HIV and AIDS

Women and AIDS : Prevention, Safer Sex
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Similarly, PID, syphilis, gonorrhea, and genital warts may be harder to treat in HIV-infected women. PID, which normally produces fever and pain, may go unnoticed in an HIV-infected woman because her body hasn't been able to mount the immune response

AIDS in Minority Communities : Response to the Epidemic
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Numerous private, corporate, community, state, and federal agencies are trying to help stem the tide of HIV among minorities and assist and support outreach and education programs. Federal agencies, in particular can sustain broad prevention, research

AIDS Therapy: Drug Combo Sends Deaths Plummeting
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Though AIDS still strikes about 40,000 yearly in this country, a 'cocktail' of three drugs has drastically curbed the disease's death rate. Many health experts, in fact, credit the powerful HAART therapy with helping the domestic AIDS death rate to drop

Children with AIDS
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Approximately 30 percent of infants born to mothers who are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS are also infected with the virus. Nearly 72 percent of the mothers are or have been drug abusers, or acquired HIV infection

Aids Research Comes To Patients
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The nation's war against acquired immune deficiency syndrome received a significant boost late last year, when Congress passed legislation authorizing federal funding of more AIDS studies in local communities around the country.

Coinfection with HIV and Hepatitis C Virus
by CDC
Persons with HIV, especially injection drug users, may also be infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV infection is more serious in persons with HIV. Many persons with HCV don't have any symptoms. HCV infection can be treated.

Treating HIV / AIDS, Minimizing Your Risk
by Health Canada
HIV stands for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This is the virus that leads to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV cannot survive outside of the body. In order to be infected, the virus must enter your bloodstream.

Women and AIDS : Drug Labels, Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
To help increase awareness about the most common early indicator of HIV infection in women - recurrent vaginal candidiasis (yeast infections) - FDA in October 1992 required manufacturers of over-the-counter drugs for these infections to include a new

AIDS Drug Approvals, What Is AIDS?
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Though the AIDS death rate has dropped drastically, and educational efforts aimed at curbing the number of new HIV infections have had a small impact, experts say the next hurdles are to develop an AIDS-preventive vaccine and to create new therapies

Women and AIDS : Drug Use, Mother and Child - The HIV Connection
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Any illegal drug use puts a person at risk for HIV. An HIV-infected person who uses injection drugs and shares needles can pass the virus to someone else through tiny amounts of blood that remain in the needle or syringe.

Living With AIDS: Combination Cocktails
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Despite their complex workings and complicated names, AIDS drugs are based on a relatively straightforward concept. By stopping or retarding the duplication of HIV inside the body's cells, the virus is prevented from overwhelming the immune system

Living With AIDS : Reality Check
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Like Eppich, AIDS patients, today, can plan for their futures. But the optimism brought by the new drugs of the 1990s has dimmed as doctors and their patients have realized that the virus won't be vanquished so easily.

Living With AIDS: Understanding and Battling the Virus
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
As the AIDS epidemic enters its third decade, the battle worldwide is focused on prevention, more effective treatments, improving the quality of life for people infected with HIV, and development of a vaccine.

HIV and AIDS Among Minorities, Women: Prevention Important, Treatment Imperative
by National Institute of Health
No matter who you are or where you live, there are three things you should know about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), according to Dr. Victoria Cargill of the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health.

Learn the AIDS Link: Drugs Can Give You More Than a High
by National Institute of Health
Most people know that drug abuse is linked to AIDS. Less understood is why they're linked. The 'high' that people get from drugs may alter their judgment and lead them to take risks they normally would not take - including having unprotected sex.