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All that you wanted to know about HIV and AIDS

Monday, July 26th, 2010
HIV&AIDS

  The existence of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) as a disease was established in the year 1981. At the time, a number of homosexual males were found to be having deficient cell-mediated immunity and were suffering from conditions like Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma, both opportunistic infections, i.e., conditions that mostly affect only people [...]

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World AIDS Day: Diagnostic Tests For HIV

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
3. Diagnostic Tests For HIV

   There are a number of tests that may be used for the detection of HIV. This article carries the most commonly used tests for the detection of HIV in the human body. There could be other tests advised by your doctor along with these tests to know the status of the disease depending upon [...]

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