Where once people shunned any contact with an HIV-positive person for fear of transmission from the slightest touch, now it's possible to have a sexual relationship with an HIV-positive partner without transmitting the virus, provided those treatment and viral load conditions are met. "This has ...
Gathering insights from people living with HIV can guide health-care providers to improve services. The Positive Perspectives study, produced by ViiV Healthcare, a pharmaceutical company focused on the development of new medicines for the treatment and prevention of HIV, compiled patient-reported data ...
Lower odds of condom use were among participants with an HIV-positive partner (OR=0.36, 95% CI=0.180.73), those who experienced recent stigma (OR=0.55, 95% CI=0.311.00), who drank at least 1 day per month (OR=0.43, 95% CI=0.220.84) and females (OR=0.41, 95% CI=0.200.84). ...
Motivator. Partner. Samantha has lived with HIV for 13 years and is the manager of HIV charity, Body Positive. She has gone from self-stigma to self-advocacy and is helping others do the same. Explore her experiences as a woman living with HIV and discover how community support could help...
We partner in research, in access and with the community because we believe that we are stronger together when it comes to working towards the UN target of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030.[1]A thriving quality of life Focusing on quality of life could help people living with HIV to thriv...
Ethiopia; 3Midwifery, Debre Markos University, Debre Markos, Ethiopia; 4Midwifery, Debreberhan University, Debreberhan, Ethiopia Objective: This study aimed to assess rate of HIV seroconversion and predictors among seronegative male partners living with HIV-positive women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2019...
An HIV-positive person with untreated STDs (such as herpes, gonorrhea, and syphilis), is more likely to transmit HIV. This is because STDs increase the amount of HIV virus in genital fluids and make the HIV-positive partner more infectious. Similarly, an HIV-negative partner with untreated ST...
(PEP), she added. It is up to the couple to decide whether to use condoms when the partner living with HIV has an undetectable viral load. The women in the video recounted different experiences with that issue, but as Jones put it, "U=U has greatly reduced my stress" about ...
Life is still going on: reproductive intentions among HIV positive women and men in South Africa. Soc Sci Med. 2007;65:274–83. PubMed Google Scholar Adilo TM, Wordofa HM. Prevalence of fertility desire and its associated factors among 15- to 49-year-old people living with HIV/AIDS ...
The risk of HIV transmission from seropositive partner to seronegative partner in a discordant couple is poorly controlled. Seronegative partners in discordant a couple can be seropositive at any time with influence of predictors unless proper protective measures, counseling, and follow-up are given...