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No HIV for Me: Protect Yourself from HIV with PrEP and PEP
Read More: No HIV for Me: Protect Yourself from HIV with PrEP and PEPMedically reviewed by Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN + Video transcript Narrator: Think you’re not at risk for HIV? Think again! Anyone who’s having sex without a condom is at risk of getting HIV. And, when it comes to protecting yourself, there are really good options out there. The first one is called…
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Women Can Get HIV, Too. That’s Why They Need to Get Tested for HIV.
Read More: Women Can Get HIV, Too. That’s Why They Need to Get Tested for HIV.Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a type of virus that attacks your body’s immune system, leaving you more at risk for infections. It can be spread by coming into contact with someone else’s infected blood or body fluids. Some people may wonder if women can get HIV. And the answer is yes. One in 4…
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Medications That Treat and Prevent HIV
Read More: Medications That Treat and Prevent HIV+ Infographic text Nearly 7,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with HIV each year. There is no cure for HIV. But treatments can make the amount of virus in your blood so low that tests can no longer find it. This is called “undetectable viral load.” Being in treatment means people living with HIV…
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Tus palabras pueden marcar la diferencia en la lucha contra el estigma del VIH
Read More: Tus palabras pueden marcar la diferencia en la lucha contra el estigma del VIH+ Booklet text Slide 1: Lucha en contra del estigma: Cómo hablar sobre el VIH El estigma duele, pero tus palabras pueden sanar. Esta guía corta te enseñará lo que debes decir para ayudar a romper el estigma. Slide 2: ¿Qué es el estigma del VIH? ¿Qué es el estigma del VIH? Comportamientos…
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How HIV Affects Menopause and Menopause Affects HIV
Read More: How HIV Affects Menopause and Menopause Affects HIVWhen Vickie Lynn learned she was HIV positive in 1991 at the age of 21, she thought she’d been given a death sentence. She certainly never imagined she’d live long enough to see a milestone that affects women later in life — menopause. Now 57 years old and solidly postmenopausal, Lynn still remembers how hard…
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En qué forma el VIH afecta la menopausia y viceversa
Read More: En qué forma el VIH afecta la menopausia y viceversaCuando Vickie Lynn recibió resultados positivos del VIH en 1991, cuando tenía 21 años, pensó que le habían dado una sentencia de muerte. Ciertamente nunca imaginó que viviría lo suficiente para ver un evento que afecta a las mujeres en etapas posteriores de sus vidas, la menopausia. Ahora que tiene 57 años y es posmenopáusica,…
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Conversación sobre la salud: Preguntas para tu proveedor de servicios médicos sobre tu tratamiento del VIH
Read More: Conversación sobre la salud: Preguntas para tu proveedor de servicios médicos sobre tu tratamiento del VIHHan habido avances importantes de los tratamientos para el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) en la última década. Para mantenerte al tanto de los más recientes tratamientos y avances, es importante tener una buena colaboración de trabajo con tu proveedor de servicios médicos (HCP, por sus siglas en inglés). Hablamos con Jessica Zajesky, R.N., coordinadora…
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Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About Your HIV Treatment
Read More: Clinically Speaking: Questions to Ask Your Healthcare Provider About Your HIV TreatmentTreatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has taken major leaps forward in the past decade. To stay up to date with the latest treatments and advances, it’s important to have a good working partnership with your healthcare provider (HCP). We talked to Jessica Zajesky, R.N., care coordinator for the HIV medicine division at the Albany…
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PrEP and PEP: Prevention for HIV
Read More: PrEP and PEP: Prevention for HIVMedically reviewed by Jeffrey Kwong, DNP, MPH, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN Around 7,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with HIV each year. But the good news is that there are two strategies, called PrEP and PEP, that can help you stay HIV negative. Both options require you to take antiretroviral drugs, which can prevent…
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HIV, Aging and Whole Person Care
Read More: HIV, Aging and Whole Person Care+ Infographic text Physical health HIV has different symptoms based on the stage of infection. The 3 stages of HIV infection are: Acute Chronic Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Adults who live with chronic inflammation from HIV for a long time are at higher risk for Heart disease Diabetes Renal disease Osteoporosis If you don’t take…
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Why Did Sexually Transmitted Infections Go up During the Pandemic — and What Can We Do About It?
Read More: Why Did Sexually Transmitted Infections Go up During the Pandemic — and What Can We Do About It?No one would blame you for assuming that the number of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) went down during the pandemic. After all, lockdowns prevented many of us from even talking to people outside our households — much less going out and having sex. In fact, reported cases of STIs did go down during the early…
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Envejecer con VIH
Read More: Envejecer con VIHEn 1986, Stephanie Brooks Wiggins acababa de mudarse de Brooklyn a Baltimore con quién pronto sería su esposo y estaba ansiosa de empezar su nueva vida juntos cuando le diagnosticaron con el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH). Apenas tenía 40 años. “Era muy inocente. Nunca había escuchado del VIH”, dijo Stephanie. Su preocupación más importante…
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¿Por qué los servicios médicos para el VIH no están llegando a las personas que más los necesitan?
Read More: ¿Por qué los servicios médicos para el VIH no están llegando a las personas que más los necesitan?Hydeia Broadbent nunca supo cómo era la vida sin tener VIH. Nació con VIH y en 1984 su virus se transformó en el síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA), que causó que la cantidad de sus células T (los glóbulos blancos que ayudan a proteger el cuerpo) se reduzcan a niveles peligrosos. En esa época, un…
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Why Isn’t HIV Care Reaching Those Who Need It Most?
