A powerful vintage poster exhibit at the University of Rochester challenges how we look at HIV.
HIV
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28 percent of millennials avoid hugging people with HIV
HIV stigma, misinformation prevalent among young Americans
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URMC artist in residence fights stigmas with portraits
Charmaine Wheatley has set up camp at the UR’s Medical Center to paint portraits of individuals from two stigmatized communities: people living with mental illness, and people living with HIV
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Coming soon: HIV shots?
One of the more daunting challenges of managing HIV is properly taking the daily regimen of one to five pills. But that could soon be in the past. The results of an experimental treatment, which appear in the journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology, and Medicine, could mean that patients get an infrequent injection to stop the […]
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Living with HIV
Alberta Willingham will be 43 in a few months, but she’s lucky to be alive. A normal T-cell count in a healthy person is somewhere between 500 and 1,500. Several years ago, Willingham’s was down to 5. T-cells are the white blood cells that mount the fight against fungi, bacteria, and viruses that invade the […]
