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Ultraviolet B Radiation Does Not Negatively Affect HIV Patients

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 4th, 2000

Ultraviolet B (UVB) radiation does not cause a decline in immunological parameters in HIV infected homosexual men, say researchers in The Netherlands.

"Whether exposure to sunlight, especially UVB radiation, is harmful to the cellular immunity of HIV infected individuals and whether this is associated with an accelerated progression towards AIDS is still under debate," reported J. Maas and colleagues from the Municipal Health Service Amsterdam and the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, The Netherlands. "Among HIV positive homosexual participants of the Amsterdam Cohort Study, the degree of exposure to UVB was assessed over the period 1995-1997 by...

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