HIV medicines are giving women longer, healthier futures and new strength. While there’s no cure for HIV, the treatments today allow women to live longer and higher quality lives. Making sense of all your treatment options can be hard. By getting the facts, you can decide the best way for you to manage your illness and get the most from these treatments.
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If you test positive for HIV, find a doctor you can trust who treats HIV-positive women. If you need help finding one, call your state AIDS hotline or the CDC National AIDS hotline at 800-CDC-INFO (232-4636). This hotline will either point you to a specific doctor or to resources in your area where you can get health care, like a clinic. Your doctor will talk to you about your health. You also will get a physical exam. If you found out about your positive result over the phone from a counselor at a mail-in testing company, follow up with a doctor to talk about your result.

Just because you are a HIV-positive doesn’t mean that you will need HIV treatment right now. You and your doctor will decide the best time to start treatment. When to start depends on your overall health, the amount of HIV in your blood, how well your immune system is working, and your readiness to stick to treatment. Keep in mind: It is important to see your doctor often — even before you start treatment — to keep you as healthy as possible.

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Canadian researchers have become the first in the world to confirm that an anti-HIV treatment has led to a significant decrease in diagnoses of the virus, according to a groundbreaking study released Sunday at the International AIDS Society conference in Vienna.

The United Nations HIV/AIDS program director, Michel Sidibe, told the conference the UN is embracing highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) as the fundamental prevention strategy to fight the pandemic, based on results from the Canadian study.

For every 100 patients using HAART, scientists recorded a three per cent decrease in HIV diagnoses in British Columbia, said Julio Montaner, lead researcher and director of the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS.

“Today is a big day for us in B.C. and Canada. I don’t remember the last time a made-in-Canada strategy to address a global epidemic has taken this kind of initiative,” Montaner told Postmedia News.

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