Today is National HIV Testing Day. The CDC estimates that 1.1 million adults and teens in the U.S. were living with HIV at the end of 2006. Twenty-one percent of these people had not been diagnosed.A review in the June 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine reports that insomnia is common in people with HIV. Some studies estimate that as many as 70 percent of people with HIV have insomnia at some point during their illness. Research also suggests that HIV may directly lead to changes in sleep.Insomnia can reduce the quality of life of people who are HIV positive. It also can have a negative effect on their adherence to HIV treat­ment.The review reports that few studies have evaluated insomnia treatments in people with HIV. One study tested a five-week acupuncture interventi…
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