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AIDS prevention & treatment
The prevention and treatment of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or AIDS, which is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The illness interferes with the immune system, making people with AIDS much more likely to get infections. HIV is transmitted through direct contact with HIV-infected body fluids, such as blood, semen, and genital secretions, or from an HIV-infected mother to her child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding (through breast milk).
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AIDS prevention & treatment
Single-blind study
Health care; AIDS prevention & treatment
A type of clinical trial in which either the investigators or the participants are unaware of the treatment that the participants are receiving.
Single-masked study
Health care; AIDS prevention & treatment
A type of clinical trial in which either the investigators or the participants are unaware of the treatment that the participants are receiving.
Elite controllers
Health care; AIDS prevention & treatment
A very small subset of people infected with HIV who are able to maintain suppressed viral loads for years without antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. Although antiretrovial therapy (ART) may be theoretically ...
Modified directly observed therapy (m-DOT)
Health care; AIDS prevention & treatment
A variation of directly observed therapy (DOT). Modified-DOT (m-DOT) is when a health care professional watches a person take some, but not all, medication doses.
Multivalent vaccine
Health care; AIDS prevention & treatment
A vaccine that immunises against more than one antigen. An example of a polyvalent vaccine is the MMR vaccine, which immunises against three viruses—the viruses that cause measles, mumps, and ...
Polyvalent vaccine
Health care; AIDS prevention & treatment
A vaccine that immunises against more than one antigen. An example of a polyvalent vaccine is the MMR vaccine, which immunises against three viruses—the viruses that cause measles, mumps, and ...
Therapeutic HIV vaccine
Health care; AIDS prevention & treatment
A vaccine to slow the progression of HIV infection or delay the onset of AIDS. To date, no therapeutic HIV vaccine exists, but research is underway.
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