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Encyclopedia: HIV positive people HIV positive people are often discriminated against on the basis of testing positive, on the one hand because of (often irrational) fears of infection, on the other hand because the infection is often seen as a consequence of promiscuity, homosexuality or drug addiction. HIV positive people are people who have the human immunodeficiency virus HIV, the agent of the currently incurable disease AIDS. In these groups the term most often applied to people who are HIV positive is, "People Living With HIV/AIDS." This is often abbreviated as "PLWHA," "PLWA" or even "PLA." Recently "People Living Positively" has been also used. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/HIV-positive-people

Positive Women Positive Women (Victoria) Inc is a support and advocacy group for women with HIV /AIDS. Women who are living with HIV/AIDS are major contributors to the Board and Staff of Positive Women, ensuring that infected women's issues are recognised and their voices heard. The organisation includes HIV positive women and HIV negative women, all working together for the benefit of women living with HIV and their families. www.positivewomen.org.au

Learning you are HIV positive Remember, being HIV positive does not stop you from being the person you were before you knew your test result. Just as your HIV positive result was possibly a big event to happen in your life, if you're in a relationship the news will also have an impact on your partner. If both partners are HIV positive, sexual intercourse without a condom can still be risky. www.avert.org /positive.htm

MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: HIV ELISA/western blot If this test is positive, it must be confirmed with a second test called the Western Blot which is more specific and will confirm if someone is truly HIV positive (there are other conditions that may inaccurately produce a positive ELISA test result, including lupus, lyme disease, and syphilis). A positive result does not necessarily mean that the subject has HIV infection as there are certain conditions that may lead to a false positive result (such as Lyme disease, syphilis, and lupus). A positive western blot is generally regarded as conclusive for an HIV infection. www.nlm.nih.gov /medlineplus/ency/article/003538.htm

Bloomington Hospital - POSITIVE LINK HIV/AIDS Services Positive Link provides a single point of access for the medical, financial, psychosocial, nutritional/wellness and educational programs that address the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS and their loved ones. Positive Link coordinates comprehensive health and human services for people living with HIV/AIDS and provides HIV prevention and early intervention services, which includes HIV counseling and testing, without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, age, ability, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic class or religious affiliation. Positive Link exists to provide health and human services for people living with HIV/AIDS, as well as outreach/education programs and HIV counseling and testing. www.bhhs.org /comm/crw_prevent_hiv.php4

Learn more about List of HIV-positive individuals in the online encyclopedia. Tommy Morrison world champion boxer, tests in 1996 revealed he was HIV-positive, automatically retiring him from boxing as a competitor; underwent a technique known as "sperm-washing," designed to allow HIV+ people to have HIV- children. Note to all wikipedians and wikipedia.com readers: This is a list of people who are known to have or to have had the virus known as HIV, including people who have died (whether from AIDS or another cause). Please feel free to add any names that have been left out, but only add names of people who have made their HIV diagnosis public, either past or present. www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_hiv_positive_individuals.html

SF AIDS Fdn: Positive News 5/97 -- Children and HIV HIV positive children may ask their parents or guardians difficult questions about why they have to take medicine, why they see a doctor so often or why they sometimes get sick. Because HIV positive children develop OI at higher T-cell levels, they should have a T-cell test at least every 3 months to make sure that they are not at risk for developing an opportunistic infection. HIV positive teen-agers may also be afraid that they will be rejected because they have HIV. www.sfaf.org /treatment/positivenews/ped.html

AIDS/HIV If his wife also tests positive for HIV, in that case there are 30-35% chances that their baby (to be born) may also be born with HIV infection (otherwise not). HIV is present in sufficient quantity in the secretions of vagina of a HIV positive female. Please remember, HIV is present in large quantity in the semen and blood of HIV positive man and in the vaginal secretions of a HIV positive woman. www.psgaidsinfo.org /AIDS&HIV.htm

HIV - Positive Employees are Protected by Law As a matter of fact, a very significant number of people that are HIV positive (which means that the individual has been exposed to the virus and is potentially at risk for developing AIDS or ARC) will not develop AIDS or ARC. If, in fact, one of our employees is HIV positive, there is the possibility, but not the probability, that he/she may develop the AIDS related complex also known as ARC. The important point here is that although someone is HIV positive, more than likely they can still perform the essential functions of their job. www.globalchefs.com /career/current/coj009hiv.htm

HIV Positive Voices HIV Positive Voices is sponsored by the The Mary Wohlford Foundation, The Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund, and Baltimore City Health Department. HIV Positive Voices: An Inside Look at the AIDS Epidemic in Baltimore, Maryland, was produced by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs and Stuart Productions. This film is the story of four people who each represent a different form of HIV transmission. www.hivpositivevoices.org

