Term HIV 2nd International Workshop on HIV and Aging, October 27-28, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland Mark Mascolini Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy proved popular and effective in improving quality of life in a randomized trial involving 40 men …
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By Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Published: October 25, 2011 BOSTON — Anal intraepithelial neoplasia seems to develop during in the first year of HIV infection, according to the results of a cross-sectional study. Among 82 patients in the study group, 32.4% were diagnosed with high-grade anal intraepithelial neoplasia and 35.4% were diagnosed with low-grade …
