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Fields's specialty is behavioral health, in particular HIV/AIDS prevention.He has produced contributions including scholarly articles, book chapters, seminars, webinars, newspaper articles, and television appearances.
Patients who are medically stable and who have low viral load for two years may get viral load counts every 6 months instead of 3. [1] If a viral load count is not stable or sufficiently low, then that might be a reason to modify the HIV treatment. [1] If HIV treatment is changed, then the viral load should be tested 2–8 weeks later. [1]
AIDS is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. It was established in 1987 and is an official journal of the International AIDS Society. [1] It covers all aspects of HIV and AIDS, including basic science, clinical trials, epidemiology, and social science. The editor in chief is Jay A. Levy ...
Additionally, people with AIDS often have systemic symptoms of infection like fevers, sweats (particularly at night), swollen glands, chills, weakness, and weight loss. [13] [14] The specific opportunistic infections that AIDS patients develop depend in part on the prevalence of these infections in the geographic area in which the patient lives.
Many governments and research institutions participate in HIV/AIDS research. This research includes behavioral health interventions such as sex education, and drug development, such as research into microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases, HIV vaccines, and antiretroviral drugs.
As of 2024, 7 people have been reported cured of AIDS by stem cell transplants, 5 of those from donors with two copies of the CCR5-delta-32 mutation which gives protection against HIV infection and these have been dubbed as the "Berlin" (2008), "London" (2020), "Duesseldorf" (2022), "New York" (2022) and "City of Hope" (2023) patients.
Their announcement came on June 5, 1981, when one of their journals published an article reporting five cases of pneumonia, caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii, all in gay men living in Los Angeles. [78] [79] In May 1983, scientists isolated a retrovirus which was later called HIV from an AIDS patient in France. [80]
The tool enabled physicians to individualize their patients’ treatment, using these predictions based on more than a million patient-years of treatment experience. HIV-TRePS was possibly the first ever AI-based system for medical decision-making to be developed, successfully tested, and used in clinical practice.