Category Archives: HIV and AIDS
Specificity of HIV testing
Q: My Grandma, a rheumatoid arthritis patient, had a blood transfusion for a surgery 4 months ago. Two weeks ago, her HIV ELISA test was found to be positive. We then performed an HIV PCR test that was found to be negative. I would like to know the specificity of the test and whether an […]
Is the HIV DNA PCR test reliable?
I had a recent exposure on Jan 6th and I heard the DNA PCR will be able to provide conclusive results on HIV after 28 days. However, I read contradictory statements on the internet that it is not a reliable method and there are more false positives and even HIV positive people are not caught […]
Marriage License Requirements
Question: I just recently got engaged, and I’ve been hearing that STD testing is required to get a marriage license. Is this true? – Mississippi Answer: In many states, this can be the case. Mississippi in particular requires that both parties provide proof from within the past 30 days that they are free of syphilis. […]
Is There a Cure for HIV?
There is currently not a practical cure for HIV (please see Human Immunodeficiency Virus); however, recently for the first time ever a person has been successfully cured of the virus . The patient, an American man living in Germany, was being treated for leukemia when he received a stem cell transplant in 2007. The cell […]
Is 65 days enough for an HIV EIA?
Hi there, I have a question: I had protected sex. After 65 days from that, I did an HIV EIA test. The result is negative. My question is: does that mean I am 100% free from HIV? Is an EIA enough? Do I need retest again or am I fine? Thank you so much To […]
AIDS is top news story of 2009
Any development that accounts for more deaths of people who would otherwise be alive at the end of 2009 as they were at the start of the year should by all accounts be the overwhelming choice for the year’s top news story. Forget about transitory political issues (though those issues impact on Swaziland’s ability to […]
S. Africa to treat all HIV-positive babies
South Africa will treat all HIV-positive babies and expand testing, the president announced Tuesday, a dramatic and eagerly awaited shift in a country that has more people living with HIV than any other. President Jacob Zuma’s speech on World AIDS Day was viewed as a definitive turning point for a nation where the previous administration […]
World AIDS Day: South Africa to Treat all HIV Children
Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, announced that the country will attempt to supply treatment for all HIV-positive children. South Africa carries the highest rate of HIV-positive people of all countries in the world with more than one in ten citizens currently diagnosed with HIV. According to researchers HIV usually affects those in their childbearing […]
How Risky is a Hand Job?
What are the chances that a male can catch HIV from a female who gave him a manual release (hand job)? None. Well, OK, if we conjure up the worst case scenario and employ a vivid imagination, maybe the chances are close to none instead of actually none. Let’s say, for argument sake, that the […]
Teacher sentenced for not revealing HIV
A former teacher from South Carolina has been charged with three counts first-degree criminal sexual conduct. The judge also ordered the teacher, Joel L. Bedenbaugh, to register as a sex offender. Bedenbaugh was sentenced to six years in prison for not telling his ex-wife, to whom he was married for five years, that he had […]
