Immune System
The largest organ of the body.
What is the skin?
HIV commonly infects this type of immune system cell.
This type of medication regimen uses multiple classes of drugs to prevent HIV from replicating at different stages.
What is combination therapy?
This test detects the number of copies HIV per 1 milliliter of blood.
What is the viral load?
Another name for CD4
What is "Helper T Cell?"
This can result when HIV destroys too many CD4 cells.
This happens when there are fewer than 50 copies of HIV per milliliter of blood.
What is undetectable?
This is the period of time during which HIV antibodies develop and become detectable.
What is seroconversion?
Vessels of immune system cells that are located in areas like the armpit, neck, and groin.
What are lymph nodes?
The genetic makeup of HIV is made of this material.
What is RNA?
This may have happened if ART stops working.
What is drug resistance?
This is the name of the program that Howard Brown Health recently implemented to help patients start HIV treatment right away.
What is Same Day Start?
1987
Part of the immune system that produces both red and white blood cells.
What is bone marrow?
These are collections of "inactive" or "resting" HIV-infected cells.
What are reservoirs?
This is the moment when doctors recommend starting ART.
What is "as soon as possible after diagnosis?"
This is the number of hours a person has to take PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) after exposure to HIV.
What is 72 hours?
B cells produces these blood proteins that "flag" antigens to mark them for destruction.
What are antibodies?
The process of exiting the CD4 cell as a mature HIV.
What is budding?
This class of antiretroviral drugs prevents HIV from maturing.
What are protease inhibitors?
Besides blood, semen, and vaginal fluids, these two other bodily fluids can contain HIV in a person who is infected.
What is rectal fluid and breastmilk?