history of HAART[highly active anti retroviral therapy]
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Check out this website.
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You should consult a good doctor since your condition has been persisting for 6 months.\n\nFurthermore, if you are sexually at risk, get an HIV test.\n\nGood luck!
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http://hiv-web.lanl.gov/content/hiv-db/COMPENDIUM/1994/PART-III/HIVsubtypes94.pdf#search='HIV%20subtypes'\n\nhttp://www.avert.org/hivtypes.htm\n\nThese two sites have some pretty good stuff.
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Current standard of care treatment is a combination of (pegylated) interferon alpha and the antiviral drug ribavirin for a period of 24 or 48 weeks, depending on genotype. Should treatment with pegylated ribivirin-interferon not return a 2-log viral reduction after 12 weeks, the chance of treatment success is less than 1%. Current indication for treatment include patients with proven hepatitis C virus infection and persistent abnormal liver function tests. Sustained cure rates (sustained viral response) of 75% or better occur in people with genotypes HCV 2 and 3 in 24 weeks of treatment, about 50% in those with genotype 1 with 48 weeks of treatment and 65% for those with genotype 4 in 48 weeks of treatment. About 80% of hepatitis C patients in the United State have genotype 1. Genotype 4 is more common in the Middle East and Africa.\n\nTreatment during the acute infection phase has much higher success rates (90%+) with a shorter duration of treatment.\n\nThose with low initial viral loads respond much better to treatment than those with higher viral loads (>2 million virons/ml). Current combination therapy can only be supervised by physicians in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology and infectious disease.\n\nthere is more info in the link below as well
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There is no cure at this time for HIV.  The person can lead a relatively normal life, with the proper treatment.  Who knows, there may be a cure someday as well.
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Basically your instructor is correct, but most experts do not classify the two that way. HIV is the term for the actual virus that causes immune deficiencies. As the virus (HIV) replicates, it kills off more and more T4 cells. Finally, there may come a time when a CD4 cell count will show less than 200cells/mm3. This is where the same virus becomes classified as AIDS and the body is VERY vulnerable and suseptiable to other severe diseases. With new medications though, most AIDS patients will get better on treatment and the CD4 cell count will increase again greater than 200cells/mm3. So some experts refer to this as HIV again, while others say that if it has EVER went below 200 the patient remains classified as an AIDS patient.
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Stop worrying.  Absolutely not.  HIV dies as soon as it hits the air.  Water kills it.
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Look up the name of Dr. Peter Duesberg. He's the as$hat who's pushing the movement here in the US.\n\nAlso, there are plenty of the HIV tin-foil hat people here on Yahoo!. Just look for "Does HIV cause AIDS?" and I'm sure you'll find them.\n\nADDENDUM: watch me totally pwnz an anti-HIV conspiracy theorist here: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aku4IXG8IY3tKDdBW5Nfhhrsy6IX?qid=1006041703857\n\nFeel from to totally slaughter his ideas while you're in there.
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These guidelines present recommendations for the use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants in resource-constrained settings. It contains a summary of the scientific rationale and programmatic considerations for these recommendations. By addressing issues of efficacy, safety, drug resistance and feasibility the document is intended to guide the selection of antiretroviral regimens to be included in programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Moreover, it is intended to support and facilitate antiretroviral treatment for pregnant women and women of reproductive age who have indications for treatment. The guidelines may also be useful for health service providers as specific recommendations are provided for the most frequently encountered clinical situations.
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It took off fast. My first partner was the 7th person in this state to die from AIDS and that was in 1984.\nIt's not done yet. Africa is going to get worse. China too. Havent heard anything from India Bangladesh and places like that.
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nothing can cure the HIV virus. it may aid in slowing down the symptoms. but cure it, no.
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The problem with AIDs is that it requires complete gene therapy.  All of the DNA that has been changed by the disease has to be fixed.  That is pretty tough!  It takes years just to fix one strand of DNA from cancer.  The best thing they can do right now is drugs, to trick the DNA and slow down the process.
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An article published in The Lancet in 20043, also shows how retroviral transfer from primates to hunters is still occurring even today. In a sample of 1099 individuals in Cameroon , they discovered to ten (1%) were infected with SFV (Simian Foamy Virus), an illness which, like SIV, was previously thought only to infect primates. All these infections were believed to have been acquired through the butchering and consumption of monkey and ape meat. Discoveries such as this have lead to calls for an outright ban on bushmeat hunting to prevent simian viruses being passed to humans. go to http://www.avert.org/origins.htm  to learn more!
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In the 1st link below, it is reported that, although, the earliest reported case of AIDS was in 1959-this individual being a seaman from Manchester, England,...that also in 1959 (in regards to your question) scientists found HIV virus in the blood sample taken from a member of the Bantu tribe in Kinshasa of what was then the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo).\nI was unable to find any information on a monkey's blood getting into one's bloodstream through an open wound, however, it is believed by many scientists that the virus spread to humans through the infected meat of monkeys.  I guess you could say, monkey's are a staple in Africa, just as beef, chicken, pork, etc., is to us in the U.S.\nYou may find all four links below of interest.\nThere are actually many, many, MANY sites available that are equally interesting, as well as enlightening.
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AIDS has already had some attention that lead to the development of some fairly effective anti-viral medications, but work needs to be done to make the medicine more affordable (PBS story on AIDS anti-viral medication, June 2006).\n\nCancer is problematic because work really needs to be done to identify different forms.  It seems to me very likely that different strains exist, depending on the cause (radiation, smoke inhalation, etc).\n\nObesity is a serious problem that may be a result of malfunctioning hormonal activity (gremyl?) that commands hunger activities.\n\nWeaponized smallpox is currently the greatest threat to human survival.  An appropriate response needs to be formulated to save more than 10% of the world population if some fool decides to release it.\n\nOn a personal level, asthma makes going to bars around here torture.  Smoke is hell.  Without the asthma, I could have enjoyed myself.  By the time that gets fixed I'll probably be too old to enjoy it.
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I'm not a doctor. However, what i know is HIV cannot be ruled out without specific tests for HIV.\n\nAt the early stage of AIDS, there is no change in white blood cell (CD4 lymphocyte) count.(CD4 lymphocyte is a type of white blood cells that HIV attacks.). It is only when virus load reaches a certain limit and symptoms start appearing, then CD4 count will be decreased.\n\nEven when someone is infected with HIV, a period of about 3 months is required for the HIV detection test to turn positive. During this "window period", the anti-HIV antibody cannot be detected.
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First let me answer the question why its so hard to find a cure for aids. AIDS constatnly mutates.  Because of the mutations its hard to eradicate.  However, I think there is hope for this and many other disease.  That hope is nano-technology.  This is the use of technology so small it can only be seen with a micorscope.