HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, is the virus that causes AIDS, the final stage of an HIV infection.

As of 2006, AIDS had killed more than 25 million people since it was recognized in 1981, according to the World Health Organization. An estimated 0.6 percent of the word’s population is infected with HIV.

In the United States, about 25 percent of HIV-infected people do not know they have the disease, because someone can look and feel healthy for years before they begin showing symptoms. Because the symptoms are common in other diseases, testing is the only way to determine if someone is infected with HIV.

The HIV virus is fragile and cannot live long outside the body. Day-to-day activities and casual contact are not enough to spread the disease. HIV can only be spread through the transfer of bodily fluids usually from unprotected sex, contaminated needles, breast milk and an infected mother to her baby at birth.

Without treatment, 90 percent of people with HIV will progress to AIDs sooner than those who are treated. After HIV has progressed to AIDS, the average survival time with treatment is estimated to be more than five years.

Coastal Carolina Research Center has conducted hundreds of clinical studies over the past 10 years, including several pertaining to HIV. Our clinical studies pay each participant monetary compensation and also provides free study-related healthcare.

If you are interested in being considered for one of our HIV clinical studies, click here to submit your interest, and the next HIV clinical study we obtain we promise to contact you.