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Knowledge of HIV and AIDS among tertiary students i  
2006-2007 - International quarterly of community health education
Hossain MB, Kabir A, Ferdous H
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. bellal_23@yahoo.com
... said that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man or woman can transmit the HIV virus to a negative man or woman but at the same time 43.6% of students believed that there is a preventive vaccine for HIV and 39.8% understood that HIV can be cured if it is diagnosed early. Multivariate...

A novel approach to HIV therapy: highly active antiretr  
2007 Aug 02 - Medical hypotheses
Pippi F
U.O. Malattie Infettive, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Senese, Policlinico le Scotte, viale Bracci 16, 53100 Siena, Italy. pippi.francesco@libero.it
Although hematopoietic stem cells from man before infection with HIV are unlikely to be available, a successful test on the animal would suggest a new approach which could allow the cure of HIV in future.

Can HIV be Cured? Mechanisms of HIV persistence a  
2004 Apr - Current HIV research
Hamer DH
Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 37, Rm. 60002, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. DeanH@helix.nih.gov
... engineered cytotoxic T lymphocytes or anti-HIV microbes to suppress rekindling of infection by residual virus sequestered in anatomical and cellular reservoirs. Although each of these steps will be difficult to achieve, the many benefits of a cure for HIV make this a worthwhile pursuit.

Oral health-care workers and HIV infection control pra  
2005 Jul - Tropical doctor
Ogunbodede EO, Folayan MO, Adedigba MA
Department of Preventive Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. e_ogunbodede@yahoo.co.uk
... were torn, cut or punctured. Seven (12.1%) did not change gloves between patients' treatment. Conscious efforts should be made to train OHCWS on all aspects of HIV/AIDS prevention and care. It must never be assumed that adequate information will be acquired through tangential sources.

[Quality of life and hostile mentality trend among 299  
2007 May - Zhonghua yu fang yi xue za zhi [Chinese journal of preventive medicine]
Meng YJ, Li NX, Chen JH, Song YC, Qian ZS
Department of Social Medicine, School of Public Health, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
... scales were tested by means of Mann-Whitney test with u value ranged from -17.43 to -23.87. The QOL of the patients living with HIV/AIDS were significantly inferior to those of general population (all P < 0.01). The mean scores of the seven items to evaluate HMT ranged from 46.21 to 82.89....

The rationale of interorganizational linkages to connec  
- Social work in health care
Rier DA, Indyk D
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
... other in order to understand, reach, and engage high-risk, hard-to-reach inner-city residents for prevention, treatment, and management of HIV/AIDS. Not simply a program to link disparate actors, the work has developed into a more fundamental approach through which to build and maintain...

Environmental factors in HIV/AIDS epidemic develop  
2004 Jun - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Alfsen A
U.INSERM: Entrée muqueuse du VIH et Immunité muqueuse, Institut Cochin. Cnrs, Inserm, Université René Descartes, 22 rue Méchain, 75014 Paris, France. alfsen@cochin.inserm.fr
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is increasingly regarded as a socioeconomic problem. Among factors causing poverty, cultural aspects, including religion and traditions, appear to play an essential role in the rapid and global development of AIDS epidemic. AIDS is a pathologic syndrome caused by...

Clinical holistic medicine: a pilot study on HIV and qua  
2004 May 11 - TheScientificWorldJournal
Ventegodt S, Flensborg-Madsen T, Andersen NJ, Morad M, Merrick J
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4-8, DK-1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ventegodt@livskvalitet.org
... improvement of QOL can have sufficient biological effect on the CD4, which could avoid or postpone the development of AIDS. A holistic HIV/AIDS cure improving the QOL draws on hidden resources in the person and is thus affordable for everybody. Improving global QOL also means a higher consciousness...

Clinical holistic medicine: a pilot study on HIV and qua  
2004 May 11 - TheScientificWorldJournal
Ventegodt S, Flensborg-Madsen T, Andersen NJ, Morad M, Merrick J
The Quality of Life Research Center, Teglgårdstraede 4-8, DK-1452 Copenhagen K, Denmark. ventegodt@livskvalitet.org
... nonreceptor-mediated immune system, and thus to give a rationale for a holistic cure for HIV. This cross-sectional population study in Uganda included 20 HIV infected persons with no symptoms of AIDS and a CD4 count above 200 mill./liter. The main outcome measures were CD4 count, global QOL measured...

