Government Efforts To Eradicate Hiv

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Global Poverty Eradication Efforts Should Start With Health Issues, Opinion Piece Says

"Eradicating global poverty starts with the health of the world's poor," Bill Frist, former U.S. Senate Majority leader and currently a member of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) Board of Directors, writes in a Charlotte Observer ... Read more »

Rotary International Should Focus on HIV/AIDS Pandemic After Helping in Effort to Eradicate Polio, Opinion Piece Says

Rotary International has contributed more than $600 million to "one of the most successful public health initiatives in history" -- the effort to eradicate polio worldwide -- and now should focus on combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Andre Picard, a... Read more »

HIV/AIDS Hindering Angola's Efforts to Eradicate Illiteracy, Education Official Says

The HIV/AIDS epidemic in Angola is hindering the country's efforts to implement a program aimed at eradicating illiteracy by 2015, Deputy Education Minister Pinda Simao said Tuesday during a talk that was part of the International Week on Education... Read more »

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Eradicating HIV

Since antiviral drugs have the ability to reduce the viral load to undetectable (below 50 copies), then why are we not able to go the "extra mile" to eradicate the virus from the body? Why can't we snuff out the virus completely? What...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

The reason that we have not been able to eradicate HIV infection with current drug therapy has to do with the nature of this infection. HIV is an RNA virus that converts its RNA into DNA (by the enzyme reverse transcriptase) which becomes integrated... Read more »

virus eradication

putting all efforts into a vaccine is not a good strategy. we have a vaccine - abstinence! funding should go toward eradicating the hiv virus from the host. we may develop a vaccine for hiv now, but what about 20 years from now when a new, more...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

Perhaps, but that was also said about polio and small pox.... Read more »

Virus eradication

For someone who is HIV Positive and has Hep C, went through 48 weeks of treatment and the virus came back within three months, was put on treatment again with another peg for 12 months, is it possible to clear the virus with this course of second...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

This is the million dollar question. We do not know the answer to your important question at this time. Nor do we know if retreatment for a longer period of time may be necessary.Patients with HIV and HCV tend to have higher HCV viral loads than... Read more »

Recent prevention failure and efforts to cure the disease part 2 (HIV IS 100% PREVENTABLE TODAY, 2009)

Thanks for your quick response. I have to disagree too on one point. You said that HIV is 100% preventable which is correct but it ignores the nature of human beings. Let me explain. Many actually know the ways of transmission but this leads not...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hello,Sorry, I have to disagree with your disagreement!The statement that HIV is 100% preventable is completely true and has nothing to do with human nature! It's just a scientific fact that we could prevent all (or essentially all) HIV... Read more »

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New Hope for HIV Eradication

Posted by Mondo, 4 Replies

I'm sure most of the forum members have seen the latest good news story doing the rounds. I feel quite hopeful that this might be the big news story developing.
We have to have hope even if its slim hope. Ive enclosed a brief on the story if you... Read more »

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110123085455.htm

This is a really interesting article i found today. Seems a wild mushroom has anti-HIV properties and it is already being experimented as an anti-cancer agent. This is great news. Seems... Read more »

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