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An Air Force cadet and a Navy midshipman have won their lawsuit after being denied promotions for being HIV-positive. Former Navy midshipman Kevin Deese and former Air Force cadet John Doe (a pseudonym) filed the lawsuit against the Department of Defense in 2018 when they were denied commissions after graduating from their respective service academies simply because they are living with HIV. The settlement, announced Monday, will see that the two are commissioned as officers "in recognition of the status and military careers they qualified for and earned years ago," according to a Lambda Legal press release.

Cancer is the leading cause of death among people living with HIV, according to data in the annual American Cancer Society report Cancer Statistics, 2024, which was released January 17 and is also available in a consumer-friendly companion, Cancer Facts & Figures, 2024. … Less than 5% of cancers are attributed to infectious agents such as HIV, according to Cancer Facts & Figures. However, when compared with the general U.S. population, people living with HIV have a 10-fold higher burden of infection-related cancers.

Excluding homosexuals from blood donation, long past when they were given all these other special rights, was not about prejudice. People simply identified a group that has way more diseases than everyone else. It’s basic pattern recognition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUWQSFD8-Rw I guess I’m going to have to cancel my annual trip to Switzerland to have my blood changed. What a mess.

An article demonstrates the beneficial effects of consuming 500 milligrams (mg) per day of propolis for people living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The authors found that the group given propolis, unlike the group given placebo, displayed a significant reduction in plasma levels of malondialdehyde, a marker of oxidative stress. Total antioxidant capacity increased slightly in the same group, reflecting the direct combating of free radicals. "Although people living with HIV have excellent life expectancy, one of the problems still faced is the question of premature aging," said biologist Karen Ingrid Tasca. This process of premature aging is...

A key challenge after the Covid-19 pandemic will be managing the long-term sequalae for the millions of individuals who recover from the disease. Based on the available evidence, our hypothesis is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and its long-term complications will lead to premature aging (in terms of health) of many people in the world.

For National HIV/AIDS & Aging Awareness Day (NHAAD), Hank Trout shares the effects of premature aging with HIV.... Every September 18 since 2008, we have observed National HIV/AIDS & Aging Awareness Day (NHAAD), highlighting the complex issues related to HIV prevention, care, and treatment for aging populations in the United States. The goals of NHAAD are to emphasize the need for prevention, research, and data targeting the aging population and to increase medical understanding of the aging process and its impact on HIV/AIDS, to increase the quality of life for older people living with HIV/AIDS and to reduce stigma surrounding...

People with HIV who use effective modern antiretroviral therapy (ART) and maintain a high CD4 T-cell count can expect to live nearly as long as HIV-negative people in the general population, according to study results published in The Lancet HIV. But those with a low CD4 count do not fare as well, underscoring the need to start treatment before serious immune system damage occurs. “For people with HIV on ART and with high CD4 cell counts who survived to 2015 or started ART after 2015, life expectancy was only a few years lower than that in the general population, irrespective...

Patients with cancer who were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection had increased epigenetic age—a type of biological age defined by DNA methylation patterns—compared with patients with cancer without HIV, according to a study presented at the AACR Special Conference: Aging and Cancer, held November 17-20.

Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships would be allowed to donate blood without abstaining from sex under guidelines being drafted by the Food and Drug Administration, people familiar with the plans said. The change would be a departure from U.S. policy that for many years barred men who have sex with men from donating blood at all. The FDA policy originated in the 1980s during the AIDS epidemic when tests for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, weren’t considered sensitive enough to protect the blood supply. The FDA lifted the ban in 2015 but said gay and bisexual men...

HIV virions (red) budding and being released from an immune cell (blue). (NIH Image Gallery) AIDS researchers announced on Wednesday that a fourth person has been "cured" of HIV, but the dangerous procedure for patients also battling cancer may be little comfort for the tens of millions living with the virus worldwide. The 66-year-old man, named the "City of Hope" patient after the Californian center where he was treated, was declared in remission in the lead-up to the International AIDS Conference, which begins in Montreal, Canada on Friday. He is the second person to be announced cured this year, after...

HIV substantially speeds up aging at the cellular level within the first few years after acquisition of the virus, researchers at the University of California (UCLA) report in iScience. These findings underscore the importance of early diagnosis and prompt treatment of HIV. The team observed that during the first two to three years after infection, HIV-positive men’s DNA showed evidence of aging up to five years faster than a comparable group of men who remained HIV negative. Elizabeth Crabb Breen, PhD, a professor emerita at UCLA’s Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology and David Geffen School of Medicine, and her colleagues concluded...

STUDY: People With HIV Age 14 Years Faster New study shows evidence HIV accelerates age-related diseases. HIV positive patients may be living longer, but they may also be aging faster than expected. A new study published today in PLOS One shows that HIV-positive people are at an increased risk of age-related diseases such as some cancers, frailty, osteoporosis, kidney disease, and neurocognitive disease. Researchers think that it is the HIV itself that accelerates the aging process by 14 years, rather than medications used to treat it. Scientists from the UCLA AIDS Institute and Center for AIDS Research and the Multi-Center...

Even When Well Treated, HIV Is Linked to Advanced Aging Researchers analyzed 10 biomarkers associated with biological aging among a group of HIV-positive and -negative Europeans. People living with well-treated HIV may experience faster biological aging than their HIV-negative counterparts. Publishing their findings in the journal AIDS, researchers from the ComorBidity in Relation to AIDS (COBRA) study analyzed 134 people with HIV and 79 HIV-negative people with similar sociodemographic and lifestyle factors. The participants were recruited in Amsterdam (these were at least 45 years old) and London (these were at least 50 years old). All the HIV-positive individuals were on...

Rapid Aging of HIV Immune System Reported in 2011 and Earlier by Rita Effros & UCLA Researchers. But this was essentially not followed up on. Rita Effros, long-time immunologist at UCLA, and others predicted we would have this aging problem but these findings & predictions got little attention except by a few immunology & HIV researchers like Alan Landay, Joe Margolick, Keri Althoff & Seems Desai who did research & discussed these issues. It was much earlier that Rita Effros first reported (1996; https://journals.lww.com/aidsonline/Citation/1996/07000/ Shortened_telomeres_in_the_expanded_CD28_CD8__cell.1.aspx) these problems than these 2011 publications. But overall these problems & predictions were ignored. now...

WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon will no longer automatically ban people who are HIV-positive from joining the US military as officers or deploying abroad. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a memo this week updating HIV policies for the military "in view of significant advances in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention" of the virus. EMAIL U.S. & WORLD US military eases restrictions on HIV positive service members The policy changes follow a recent federal court decision that ruled Defense Department policies were unlawful. CNNWire Sunday, June 12, 2022 1:29PM EMBED <>MORE VIDEOS An investigation is underway after two women were killed...