may include an increased amount of fat in the upper back and neck (“buffalo hump”), breast, and around the middle part of your body (trunk). Loss of fat from the legs, arms, and face may also happen. The exact cause and long-term health effects of these conditions are not known....
Furthermore, the focus should be heavily oriented towards long-term well-being, care for multimorbidity and good quality of life. Intense research efforts continue for therapeutic and/or preventive vaccines, novel immunotherapies and a cure. This is a preview of subscription content, access via ...
Director, UCSF-Bay Area Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief, Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine Medical Director, “Ward 86” HIV Clinic, San Francisco General Hospital University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) ...
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And today, as both a medical student and a social media influencer, Regner provides educational resources for people living with HIV, using health campaigns and videos. “Social media provides a new platform and method to translate and communicate important topics about health and increasing health ...
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UKIMWI UNAUA is a term Elizabeth Onyango and others in Kenya know too well. Translated to “HIV kills,” this phrase influenced Onyango’s perception of HIV at a young age — as the messaging around HIV in her country was mostly about death and fear. Growing up, she lost close family...
Bee venom, a traditional medical treatment in some parts of the world, may become crucial to halting the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Bees could hold the key to preventing HIV transmission. Researchers have discovered that bee venom kills the virus while leaving body cells unharmed, which could lead to ...
Porter II:What you just said about women:Tennessee has an aggravated prostitution law—and the term “aggravated prostitution” is absurd—but essentially what’s at play here is that if a woman is prosecuted for sex work and she’s living with HIV, this is a case where one of those enha...
HT cells continuously produce virus after parental cells are repeatedly exposed to concentrated cell culture fluids harvested from short-term culture T-cells grown in TCGF that originated from patients with LAS or AIDS. In addition, there are several other T or pre-T human cell lines, such as...