- HIV is harder to transmit during sex than many people think. Only five body flids can contain enough HIV to infect someone: blood, semen (including pre-cum), ...
- Some people use recreational drugs during sex. Drugs can heighten sexual pleasure but they can also lead to lowered inhibitions, making it easier to make ...
- People with HIV often have lower-than-normal levels of micronutrients, and doctors often recommend that everyone with HIV take a complete multivitamin-mineral ...
- Normally, when we eat, our body converts food into glucose (sugar) and that glucose is then carried to cells throughout the body, providing our ...
- Oxidative stress and inflammation begin during the early stages of HIV infection and continue over time. When left unchecked, they have the potential to cause ...
- HIV cannot multiply by itself. Instead, it must get inside a cell to make copies of itself. When HIV infects a cell, it takes over the “machinery” of a cell ...
- Complete fixed-dose combination treatment Brand name (generic name) Common dosage Dosage ...
- This appendix looks at how HIV can develop resistance to antiretroviral drugs and how labs test for drug resistance. At the base of drug resistance is the fact ...
- HIV treatment has come a long way! If you’ve heard scary stories about the HIV medications of yesteryear - handfuls of pills that need to be taken several ...
- We now know that there are huge benefits to starting HIV treatment early, before the virus has had a chance to do much damage to your immune system. The earlier ...
- Another huge benefit of taking HIV treatment and maintaining an undetectable viral load is that it can prevent HIV from being passed to the people you have sex ...