Thursday, February 28, 2013

How long is someone with HIV aids expected to live after diagnoses

How long is someone with HIV aids expected to live after diagnoses?

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HIV: the same as anyone who doesn't have it. AIDS: you have to have HIV first, before you can contract AIDS. Depends on how they respond to treatment. But that's like the terminal section of cancer in HIV.
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There are many factors that determine the life span of someone who is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Everything from treatment options to genetics, both an individuals and a viruses genetics. It is more likely, though, that someone who is properly diagnosed today with HIV only may never develop full blown AIDS, such as is the case with Magic Johnson. He lives with HIV, but has never contracted AIDS. Of course, the best way to treat HIV/AIDS is not to contract the virus in the first place. Have sexual intercourse with one partner ONLY and make sure that that partner is HIV Negative as well. If you're going to shoot up drugs (GOD forbid!) then don't share needles with anyone else. You're much better off preventing HIV infection than trying to treat it.
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it depends on if the HIV is active and depends on how resilient the person's emmune system is.
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If they are in treatment and see a doctor regularly, most of them can expect to live close to a normal life span. I know many HIV patients. Some have died, but some have had the diagnosis for over 20 years and are hanging in there. A lot of it can depend on the virus, but you have control over your lifestyle and your compliance with medical care.
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years ago they would tell you no more then 5 years. I am proof i have been hiv+ for over 6 years. tell your friend to go to www.doeshivlooklikeme.org here there are stories of many young people myself included who share there personel stories.
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okay well u can accually live a normal life with hiv if u cure it fast but if u know but dont cure it u could accually get it into aids and its harder to get it from a female and easyier to get it from a male
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'MEDS' not 'HIV' - The real killer Don't believe what the drugs companies tell you. WITHOUT HAART 'MEDS" “These long-term nonprogressors [Hiv+ people who remained healthy] are a heterogeneous group with respect to viral load and HIV-1 responses…none had been treated with antiretroviral agents.� AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 12: 585 (1996) – Harrer, Thomas, et al, Aids Researchers NOT ONE USED HAART “Subjects: homosexual men in Amsterdam. “None of the LTAs [long-term asymptomatics–people who remained healthy]…received any antiviral drugs during the study [7 years].� “Ten HIV+ people; 11-15 years infected; non-progressors [i.e., healthy]; maintained stable T-cell counts above 500. “These long-term nonprogressors…all showed the same risk factor (sexual exposure), and all had...virus...and none had been treated with antiretroviral agents.� AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses, 12: 585 (1996) – Harrer, Thomas, et al, Aids Researchers Journal of Infectious Diseases, 171:811 (1995) – Hogervorst E, et al, Aids Researchers _________ __________ WITH HAART “…Choosing between many of these [HAART] combinations is, therefore, increasingly dependent upon knowledge of antiretroviral toxicities...[which include] myopathy [gross muscle atrophy] (zidovudine [AZT]), neuropathy (stavudine, didanosine, zalcitabine; hepatic steatosis and lactic acidaemia (didanosine, stavudine, zidovudine); and possible also peripheral lipoatrophy and pancreatitis (didanosine)...drug hypersensitivity... lipodystrophy...[including] peripheral fat loss (Presumed lipoatrophy in the face, limbs and buttocks) and central fat accumulation (within the abdomen, breasts and over the dorsocervical spine [so-called buffalo hump]...[and prevalent in] about 50% [of patients] after 12-18 months of therapy...Metabolic features significantly associated with lipodystrophy and protease-inhibitor therapy include hypertriglyceridaemia, hypercholesterolaemia, insulin resistance...and type 2 ...diabetes mellitus. Dyslipidaemia at concentrations associated with increased cardiovascular disease occurs in about 70% of patients. These metabolic abnormalities are more profound in those receiving protease inhibitors...Most cases of diabetes have been identified in recipients of protease inhibitors...Anemia and granulocytopenia affect about 5-10% of patients who receive zidovudine...Virtually all antiretroviral medications can cause nausea, vomiting, or diarrhoea early in therapy...Diarrhea is probably most common with protease inhibitors...Most antiretroviral agents have been associated with hepatic [liver] toxicity...Most protease inhibitors seem to result in increased rates of spontaneous bleeding (bruising, haemarthrosis, and rarely intracranial haemorrhage) in haemophiliacs... 