Paul Bellman
AIDS Physician
Dr. Paul Bellman, a physician in private practice in Manhattan, has treated many HIV/AIDS patients over the past 25 years. As a medical student at NYU Medical School in 1980, he was involved in the care of the very first AIDS patients, then diagnosed with what was called GRID or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency. Bellman was formerly an attending physician at Saint Vincent's Hospital in New York, and is now affiliated with New York Presbyterian Hospital.
A conversation with the AIDS physician.
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Despite being infected with HIV, some people have genetic traits that prevent the virus from progressing to AIDS, even without treatment from antiretrovirals. Known as “elite controllers” and “long-term nonprogressors,” […]
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Despite what Obama advisor Ezekiel Emanuel says, we may be able to treat our way out of the epidemic if enough resources were applied wisely and correctly.
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A 2008 Swiss study suggested that people on antiretroviral medication are non-infectious, which, if true, would help to combat the stigma attached to HIV.
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