How can the spread of an infectious disease be reduced? How can a vaccine help prevent an infectious disease? How did AIDS spread from monkeys to humans? What is considered an undetectable viral load for HIV? How long can HIV survive outside the human body?
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-024-04478-w Share this article Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:Get shareable link Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative Keywords HIV/AIDS WLHIV Labor participation Exclusive breastfeedingUse...
Individuals who have achieved an undetectable level of viral RNA do not transmit their HIV to sexual and injection partners. These observations have been the basis of the concept of “treatment as prevention”,41., 42., 43. the idea that if all infected individuals in the community can be ...
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We thank the NIH AIDS Research and Reference Reagent Program for TZM-bl cells. This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH), Vaccine Research Center of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH),...
The best way to avoid a diagnosis of AIDS is to start antiretroviral therapy. This involves two or more drugs used in combination that block stages in the virus' life cycle. By doing so, the virus cannot make copies of itself, and the viral population can be reduced to undetectable levels...
In fact, according to research from the University of California at San Francisco's Centers for AIDS Prevention Studies, the probability of HIV infection through unprotected oral sex is statistically zero. However, the researchers explained that they “cannot rule out the possibility that the probabil...
In just a few decades, the virus has gone from a fearsome diagnosis culminating inAIDSand likely death to a treatable infection. And while cases of HIV have decreased overall in the past decade, 13- to 24-year-olds are seeing a climb in HIV infection rates that has health officials concer...
Memory is readily demonstrated in children in whom vaccine-induced Hib antibody titers have fallen to undetectable levels35. However, immune memory is also evidenced in children with invasive Hib disease, indicating that it may not be sufficient to protect against severe disease36. This discrepancy ...