cure to aids?

http://my.webmd.com/content/article/97/104...0000_5024_hv_03

Human Test: Novel Vaccine Stops HIV

Treatment Turns On Anti-HIV Immunity, Holds AIDS Virus in Check

By Daniel DeNoon

WebMD Medical News Reviewed By Charlotte Grayson, MD

on Monday, November 29, 2004

Nov. 29, 2004 -- It worked in mice. It worked in monkeys. And now in humans, a therapeutic vaccine has stopped HIV in its tracks.

The vaccine is made from a patient's own dendritic cells and HIV isolated from the patient's own blood. Dendritic cells are crucial to the immune response. They grab foreign bodies in the blood and present them to other immune cells to trigger powerful immune system responses to destroy the foreign invaders.

HIV infection normally turns these important immune system responses off. But animal studies show that when dendritic cells are "loaded" with whole, killed AIDS viruses, they can trigger effective immune responses that keep infected animals from dying of AIDS.

Wei Lu, Jean-Marie Andrieu, and colleagues at the University of Paris in France and Pernambuco Federal University in Recife, Brazil, tested the vaccine on 18 Brazilian patients. All had HIV infection for at least a year. Their T-cell counts -- a crucial measure of AIDS progression -- were dropping, meaning their disease was worsening. None was taking anti-HIV medications.

After getting three under-the-skin injections of the tailor-made vaccine, the amount of HIV in the patients' blood (called the viral load) dropped by 80%. After a year, eight of the 18 patients still had a 90% drop in HIV levels. All patients' T-cell counts stopped dropping.

The findings appear in the December issue of Nature Medicine.

"The results suggest that [these] vaccines could be a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," Andrieu and colleagues write. "The significant decrease of viral load as well as maintenance of ... [T-]cell counts observed at one year after immunization are particularly promising."

The researchers warn that their study is only proof of principle. It's still not clear which patients do best with the vaccine, although there's evidence that vaccination should be given as soon after HIV infection as possible. Only clinical trials comparing people who get the vaccine to those who don't can show whether this vaccine really is an effective AIDS therapy.

Similar approaches are being explored for the treatment of cancer and long-term viral infections such as hepatitis C.

its about fucking time

what did it take, 30 years? that's one cunt of a disease

finally.

Damn it, after all the hard work they put in to keep the gay and black populations down.

Now cure cancer.

thats great news, but if you have aids you better get to a trial test soon, because once the treatment goes mainstream it will be so expensive that the majority of suffers will be unable to afford it.

lets hope the University of Paris will be socially responsible and not sell the patent to a large pharmaceutical company.

Umm....why am I just hearing about this on 12oz?

don't get me wrong here, there are some pretty nasty diseases out there that cause a lot of suffering, and i'm fascinated by medical technology and advances...

but whatever happened to survival of the fitest?

Originally posted by Dr. Dazzle@Dec 2 2004, 07:31 AM

Umm....why am I just hearing about this on 12oz?

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yea why am i only hearing about this here?

not to knock the place but i don't come here for a reliable source of news...

webmd is a reputable site, so is Nature..

when they've actually completed some clinical trials and things look good, then you'll be hearing about it in the mass media. my guess is not for a couple years...

survival of the fitest?

not taking something that is available to you that will make you better just because of the "survival of the fitest" thing would be retarded. that's like not eating, even though it would make you feel better, because you believe in survival of the fitest. i dunno.

I want stocks in this shit.

DON'T FORGET POLAND

AIDS

These are all just rumors on the internets,

Originally posted by iloveboxcars@Dec 1 2004, 09:21 PM

 

"The results suggest that [these] vaccines could be a promising strategy for treating people with chronic HIV infection," Andrieu and colleagues write.

Originally posted by Glik0@Dec 2 2004, 10:54 AM

These are all just rumors on the internets.

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Originally posted by Glik0@Dec 1 2004, 11:50 PM

Damn it, after all the hard work they put in to keep the gay and black populations down.

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FUCKING ILLUMINATI

Originally posted by iloveboxcars@Dec 2 2004, 05:04 AM

survival of the fitest?

 

not taking something that is available to you that will make you better just because of the "survival of the fitest" thing would be retarded. that's like not eating, even though it would make you feel better, because you believe in survival of the fitest. i dunno.

