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  • What about HIV positive?†   (source)
  • "The number of nucleotide base pairs that deal specifically with HIV in my vaccine," she said.†   (source)
  • Someone without HIV would have a normal T cell count of a thousand cells or more, but the virus becomes part of these white blood cells.†   (source)
  • Recently I received in the mail a handwritten pamphlet outlining the spread of HIV by the FBI.†   (source)
  • HIV, HIV, WHICH LEADS TO AIDS.†   (source)
  • Retroviruses actually referred to a particular class of virus, the HIV virus being the most well known, that were simple chunks of DNA or RNA.†   (source)
  • But in spite of his HIV infection, Joe's immune system was still mostly intact.†   (source)
  • She was in charge of the United Nations' project on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, for the Caribbean.†   (source)
  • But treating and preventing HIV would also mean treating and preventing tuberculosis.†   (source)
  • Two hundred women were involved, half infected with HIV, half not.†   (source)
  • "A woman in Cange said to me, 'You want to stop HIV in women?†   (source)
  • "I'd like to have an HIV home where I could go to …."†   (source)
  • Only five children had caught HIV from their mothers, and all those children were still alive.†   (source)
  • "One speech is for clinicians, how to deal with HIV and tb coinfection," he said.†   (source)
  • Farmer picked it up and said, "HIV central.†   (source)
  • Because you're not losing weight on account of HIV, I bet.†   (source)
  • Partners In Health had financed a movie about HIV.†   (source)
  • He had met a woman who had also lost her family, and who had been raped by an HIV-positive soldier.†   (source)
  • It also tipped because HIV itself changed.†   (source)
  • "Do you know the number of nucleotide base pairs for HIV?" he asked.†   (source)
  • HIV causes cognitive impairment—a permanent loss of memory and concentration.†   (source)
  • I guess I might as well face it and use the word HIV.†   (source)
  • Every other villager would immediately realize that they were HIV-positive and would ostracize them.†   (source)
  • The emergence of HIV was subtle: it incubates for years in a human host before it kills the host.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure my wife doesn't have HIV," he said dismissively.†   (source)
  • Actually, Dr. S. doesn't even call it HIV anymore; he calls it AIDS.†   (source)
  • You don't need to wear a biohazard space suit while handling blood infected with HIV.†   (source)
  • The number of nucleotide base pairs in the HIV vaccine.†   (source)
  • They defeated HIV, purged it from their bodies, and went on to live healthy lives.†   (source)
  • The women were also given the chance to take HIV tests, and Goretti tested negative.†   (source)
  • Did HIV crash into the human race as a result of the monkey trade?†   (source)
  • That cell turns into a major virus factory, churning out copies of the HIV invader.†   (source)
  • Half an hour later, they handed her a slip of paper: The test was positive for HIV.†   (source)
  • Dr. S. says my HIV is progressing soooo much faster because of my lowered immune system.†   (source)
  • And this time, incredibly, the result came back: HIV negative.†   (source)
  • No. 1: HIV is carried almost exclusively through blood and semen.†   (source)
  • I wonder if they wonder if they might have HIV too.†   (source)
  • Testing for HIV should become routine, requiring people to opt out instead of to opt in.†   (source)
  • HIV is not a fragile virus and can live up to seven days in body fluids.†   (source)
  • Then he slowly tells me that my blood samples have come back, and I have …. the HIV virus!†   (source)
  • The AIDS virus is called HIV, which means human immunodeficiency virus.†   (source)
  • I'm going to read everything that has ever been written about the HIV virus and full-blown AIDS.†   (source)
  • The AIDS virus is called HIV, which means human immunodeficiency virus.†   (source)
  • People who are infected with HIV can appear healthy for years, while cattle infected with E. coli 0157:H7 show few signs of illness.†   (source)
  • Eventually the suit was dismissed, Axel went on using HeLa for HIV research, and Rifkin's horror-film scenario didn't come true.†   (source)
  • Much like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) responsible for causing AIDS, the E. coli 0157:H7 bacterium is a newly emerged pathogen whose spread has been facilitated by recent social and technological changes.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, a group of researchers—including a molecular biologist named Richard Axel, who would go on to win a Nobel Prize—infected HeLa cells with HIV.†   (source)
  • Normally, HIV can infect only blood cells, but Axel had inserted a specific DNA sequence from a blood cell into HeLa cells, which made it possible for HIV to infect them as well.†   (source)
  • Much like the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) responsible for causing AIDS, the E. coli 0157:H7 bacterium is a newly emerged pathogen whose spread has been facilitated by recent social and technological changes.†   (source)
  • Without those tissues, we would have no tests for diseases like hepatitis and HIV; no vaccines for rabies, smallpox, measles; none of the promising new drugs for leukemia, breast cancer, colon cancer.†   (source)
  • This allowed scientists to determine what was required for HIV to infect a cell—an important step toward understanding the virus, and potentially stopping it.†   (source)
