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HIV
infections
This page provides links to descriptions of activities,
reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating
partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working
on this topic.
http://www.who.int |
Life
Cycle of HIV Infection
HIV begins its infection of a susceptible host cell
by binding to the CD4 receptor on the host cell.
http://www.hopkins-aids.edu |
Other
Malignancies Associated with HIV
A list of all the possible infections that can come
from having HIV/AIDS.
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/ |
Altered
HIV Attacks Mice Tumors
Researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles
have tweaked HIV to create a gene therapy that attacks
cancer tumors in mice. People might wonder if it's scary
to use HIV as a therapy.
http://www.wired.com |
Infections
Associated with HIV
Bacterial Infections, Fungal
Infections, Viral Infections, Parasitic Infections.
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu |
What
are opportunistic infections?
People with advanced HIV infection are vulnerable to
infections and malignancies that are called 'opportunistic
infections' because they take advantage of the opportunity
offered by a weakened immune system.
http://www.avert.org/aidscare.htm |
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