[MERGED] Aids / Hiv

[desdemona]

none.
but there are mediacations pescribe for them, in which the goal is to inhibit the signs and symptoms related to the disease.

[Prof. Umbridge]

Doc Ira, puwede bang mahawa ng HIV at HepaB sa parlor?

Napapansin ko kasi na pare-parehong gamit ang ginagamit sa mga nagpapa-pedicure at manicure at hindi man lang nililinisan. Ganun din ang sitwasyon sa mga pang-ahit. Paano kung may nasugatan na may HIV at HepaB. Puwede bang mahawa yung kasunod na customer?

Salamat.

[Ira]

Theoretically, yes. HIV and hepatitis B are transmitted thru blood via maybe an open wound, abrasion, etc. Although in our country, HIV is less likely to happen than hepatitis B.

You should just bring your own nail clippers and whatnot instead of letting the parlor use theirs.

[starfish07]

err.. nakakatakot pala!

[Battousai1]

Hi! I would like to ask one thing about Stress and AIDS... I dont know if this is erroneous or I just dont quite understand what I read...

I was reading a website about STRESS and surprised on what I read on the middle part that STRESS (long term stress) if untreated can cause AIDS???? I know it can cause cancer in some ways but can it cause AIDS?

can you develop HIV/viruses and AIDS whitin yourself?

heres the part:

Prognosis if untreated

Long term stress can cause or exacerbate many physical ailments. These include heart attacks, asthma, ulcers, irritable bowel, colitis, spots, eczema, dermatitis, alopecia (hairloss), dandruff, herpes, shingles, high blood pressure, strokes, and such immune related illnesses as colds, pneumonia, bronchitis and influenza. According to some researchers, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, auto-immune disorders, AIDS and cancer are all more likely with prolonged stress.

Non-physical ailments due to stress include personality problems such as increased pessimism, increased irritability/anger, and loss of confidence.

Phobias, depression, burn-out, panic attacks, schizophrenic and manic depressive episodes can also be triggered by stress.

and here is the link:

http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/articles/stress.html

[Ira]

I think what she means is an HIV positive patient can convert into frank AIDS due to stress. If you're HIV negative, no amount of stress will make you convert to frank AIDS.

[iluvmarcpogi]

is it possible to get AIDS by simply having both the male and female organ just get in contact, not exactly penetrate but contact? pls help.. sum1s scared

[iluvmarcpogi]

to add up, the girl is the infected one.. the guys the scared one.

[e_coli]

it takes fluid exchange to transmit HIV right?

[iluvmarcpogi]

that's what i know to, but he's afraid that the fluid was already there and the head of his **** already made contact. so does this mean the chances are very slim? i'm not soeducated about this stuff so i can't really give him a concrete answer...

[froshie1]

OT: in the first place why make contact if the guy knew that the girl has HIV? unless nalaman na lang nya after....

[iluvmarcpogi]

he found out only after na lang, malamang sinadya nung babae hindi sabihin e... so does anybody really know the chances?

[eyedoc]

I'm sorry I can't really reassure your friend about this, since there is a theoretical contact of body fluids. I believe chances are slim but not nil. Next time, ALWAYS use a condom for ANY sexual contact, if you're not into a mutually monogamous relationship. It would not eliminate the risk either, but it would greatly decrease it.

Please refer to the following sites:
http://www.thebody.com/cdc/factv.html
http://www.avert.org/faq1.htm

[cedric0192]

Rutgers researchers may have stopped HIV
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Piscataway, N.J. — Researchers at Rutgers University have developed a trio of drugs they believe can destroy HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, according to a published report.

The drugs, called DAPYs, mimic the virus by changing shape, which enables them to interfere with the way HIV attacks the immune system.

Tests conducted in conjunction with Johnson and Johnson have shown the drug to be easily absorbed with minimal side effects. It also can be taken in one pill, in contrast to the drug cocktails currently taken by many AIDS patients.

“This could be it,” Stephen Smith, the head of the department of infectious diseases at Saint Michael's Medical Center in Newark, said. “We're all looking for the next class of drugs.”