25-35% of patients cannot tolerate [AZT monotherapy] or triple combination therapy for 4 weeks...� Lancet. 2000 Oct 21;356:1423-0. – Carr A, Cooper DA, Aids Researchers BLINDNESS “This study was conducted to determine the likelihood of the development of [immune recovery vitritis, IRV], which causes vision loss in AIDS patients with cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, who respond to HAART. We followed 30 HAART-responders…Symptomatic IRV developed in 19 (63%) of 30 patients.� J Infect Dis. 1999 Mar;179(3):697-700 CASTLEMAN'S DISEASE “Recently, we observed an unusual cluster of cases of rapidly progressing multicentric Castleman’s disease. Fever, weakness, generalized enlargement of lymph nodes, and marked polyclonal gammopathy developed in three patients with AIDS...Two of these patients died within one week after the diagnosis, with generalized involvement of the lymphatic system, liver, and bone marrow at autopsy. A fourth patient with AIDS who died equally rapidly after the diagnosis of multicentric Castleman’s disease had been seen in our hospital 14 months earlier... symptoms…started after the initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy in these three patients.� N Engl J Med. 1999 Jun 17;340(24):1923-4 – Zietz C, et al, Aids Researchers – Karavellas MP, et al, Aids Researchers DEATH “…Of the 70 patients studied, 84% were still alive after the 3-month study period...17 surviving patients (24%) had HAART regimens discontinued due to drug intolerance and 11 (16%) expired [died] during the study period...� J Pain Symptom Manage. 2001 Jan;21(1):41-51 NERVE DAMAGE “The antiretroviral drugs currently licensed in the United Kingdom [June 1996] are zidovudine (azidothymidine [AZT]), zalcitabine (ddC) and didanosine (ddI). All three are nucleoside analogues...All are very toxic. Suppression of bone marrow elements can occur with any of the three, as can peripheral neuropathy [nerve damage].� Adverse Drug Reaction Bulletin. 1996 Jun;178:675-8. – Ellis C.J., Leung D., Aids researchers “A decrease in mtDNA [DNA of the mitochondria; the energy regulating entities within every cell] content was found in HAART-treated HIV-infected patients with peripheral fat wasting in comparison with subjects in the control cohorts...Lipodystrophy with peripheral fat wasting following treatment with NRTI [Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor]-containing HAART is associated with a decrease in subcutaneous adipose [under the skin fat] tissue.� AIDS. 2001;15:1801-9 – Shikuma CM, Hu N, Milne C, et al, Aids Researchers ‘These drugs are as dangerous as chemotherapy,’ “7 HIV patients presenting LD [Lipodystrophy, all taking antiretroviral therapy] and 5 HIV non-LD controls participated in the study…Structural muscle abnormalities, mitochondrial respiratory chain dysfunction or mtDNA deletions were detected in all HIV lipodystrophic patients. The mitochondrial abnormalities found suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction could play a role in the development of antiretroviral therapy-related lipodystrophy. � AIDS. 2001 Sep 7;15(13):1643-51 – Zaera MG, et al, Aids Researchers “Combination drug therapy, or the triple-drug ‘cocktail’…often provokes severe side effects… ‘These drugs are as dangerous as chemotherapy,’ warned Dr. James Kahn, UCSF associate professor of medicine…� – Science Daily, Sep 4, 2001 SEXUAL DIFFICULTIES - Body distortions “[Chapters in this guide to HIV drugs are entitled Introduction, Appetite loss, Body distortions (lipodystrophy), Bone death and destruction, Cardiac concerns, Diarrhea, Fatigue, Gas and bloating, Hair loss, Headaches, Insulin resistance and diabetes, Kidney stones, Liver toxicity, Muscle aches and pains, Nausea and vomiting, Nightmares, daymares and sleeping difficulties, Pancreatitis, Peripheral neuropathy, Skin problems, Sexual difficulties, The end]� – A Practical Guide to HIV Drug Side Effects, CATIE, 2002 HEART ATTACKS “Use of protease inhibitors was strongly associated with the likelihood of having a myocardial infarction [heart attack] and correlated with diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidaemia.� Lancet. 2002 Nov 30;360(9347) – Holmberg SD, et al, Aids Researchers
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A person with hiv or aids can live a long and ful life as long as they eat well , avoid drugs and alcohol, and is on meds when needed



