Discover ways to live a healthy life with HIV beyond keeping track of your CD4⁺ T-cells and viral load. Explore tips that may help you with your health, nutrition, exercise, sexual health, and more.
Discover ways to live a healthy life with HIV beyond keeping track of your CD4⁺ T-cells and viral load. Explore tips that may help you with your health, nutrition, exercise, sexual health, and more.
How to stay healthy and live longer with HIV without using antiretroviral drugs When you are responsible for another person's physical needs, your own needs are often neglected. After caring for her spouse, who for ten years suffered from a rare, debilitating disease, Kay Marshall Strom is abl...
Studies show that a 20-year-old, HIV-positive person on antiretroviral therapy can expect to live into their 70s, but the risk of other health issues can affect how long you live with HIV.
Keep a Healthy Body Weight That means working to keep a body mass index (BMI) of between 18 and 25. There are online tools to help you figure out your number. Exercise and a well-balanced diet are the best way to help maintain a good-for-you weight and lower your chances of nonalco...
This article draws on life-history interviews with older (aged 50+) people living with HIV in England to uncover the interpretive practices in which they engaged as they evaluated their own quality of life (QoL). Our paper highlights the distinctive insights that biographical andnarrativeapproaches...
Most NA/AN men with HIV got it from male-to-male sexual contact. Diagnoses of NA/AN women were most often attributed to heterosexual contact. What Are the Treatment Rates for These Communities? With today’s medications (called antiretroviral therapy orART), people with HIV can live healthy,...
there could also be devastating results if people with HIV are discouraged from seeking treatment or from trying to prevent the virus’s spread by taking medication or using condoms; a 2010 study has shown thata belief in denialist rhetoricamong people with HIV is associated with medication re...
这意味着HIV病毒呈阴性者,在接触HIV病原体之前, can take certain ARVs to protect themselves,before they become exposed. 可服用某些抗逆转录病毒 来保护自己。 Here’s where it gets especially interesting: 特别有趣的是: In people with HIV, ARVs can also dramatically reduce HIV transmission. ...
In 1960, the Belgians abandoned the Congo, and the Haitians who made up the bulk of Kinshasa's medical community returned to Haiti. At least one of them took HIV back with them. There, an American-run clinic was paying for blood plasma donations. The clinic's reusable needles helped spre...