  • Axel responded to the suit by explaining that cells couldn't grow outside of tissue culture and that there was a world of difference between culture contamination and HIV infection.†   (source)
  • Once Axel infected HeLa cells with HIV, Rifkin said, they could infect other cells and expose lab researchers around the world to HIV, "thus increasing the virus' host range and potentially leading to the further hazardous dissemination of the AIDS virus genome."†   (source)
  • Mathematical models predicted widening global catastrophe—100 million HIV infections in the world by the year 2010.†   (source)
  • She's infected with HIV and is here to receive isoniazid prophylaxsis, having also been exposed to tb.†   (source)
  • In Geneva once, I heard several of them refer to their tribe as "tb," in phrases such as "tb and HIV have to work together."†   (source)
  • Because Cuba had acted quickly to clean up its blood supply, only 10 people had contracted HIV from transfusions.†   (source)
  • The other quarantine of HIV patients in Cuba, the Cuban government's, had been conducted in a place called Santiago de las Vegas.†   (source)
  • Of all the infections that can come crowding into a person with HIV disease, tb was the most common worldwide.†   (source)
  • They were caring for more than three thousand HIV patients, and providing antiretrovirals to about 350.†   (source)
  • Farmer asked the audience to remember the days when expert opinion had retailed all sorts of nonsense about who caught HIV and why, the days when to be Haitian was to be part of a "risk group."†   (source)
  • Obviously, domestic service hadn't given them HIV, but it did describe their economic desperation—working for Haiti's elite was rarely pleasant or remunerative.†   (source)
  • In the world, about 40 million people were infected with HIV, and a program that was treating about 125 of those in rural Haiti had somehow acquired great weight.†   (source)
  • He'd tell the story of how, early in the AIDS epidemic in the United States, sociologists and even medical people had hypothesized that HIV had come from Africa to Haiti, then to the United States.†   (source)
  • An estimated 5 percent had HIV.†   (source)
  • They won't eradicate HIV from his body, Farmer explains, but they will take away his symptoms and, if he's lucky, let him live for many years as if he'd never caught the virus.†   (source)
  • Just to enact one part of the plan, just to extend Zanmi Lasante's program for preventing transmission of HIV from mothers to babies, looked as difficult as the nationwide mdr project in Peru, and that project ranked among the most complex health interventions ever undertaken in a poor country.†   (source)
  • When he got back to Boston, he wrote, in an editorial for The New York Times: "I have just returned from a health center in a country at the bottom of the economic heap…… HIV infections are controlled as effectively in an area of Haiti as in Boston, Massachusetts.†   (source)
  • The Global Fund money—$14 million for the central plateau, paid out over five years—would go mainly for anti-HIV drugs and for hiring Haitian health workers and for fixing up the few public clinics that already existed in the region.†   (source)
  • By 2000 the overall rates of HIV infection and deaths from AIDS were dropping in the United States, but infections and deaths had claimed a much larger percentage of the population than in Cuba, and HIV had become mainly a heterosexual disease concentrated among the American poor.†   (source)
  • There were questions from his infectious disease fellow at the Brigham, and from a doctor in Boston who had been consulting him on the care of an indigent HIV patient, and from favorite medical students.†   (source)
  • One time I listened to Farmer give a talk on HIV to a class at the Harvard School of Public Health, and in the midst of reciting data, he mentioned the Haitian phrase "looking for life, destroying life."†   (source)
  • It contained a chapter comparing the two ways in which AIDS had been managed on the island of Cuba—the Cuban approach and the American quarantine of HIV-positive Haitian refugees, conducted in the early nineties on the Guantánamo naval base.†   (source)
  • The likelihood of getting sick increases greatly, though, for those who suffer from malnutrition or various diseases, especially from HIV, itself by now predominantly a disease associated with poverty.†   (source)
  • Cuba, meanwhile, had the lowest per capita incidence of HIV in the Western Hemisphere—its HIV statistics were probably among the most accurate in the world, for the simple reason that, in Cuba, testing wasn't optional and millions had been tested.†   (source)
  • It had launched programs for women's literacy and for the prevention of AIDS, and in its catchment area had reduced the rate of HIV transmission from mothers to babies to 4 percent—about half the current rate in the United States.†   (source)
  • They talked about his HIV.†   (source)
  • Similar to HIV activists.†   (source)
  • HIV-positive.†   (source)
  • He would say, some years later, that he had "faith," then add, "I also have faith in penicillin, rifampin, isoniazid, and the good absorption of the fluoroquinolones, in bench science, clinical trials, scientific progress, that HIV is the cause of every case of AIDS, that the rich oppress the poor, that wealth is flowing in the wrong direction, that this will cause more epidemics and kill millions.†   (source)