Voluntary testing for HIV among a sample of Tanzania  
2006 Aug - AIDS care
Kakoko DC, Lugoe WL, Lie GT
University of Bergen, Norway.
... were significantly more likely to have tested for HIV. Teachers who had tested for HIV were significantly less likely: to perceive that it is not necessary to test for HIV in absence of vaccine or cure for HIV/AIDS; to support that only people who suspect that they are HIV infected should...

Unraveling the mystery of HIV medications.  
2006 Jan-Feb - Orthopaedic nursing / National Association of Orthopaedic Nurses
Turkoski BB
Advanced Practice Nursing, Kent State University College of Nursing, Kent, OH, USA.
... immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This retrovirus attacks and renders ineffective the human immune system and leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), which leaves those with AIDS open to a variety of fatal infections. HIV knows no racial, gender, or age distinctions, and there is, as yet,...

Pediatric and adolescent HIV disease.  
2007 May - Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology
Secord E, Cotronei-Cascardo C
CHM-Allergy/Immunology Division, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA. esecord@med.wayne.edu
A shift has occurred in HIV care from treating opportunistic illnesses to promoting adherence and avoiding drug resistance while monitoring medication adverse effects. CONCLUSIONS: Diagnosis and treatment of HIV is a rapidly changing field with frequently changing guidelines. The coming...

HIV and the chemokine system: 10 years later.  
2006 Feb 8 - The EMBO journal
Lusso P
Unit of Human Virology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy. paolo.lusso@hsr.it
... Likewise, the natural history of HIV-1 infection is influenced by specific polymorphisms of chemokine and chemokine-receptor genes. The imminent clinical availability of coreceptor-targeted viral entry inhibitors raises new hope for bridging the gap towards a definitive cure of HIV infection.

Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof-of-c  
2005 Aug 13-19 - Lancet
Lehrman G, Hogue IB, Palmer S, Jennings C, Spina CA, Wiegand A, Landay AL, Coombs RW, Richman DD, Mellors JW, Coffin JM, Bosch RJ, Margolis DM
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 753901, USA.
... intensified HAART safely accelerates clearance of HIV from resting CD4+ T cells in vivo, suggesting a new and practical approach to eliminate HIV infection in this persistent reservoir. This finding, though not definitive, suggests that new approaches will allow the cure of HIV in the future.

Antiretroviral treatment. HIV infection in adults: better-  
2004 Aug - Prescrire international
(1) There is still no cure for HIV infection. The short-term treatment aims are to drive viral load below the current detection limit and to increase the CD4+ T cell count, in order to reduce morbidity and prolong survival. (2) Early initiation of treatment has both advantages and disadvantages....

Attacking HIV provirus: therapeutic strategies to disru  
2006 Dec - Infectious disorders drug targets
Margolis DM, Archin NM
Departments of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7435, USA. dmargo@med.unc.edu
... treatment are currently committed to lifelong suppressive therapy. The persistence of integrated HIV DNA genomes capable of producing virus is a fundamental obstacle to the eradication or cure of HIV infection. Rational molecular or pharmacologic strategies to eliminate persistent HIV proviral...

Living with HIV infection: perceptions of patients with  
2006 Sep-Oct - Culture, health & sexuality
Tarakeshwar N, Krishnan AK, Johnson S, Solomon S, Sikkema K, Merson M
Yale University, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. nalini.tarakeshwar@yale.edu
Although all participants were hopeful about a cure for HIV, women were less positive than men about treatment. Results highlight the importance of a gender-sensitive approach to HIV care, nuanced to accommodate an individual's gender, marital status and social background.

Combination therapy for HIV: towards long term contr  
1998 Jun - Expert opinion on investigational drugs
Conway B, Routy JP, Sékaly RP
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. bconway@hivnet.ubc.ca
The difficulty of curing HIV patients with currently available agents has now been demonstrated and the model of care has returned to the long-term use of antiretroviral therapy. As such, the current minimum standard of care is triple drug therapy, with two nucleoside analogues,along with...

Can HIV be Cured? Mechanisms of HIV persistence a  
2004 Apr - Current HIV research
Hamer DH
Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bldg. 37, Rm. 60002, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. DeanH@helix.nih.gov
Stable remission is the ultimate goal of HIV therapy. A review of recent studies on the ability of HIV to persist despite highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and immune stimulation suggests that achieving this goal will require four developments in basic and clinical science....

Is cure possible for HIV?  
2007 Jan-Jun - AIDS treatment news
Scondras D
The c-word is coming back due to new research, after a decade of banishment.