Think positive. Eat good foods. Be healthy. It’s good advice. Sadly, it has a dark side.
“You can be healthy!” shout the covers of magazines and health books. The promise is that all it takes for good health is good exercise, good diet, and good hygiene.
But what does it mean if we aren’t like those […]
In 1984, 3 years after the first reports of a disease that was to become known as AIDS, researchers discovered the primary causative viral agent, the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1). In 1986, a second type of HIV, called HIV-2, was isolated from AIDS patients in West Africa, where it may have been […]
Many people do not develop symptoms after getting infected with HIV. Some people have a flu-like illness within several days to weeks after exposure to the virus. They complain of fever, headache, tiredness, and enlarged lymph glands in the neck. These symptoms usually disappear on their own within a few weeks.
Following initial infection, you may […]
An important focus of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is research devoted to the pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease ¾ the complex mechanisms that result in the destruction of the immune system of an HIV-infected person. A detailed understanding of HIV and how it establishes infection and causes the […]
June 9, 2005 - The face of the typical AIDS patient is fast becoming female. It’s happening all over the world — and the U.S. is no exception.
If you think this can’t be so, follow Frances H. Priddy, MD, MPH, on her rounds at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital. The Grady AIDS ward mirrors AIDS across […]
Introduction
Background: Over the past decade, the number of children infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has increased dramatically because of an increase in the number of women of childbearing age who are infected with HIV. Only within the last 5 years have obstetricians in the United States been required to offer prenatal HIV testing; […]
medicines, and hope for the future.
“By now you’d think people would know a lot about HIV, but they don’t. I would never tell someone I was not close to. Even when I do feel close enough to someone to tell them, I wonder. Are they going to say, ‘Get away from me! Don’t touch me!’ […]
Sexual Health: HIV and AIDS
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The virus weakens a person’s ability to fight infections and cancer. People with HIV are said to have AIDS when they develop certain infections or cancers or when their CD4 count is less than 200. CD4 […]
