HIV
noun
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Reversing the policies against LGBTQIA+ people and those with HIV/AIDS shows that there is a way forward.
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Giorgi Minasovi and Jonathan Jk Stoltman, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
The clinic will remain open and offer a range of OB-GYN care including ultrasounds, HIV testing and STI testing.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
In the Phase 2 study, researchers will evaluate the vaccine candidate's safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity at two different dosage levels in adults, including people living with HIV, as well as in adolescents and in children two years of age and older.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
In a worst-case scenario, striking down EMTALA protections could provide a pathway to allow states to weasel out of emergency care in other MAGA-unpopular instances, such as intervention for a gender-affirming care emergency or life-saving HIV treatment.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Set in the 1980s and later the 1990s, the series followed members of the LGBTQ+ ballroom culture in New York City amid the rising HIV/AIDS epidemic.
—Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
This contrasts with California, where the only prescription treatments pharmacists can unilaterally dispense involve HIV prevention, smoking cessation, and birth control — all of which are also available from Colorado pharmacists.
—Jeffrey Singer, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who chaired the host committee, heard anxiety from fellow Democrats too, but held firm, assuring critics that no one could contract HIV/AIDS simply by visiting the city, and making the broader argument that the Bay Area’s inclusiveness was a point of pride.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says these programs reduce HIV and hepatitis C infections, and that new users of the programs are more likely to enter drug treatment and more likely to stop using drugs.
—Sarah Boden, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
Giorgi Minasovi and Jonathan Jk Stoltman, STAT, 5 Apr. 2024
The clinic will remain open and offer a range of OB-GYN care including ultrasounds, HIV testing and STI testing.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
In the Phase 2 study, researchers will evaluate the vaccine candidate's safety, tolerability, and immunogenicity at two different dosage levels in adults, including people living with HIV, as well as in adolescents and in children two years of age and older.
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
In a worst-case scenario, striking down EMTALA protections could provide a pathway to allow states to weasel out of emergency care in other MAGA-unpopular instances, such as intervention for a gender-affirming care emergency or life-saving HIV treatment.
—Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024
Set in the 1980s and later the 1990s, the series followed members of the LGBTQ+ ballroom culture in New York City amid the rising HIV/AIDS epidemic.
—Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
This contrasts with California, where the only prescription treatments pharmacists can unilaterally dispense involve HIV prevention, smoking cessation, and birth control — all of which are also available from Colorado pharmacists.
—Jeffrey Singer, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who chaired the host committee, heard anxiety from fellow Democrats too, but held firm, assuring critics that no one could contract HIV/AIDS simply by visiting the city, and making the broader argument that the Bay Area’s inclusiveness was a point of pride.
—Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says these programs reduce HIV and hepatitis C infections, and that new users of the programs are more likely to enter drug treatment and more likely to stop using drugs.
—Sarah Boden, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024
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HIV
noun
: any of a group of viruses that infect and destroy helper T cells causing the marked reduction in their numbers that is diagnostic of AIDS
Medical Definition
HIV
noun
: any of several retroviruses and especially HIV-1 that infect and destroy helper T cells of the immune system causing the marked reduction in their numbers that is diagnostic of AIDS
called also AIDS virus, human immunodeficiency virus
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