Exercise Enhances Lives of HIV-Positive Patients Moderate aerobic exercise can be beneficial to HIV-positive patients because it enhances mood and quality of life, helps maintain lean body mass when wasting is a problem, and can lessen some side effects of HIV medications. Andrew Zopola, MD, director of Stanford University's Positive Care program, tells WebMD, "We recommend that our patients work with a personal trainer as part of their comprehensive care. He cites evidence confirming that regular, moderate-intensity "breathless" aerobic exercise is at the very least not detrimental to the HIV patient's immune system. my.webmd.com /content/article/21/1728_54082

Positively Women: Peer Support for HIV Positive Women - Home Positively Women was established in 1987 by a group of HIV positive women who were determined to set up services specific to women's needs. Positively Women is the only national charity working to improve the quality of life of women and families affected by HIV: Positively Women: Peer Support for HIV Positive Women - Home www.positivelywomen.org.uk

HIV-positive Character to Join Muppets Science & Technology Deutsche Welle He hopes that it will encourage "model positive behaviour" towards people with HIV and AIDS among viewers of the program, who are mostly between three and seven years old. In one of the more unusual statements to come out of the fourteenth international conference on AIDS in Barcelona, which ended on Friday, the vice-president of Sesame Workshop, Joel Schneider, announced that a character would be introduced in its South African program later in the year who will be HIV positive. Schneider says this is the main aim of having an HIV positive member on the famous Muppet team. www.dw-world.de /english/0,3367,1446_A_591136,00.html

HIV & AIDS - The HIV Western Blot Test - Criteria for a positive test result. The HIV Western blot is not standardised and thus around the world different combinations of bands are considered positive. ( JAMA 260:674-679) when the US FDA criteria are used to interpret the HIV Western blot less than 50% of US AIDS patients are HIV positive whereas 10% of persons not at risk of AIDS are also positive by the same criteria. HIV & AIDS- The HIV Western Blot Test - Criteria for a positive test result. www.virusmyth.net /aids/data/vtwbtests.htm

Diabetic Life - Health News - Diabetic Life. Learn about Juvenile Diabetes, Heart Disease, Glucose testing and much more. They found 17 percent of the nearly 150 HIV positive males in the study were college students, and 88 percent of those men reported having sex with other men. Leone says, "One of the ways to destigmatize HIV is to let at risk groups know that this isn't about sexual identification. Researchers were then prompted to further investigate the incidence by reviewing state records for confirmed HIV cases. www.diabeticlife.org /ms/news/8007988/main.html

HIV & AIDS - The HIV Tests Eleopulos and colleagues examine both HIV antibody tests: the enzyme­linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test, the first test used to screen blood, which costs about $50, and the Western Blot (WB) which is used to confirm a positive result on the ELISA, and costs closer to $100. In other words, those 80 people, had they not been a part of this particular, scrupulous study, would have been told they were HIV positive, since a single positive WB is all that is required, but in fact they were negative. There were 4000 people who had two positive ELISAs followed by a negative WB (note: all of those 4000 would be called HIV positive in Africa and HIV negative in the West). www.virusmyth.net /aids/data/cftests.htm

HIV AIDS Anonymous - Home Page - HIV AIDS - 12 Steps & Meetings HIV Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who are committed to a way of life that will help fight the spread of HIV. However, if you feel remorse that you have transmitted HIV to another person, or if you are concerned that your behavior could spread HIV, or maybe you just want to fellowship with other people who are living in balance and harmony with HIV and AIDS. HIV Anonymous is a global network that offers unbiased support to people infected with, affected by, or at risk for HIV/AIDS. www.hivanonymous.com

Daily HIV/AIDS Report - Kaisernetwork.org The prevalence of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases is higher in prisons and regions with higher concentrations of ex-inmates than it is among the general population in part because of unprotected sexual intercourse among inmates, the editorial says. The three factors have given health care workers in Southern Africa "the means to offer life" after years of "watching people die," which has boosted their morale and helped them to increase HIV testing, Brooks says. The grant's principal recipient, the nongovernmental Russian Health Care Foundation, also has received a World Bank loan for providing HIV/AIDS treatment to populations at high risk of contracting HIV. kaisernetwork.org /daily_reports/rep_hiv.cfm

