In this videocast from the International AIDS Society Conference in Sydney, Peter Staley interviews Dr. Fred Gordin from George Washington University, who explains why many experts think we might be waiting too long to put patients on HIV treatment. Dr. Gordin is also leading the effort to launch a large clinical trial called START, which hopes to determine if starting treatment at higher CD4 counts will save more lives.
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Christina DeNully, Dayton, WA, 2007-07-27 20:35:07
Starting meds in the first 3 years of contracting the virus gives you a longer life in my opinion. I started meds in the first 3 years because I had a child. I now have 2 kids that don't have HIV. In the 1st 3 years of infection you're body is learning how to fight off HIV. If taking the meds at that point you're immune system isn't working overtime to fight it off. I have had HIV since I was 15 I am now 28! Viral load is undetectable and CD4 is 896. Why? I never stopped taking the meds.
Christina DeNully, Dayton, wa, 2007-07-27 20:34:21
Starting meds in the first 3 years of contracting the virus gives you a longer life in my opinion. I started meds in the first 3 years because I had a child. I now have 2 kids that don't have HIV. In the 1st 3 years of infection you're body is learning how to fight off HIV. If taking the meds at that point you're immune system isn't working overtime to fight it off. I have had HIV since I was 15 I am now 28! Viral load is undetectable and CD4 is 896. Why? I never stopped taking the meds.
Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
