By Mark Cichocki, R.N., About.com

Though it isn't unique to people infected with the virus, studies suggest that HIV and vitamin D deficiency often go hand-in-hand. This is worrisome because vitamin D is an important nutrient for bone health, calcium balance and immune function.
People living with HIV and vitamin D deficiency may experience bone disorders, low CD4 counts and increased AIDS progression, so doctors are taking a closer look at vitamin D levels in all of their HIV patients.

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Apart from the many challenges being newly diagnosed (3rd week), is to love the Lord with all that is in me. This morning I read in Mark 12:30-31, to love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength.

I reflected on how easy it is to love the things (or people) that bring pleasure, comfort and some measure of happiness, though fleeting. However, not to love God first, is not to fully experience a pure and holy love for others as He intended. So often my investment in a self focused love mad… Continue

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
IRVINE, CA (ANS) -- The founder and executive director of the oldest Evangelical Christian ministry to those facing HIV/AIDS says he is 'skeptical, but supportive' of a proposed new vaccine to treat the disease.
Bruce Sonnenberg and Dan Wooding of ASSIST News at AIDS 2008 in Mexico City.
Rev. Bruce Sonnenberg was responding to a CNN report that says researchers have found a vaccine to prevent HIV infection, the virus that leads t… Continue

Successful AIDS-Vaccine Trial Raises Hopes — and Questions
By Eben Harrell Thursday, Sep. 24, 2009

An AIDS vaccine has been shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection in humans for the first time, a significant advance in a field of research that has long been stymied by failure.

The $105 million, six-year trial, which involved more than 16,000 people in Thailand — the largest AIDS-vaccine trial ever conducted — found that an experimental vaccine was 31% effective in preventing HIV infection. T… Continue

Beloved,
God bless you for your committment and diligence in seeing that the work move forward.My family is still in Agadez Niger.The ministry in Agadez,Niger is under the leadership of my wife.
CHALLENGES;The main challenge I face now is not being able to move arround freely because I did not have my resident permit.It is a priority to pray for God's provision to enable me procure it.
The second challengeis the language.I have to double my effort and with the inspiration anointing of the HolySp… Continue