Read More: Why Isn’t HIV Care Reaching Those Who Need It Most?Hydeia Broadbent has never known life without HIV. Born HIV positive in 1984, Broadbent’s virus progressed to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which meant her T-cell (white blood cells that help protect your body) count became dangerously low. At the time, an HIV/AIDS diagnosis was often a death sentence, but Broadbent was determined to live her…
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You Can Test Yourself for an STI at Home — but Should You?
Read More: You Can Test Yourself for an STI at Home — but Should You?At-home medical testing gives you information about your health, right at your fingertips, without the need to ever set foot into a doctor’s office. One of the latest developments in this trend is at-home testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which are bacterial, viral or parasitic infections that can be passed on through sexual contact.…
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) & Aging Survey
Read More: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) & Aging SurveyHealthyWomen and the National Caucus and Center on Black Aging, Inc. (NCBA) are exploring what people know about HIV and aging, including diagnosis, treatment, testing, stigma and barriers to care. Changes in treatment options are increasing life expectancy for those with HIV. In 2018, over half (51%) of people in the United States with diagnosed…
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Growing Older With HIV
Read More: Growing Older With HIVIn 1986, Stephanie Brooks Wiggins had just moved from Brooklyn to Baltimore with her soon-to-be husband and was excited to start their new life together when she was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). She was barely 40 years old. “I was very naive. I had never heard of HIV,” Brooks Wiggins said. Her biggest…
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HIV Preventive Care Is Supposed to Be Free in the US. So, Why Are Some Patients Still Paying?
Read More: HIV Preventive Care Is Supposed to Be Free in the US. So, Why Are Some Patients Still Paying?By Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News Anthony Cantu, 31, counsels patients at a San Antonio health clinic about a daily pill shown to prevent HIV infection. Last summer, he started taking the medication himself, an approach called preexposure prophylaxis, better known as PrEP. The regimen requires laboratory tests every three months to ensure the powerful…
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How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic Diseases
Read More: How mRNA and DNA Vaccines Could Soon Treat Cancers, HIV, Autoimmune Disorders and Genetic DiseasesBy DNA and mRNA vaccines are much better at producing T cells than are normal vaccines.NIAID/NIH via Flickr What makes nucleic acid vaccines different from traditional vaccines? Most vaccines induce antibody responses. Antibodies are the primary immune mechanism that blocks infections. As we began to study nucleic acid vaccines, we discovered that because these vaccines…
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Why Addressing Racism Against Black Women in Health Care Is Key to Ending the US HIV Epidemic
Read More: Why Addressing Racism Against Black Women in Health Care Is Key to Ending the US HIV EpidemicBy Nabila El-Bassel, Columbia University Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women. Although Black women represent only 13% of the female population, they accounted for over half of HIV diagnoses among all females in the U.S. in 2018, according to data from the U.S.…
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HIV Prevention Pill PrEP Is Now Free Under Most Insurance Plans – but the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Puts This Benefit at Risk
Read More: HIV Prevention Pill PrEP Is Now Free Under Most Insurance Plans – but the Latest Challenge to the Affordable Care Act Puts This Benefit at RiskDecember 1 is World AIDS Day By Paul Shafer, Boston University and Kristefer Stojanovski, Tulane University Since the start of the HIV epidemic in 1981, over 700,000 Americans have lost their lives to AIDS. Being infected used to be a death sentence. But now, 40 years later, the U.S. is on the precipice of eradicating…
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The Connection Between HIV and Mental Health in the Older Adult
Read More: The Connection Between HIV and Mental Health in the Older AdultMedically reviewed by Dr. Sharon D. Allison-Ottey
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It May Come as a Surprise, but Older Women Get HIV, Too
Read More: It May Come as a Surprise, but Older Women Get HIV, TooEspañol When Tracey Kelly lost 70 pounds over a six-month period, she told everyone the low carbohydrate diet she was following was the best weight-loss program she’d ever tried. But even after she went off the diet and started eating fast food and drinking beer, she kept losing weight. When she wound up in the…
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HIV/AIDS Vaccine: Why Don’t We Have One After 37 Years, When We Have Several for COVID-19 After a Few Months?
Read More: HIV/AIDS Vaccine: Why Don’t We Have One After 37 Years, When We Have Several for COVID-19 After a Few Months?By Ronald C. Desrosiers, University of Miami Smallpox has been eradicated from the face of the Earth following a highly effective, worldwide vaccination campaign. Paralytic poliomyelitis is no longer a problem in the U.S. because of development and use of effective vaccines against the poliovirus. In current times, millions of lives have been saved because…
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Is It Hemorrhoids or Something Worse?
Read More: Is It Hemorrhoids or Something Worse?Medically reviewed by Dr. Lauren R. Wilson. When Charlie’s Angels star Farrah Fawcett died of anal cancer in 2009, it put a spotlight on a disease that isn’t talked about much but has early symptoms similar to everyday hemorrhoids. Understanding the risk factors and the differences between anal cancer and hemorrhoids is critical to staying…
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Black Women Are Getting HIV at Alarming Rates
Read More: Black Women Are Getting HIV at Alarming RatesDecember 1 is #WorldAIDSDay. One year after being diagnosed with HIV, LáDeia Joyce threw a party. Family, friends and colleagues gathered for food and drink, then sat down to watch 90 Days, a short film about a young, professional heterosexual Black couple navigating one partner’s HIV-positive status. At the end of the movie, Joyce told…
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Are COVID-19 Outcomes Worse For People Living With HIV?
Read More: Are COVID-19 Outcomes Worse For People Living With HIV?So, does being HIV positive put you at increased risk for a severe COVID-19 experience? New research looked to answer this question. The post Are COVID-19 Outcomes Worse For People Living With HIV? appeared first on Women’s Health.