Word: hiv
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most clinics in sub-saharan Africa, where 22.5 million people are HIV positive, cannot afford the equipment and personnel to perform the high-tech procedure, known as nucleic acid testing, Lopez said...
Nucleic acid testing identifies the amount of HIV in a blood sample and can deliver results as early as a week after infection...
Clinicians depend on monitoring the viral levels since many vaccines in development are aimed at reducing the number of HIV copies in infected patients...
Enabling large-scale use of nucleic acid testing is critical since the majority of HIV transmissions occur during an acute spike in viral levels during the first three to nine weeks after infection, Lopez said...
Lopez, a Quincy House resident, grew interested in HIV while volunteering at a center for low-income HIV patients in his hometown of San Jose, Calif...