AIDS / HIV Blog with Mark Cichocki, R.N. May 2007 Archive

President Bush has ask Congress to double funding for his AIDS assistance program for another five years. If approved funding for his President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) would ... Read More

A viewer asks: "I've recently asked a barber to work on my eyebrows. Since I have some acnes around my eyebrows and they may turn to small bleeding scars while working ... Read More

Three years after the emergence of AIDS, two scientists; Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier found what they believed to be the viral cause of the new disease; HIV-1. Several years ... Read More

Despite opposition from homosexual rights groups, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) renewed its 1983 policy that prohibits any man having sex with another man since 1973 from donating blood. ... Read More

Researchers from the Copenhagen HIV Program at Hvidovre University Hospital in Denmark are reporting that certain HIV medications taken long-term may increase a person's risk of heart attack. The class ... Read More

A study done in 1998 proved that men living with HIV had a fifty times greater risk of testicular cancer than men without HIV. Each year in the United States, ... Read More

Acccording to a study to be published in the June 2007 edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases that people who missed one quarterly visit to their HIV specialist increased their risk ... Read More

Receiving a diagnosis of HIV is a very difficult time, and for some people, the emotional aspects of HIV are as difficult as the physical aspects. Why? While the physical ... Read More

A new study from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health suggests that worldwide, marital sex poses the greatest risk of HIV infection in women. The study shows that ... Read More

The Biotech company Progenics Pharmaceuticals announced that results of early studies of their new HIV medication PRO 140 suggests that a once every two weeks HIV medication is possible. PRO ... Read More

With the attention the HIV epidemic gets in the media, the alarming rates of infection with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like syphilis and gonorrhea are often overlooked. Few people realize ... Read More

Plants are a major dietary source of the mineral selenium. Researchers at the University of Miami has found that daily use of the mineral may suppress HIV. Studies found that ... Read More

The Centers for Disease Control released a report in 2005 that indicated the HIV infection rate among men who have sex with men had decreased by one half over the ... Read More

Some people with HIV/AIDS describe it as a burning sensation. Others say that it's like a thousand hot needles poking the feet and hands. Most know it as HIV/AIDS peripheral ... Read More

HIV is a complex disease that affects the entire person both physically and emotionally. The one way to beat this disease is to take control of your life by taking ... Read More