HIV counsellors and health care workers should ensure that their clients/patients are aware that blood viral load is not necessarily equivalent to genital tract viral load and that the development of drug resistance within the two compartments may be unrelated. This is an important factor in ...
“No one has ever told me, ‘Oh, by the way, we're going to go ahead and test for HIV, but let us know if you don't want to’ and then gave me the opportunity to have informed refusal,” she revealed. “But I know I'm getting tested for HIV because I see my LabCorp...
Many of the tools that were developed to understand HIV and the infrastructure around them have been critical for exploring many other viral diseases including Hepatitis C, flu, and coronavirus. For example: The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were derived from experimental vaccines strategies originally desig...
Clinical Implications:HbCrAg levels correlate with the phase of HBV infection and can provide clues about immune responses. cDNA levels are critical for assessing the long-term viral load and evaluating the risk of viral rebound after cessation of therapy. Therapeutic Monitoring:While HbCrAg ...
and available treatments. Terms like "antiretroviral therapy" (ART), which refers to a combination of drugs used to suppress HIV replication, and "undetectable viral load," which signifies that the virus is at such low levels in the body that it cannot be transmitted sexually, are fundamental ...
Standard HIV RNA viral loads tests usually can measure down to 50 or sometimes 20 copies. If your result comes back “not detected” or“undetectable,”your viral load is very low, known as viral suppression. Some tests used for research are more sensitive and can measure down to a single...
Standard HIV RNA viral loads tests usually can measure down to 50 or sometimes 20 copies. If your result comes back “not detected” or“undetectable,”your viral load is very low, known as viral suppression. Some tests used for research are more sensitive and can measure down to a single...
Persons living with HIV (PLWH) are living longer, although racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status (SES) disparities persist. Yet, little is known about the experience of living with and managing HIV over decades. The present study took a qualitative appr
Goodson P, Questioning the HIV-AIDS hypothesis: 30 years of dissent. Frontiers Public Health 2014; 2:154. About the Author Although retired from practice, Dr. John Hardie maintains a thirty-plus-years interest in the discipline of infection control as it relates to dentistry. He has publishe...
We constructed four HIV transmission models: model 1, constant probabilities; model 2, random number of sexual and parenteral acts; model 3, viral load individual assigned; and model 4, two groups of partnerships (low and high risk). Overall, models with less heterogeneity were more sensitive ...