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HIV Learning Center & African Americans
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HIV Learning Center - The HIV Learning Center provides readers with easy access to a wealth of HIV information including HIV prevention, research and treatments for African Americans.
   HIV Infection and AIDS: An Overview
   HIV/STD Prevention and Young Men Who Have Sex with Men
   NATURAL REMEDIES FOR HIV/AIDS
   Young Women of Color and the HIV Epidemic
HIV Treatments

(BlackDoctor.org) -- When HIV/AIDS was first introduced to the scene, it was considered to be a death sentence. In the '80s, people with AIDS usually died within a few years of their diagnosis. Fortunately, the development of safe and effective drugs now allows those infected with HIV to live longer and healthier lives.

Drugs for HIV/AIDS

Currently, there are 30 antiretroviral drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat

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Preventing HIV Transmission

(BlackDoctor.org) -- Contrary to popular belief, HIV can only passed on via these three ways: sexual transmission, transmission through blood, and mother-to-child transmission.

A person can eliminate or reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV during sex by choosing to:
• Abstain from sex or delay first sex
• Be faithful to one partner or have fewer partners
• Condomise, which means using male or female condoms consistently and correctly

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Medicines for HIV

(BlackDoctor.org) -- Four kinds of medicines are used to fight HIV infection. The first kind is called nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase (pronounced trans-KRIP-tase) inhibitors, or "nukes." When HIV infects a healthy cell, it needs the cell's DNA, or genetic instructions, to build copies of itself. These drugs act by blocking the HIV's ability to copy a cell's DNA. Without complete DNA, HIV can't make new virus copies. These medicines include the following:

• Zidovudine, also

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Top 10 HIV Myths

(BlackDoctor.org) -- Shortly after HIV/AIDS hit the scene, rumors about it flew throughout the world. “You can get it by kissing.” “You can get it by holding hands.” “It is airborne.” Throughout the years, most of the HIV myths have been dispelled, but it seems as though there are still a few rumors afloat. See if you can sort the truth from the most common myths about HIV.

True or False?

1. If you test

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