  • He and Farmer talked about Joe's regular doctor, whom Joe liked, and about the fact that Joe had taken antiretroviral medicines for his HIV, but only erratically, Joe confessed, and Farmer explained that he might well have acquired resistance to some of those drugs and probably shouldn't risk taking others until he found himself in a position to take them faithfully.†   (source)
  • Luc Montagnier, the man generally credited with discovering the human immunodeficiency virus, was speaking at the conference.†   (source)
  • Currently director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, his research focuses on HIV/AIDS, asthma, allergies, and other ailments.†   (source)
  • I have spent all of my professional life in public service, most of it involved in research, care of patients, and public health policy concerning the HIV-AIDS epidemic.†   (source)
  • …when I looked in dismay at Allie, who was champing at the bit to get back to her oblivion; when I thought about whether Pennsatucky would be able to keep it together and prove herself the good mom that she aspired to be; when I worried about my many friends at Danbury whose health was crushed by hepatitis and HIV; and when I saw in the visiting room how addiction had torn apart the bonds between mothers and their children, I finally understood the true consequences of my own actions.†   (source)
  • It's for fisting," Kim said, and told him how homosexuals sometimes use their fist for anal sex and that it can transmit the HIV virus.†   (source)
  • An autoimmune disease specialist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, he also served as the doctor for HIV/AIDS patients at the state prison and knew all about Lucius and his recovery.†   (source)
  • Raison Pharmaceutical had completed the development of a new airborne super-vaccine engineered to vaccinate against nine primary viruses, including SARS and HIV.†   (source)
  • Crack is known to cause a dramatic increase in the kind of risky sexual behavior that leads to the spread of things like HIV and syphilis.†   (source)
  • HIV vaccine.†   (source)
  • But if something, such as HIV, wipes out our immune system, it becomes so uncontrollable that it can cause a deadly form of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • HIV-I (the other strain) may have jumped into us from chimpanzees—perhaps when hunters butchered chimpanzees.†   (source)
  • The Dutch AIDS researcher Jaap Goudsmit argues that this same kind of dramatic transformation happened with HIV.†   (source)
  • It was also a natural laboratory for rapid virus evolution, and possibly it led to the creation of HIV.†   (source)
  • His infected wife (or girlfriend) could have given birth in a Swedish barrack to a child who was HIV infected but seemingly healthy.†   (source)
  • A strain of simian AIDS virus was recently isolated from a chimpanzee in Gabon, in West Africa, which is, so far, the closest thing to HIV-I that anyone has yet found in the animal kingdom.†   (source)
  • In other words, the strains of HIV that were circulating back in the 1950s were a lot different from the strains of HIV that circulate today.†   (source)
  • It's possible that HIV prevalence among them rose, although it's impossible to be sure because there is no way to test girls in clandestine brothels.†   (source)
  • No one knows for sure, but local doctors think that as many as 30 percent of all men and women of childbearing age who live in the vicinity of Mount Elgon are infected with HIV.†   (source)
  • Between 1995 and 1997, when he was shot dead by an unknown assailant, he slept with at least 100 women and — it turned out later — infected at least 30 of them with HIV.†   (source)
  • Sunitha arranged for Abbas to be tested for HIV; she tested positive, so Sunitha is trying to find her an HIV-positive man to marry.†   (source)
  • It mutates even in the course of one infection, and a person who dies of HIV is usually infected with multiple strains, which have all arisen spontaneously as mutants in the body.†   (source)
  • Teenage girls, for example, often become the baubles of middle-aged men, and so HIV spreads relentlessly.†   (source)
  • Monet came into the country in the summer of 1979, around the time that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes AIDS, made a final breakout from the rain forests of central Africa and began its long burn through the human race.†   (source)
  • In principle, needle exchange sounds like a good way to fight AIDS, since the reuse of old HIV-infected needles is responsible for so much of the virus's spread.†   (source)
  • For example, HIV-2 (one of the two major strains of Fin') may be a mutant virus that jumped into us from an African monkey known as the sooty mangabey, perhaps when monkey hunters or trappers touched bloody tissue.†   (source)
  • Goudsmit thinks that this was an early HIV epidemic, and that somehow the virus got into the hospital, and was spread from child to child by the then, apparently common, practice of using the same needles over and over again for blood transfusions or injections of antibiotics.†   (source)
  • 8 percent of American adults are infected with HIV, compared to 6 percent of adults in sub-Saharan Africa.†   (source)
  • The Law of the Pew says the answer is that one of these exceptional people found out about the trend, and through social connections and energy and enthusiasm and personality spread the word about Hush Puppies just as people like Gactan Dugas and Nushawn Williams were able to spread HIV.†   (source)
