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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AIDs is a disease that is killing millions of people each year, a large portion of these are children. The definition of AIDs according to WorldIQ.com is “AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, sometimes written Aids) is a human diseaseimmune system. It is widely accepted that AIDS results from infection with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), although this hypothesis is not without controversy. AIDS is currently considered incurable; where treatments are unavailable (mostly in poorer countries) most sufferers die within a few years of infection. In developed countries, treatment has improved greatly over the past decade, and people have lived with AIDS for ten to twenty years.” characterized by progressive destruction of the body’s
AIDs is an epidemic that is sweeping the world. With it killing 2 million people in 2008 and 25 million people have died since 1981 according to Avert, Averting HIV and AIDs. “In developing and transitional countries, 9.5 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 4 million (42%) are receiving the drugs”

That means that less than half of the people needing the drug to survive are not receiving it. According to Water.org “884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people and 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease.” This means that a third of the percent of people living without the life saving pill they need also are living with clean water. Something must be done. Luckily things are being done and changes are being made to help those who are infected with AIDs.

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