Travis Tanner trained to ride in the NorCal AIDS Challenge, a four-day cycling event that covers 325 m . Mounting evidence suggests that exercise not only provides a boost to well-being but also can help the immune system fight off illness and AIDS wasting disease by increasing muscle mass and improving heart and lung endurance. And a 2005 Columbia University study found that moderate exercise, in combination with antiretroviral drugs, led to improved nervous-system function and circulation in HIV patients. Archana Maniar, an infectious disease specialist and assistant professor at UC Davis, agrees that HIV patients are no different from non-infected people — they need proper exercise. Larry Teeter, a 48-year-old AIDS patient and a biomedical researcher at the Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, has run 108 races of marathon length or longer, including the Western States 100 endurance event in 2004. MSM accounted for 71% of all HIV infections among male adults and adolescents in 2005 (based on data from 33 states with long-term, confidential name-based HIV reporting), even though only about 5% to 7% of male adults and adolescents in the United States identify themselves as MSM [ 1 , 2 ]. read more
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