Human immune deficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) continues to pose a challenge for treatment. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD), there are more than 1...
Retroviruses are a family of viruses characterized by the presence of RNA genetic material and a special enzymatic protein known as reverse transcriptase. The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is the most clinically significant human...
If you have HIV and become pregnant you must treat the condition to protect your unborn child. Your baby can become HIV positive during your pregnancy, during the birth or if you breastfeed (perinatal transmission). With treatment, you can...
Peripheral neuropathy refers to a condition that results from damage to the peripheral nervous system—the nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body. Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy usually begin with numbness or...
The human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. The virus is transmitted primarily through sexual contact---vaginal, oral or anal---but it also may spread via shared syringe needles...
One way the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is transmitted to another person is from mother to child. This is also known as vertical and perinatal transmission. The infection can occur before or during birth, as well as during...
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, commonly known as AIDS, is a life-threatening disease in which the immune system slowly breaks down over time. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. As of 2008, approximately 33.4 million...
The HIV virus that causes AIDS is a retrovirus, an RNA virus that uses the cell's machinery to transcribe itself into DNA and integrate itself into the genetic material of the cell before creating more RNA viral particles to send out and infect...
Infection with human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, causes AIDS, a condition in which the immune system becomes weakened, leaving patients vulnerable to life-threatening opportunistic infections. HIV is a retrovirus composed of a genome made from...
According to the March of Dimes, more than 90 percent of the approximately 9,000 U.S. children diagnosed with AIDS since 1985 contracted the virus from their mother during pregnancy or birth. Preventative measures can greatly reduce a pregnant...
Venereal diseases, also known as sexually transmitted infections or diseases (STDs), refer to bacteria, parasites or viruses that enter the human body through sexual activity. MedlinePlus states that STDs affect men and women. Pregnant women who...
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that 33.4 million people around the world are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a sexually transmitted disease that severely weakens the patient's immune system. No cure exists for HIV...
In 2006 there were 56,300 new cases of HIV infection in the United States, according to the "5-Minute Clinical Consult" textbook. Advanced HIV infection, AIDS, took the lives of 14,627 people in 2006. HIV infection worldwide affects 32.2 million...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a devastating diagnosis. Over time, this infection progresses to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. AIDS destroys the immune system, and the body cannot protect itself from invading...
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a sexually transmitted virus that can turn into AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). Certain cells in the body called CD4 cells are supposed to protect the body from infection. In HIV, these cells are...
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) refers to a chronic and potentially fatal condition in which the immune system no longer works well enough to fight infections.The University of Maryland Medical Center says that people infected with HIV may not...
Combination therapy refers to the use of two or more HIV medications to treat HIV. According to TheBody.com, combination therapies are more effective at suppressing HIV than individual HIV drugs used alone. HIV drug classes attack HIV in different...
AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Disorder, is the result of HIV infection. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that there are 1,106,400 people in the United States living with HIV infection. Without treatment, HIV infection...
HIV positive women who become pregnant will need to work closely with their physicians to make decisions about antiretroviral medications. If a woman decides to stop all her medications during pregnancy, her viral load could increase and she...
Treatments for AIDS are an alphabet soup of drug names and drug families. Since the goal of treatment is to reduce the viral load as much as possible, effective treatment requires arresting multiple phases of viral activity. Some drugs prevent...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a type of retrovirus that replaces normal cellular DNA with its own viral genetic material, causing progressive damage to the body's immune system. HIV infection can eventually lead to the life-threatening...
The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a disease that systematically destroys the body's immune system, according to MedlinePlus, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. The disease can...
HIV/AIDS continues to be a dreaded killer. According to data from the NIH National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), there are over 1 million people living with the disease in the U.S., with over 53,000 new infections each...
The combination of the generically named medications zidovudine and lamivudine are marketed in the United States as Combivir. This combination drug may be prescribed in the treatment of human immunodeficiency viral infections. It functions,...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is spread through contact with infected blood and body fluids. The risk of transmission varies according to the manner of exposure. The risk is greatest with transfusion of contaminated blood, needle sharing,...
The hormone pregnenolone causes the body to produce many other hormones, such as testosterone, estrogen, cortisone and DHEA. Many people also take DHEA supplements to regain youthful levels of these steroid hormones. According to the Langone...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at the end of 2006, 1,106,400 people were living with HIV infection in the United States. In 2006, there were 56,300 new cases of HIV infection and 14,627 deaths due to AIDS. Treatment...
According to the "5-Minute Clinical Consult" textbook, in 2006 there were 56,300 new cases of HIV infection in the United States. Also in 2006, there were 14,627 deaths of people with AIDS. Worldwide in 2007, 32.2 million people are living with...
AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is caused by infection by the HIV virus. The virus infects the white blood cells, and forces the cells to generate additional virus before dying and releasing more virus into the bloodstream. As the...
