Thursday, March 4, 2010

suppose tested HIV positve after long time treatment appears HIV negetive is he free from HIV/AIDS

suppose tested HIV positve after long time treatment appears HIV negetive is he free from HIV/AIDS?
People living with HIV/AIDS who are using A RVs for certain period after rechecked if appears HIV test negative can we say the man is free from HIV/AIDS? Please help me know and alleviate my my concern.
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1 :
It's a good sign, but I think it's impossible to be cured. Sorry.
2 :
Don't get your hopes too high, last I heard there was still no cure.
3 :
Once a person has HIV/AIDS that person is eventually going to die from this horrible disease. THERE IS NO CURE! Once you have it that's it! I think whatever doctor your friend is seeing, is incompetent if he/she has told your friend that the disease is no longer detectable in their body!
4 :
Everyone else's response is correct in the fact that HIV is incurable. However, although this individual may be coming up with an HIV negative test, he still has the disease. To explain the anomaly in positive vs. negative tests, it all has to do with how HIV works against the body and the body's production of white blood cells. 6 months or so after the initial infection, the body's WBC count will be extremely high. This is why many doctors will wait to test you if you think you have contracted the disease, since by this 6 month time frame your body will have reacted enough to start fighting the virus. Over time the body's WBC count will drop and the disease itself will seem to be in remission. However, during this time HIV is destroying the immune system slowly. As your immune system weakens you will eventually develop AIDS since your immune system has been run down so severely. Usually people die from AIDS-complicated illnesses such as pneumonia or influenza. Sorry this was lengthly, but I hope this helps!
5 :
interesting question. take the case of magic johnson. once he knew he tested positive, he immediately started taking the "cocktail" drugs. now 15 years later when he tests for hiv his results are "negative". let me explain, his doctors believe that johnson STILL has hiv and have advised him to continue his medication. they think the disease is dormant. nobody is suggesting that johnson stop taking his medicine just because he no longer tests positive. the johnson case seems to suggest that if hiv is treated properly (the guy gets the best medical treatment) then hiv is no longer an immediate death sentence, but a long term, manageable disease. i am not a doctor, and i am only passing on information from an article i read years ago. the moral of this story is always the same: condoms.
6 :
Sorry hun, but short of a miraculous healing from God, HIV is a death sentence. Once you get it, that's it; you're positive once and for all.
7 :
With medications ones viral load can be reduced to undectable levels. This is a very good thing, but it does not constitute a cure. There is no cure, yet.
8 :
People that are HIV+ don't get cured. HIV does not go away, but it might be that his viral load is so low that it will not be picked up on a HIV test. It just means that the meds are doing their job. But it does not mean he is cured.

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