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:23 PM

Sunday, February 24, 2013

risk of getting hiv/aids by sharing a toilet with someone who has it

risk of getting hiv/aids by sharing a toilet with someone who has it?
i had a mosquito bite on my bum and i itched it so it turned into a scab and was red, but it wasnt bleeding. I shared a toilet with someone who has aids. There was no blood or urine or anything on the toilet seat. Whats the risk of catching it? what if it did have urine on it? Just curious?
Infectious Diseases - 7 Answers
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There is no risk of catching it that way.
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Very very unlikely. As you say... there would need to be blood, semen, etc on the toilet seat for there to be any risk, and even then, it would have had to be there a very short amount of time, as the virus can't survive long on such a surface.
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no there isnt any risk unless the seat had any of the things you listed so you should be fine
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It is HIGHLY unlikely that you could have caught aids. I mean, if you have ever sat on a public toilet, anyone who sat on it before you could have had aids too
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There is no risk of catching HIV from a toilet seat.
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nope not at all unless you have sex with this person on the toilet
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Getting AIDS/HIV from a toilet seat is almost 0%. Even if there is urine or BM on the seat-unless there is visible blood in them. Once HIV hits the air, it dies rather quickly. In addition, a significant amount of blood would have to be present in order to penetrate your scabbed area. Don't worry and relax! If you are concerned, it certainly would not hurt to get a routine HIV test in a few months.



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:22 PM

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

I have started a Matrimonial site for Physically Challenged and HIV/AIDS infected peoplelat

I have started a Matrimonial site for Physically Challenged and HIV/AIDS infected people?
I have started a Matrimonial site for Physically Challenged and HIV/AIDS infected people, www.lagansathi.com, do you think it is a good idea. I want to bring light in to their lives. What is your opinion? (Open site in Internet Explorer only)
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Sounds like a good idea to me. Everyone deserves happiness.



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:21 PM

Saturday, February 16, 2013

what is the symptoms of hiv-aids?and how can you detect or know that you are an aids victim

what is the symptoms of hiv-aids?and how can you detect or know that you are an aids victim?
and where does aid come from and how it transfer from one another?
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there is no symptom. you need to see a doctor or health agency for a test.
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WARNING: Do not use Yahoo! Answers as a medical diagnosis tool. Always consult your doctor. Within 7-10 days of intially being infected with HIV, most individuals (80 to 90 %) develop an acute syndrome characterised by flu-like symptoms of fever, malaise, lymphadenopathy, pharyngitis, headache, myalgia, and sometimes a rash (Kahn and Walker, 1998). Within an average of three weeks after transmission of HIV-1, a broad HIV-1 specific immune response occurs that includes seroconversion. Because of the nonspecific nature of these illnesses, it is often not recognized as a sign of HIV infection. Even if patients go to their doctors or a hospital, they will often be misdiagnosed as having one of the more common infectious diseases with the same symptoms. Since not all patients develop it, and since the same symptoms can be caused by many other common diseases, it cannot be used as an indicator of HIV infection. However, recognizing the syndrome is important because the patient is much more infectious during this period. HIV is transmitted various ways: Sexual route. The majority of HIV infections are acquired through unprotected sexual relations. Sexual transmission occurs when there is contact between sexual secretions of one partner with the rectal, genital or mouth mucous membranes of another. The probability of transmission per act is between 1 in 53 to 1 in 10,000 for the case of receptive vaginal sex (Pilcher et al., 2004), 1 in 8000 in the case of insertive vaginal sex, 1 in 1000 in the case of insertive anal sex, and between 1 in 100 to 1 in 30 in the case of receptive anal sex. Blood or blood product route. This transmission route is particularly important for intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs and recipients of blood transfusions and blood products. Health care workers (nurses, laboratory workers, doctors, etc) are also concerned, although more rarely. Also concerned by this route are people who give and receive tattoos and piercings. Mother-to-child route. The transmission of the virus from the mother to the child can occur in utero during the last weeks of pregnancy and at childbirth. Breast feeding also presents a risk of infection for the baby. In the absence of treatment, the transmission rate between the mother and child was 20%. However, where treatment is available, combined with the availability of Cesarian section, this has been reduced to 1%. HIV has been found in the saliva, tears and urine of infected individuals, but due to the low concentration of virus in these biological liquids, the risk is considered to be negligible. AIDS is the most severe manifestation of infection with HIV. Acute HIV infection progresses over time to clinical latent HIV infection and then to early symptomatic HIV infection and later, to AIDS, which is identified on the basis of certain infections. You can get HIV at-home test kits at Walgreen's.



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:19 PM

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

What makes HIV AIDS controversial

What makes HIV AIDS controversial?
In simple words please, as this is for a school project and I need the simplest definition for those that are simple minded.
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its a nasty disease, I don't mean to sound rude but I really wish in the u.s. all ppl with the disease need to registered on an aids registry. No one should be ashamed to have it. Key is prevention of the spread of aids.
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It's controversial because: --A lot of people associate it with homosexuals (typically male) and they are very hateful towards them. --People can assume that just because you have HIV/AIDS, that you're acting like a prostitute and sleeping with many people. --If you have HIV/AIDS and don't tell someone you're having sex with that you do, and they get it, you can be arrested. There are a lot of different reasons why it's controversial--I would suggest not only get opinions from people, but look up stuff from other STD sites and get some facts rather than just a couple opinions here on Answers :>



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:19 PM

Friday, February 8, 2013

Is the Hiv/aids rate in the black community proof of rampant secret homosexuality in the community

Is the Hiv/aids rate in the black community proof of rampant secret homosexuality in the community ?

