HIV Probably Won’t Kill You, but Smoking Will
By vice.com HIV-positive people smoke at more than twice the rate of the general population. Doctors say smoking now presents...
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People Living With HIV Have Higher Risk of First and Second Primary Cancer Incidence
By ajmc.com A new study has found that people living with HIV are at an increased risk of both...
People living with HIV underestimate the harm of smoking
By aidsmap.com People with HIV in Denmark who smoke greatly underestimate the impact of smoking on life expectancy, a study...
Combination Therapy Targets Latent Reservoir of HIV
By medicalxpress.com With more than 35 million people worldwide living with the virus and nearly 2 million new cases...
Where Did HIV Come From?
By redorbit.com The origin of HIV has been a topic for debate and scientific research for many years since the...
Polypharmacy Prevalence Trends in HIV-Positive Men in the United States
By infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com While polypharmacy is expected to be prevalent in men who are HIV-positive, researchers have found that polypharmacy prevalence...
How Does HIV Affect the Body?
By healthline.com What effect does HIV have on the body? HIV attacks a specific type of immune system cell in...
CD4 vs. Viral Load: What’s in a Number?
By healthline.com CD4 count and viral load If someone has received an HIV diagnosis, there are two things they’ll want...
What’s the Connection Between Viral Load and Risk of HIV Transmission?
By healthline.com Overview The viral load is the level of HIV in the blood. HIV-negative people have no viral load....
Researchers Look at CAR-T Treatments for HIV
By healthline.com A new treatment that has shown promise in defeating cancer might eventually also be effective in battling the...
Interrupting HIV treatments in hope of finding a cure
By healthline.com It might seem counterintuitive for a person living with HIV to stop their treatments. However, a new study...
The FDA Just Approved Two HIV Drugs: Will This Change Treatment?
By healthline.com Late last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two new medications to help treat HIV-1, the...
Global Burden of HIV-Related CVD Has Tripled Over Two Decades
By tctmd.com People with HIV are more than twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those without the virus,...
Ageing with HIV: ‘Stigma will kill you before the disease’
By abc.net.au Peter (not his real name) has been keeping his HIV diagnosis a secret for more than three decades....
Eplerenone May Improve Cardiovascular Disease Risk in HIV
By infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com A treatment approach targeting mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) blockade may improve select parameters related to inflammation, lipids, and ectopic...