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Is HIV superinfection unhealthy?

People who contract HIV once can contract it again, often through the same risk behaviors that led to the initial infection. A long-standing question has been whether getting infected with a second strain of HIV leads to more rapid HIV disease progression than infection with a single strain.

To this point, a 24-year-old man who has sex with men recently asked me, "Doc, I already rang the bell, why do I care if I get HIV again?"

My answer is at TheBodyPro.

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Tim Lahey and tagged HIV.

Tim Lahey, MD MMScAn HIV doc and clinical ethicist, I write about medicine, ethics, and HIV here and in The Atlantic, Scientific American, TheBody.com, Health Affairs blog, The Conversation and The New York Times. — **Tim Lahey, MD MMSc**

An HIV doc and clinical ethicist, I write about medicine, ethics, and HIV here and in *The Atlantic*, *Scientific American*, *TheBody.com*, *Health Affairs* blog, *The Conversation* and *The New York Times*.