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No. It's proof that one black man has sex with countless women during his lifetime, so he spreads the disease. Because black men never stick with one woman, especially if they get her pregnant.
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No, wtf? Some ppl just need to learn how to wrap it up..or tuck it back in if they're too cheap to buy a condom....
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No. Don't be a tool.
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OR, it could mean lack of protection..? have a bad day.
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Everyone should know by now that HIV/AIDS is not spread only through homosexuality
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It'z sujjestive dat dey duz a lot of Bomsekz, wiy no rubbrz! Srsly, putz teh rubberjonnyz on, innit?
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of course Cynthia is the 1st to leave her lame ass comment
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That is just an urban myth. "...Recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows infection is fueled mostly by heterosexual men with multiple partners." Essence magazine; February, 2010
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Um no. Hetero sex spread HIV as well.
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Who said there were no black gays?? Nowadays i think black males in USA have caught up with white males as far as being gay what makes it worse for black men being gay is there aren't as many black men in USA as white men...therefore less black children will be made i find it sad, im blessed to have found a good black man... but homosexuality among blacks is not secret. It is in the open, many females just choose to ignore the signs because of desperation for finding a good black man I BELIEVE black women are single because of so many gay black men, not because black men are dating out of their race that is my opinion
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HIV has nothing to do with homosexulaity, it has something to do with no protection. Don't be a fool, wrap your tool.
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HELL NAW!! sum brothaz just 2 lazy 2 use a damm condon wit a sista
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Most likely you patronize the Black community, if you know so much about the homos there.
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I also have issues with HIV. I posted my question on wish123 and got an answer from an expert who solved my problem. Highly recommend the website.



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:18 PM

Monday, February 4, 2013

can i get infected by hiv aids or any other stds if

can i get infected by hiv aids or any other stds if?
1. if i hugg an hiv infected person? 2. share drinks, cigarette, food with an hiv infected person? 3. by kissing an hiv infected person? 4. is it true that hiv virus is so small that it can get pass through pores of condom? so no condom is 100 % safe.
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no to all you get aids from infected blood or semen aka bodily fluids use of a condom is as they say 99% efective in all stds nothing is 100%
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1. No 2. No 3. No 4. No
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No. This is what people used to think back in the '80s during the first few years AIDS had started to become an epidemic.
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1. no 2. no 3. no 4. in some cases yes. no condom is 100% safe from protecting you from HIV. And you can get stds by wearing a condom, bcuz the condom doesn't cover the scrotom, only the head to the shaft. So if person has genital herpes, and you have sex with them regardless if you wear a condom, you will get gential herpes.



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:16 PM

Friday, February 1, 2013

How is HIV/AIDS slowing down the development of LEDCs? (less economically developed countires)

How is HIV/AIDS slowing down the development of LEDCs? (less economically developed countires)?

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When the desease is unchecked you will literally loose a generation or more of the developing people. Children will be born with HIV and vener grow up to contribute to the advancement of their country.pp
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in LEDC's, all money that the government gets is spent on the weakest of areasin the economy. And in LEDC's poor people cant afford condoms and then get infections/diseases and have to go to the hospital/medical service. So more and more money has to go on improving the health services than that could b spent on other areas within the country or city such as creating jobs, new affordable home and education
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There are multiple reasons. In an LEDC with a large HIV/AIDS population, here are some of the problems: 1. Many children are left without parents, or left without highly capable parents, because they are ill. 2. Poor availability of medical care means that HIV/AIDS patients die much faster than in other countries. 3. More people die at a younger age than normal, creating a deficit of highly knowledgeable and well-trained individuals. 4. More money must be diverted to health care, and away from other types of services that are also desperately needed. 5. Focus on helping these countries from more developed countries switches to palliative treatments of the disease, as opposed to aid in other areas. 6. The long incubation period between when a person becomes HIV positive and when a person develops AIDS means that the disease becomes more widely spread more quickly. It also makes containing and controlling the disease more difficult. A country hit by something that kills very quickly suffers significant immediate damage, but then can refocus all of its efforts on rebuilding. A country hit by something like HIV/AIDS has a persistent problem diverting resources and destroying the population for decades.



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Posted by HIV/AIDS at 2:15 PM
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