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The Call-On-Doc Guide to HIV

Estimated to affect around 1.2 million Americans, the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a prominent sexually transmitted disease in the United States and globally. (1) Having first been reported in what is now Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1959, the STD would go on to spread globally, being the subject of great concern in 1981 during the AIDs pandemic in the United States during Ronald Reagan’s presidency. (2)(3) Known to destroy immune cells as it progresses, HIV can result in a number of different symptoms and can remain in the body for the rest of the person’s lifetime before developing into acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). While there is no HIV cure, HIV treatment reduces the viral load in the blood, suppresses symptoms, heavily reduces the chance of spread, and forces the infection into dormancy. 

Feb 29, 2024

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