Pages tagged with "HIV"

• Medicare payed $1 B to $18 B for each of these drugs (Vitamin D helps fight most of the health problems)
• HIV pregnancy often results in HIV infant unless expensive ART therapy or Vitamin D
• HIV patients got to 28 ng by monthly 50,000 IU of Vitamin D
• Pregnant women in HIV therapy adding Vitamin D had 3X fewer deaths - RCT
• Osteoporosis risk due to HIV gut and HIV drugs (gut-friendly Vit D can help)
• HIV treatment augmented by high-dose vitamin D, daily or weekly
• HIV, TB, Malaria more important than COVID to lower Africa
• HIV vaccine effectivity perhaps increased and side effects reduced if higher Vitamin D
• After HIV infection, Vitamin D levels drop for years (not a surprise)
• Low vitamin D increases the risk of hepatitis, influenza, Covid-19, AIDS and other viral diseases
• Low vitamin D with HIV increases risk of infections – TB by 3.5X, CMV by 10.1X
• HIV therapy reduces Vitamin D levels, supplementation helps
• Cognitive problems 2X more likely if HIV and low vitamin D
• Off topic: HIV drug developed and patented by US govt costs 1780 dollars but only 8 in Australia
• Use of Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (Hepatitis-B, AIDS) requires more vitamin D
• Immunity increased by Vitamin D via cells and genes (HIV etc.)
• Vertebral fractures 9X more likely in HIV patients having low vitamin D
• HIV patients helped by monthly 120,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT
• 8 times less bacteria in blood of HIV patients if Vitamin D levels greater than 30 ng
• Animal study: vitamin D as an adjunct therapy for the treatment of Pneumocystis pneumonia