HIV test

time it was known as a death sentence virus. There is a stage before AIDs which is known as HIV. HIV was first discovered in 1981. One in every six people are infected with HIV. The acronym HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. Unlike most viruses, HIV is one that your body can never nor will ever get rid of. So, once you have HIV you will have it for the rest of your life. The early stages of HIV have several symptoms such as mouth sores, muscles aches, sore throat, fever, chills, and…

Community HIV Project (GCHP), an API gay and bisexual HIV/AIDS agency in San Francisco, California. HHKIU has demonstrated significant reductions in the number of sexual partners among all intervention participants three months after the intervention. The success of this program is based on culturally appropriate interventions and acknowledging risky HIV behaviors. The intervention is designed to increase positive ethnic and sexual identity in order to help participants acknowledge HIV risk…

young age of 13. Within the last two decades the HIV virus has become the largest scope of infection across the globe. With the number of infected people on the rise, it is important to understand how to cope with a disease so wide spread and so dangerous to someone’s body. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the key factors of the HIV infections and the highlighting points to protect yourself and others from something as dangerous as the HIV infection. In today’s…

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (more commonly known as HIV) is a disease that has been around for over 3 decades, and continues to rise with little to no sign of eradication. The origin of HIV is not certain but there are several theories with the most popular one being that it came from a mutation of a similar virus found in chimpanzees. An estimated 35 million people are living with HIV around the world. Because of this, many scientists are doing research to try to pinpoint the mechanism of its…

TaqScreen MPX Test, version 2.0 for use with the cobas s 201 system. Biological name: HIV-1 Group O and M, HIV-2, HCV and/or HBV (HIV-1/HIV-2/HCV/HBV/Multiplex Discriminatory NAT) The Cobas MPX Test 2.0 is manufactured by Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. I was particularly interested in this product because of the disease caused due to the virus HIV. It is one of the most serious health and development challenges. There are about 3.5 million patients who receive blood each year. HIV and…

and shrubs to cure an infected person of a disease undiagnosed as Hiv but with fevers symptoms and signs of someone really sick it had to be a condition of the gods. But the evolution of science has proven over the years that this not only what is a Virus is…

characteristics Key results Major conclusions Validity Herbst de Cortina et al. To determine sensitivity and specificity of dual HIV/Syphilis INSTI Multiplex downward flow immunoassay POC test Cohort study 200 convenience high risk serum samples, 14 of which were already diagnosed with primary Syphilis by PCR. Peruvian men who have sex with men and transgender women. HIV: sens. 100% and speci. 95% Syphilis: sens. 87.4% and speci. 97.0%. Excellent performance in comparison to routine methods.…

When your blood is tested for HIV, the lab first performs what is known as an EIA or ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). A negative ELISA means that no antibodies were found in the blood and that the person is HIV-negative. A positive result is confirmed with a second ELISA. If the second ELISA is positive, a Western Blot must be done to ensure that the antibodies detected in the ELISA test are really HIV antibodies. The Western Blot test can come back positive, negative, or inconclusive.…

The growing HIV rates within MSM are so severe that studies have been conducted to explore the possible factors that are leading to the growing rates. A study conducted in Los Angeles that involved 797 MSM and MSM/W from the Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV-Cooperative Agreement Program found that the reason people lack awareness “of HIV status may be due to stigma” (14). With the use of the Internalized Homonegativity index, researchers found that “anti-gay attitudes and perceptions…

tested positive for the HIV/AIDS virus. Throughout the article Greene, reflects on how most children who have a positive HIV/AID result will not be adopted into the United States due to families not “wanting” a child with a deathly disease and in contrary the US should extend their arms to these children the most. Out of the positive babies in African orphanages, 75% of them will pass away before age two where as babies in the United States who have received successful HIV/AIDS treatment are…