May 4, 2021 - From the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, nurses have been at the forefront of patient care, advocacy, and research. But even in the age of antiretroviral therapy and ...
The AIDS pandemic is nearing its fourth decade, and the need for innovative strategies to help people living with HIV/AIDS has become increasingly important. There are 40 million people infected with ...
Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, and the Home Nursing Agency’s AIDS Intervention Project is using this observation to provide reminders about the importance of HIV/AIDS testing, as shared in the following ...
There is much about the HIV/AIDS epidemic that’s terribly complicated. The wily bug itself has defied science’s best efforts to kill it for three decades. That said, there are also simple truths we’re ...
Nursing home providers that have residents with HIV may need to take additional steps to ensure they’re getting necessary medications for treatment. A clinical investigation led by Harvard researchers ...
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Nursing Professor Mirjam-Collette Kempf, PhD, MPH, principal investigator of the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS) / Women's Interagency HIV ...
From the very beginning of the AIDS epidemic in 1981, nurses have been at the forefront of patient care, advocacy, and research. But even in the age of antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure ...
A diagnosis of HIV/AIDS is no longer a death sentence. But, there are still barriers to care that go beyond medication, especially to one of the country’s most atrisk populations, African-American ...
A resident exercises in the physical therapy gym at Broadway House for Continuing Care, the only US nursing home to receive funding through the federal Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. (Photo: Courtesy of ...
Physicians and their patients report that engagement in an HIV-based community rivals drug effectiveness in the ongoing efforts to curtail an epidemic. Confronting the HIV Epidemic: There's an App for ...
Life with AIDS can change as the disease progresses. Different stages of the disease pose different challenges and require different types of medical care, support services, and planning. According to ...