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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Learning Center
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Last summer I finally got around to reading Edward Hooper's fascinating work, The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS. First published in 1999, investigative journalist Hooper goes where scientists feared to tread, proposing alternative...
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Today is World AIDS Day and the headlines on all the newswires sadden me tremendously, partly because of the devastating toll this epidemic is taking on women and children around the world, but also because we seem to be losing the battle even on ...
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About a year after her delivery, she returned, complaining of weight loss, increasing fatigue, and persistent yeast infections. By that time, a very clear association between what is now known as human immunodeficiency virus(HIV) and the acquired ...
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome(AIDS) was first recognized in the United States in the summer of 1981. As the epidemiologic pattern of the disease unfolded, it was determined that an infectious agent, transmissible by sexual contact and by blo...
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The good news is- not as many people have AIDS as was previously estimated- UNAIDS reports a decline of 16%, with 33.2 million people infected worldwide. New HIV infections and mortality are declining.
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Tshabalala-Msimang has been condemned by the national and international community for her distrust of anti-retroviral medications(ARV) and her promotion of food to treat the viral illness. She has recommended the virus be treated with lemon, garli...
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Last week I was asked to represent our hospital system at a conference sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control(CDC) regarding Implementation of HIV Screening in Acute Care Settings. Several of the larger hospitals in the southeast were repres...
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Tuberculosis has likely plagued humanity since the origin of our species. In 460 B.C., Hippocrates identified Phthisis(Greek for wasting) as a fatal disease that was most prevalent in the population at that time.
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Researchers have known for years that circumcision significantly reduces the spread of HIV virus in men, and that uncircumcised men are 3 times more likely to contract HIV. Male circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin from the penis.
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