Word: arv
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...Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The study, conducted by Pride Chigwedere, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health, and four other researchers from the school, also found that the infection of 35,000 newborns with HIV could have been prevented with widespread use of ARV drugs. In total, the number of “person-years”—the number of years that people would have lived with ARV treatments—lost by the South African government is estimated at 3.8 million. ARV drugs are accepted therapy for HIV/AIDS in the global scientific...
...active antiretroviral therapy - circumcision was associated with a statistically significant 53% reduction in H.I.V.-transmission risk, which is on par with the 48% to 60% reduction in infection rates reported by the 2007 trials in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda that studied heterosexual men. After 1996, however, when antiretroviral (ARV) drugs turned H.I.V. into a condition that people lived with rather than died from, the protective effect of circumcision became nonsignificant, Millett found. The widespread belief that ARVs could prevent H.I.V. transmission led to an increase in risky sexual behavior, outbreaks of sexually transmitted infections and increasing rates of H.I.V...
...Zanmi Lasante Hospital in Thomonde, Haiti, so ravaged from advanced AIDS that doctors gave her days to live. At just 75 lb. (34 kg), she was covered in sores and couldn't walk, and her digestive system had practically shut down. But after 2 1/2 months of arv treatments, Adolph is no longer just clinging to life. Her wounds have healed, and she has enough energy to walk a mile to get water, babysit, help with chores and even do occasional fieldwork. She lives with her brother, his wife and their six children. "I'm here, and God didn...
...attended gay pride events in four U.S. metro areas used tenofovir as a prophylactic, while 20% said they knew other gay men who did. A more recent survey of 1,819 gay or bisexual men in California, published in the Journal of AIDS, found a low rate of prophylactic ARV use - less than 1% - but concerns still exist...
Though initial human studies of tenofovir alone have produced encouraging results, none have shown 100% protection, raising ethical issues and, in some cases, halting trials: In 2004 and 2005, AIDS activists - notably, a Paris-based chapter of ACT UP - protested ARV trials in Cameroon and Cambodia, questioning who would pay for long-term health care for the participants and whether the drugs would cause harmful side effects. Those trials were stopped...