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AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)

Feature article: HIV infection: what is it?
HIV infection is a viral infection that progressively destroys the immune system, causing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other diseases that result from the impaired immunity >> More
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Plans for large-scale AIDS vaccine trial dropped (Thursday, July 17, 2008)
Plans for a large-scale trial of a potential AIDS vaccine are being dropped in favor of a smaller, more focused study, the National Institutes of Health...>>More
Magic Johnson's wife in public eye on HIV campaign (Sunday, July 06, 2008)
Magic Johnson's normally publicity-shy wife Cookie is emerging as a spokeswoman in a campaign urging black women to get tested for HIV...>>More
NYC urges docs to do routine HIV testing on adults (Friday, June 27, 2008)
Health officials are trying to persuade doctors to offer HIV tests to nearly every patient in a New York City community hit harder than most by AIDS...>>More
Study: Treating herpes doesn't prevent HIV (Friday, June 20, 2008)
Doctors have long suspected that people with herpes are more likely to catch HIV. So they thought that by treating herpes, they could also cut a person's...>>More
Study: 1 in 4 adults in NYC have herpes virus (Monday, June 09, 2008)
A city Health Department study finds that more than a fourth of adult New Yorkers are infected with the virus that causes genital herpes...>>More
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Serostim (somatropin (Serostim))
Sustiva (efavirenz)
Rescriptor (delavirdine)
Reyataz (atazanavir)
Videx (didanosine)
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Complete Blood Count
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