The family is now prepared to live well with Alzheimer’s disease.Do you know someone living with Alzheimer’s? Are they living or living well?Sources: Caregiving Requires Compassion and Strength -- For Yourself Too. EmpowHer.com. Retrieved May 17, 2015. https://www.empowher.com/caregiving...
If taken daily as prescribed, ART works so well that the tests can’t find HIV in yourblood. Doctors call this an undetectable viral load. That means you can’t infect anyone with HIV through sex. It may take 6 months for ART to lower your viral load enough to make unprotected sex sa...
Today, thanks to the tireless efforts of researchers and advocates and remarkable advancements in treatments, people with HIV can live long, healthy lives with the help of consistent antiretroviral therapy. That said, young people and other high-risk populations continue to contract HIV. For example...
Trogarzo (ibalizumab-uiyk) was studied in a clinical trial of 40 multidrug-resistant (MDR) HIV-1 infection patients with high HIV virus levels. These patients had already received multiple other HIV treatments (some patients had received 10 or more). Most patients (33 of the 40 patients, ...
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 36.7 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2016. BigFive Images/Getty Images More than a century ago in Cameroon, around 1908 to be a bit more precise, a hunter brought down a chimpanzee with a well-aimed arrow. While...
Fungal infections such as thrush or pneumocystis pneumonia, treated with antifungal meds Parasitic infections such as toxoplasmosis, which may require long-term treatment in people with HIV If you don’t feel well with your regular medications or you have trouble keeping up with doses, talk to yo...
Vitamin D can modulate the innate and adaptive immune responses, and a vitamin D deficiency is associated with increased autoimmunity as well as an increased susceptibility to infection. Research proves that vitamin D works to maintain tolerance and promote protective immunity. There have been multiple...
Have diabetes, HIV, or a weak immune system Have TB or have been in close contact with someone who has had TB Were born in, lived in, or traveled to countries where there is more risk for getting TB. Ask your healthcare provider if you are not sure Live, have lived in, or traveled...
This is a great way to get in protein. Cottage cheese is another thing to add with plenty of protein. My boys love to add peanut butter to theirs, another great protein source. I hope this will be helpful and that others will have some ideas for you as well. ~Mama to Many~ Reply...
The poverty income threshold for a family of four with two children under the age of 18 was $29,678 per year. For two people over age 65 with no children under 18, the poverty threshold was $17,689 per year.5 Poverty thresholds, as well as the number of children under the age of ...