  • "You should both check your HIV status before the birth," Nick suggested, in what he hoped was a casual tone.†   (source)
  • Monet came into the country in the summer of 1979, around the time that the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, which causes AIDS, made a final breakout from the rain forests of central Africa and began its long burn through the human race.†   (source)
  • In rural Cambodia, an HIV diagnosis felt like a death sentence, and Neth didn't think she had long to live.†   (source)
  • Oh well, I've always been kind of a sickly kid …. but how come some people have lots of years before the HIV virus turns to full-blown AIDS?†   (source)
  • It works like this: When the HIV virus enters your body, it invades a cell that is part of your immune system.†   (source)
  • Visiting nurses provide health education, teaching the women when to take children for vaccinations, how to detect STDs, and how to avoid HIV.†   (source)
  • Abbas now works in this shelter and is trying to find a man who is HIV positive, as she is, to marry.†   (source)
  • I guess that's important because they don't know which victims have the HIV virus or hepatitis, and there are lots of bloody situations.†   (source)
  • They should explain that condoms can dramatically reduce the risk of HIV transmission, and they should demonstrate how to use condoms properly.†   (source)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that, to date, "At least 10 to 12 million adults have been infected with HIV."†   (source)
  • Dr. S. says that lots of people who are HIV positive feel pretty good for five or six or even seven years, but because of my low immune system to begin with, I've got an infection in my eyes that just doesn't seem to want to clear up.†   (source)
  • For any given unprotected sexual relationship with an infected person, Africans are four or five times more likely to get HIV themselves.†   (source)
  • But to take that route, Neth would have to tell Sothea that she was HIV positive and had contracted the disease as a prostitute.†   (source)
  • While HIV prevalence is low in India, prostitutes are at particular risk because of their large number of customers.†   (source)
  • The studies suggest that the result is more pregnancies, more abortions, more sexually transmitted diseases, and more HIV.†   (source)
  • In the Netherlands, legalization has facilitated health checkups for women in the legal brothels, but there's no evidence that sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) or HIV has declined.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the contrast with Mumbai was misleading, because southern and western India had always had far higher HIV rates than northern and eastern India.†   (source)
  • Even simple interventions, such as stopping mother-to-child transmission of HIV in childbirth, are more difficult to get right than anyone sitting in an armchair in America might imagine.†   (source)
  • For example, it's crucial to fund the development of vaginal microbicides, creams that women could apply to protect themselves from HIV without their partners knowing.†   (source)
  • A key element was to nurture a union of sex workers, Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC), which would encourage condom use and thus reduce the spread of HIV through prostitution.†   (source)
  • 6 percent of Sonagachi sex workers were infected with HIV, compared to about 50 percent in Mumbai (the city formerly known as Bombay), where there was no sex workers' union.†   (source)
  • The boys were more likely to use condoms--apparently because they were shaken by learning from the school presentation that teenage girls were much more likely than teenage boys to have HIV.†   (source)
  • If a pregnant woman takes a drug called nevirapine before childbirth and does not breast-feed afterward, she can drastically reduce the risk of infecting her child with HIV.†   (source)
  • HIV is a special problem for women, in part because of biology: Women are about twice as likely to be infected during heterosexual sex with an HIV-positive partner as men are.†   (source)
  • Neth told him that she had worked in Poipet and was friends with an American journalist, but she balked at acknowledging that she had been a prostitute--or that she had tested positive for HIV.†   (source)
  • Schoolchildren were shown a brief video of the dangers of teenage girls going out with older men, and then were informed that older men have much higher HIV infection rates than boys.†   (source)
  • Governments should encourage male circumcision, which reduces HIV risk significantly, and should encourage free screening and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.†   (source)
  • Public health experts widely acknowledge that one of the most cost-effective ways to treat HIV is to provide free checkups and treatment for such STDs.†   (source)
  • Sudan also blocked aid groups from bringing into Darfur postexposure prophylaxis kits, which can greatly reduce the risk that a rape victim will be infected with HIV.†   (source)
  • Indeed, at the time the Sonagachi Project began in Kolkata, HIV prevalence among sex workers in Mumbai was already 51 percent and in Kolkata 1 percent, according to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health.†   (source)
  • That is untrue, and evidence from discordant couples (where one partner has HIV and the other doesn't) suggests that condoms are quite effective in preventing AIDS, albeit not as effective as abstinence.†   (source)
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