Referenced Quotes about HIV/AIDS Tests and Measurements [this illustrates that HIV testing is only simplified to Positive versus Negative through an arbitrary cutoff, and this cutoff point is established by its ability to distinguish the majority of people with AIDS from the majority of people who are perfectly healthy, not based on any scientific evidence. On one occasion, 9 years before admission, one reactive HIV EIA test result was obtained, but the confirmatory Western blot result was negative...After the diagnosis of HIV infection was confirmed by HIV RNA PCR, the patient was prescribed zidovudine and lamivudine. HIV infection among youth in a South African mining town is associated with herpes simplex virus-2 seropositivity and sexual behaviour. www.aras.ab.ca /test.html

CNN - Supreme Court says disability act covers HIV - June 25, 1998 A person can be HIV-positive but not have AIDS itself. In an opinion written by Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court said the patient's HIV infection was a disability covered by the law, even though she had no symptoms of the disease. The decision was a victory not just for Abbott but for the Justice Department, which has included people with HIV under the scope of the disability law. www.cnn.com /US/9806/25/scotus.hiv

I'm HIV Positive - Now What? PLUS is a two-day weekend educational and experiential workshop for people who have recently tested HIV positive and people who have been positive for quite some time but have not yet accessed information on HIV and service providers. A two-day weekend educational and experiential workshop for people who have recently tested HIV positive The primary goal is to empower participants with knowledge and emotional support to meet the challenges of being HIV+. AIDS Project East Bay is committed to the prevention of the spread of the HIV and to the provision of culturally sensitive and effective services to all persons and communities infected with and affected by HIV in Alameda County. www.stopaids.org /resources/std_info/positive_now_what.html

HIV - Basic Information - AEGIS Shortly after getting infected with HIV, many patients have an acute (or "primary") HIV infection, a period of flu-like illness with symptoms like fever and malaise that could be caused by influenza or many other diseases. Since determining one's HIV status is the first step in treatment decisions, it is important to understand the tests being used today, including their limitations. The tests that are approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for detecting whether or not you are infected with HIV are available through your doctor or at clinics. www.aegis.com /ni/topics/basics.asp

HIV and AIDS As with all other kinds of virus, HIV does not have an individual metabolism and, therefore, has to attack other living cells and use their metabolism to make copies of itself. It is a condition that sets in when the HIV virus has killed so many T-helper cells that the immune system is no longer able to recognise and react to attacks from everyday infections. Unfortunately, HIV is a very efficient virus that can change some of its own characteristics, mutate and create new HIV variants, which are resistant to the medicines used in treatment. www.netdoctor.co.uk /diseases/facts/hiv_aids.htm

HIV i-Base – HIV treatment information HIV i-Base is an HIV-positive led activist group that produces treatment information for positive people and health care professionals. HIV treatment information for healthcare professionals and HIV-positive people HIV Treatment Bulletin ( htb) is a technical review of latest treatment research and news relating to clinical management of HIV. www.i-base.info

Info and Support for HIV-Positive Youth Young people represent half of new HIV infections worldwide, so it's no surprise that HIV-positive youth are looking for support and information online. When you're HIV-positive, it can be especially hard to have a good body image due to the effects of medications and all the changes you're going through. FAQ for Positive Youth —Answers to your questions on being positive, telling people you're positive, dealing with medication, and dating and relationships. www.advocatesforyouth.org /youth/info/poz

Welcome to the UKC Welcome to the website of the UK Coalition of People Living with HIV and AIDS, an organisation committed to " enabling the diverse voices of people living with HIV and AIDS to be heard with a view to influencing change " Our Lives, Our Voices, Our Services, Our Health... Positive Advice Positive Futures Positive Nation Positive Voices StraightForward Knowledge is Power filling it in will assist in understanding the expectations of the HIV and AIDS community for the future. www.ukcoalition.org

BBC NEWS Africa HIV puppet on Sesame Street By getting young children used to the idea of having an HIV positive friend around it is hoped the stigma associated with the virus in South Africa can be removed. The programme, aimed at very young children, wants to show that those living with HIV are no different to others and should be treated as such. The idea is to teach children that people can live normal lives with HIV. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2264256.stm

Dating: Personal ads for HIV positive heterosexuals To Place an Ad Be creative, let that person know what hobbies, interests, and passions you have. Just be patient and wait for a reply back from that person who we forwarded your response to. The fee for each response is $3.00 per response or $5.00 for 2 responses. www.positiveconnections.org /personals.htm

HIV Nutrition by HIV ReSources - - Nutrition And HIV Resources No responsibility is implied or intended on the part of HIV ReSources Inc, the editors, authors, or the publisher. -advise web site visitors, subscribers, and mailing list members of recent news and updates: HIV ReSources's periodic email updates provide visitors, subscribers and others who request information with recent recall information, news stories, or updates in the area of HIV/AIDS. -use cookies or any other technology to track activity when visitors are not on HIV ReSources. www.hivresources.com

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