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PRESENCE OF ANTIBODIES MEANS IMMUNITY
#205004 - 08/26/06 03:22 AM
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PRESENCE OF ANTIBODIES MEANS IMMUNITY
Usually, if you test positive for antibodies that means that your immune system has effectively fought off a pathogen and you now have immunity. But with the HIV test, the logic is reversed. Instead of meaning that you now have immunity to HIV, testing positive is said to mean that you are infected and your immune system has failed to neutralize the virus. The great hope for many who believe that HIV causes AIDS is that researchers will some day develop a vaccine. But vaccines work by causing your body to produce antibodies specific to a pathogen. If a vaccine for HIV was created, everyone who had the vaccine would then test positive for HIV on the non-specific antibody tests now in use.
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Hi,
I have to say, I tatally agree with you. Oddly enough in my 15 years almost of being infected, I have probably only spoken to 2 people who HAVE tested positive for hiv, but oddly have NEVER (even one woman for TWENTY years) had anything over <50 copies of a viral load. I think these people are KEY in the vaccine process. There has GOT to be a reason one is unable to find ANY amount of virus in their body, but yet they have a positive immunity now to hiv.
Which as you stated is correct, they HAVE come in contact with hiv, their immune system HAS created the antibodies OBVIOUSLY to fight off the actual virus (due to NOT having any viral load EVER).
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