HIV

HIV

The inheritable blood and bleeding disorders community has been impacted by HIV since the 1980s. Learn about the roots of this crisis, improvements in health care, blood safety, and more.

Treatments were basically nonexistent, and doctors didn’t understand how the virus was transmitted. By the time they discovered it was...
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Juniata College is a small liberal arts school in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, about 125 miles east of Pittsburgh. The college was...
Data collection can help push researchers to new discoveries.
Most teenagers don’t share a piano bench with Elton John during a concert. Or drive a red Mustang, a gift...
When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tivicay ® (dolutegravir), a new drug to treat HIV, in August...
Update, 7/29/2013: The Senate bill now has 14 co-sponsors and passed in the Senate on June 17, 2013. On July...
As they get older, patients with HIV can experience fuzzy thinking. They’re slower to process information, have trouble focusing and...
Update, August 2013: The FDA approved Tivicay® (dolutegravir), manufactured by ViiV Healthcare, a GlaxoSmithKline company. Tivicay is an integrase strand...
An October 2011 study revealed a novel characteristic of HIV—it can replicate, or make new copies of itself in macrophages...
HemAware “ Takes 5” with people in the bleeding disorders community and spotlights their efforts with just five questions. Here...
Now that some people have been living with the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) for decades, a unique phenomenon is...
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Kathy Gerus-Darbison remembers the silence. It was the silence she received in response to her questions after she was diagnosed...
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