Are there any study's on HIV viral load being reduced without med's?
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The answer would not be no.
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Any unprotected sex, with our without ejaculation is a risk for an STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) including HIV.\n\nEven without ejaculation, there are pre-ejaculatory fluids that are released and these can carry HIV. \n\nIn short, nearly any bodily fluid has the potential to tranmist HIV. Whether that is sexual or blood borne in origin.\n\nIf you have concerns, there are many available methods to get tested. Even with safe sex, it is wise to get tested if you are sexuallyactive with multiple partners. Often there are confidential free clinics you can go to.
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Yes - the release of ANY bodily fluid is enough to transmit the AIDS virus. Please take this very seriously if you don't want to get the disease. Look into methods of protection for oral sex - dental dams, using a condom -
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If your willing to contract HIV im willing to mail you my urine on a daily basis to test your theory out.\n\nContact me, I drink alot of fluids.
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Absolutely not.  If nobody got antiviral treatments, the time from infection to emergence of AIDs symptoms, which averages 10 years, is plenty of time for infected people to spread the virus to many other partners unknowingly.  That is why the virus is so successful - that long incubation period.  Modern antivral treatments suppress the virus to a degree where the hiv infected person is not nearly as contagious, i.e., the viral load in their body fluids is many orders of magnitude (a factor of 1000 to 100,000) lower than it would be if they had not treatments.  HIV infected people on antiviral treatments are far less contagious.  That doesn;t mean it is safe for them to have unprotected sex with others, but the chances of transmission per unprotected sex act are dramatically lower, so even if they are irresponsible in this regard, they are mcuh less of a threat.
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not unless I had HIV too
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Yes, and without  medications.\n\nBooks by  Jon Kabat-Zinn  and  Andrew Weil.\n\n\nTHANK  YOU.      R.N.  with  Masters  Degree.
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At first there may not be any symptoms at all. The virus can live in the body without showing any symptoms for up to 10 years untreated. Symptoms do not seriously begin to develop until the virus has moved into the AIDS stage, which is the final stage of HIV infection. Within this stage, symptoms include:\n\n Mild: fatigue, unexplained weight loss, mild fever, diarrhea, and sore throat.\n Severe: loss of appetite, skin diseases, night sweats, and deterioration of mucous membranes.\n\n The best bet is to get tested regularly if you engage in risky sexual activity, or use injection drugs.  If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact your local department of public health. Free testing is available, as well as risk reduction, and post-infection counseling.
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No one has ever accomplished that. With treatment someone who is HIV positive can avoid AIDS but can never get rid of the HIV itself.
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Yes. A new approach to fighting the virus by stopping it from infecting cells. The medical professionals call the new drugs entry inhibitors. I call it slowing the immune response. It can be done with peppermint oil lozenges. This could help third world countries. Perhaps the caring medical professionals would like to do a study to prove it can work against HIV.\n Ask any medical professional you know if they would like to help in the study.
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Absolutely not!  HIV dies upon contact with air in 30 seconds.  Now, hepatitis is a different story...it can live up to 2 weeks in dried blood!!!  Spooky.
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No.  They have cocktails, or combinations of drugs that slow the progress of the disease, prolonging life and making life with AIDS a better quality.
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no not possble to transmit the virus without blood transfer
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Media releases concerning the possibility of mosquitoes transmitting AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) were common when the disease was first recognized, and the subject is still addressed by tabloids that seek captivating headlines to increase their circulation. The topic was initiated by reports from a small community in southern Florida where preliminary evidence suggested that mosquitoes may have been responsible for the higher on average incidence of AIDS in the local population. The media was quick to publicize claims that mosquitoes were involved in AIDS transmission despite findings of scientific surveys of the National Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that clearly demonstrated that mosquito transmission of AIDS in that community appeared highly unlikely. Nevertheless, media releases perpetuated the concept that mosquitoes transmitted AIDS, and many people still feel that mosquitoes may be responsible for transmission of this infection from one individual to another. \n\n     There are three theoretical mechanisms which would allow blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes to transmit HIV.\n\n1. In the first mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by feeding on an HIV positive carrier and ingest virus particles with the blood meal. For the virus to be passed on, it would have to survive inside the mosquito, preferably increase in numbers, and then migrate to the mosquito's salivary glands. The infected mosquito would then seek its second blood meal from an uninfected host and transfer the HIV from its salivary glands during the course of the bite. This is the mechanism used by most mosquito-borne parasites, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and the encephalitis viruses.