In total, the hospital takes care of 1, 000 HIV positive patients.

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Keith Alcorn, of the National Aids Manual, said the findings showed it was important for all newly diagnosed HIV-positive patients to receive a resistance test before starting treatment.

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She worked with HIV-positive patients while earning her master's and doctoral degrees in nursing, and watched as a few mysterious AIDS cases in the United States turned into a global problem.

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HIV-positive infants, psychiatric patients, the elderly, the young all, we are told, benefit.

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Dmytro Sherembey, the HIV-positive head of the patients' pressure group which helped organise Liza's appeal in parliament, the Ukrainian Community Advisory Board, predicts licences will be issued to those who pay bribes.

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In addition, it is difficult to determine with certainty that early whether a baby is HIV-positive, and overtreatment would risk wasting scarce medications that offer a better chance of helping other patients.

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