The term "bareback sex" grew to popularity during the AIDS epidemic to refer to HIV-positive men who had unprotected anal sex with other HIV-positive men.
If you’re at a high risk for HIV, your doctor can prescribe a daily medication called pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to lower your chances of getting it. You still need to use condoms to protect yourself from other STIs. If you have unprotected anal sex for any reason, you can takep...
Much of the reason that HIV infection risk is greater for women is due to anatomy. Tissues in the vagina are more easily infected than those in a man's penis.6A woman is the receiving partner of fluids that are more likely to cause infection. Social factors also may place women at a g...
The objective was to determine whether optimism about highly active antiretroviral therapy is associated with sexual risk behavior among young adult HIV-ne... DM Huebner,GM Rebchook,SM Kegeles - 《Jaids Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes》 被引量: 89发表: 2004年 Facilitators and barr...
What Is PrEP? Technically, PrEP stands for pre-exposure prophylaxis, which is a term used to describe the strategy of taking HIV medication to prevent an infection. PrEP is not a vaccine—that is, it’s not a one-time shot that makes you immune to HIV for the rest of your life. (No...
The standard treatment for HIV is antiretroviral therapy (ART). This therapy involves a combination of medicines to slow down the virus’s progression in a person’s body. Although ART does not eliminate HIV, it can control it and help people with HIV live longer healthier lives. It also re...
Breastfeeding is also known to be a way of transmitting HIV. However, if the mother is treated with antiretroviral therapy during the stage of pregnancy and HIV medications are given to the newborn, then it would reduce the risk of transmission significantly. ...
If you’re HIV positive, start treatment right away. If you have HIV, you can take a combo of drugs known as antiretroviraltherapy(ART). Taking this medication every day should help keep you healthy for many years. The key is to start treatment as soon as possible and stick with it. ...
What Roles Do HIV Treatment Specialists Play in Expanding Safe and Effective Delivery of PrEP to Uninfected Populations?TBD, Speaker
Until we have a cure for HIV, the foundation of keeping the virus at bay and living your best life is taking antiretroviral therapy. A lot has changed since the early days of HIV medications in the 1990s; antiretrovirals now are more powerful, safer, and easier to take than they’ve ever...