Traditional African Medicine: Herbalism, Spirituality and Treating HIV/AIDS

Throughout Africa, there are more traditional healers than trained medical practitioners, ...

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This might sound paranoid and crazy, but I have heard of HIV risks coming from french kissing. Should I get tested since I don't know the status of the other person? Thanks!
By Anonymous on February 12, 2012 - 11:26pm
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This might sound paranoid and crazy, but I have heard of HIV risks coming from french kissing. Should I get tested since I don't know the status of the other person? Thanks!
By Anonymous on February 12, 2012 - 11:26pm
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This might sound paranoid and crazy, but I have heard of HIV risks coming from french kissing. Should I get tested since I don't know the status of the other person? Thanks!
By Anonymous on February 12, 2012 - 11:25pm
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Microsoft chairman and philanthropist Bill Gates pledged a further $750 million to the troubled global AIDS fund on Thursday and urged governments to ...

Bill Gates injects $750 million into troubled AIDS fund
on January 26, 2012 - 7:29am
CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental vaccine helped protect monkeys from an especially deadly form of the AIDS virus, raising new hope for an effective vaccine in people, U.S.

Study in monkeys raises hope for HIV vaccines
on January 4, 2012 - 1:38pm
MOSCOW (Reuters) - In 2010, President Dmitry Medvedev said heroin was a threat to Russia's national security.

Insight: Russia says no to West's way with HIV
on December 21, 2011 - 12:50pm
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Tuberculosis is the infection most likely to cause death in HIV patients, according to a series of articles in the October 20, 2011 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

HIV Patients with Tuberculosis: When to Start Antiretroviral Drugs
By Linda Fugate PhD HERWriter on December 8, 2011 - 8:16am
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The fight against AIDS risks being set back years by a global financial crisis, the head of the United Nations campaign against the disease warned Wednesday.

Taxes could fill AIDS funding crunch: U.N.
on December 7, 2011 - 8:25am
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Voters in the city of Los Angeles, home to the nation's porn industry, could be asked next year whether condoms should be required in adult film shoots to cut ...

AIDS group seeks L.A. referendum on porn condom use
on December 6, 2011 - 6:47am
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Teenagers in Asia receiving treatment for HIV are showing early signs of osteoporosis and children as young as five are becoming resistant to AIDS drugs, an ...

Children with HIV in Asia resistant to AIDS drugs
on December 1, 2011 - 9:15am

Definition

HIV is a virus that attacks white blood cells called helper T cells (CD4). These cells are part of the immune system. They fight off infections and disease. As a result, an HIV infection can leave you vulnerable to severe illnesses.

AIDS is a late stage of HIV. It reflects severe damage to the immune system. An opportunistic infection will also exist. This is a type of infection that only occurs in people with compromised immune systems.