While most behavioural outcomes are unaffected, individuals assigned to theJIC also report 0.5 fewer sex partners and are more likely to utilise social networks to talk about sexually transmitted infections. Problematically, the intervention also decreased confidence to practice safe sex. Using focus ...
effective at lowering the viral load, or how much virus is in your bloodstream. This is measured by a blood test. Though they do not cure HIV, the drugs can make the viral load almost undetectable, keeping you healthy longer and making it less likely to spread the virus to someone else...
Reading about CPR is helpful, but hands-on training is the best way to learn and build confidence in performing this life-saving skill. While an in-person course provides the most effective training, watching a video demonstration can also be a valuable way to understand the proper technique. ...
Other agents that have been tried for cessation of smoking include serotonin reuptake antagonists (drugsalso used for depression) and the anti-hypertensive drugsclonidine(Catapres) andcalcium channel blockers. Although these agents appear to be less effective than nicotine replacement therapy, they may ...
There are four things you can do to live a long, healthy life if recently diagnosed with HIV: Start treatment early: HIV treatment is most effective when started during the early stages of infection (when yourCD4 countis high). If treatment is delayed and your CD4 count becomes low, you ...
We're learning more about the craving that fuels self-defeating habits—and how new discoveries can help us kick the habit.
Jonas Salk, the virologist who invented the polio vaccine, is one example of an infectious disease physician who introduced a life-saving vaccine. Infectious disease doctors are currently attempting to develop a safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19, the disease ca...
During a large-scale epidemic, basic assumptions about social interaction and, more generally, about social order are disrupted, and, more specifically, they are so by: the fear of others, competing moralities, and the responses to the epidemic. Crucially, all these three elements are created, ...
The resources are there but dispersed, lost into the internet.There is no single knowledge repository that gives a direct look at these best practices, tools, techniques and culture of software testing these companies adopt. This repository intends to do that....
against sexually transmitted infections, with one notable exception. A medication calledPrEP has been shownto be almost as effective as condoms in preventing sexual HIV transmission. Currently, the pill (brand name Truvada) isrecommended by the CDConly for those at high risk of contracting the ...