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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 ...
The International Journal of STD & AIDS is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers the field of immunology as applied to sexually-transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS. Its editor-in-chief is John White (Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust). It was established in 1990 and is published by SAGE Publications.
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]
The guidelines use new criteria to consider starting HAART, as described below. However, there remain a range of views on this subject and the decision of whether to commence treatment ultimately rests with the patient and his or her doctor. [citation needed] The US DHHS guidelines (published April 8, 2015) state: [citation needed]
AIDS Care (subtitle: Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV) is a peer-reviewed medical journal publishing HIV/AIDS research from multiple different disciplines, including psychology and sociology. [1] It was established in 1989 and is published ten times per year by Taylor & Francis.
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.
HIV is now known to spread between CD4 + T cells by two parallel routes: cell-free spread and cell-to-cell spread, i.e. it employs hybrid spreading mechanisms. [95] In the cell-free spread, virus particles bud from an infected T cell, enter the blood/extracellular fluid and then infect another T cell following a chance encounter. [95]
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]