A research team led by Rutgers chemist Eddy Arnold pre-published details of the most promising of the three drugs, known as R278474, last month in the electronic edition of the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Full details will be published in the journal in early 2005.

Dr. Arnold, 47, has worked at dismantling the AIDS virus over the last 20 years. He uses X-ray crystallography, a technique to determine the structure of molecules, the smallest particles that can retain all the characteristics of an element or compound.

The research has targeted reverse transcriptase, a submiscroscopic protein composed of two coiled chains of amino acids. It is considered HIV's key protein.

“Reverse transcriptase is very important in the biology of AIDS,” Dr. Smith said. “If you can really inhibit reverse transcriptase, you can stop AIDS.”

The optimism about R278474 stems from its potential to interfere with an enzyme that the virus needs to copy and insert itself into a human cell.

“We're onto something very, very special,” Dr. Arnold said.

Dr. Arnold established his lab at Rutgers' Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine in 1987. His current 30-member research team is partnered with Johnson and Johnson subsidiaries Janssen Pharmaceutica and Tibotec-Virco NV.

An important advancement in Dr. Arnold's research came in 1990 when Belgian scientist Paul Janssen was added to the collaboration. Dr. Janssen, considered a drug pioneer, published a paper that year that described a new drug that blocked reverse transcriptase but caused resistant strains of the virus to pop up too quickly.

Dr. Janssen sought out Dr. Arnold, who used crystallography to detail the structure of RT. Their work ultimately led to the RT inhibitors.

“We may eventually win the war against HIV/AIDS. That would be an extremely rewarding and satisfying outcome,” Dr. Arnold said.

[pexxerdoc]

Let's all hope this is true!

[cedric0192]

bakit *** masyadong news coverage bout this.. hmmmm

[mortenharkett72]

maybe nasa testing stage pa rin. Hirap na kasi baka magkaroon ng false hope

[CA]

Tanong ko lang kung mahahawa ako ng HIV dahil nakipagsex ako sa GRO without using condom. Pero hindi ko nilabasan sa keps niya ang ginawa ko pinasok ko muna tapos yung malapit na ako pina BJ ko sa kanya. May possible bang mahawa ako first time ko lang kasi eto ayaw ko ng ulitin.

[progay]

Appeal for Help: Children living with/affected by
HIV/AIDS

The Lunduyan para sa Pagpapalaganap, Pagtataguyod at
Pagtatanggol ng Karapatang Pambata (Center for
Promotion, Advocacy and Protection of the Rights of
the Child) is appealing to the community for resources
in providing services and special attention for four
children under its care.

These children are living under stressful
circumstances for several months now following the
separation from their families because of HIV/AIDS
under different circumstances, either because the
parents have been diagnosed as infected or the
children are themselves infected.

We appeal to the community to gather and forward
resources, volunteer services, time and effort to
support the hands-on care of these children.

1. We need to provide for their food, school expenses,
transport and medicine to manage opportunistic
infections.

2. Volunteers can act as foster parents for the
children's afternoon activities after school and as
caregivers who help the person living with HIV/AIDS
manage and come to terms with her/his physical and
emotional conditions.

3. People who cannot give hands-on assistance may
organize fundraising/resource-raising activities in
their groups and institutions.

Please contact:

Allan Ogues
Senior Programme Manager
Lunduyan para sa Pagpapalaganap, Pagtataguyod at
Pagtatanggol ng Karapatang Pambata
17-17A Casmer Apt.,
Del Pilar cor. D. Jose Street
Cubao Quezon City

Tel. 9133464
Telefax 9117867

Email: chrights@info.com.ph

Visit our website
www.geocities.com/progayphilippines

Progay Philippines is a service and advocacy organization that
provides counseling, training and education assistance to marginalized gay,
lesbian, transgender and bisexual Filipinos, especially the youth and the
ageing sectors. ProGay initiated Pride traditions in the country when
it led the first ever gay and lesbian Pride parade in the entire Asian
region on 26 June 1994. For more information, log on to
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[tintable]

at CA: you may get HIV because of the exchange of bodily fluids even if you did not ejaculate in her.