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yes, survival of the fitest...

giving somebody a cure, who was stupid enough to have unprotected sex with people who could possibly have aids and eating just for basic survival are completely different scenarios.

now if you got it through a transfusion or by other accidental methods, by all means go for the cure.

we're openning up quite the can of worms if we don't let mother nature take care of this planet like she has been since the beginning.

its not a perfect world, it never has been. but trying to make it perfect by eliminating all sickness and disease will actually do more harm than good in the long run....

12OZ IS WHERE I GET MY NEWS

damn sticking capslock button

two things.....

pops.k has a valid argument but it's inhumane.

Human nature is to survive, even at the expense of nature.

We cant go against our own nature if we tried. I know.. it's a paradox.

secondly,

Rave Sex? More like 'meth head girls giving terrible teenage handjobs to limp dicks.'

Originally posted by <KEY3>@Dec 2 2004, 01:17 PM

secondly,

Rave Sex? More like 'meth head girls giving terrible teenage handjobs to limp dicks.'

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This is why I let you have my name.

The only people who are going to get access to this are rich white people who THINK they have HIV. I seriously doubt the WHO is going to ever ship this shit over to Africa and other places where this is really needed.

You are SO profound!

Fuck whitey!

cures anything

in other bad news.....

Aids 'will overwhelm wider world'

• AIDS experts yesterday issued chilling warnings that India, China and Russia were on the brink of epidemics to parallel those in Africa.
   
  The virus was “perilously close to a tipping point” where it would explode across the population and spread “like wildfire”. The result would be “tens of millions of infections,” said Peter Piot, executive director of the United Nations agency UNAIDS.
   
  Speaking in Washington on the eve of World Aids Day, Mr Piot said that “no country on Earth will escape the impact” of the economic cost if the virus marched on at its current rate. By 2010, it would reach £8.8 billion a year.
   
  High-risk groups still dominate the Aids problem in Russia and China. But allowing the virus to leapfrog into the wider population as it has elsewhere could swallow up resources for African countries. HIV infections in Africa remain far higher than those in the Asia-Pacific nations. In China, 0.1 percent of people aged 15 to 49 are infected, compared with 7.5 per cent in sub-Saharan Africa.
   
  But that picture could change quickly. Mr Piot recalled that in South Africa the population affected doubled to 1 per cent in five years and then rocketed to 20 per cent in just seven years. India’s infection rate is also relatively low but the number of people infected, at 5.1 million, is second only to South Africa.
   
  The experts also criticised the focus on sexual abstinence in President Bush’s £7.7 billion Aids relief plan known as “ABC” — Abstinence, Being faithful and using Condoms.
   
  “Millions of women became infected while monogamous and faithful, so focusing solely on personal behaviour and risk absolutely does not go far enough,” said Geeta Rao Gupta, head of the International Centre for Research on Women. Mr Piot added: “Abstinence isn’t an option for women who are violated or abused. Our prevention strategies have to fit the realities of women’s lives. Marriage was not made for sexual abstinence.
   
  ” With the emphasis on prevention, the experts urged US policymakers to devote resources to strategies that would help women to protect themselves.
   
  These include microbicides to kill the virus, which women can use without their partner knowing, tougher punishments for rape and renewed efforts to reduce the incidence of child marriage.
   
  The number of women affected by HIV/Aids has increased steadily since 2002. Women now account for nearly half the estimated 37.2 million HIV-positive adults in the world.
   
  Even in America, Aids is the leading cause of death among African-American women between the ages of 25 and 34.

for all those complaining "about time"

maybe you should think about prevention, education, and fucking DONATING to research efforts.

scientific research is tedious and time consuming.

AIDS is a biotch of a mutating virus that isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

it is up to the general population to "stop AIDS in it's tracks"

by preventing the spread of disease.

it is highly unlikely that there will be an elimination of all sickness either.

new diseases and viruses are emerging all the time,

especially as the human population grows into unreasonable numbers

and pushes the planet to the brink of sustenance.

just wait until BIRD FLU.

73% mortality rate.

I'll believe it when I see it. We'e had too many "AIDS IS ALMOST CURED" news stories in the past. However, I'd be psyched if this is legit, as there are millions of people who need this.