Archive for 'HIV & AIDS' Category
HIV/ AIDS: A Burden To The Society- Philadelphia
HIV/AIDS, through its direct impact on the human body, paralyses the physical condition, psychological morbidity and destroys social value. It also wipe out three things, such as it affects adults in their productive prime period, severely hampers economic growth of person, and hampers his family, at last by rotation; and, thus, it causes severe set [...]
Opinions: Bridging The Divide To Stop The Spread Of HIV; Ending Future World Hunger
“With less than half the people who need treatment having access and with each day more people becoming infected with HIV than are started on treatment, we are mortgaging our future. But we are also exposing a fundamental social injustice – between the privileged and the forsaken – a divide we can bridge,” Michael Sidibe, [...]
Use Of Antiretrovirals Increases Among African Pregnant Women, Children With HIV/AIDS, U.N. Report Says
The number of HIV-positive pregnant women taking antiretroviral drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission increased in parts of Africa in 2008 to more than 50% of those in need of the medications, according to the United Nations’ 2009 progress report on HIV/AIDS, the Boston Globe reports. The report found that the number of people tested for [...]
Advanced Liquid Logic Receives $5.2 Million NIH Contract For HIV Diagnostics
Advanced Liquid Logic announced that it has received a large, four-year contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, for the development of a rapid, point-of-care, diagnostic device for the detection of HIV in low resource settings.
Advanced Liquid Logic co-founder and the HIV study’s Principal Investigator [...]
General Overview
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HIV test
HIV tests are used to detect the presence of the human immunodeficiency virus in serum, plasma, saliva, or urine.
Such tests may detect HIV antibodies, antigens, or RNA.
In the United States, a number of HIV test kits have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for diagnosis, prognostic determination, patient monitoring, and screening of blood [...]
HIV AIDS
HIV
HIV steht für die englische Bezeichnung “Human Immunodeficiency Virus” [...]
WHAT DOES “AIDS” MEAN?
WHAT DOES “AIDS” MEAN?
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome:
Acquired means you can get infected with it;
Immune Deficiency means a weakness in the body’s system that fights diseases.
Syndrome means a group of health problems that make up a disease.
AIDS is caused by a virus called HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. If you get infected with [...]
What is HIV AIDS?
What is HIV AIDS?
To answer the question what is HIV AIDS, we have to start early in the epidemic. In 1985, scientists discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and with it the question what is aids was answered. HIV is a virus that is transmitted from person to person through the exchange of body fluids [...]