{"id":54,"date":"2014-11-22T17:32:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T17:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/?page_id=54"},"modified":"2014-11-22T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T19:56:50","slug":"can-rh-negative-people-get-hivaids","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/popular-questions\/can-rh-negative-people-get-hivaids\/","title":{"rendered":"Can rh negative people get HIV\/AIDS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Can rh negative people get HIV\/AIDS?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firetown.com\/2014\/06\/13\/the-human-pk-histo-blood-group-antigen-provides-protection-against-hiv-1-infection\/\" target=\"_blank\">The answer is &#8220;Yes&#8221;.<\/a><br \/>\nI have personally spoken with both, medical professionals and rh negative (including O negative) AIDS patients and <strong>there is no connection between ABO blood groups and the rhesus factor and immunity to the HIV\/AIDS virus.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers have developed more sophisticated methods for typing blood in recent years.<\/strong> Moving beyond the old-fashioned grouping systems that split people into A, B and O blood types\u2014and the more recent Rh blood typing system\u2014they\u2019ve uncovered another method for grouping people by their blood characteristics. <strong>The new method is concerned with a carbohydrate-carrying antigen called Pk.<\/strong> Some people have a lot of Pk in their blood, while others have none at all. Most people fall somewhere in between.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They found that the cells of people who express high levels of Pk, a rare group representing about one in a million people, were resistant to HIV infection. Conversely, the cells of those who express no Pk at all, representing about five in a million people, were particularly susceptible to HIV infection.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firetown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/4980.full_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The human Pk histo-blood group antigen provides protection against HIV-1 infection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Individuals expressing HLA-B57 presented significantly less frequently with symptomatic acute HIV-1 infection<\/strong> (4\/116, 3.4%) than expected from the frequency of chronically infected individuals expressing this allele (43\/446, 9.6%; P < 0.05). During acute infection, virus-specific CD8 T-cell responses were dominated by HLA-B57-restricted responses, with significantly broader (P < 0.02) and stronger (P < 0.03) responses restricted by HLA-B57 than restricted by all other co-expressed HLA class I alleles combined. Six out of nine individuals expressing HLA-B57 controlled HIV-1 viremia in the absence of therapy at levels < 5000 copies\/ml (median, 515 copies\/ml) during up to 29 months following acute infection.\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/14685052\" target=\"_blank\">Influence of HLA-B57 on clinical presentation and viral control during acute HIV-1 infection.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p><strong>One study indicates that Rh(D) positive (97.8%) was more susceptible than D negative (2.2%). That could mean that rh positive individuals are around 7 times more likely to contract the HIV virus than rh negatives. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please continue here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/rh-negative-blood-does-not-protect-you-from-hivaids\/\">Rh negative blood does not protect you from HIV\/AIDS<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Can rh negative people get HIV\/AIDS?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Can rh negative people get HIV\/AIDS?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>The answer is &#8220;Yes&#8221;. I have personally spoken with both, medical professionals and rh negative (including O negative) AIDS patients and there is no connection between ABO blood groups and the rhesus factor and immunity to the HIV\/AIDS virus. Researchers have developed more sophisticated methods for typing blood in recent years. Moving beyond the old-fashioned grouping systems that split people into A, B and O blood types\u2014and the more recent Rh blood typing system\u2014they\u2019ve uncovered another method for grouping people by their blood characteristics. The new method is concerned with a carbohydrate-carrying antigen called Pk. Some people have a lot of Pk in their blood, while others have none at all. Most people fall somewhere in between. They found that <div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_twitter_via = \"datebytype\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"datebytype\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Can rh negative people get HIV\/AIDS?\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-54","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5DV68-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/54\/revisions\/85"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhesusnegative.net\/staynegative\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}