HIV | HemAware - The Bleeding Disorders Magazine

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.

HIV Treatments and Hemophilia: How HAART Therapy Is Helping

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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Scholarship Provides a Helping Hand to Students

Juniata College is a small liberal arts school in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, about 125 miles east of Pittsburgh. The college was...

Community in Action, Hemophilia A&B, HIV

UDC & Community Counts Database Improves Bleeding Disorder Care

National Databases Improve Bleeding Disorders Care

Data collection can help push researchers to new discoveries.

Hemophilia A&B, Von Willebrand Disease, HIV

Ryan White's mother, Jeanne White-Ginder, sitting onstage with a photo of Ryan projected on a screen behind her

Remembering Ryan White

Most teenagers don’t share a piano bench with Elton John during a concert. Or drive a red Mustang, a gift...

Generation Next, Hemophilia A&B, HIV, Family Matters

FDA Approves New HIV Drug

When the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Tivicay ® (dolutegravir), a new drug to treat HIV, in August...

Research & Treatment, HIV

Organ Transplants in HIV-Positive People

Update, 7/29/2013: The Senate bill now has 14 co-sponsors and passed in the Senate on June 17, 2013. On July...

HIV, Surgery & Transplants

Computer program helps HIV patients improve brain function

How Computer Programs Help Improve Brain Function in HIV Patients

As they get older, patients with HIV can experience fuzzy thinking. They’re slower to process information, have trouble focusing and...

Adults & Aging, HIV

How Modern Medicine Has Tackled HIV

Update, August 2013: The FDA approved Tivicay® (dolutegravir), manufactured by ViiV Healthcare, a GlaxoSmithKline company. Tivicay is an integrase strand...

HIV, Novel Technologies

Researchers Discover HIV Variant Linked to Dementia

An October 2011 study revealed a novel characteristic of HIV—it can replicate, or make new copies of itself in macrophages...

Research & Treatment, HIV

Iron Man

HemAware “ Takes 5” with people in the bleeding disorders community and spotlights their efforts with just five questions. Here...

HIV, Fitness & Nutrition, My Journey

HIV Under Control

Now that some people have been living with the human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV) for decades, a unique phenomenon is...

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HIV Survivors Offer a Living Legacy

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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