\n\n2. In the second mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by beginning to feed on an HIV carrier and be interrupted after it had successfully drawn blood. Instead of resuming the partial blood meal on its original host, the mosquito would select an AIDS-free person to complete the meal. As it penetrated the skin of the new host, the mosquito would transfer virus particles that were adhering to the mouthparts from the previous meal. This mechanism is not common in mosquito-borne infections, but equine infectious anemia is transmitted to horses by biting flies in this manner.\n\n3. The third theoretical mechanism also involves a mosquito that is interrupted while feeding on an HIV carrier and resumes the partial blood meal on a different individual. In this scenario, however, the AIDS-free host squashes the mosquito as it attempts to feed and smears HIV contaminated blood into the wound. In theory, any of the mosquito-borne viruses could be transmitted in this manner providing the host circulated sufficient virus particles to initiate re-infection by contamination.\n\n     Each of these mechanisms has been investigated with a variety of blood sucking insects and the results clearly show that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS. News reports on the findings, however, have been confusing, and media interpretation of the results has not been clear. The average person is still not convinced that mosquitoes are not involved in the transmission of a disease that appears in the blood, is passed from person to person and can be contracted by persons that share hypodermic needles. Here are just some of the reasons why the studies showed that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS:\n\n \n\n  Mosquitoes Digest the Virus that Causes AIDS\n\n\n    When a mosquito transmits a disease agent from one person to another, the infectious agent must remain alive inside the mosquito until transfer is completed. If the mosquito digests the parasite, the transmission cycle is terminated and the parasite cannot be passed on to the next host. Successful mosquito-borne parasites have a number of interesting ways to avoid being treated as food. Some are refractory to the digestive enzymes inside the mosquito's stomach; most bore their way out of the stom
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Sorry to hear about your friend. Whilst there may not be a known cure for HIV as yet using complementary therapies would surely help take some of the strain off the immune system. Using organic products which are free from synthetic chemicals would likely help in subtle ways. \n\nAlso the product 'In-Liven' may be beneficial because it is a certified organic probiotic nutritional supplement. It contains 26 wholefoods, 18 amino acids, significant enzymes, a broad spectrum of essential nutrients as well as 13 strains of Lactobacilli (good intestinal bacteria).\n\nHow it may help is by replenishing the body's natural intestinal bacteria which are essential for many body processes. They help with the breaking down of food for the greater absorption of nutrients. Bacteria are readily killed by lots of environmental factors but especially antibiotics and the heavy duty sorts of medications your friend is likely to be using. \n\nAlso the nutrients in the product are easily & quickly absorbed because it has been predigested in effect by the process of making the product. It comes as a powder you can add to juice, water or sprinkle onto other foods.\n\nI hope this helps and your friend starts feeling better soon.
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Have you ever watched a loved one wither away in their hospital bed from a common cold because the AIDS virus made their immune system so weak? If not, you should be grateful. I watched my uncle sit there and wither away to skin and bones because of AIDS. Please educate yourself more on this subject and be more respectful about it.
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The following numbers are old, and they're all pretty much guesswork anyway, so take them with a grain of salt.  But I venture to say most people in the field would agree with my conclusions.\n\nAccording to a report by researchers Norman Hearst and Stephen Hulley in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the odds of a heterosexual becoming infected with AIDS after one episode of penile-vaginal intercourse with someone in a non-high-risk group without a condom are one in 5 million. With a condom it's even safer--one in 50 million. Just to put this in perspective, the chances of someone in your family getting injured next year in a bubble bath are 1 in 1.3 million (source: The Odds on Virtually Everything, Heron House, 1980). You're in much greater danger of being struck by lightning (1 in 600,000), having your house bombed (1 in 290,000), or being murdered (1 in 11,000).\n\nThe numbers get a lot worse if you engage in "high-risk behavior"--having sexual intercourse or sharing needles with a member of a high-risk group, e.g., a gay or bisexual male or IV drug user from a major metro area, or a hemophiliac. The chances of getting AIDS from one such encounter range as high as 1 in 10,000 using a condom to 1 in 1,000 unprotected. Even if your partner tests negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the chances of infection from a high-risk person are still relatively high--1 in 50,000 without a condom. That's because there's a 45 to 90 day window during which a newly infected person can infect others but test negative. (A few people go as long as 180 days.)\n\nFrom there on out, statistically speaking, things deteriorate pretty fast. If your partner is HIV-positive, your chances of getting AIDS after one night are 1 in 5,000 with a condom, 1 in 500 without. Have sex with an HIV-positive partner 500 times using condoms and your chances escalate to 1 in 11. Skip the gift wrap and they're 2 in 3.\n\nA couple points: These odds apply equally to men and women. Although there's reason to believe male-to-female AIDS transmission happens more often than female-to-male, the amount of difference is unknown. Also, I have to emphasize again, the numbers involve a lot of guesswork. The authors admit they could be off by a factor of ten in either direction. Still, one message comes through loud and clear: by far the best thing you can do to avoid AIDS is to be picky about your partners. Use of condoms reduces your risk by a factor of 10, sleeping only with people who test negative reduces it by a factor of 5 to 50, but avoiding high-risk partners reduces it by a factor of 5,000. (You'd also be well advised to avoid high-risk behavior, such as unprotected receptive anal sex.) Asking for a resume may not be romantic, but it beats Kaposi's sarcoma.