Why is HIV Aids still treating  the existence of mankind?
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Do you mean why is it still a threat to mankind?  There's no cure, that's why.
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HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) presents a number of challenges to finding a cure:\n1) Whenever you get a virus or bacterial disease, the medicine that you received typically doesn't kill the virus or bacterial directly. Instead it helps your immune system fight it by making it more difficult for the virus to reproduced or a range of other techniques. Your immune system will do still most of the work in defeating the infection. The HIV virus attacks the immune system. As it result this reduces the effectiveness of most traditional techniques.\n2) It mutates quickly. A drug that work effectively now will eventually stop working (in the case of AIDS it stops working even before the person infected is cured of the HIV virus requiring drug cocktails and other techniques)\n3) Because of 2 many slight variation of the virus exist out there. An effective vaccine would have to target most or all of them. This is a problem because the best treatments for a virus is a vaccine. \nThat there is no cure for a disease is not uncommon. There is no cure for the flu, a virus that kills more people every year in the US than does AIDS. There is no cure for the common cold (another virus), herpes (another virus), malaria (bacteria), ...
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AIDS, per say, say was not "discovered."  It was named. AIDS itself is NOT a disease.  Rather it is the end manisfestation of infection with HIV.  AIDS is a "collection" of opportunistic infections which prey on the immune system which has been compromised by HIV.  HIV infection/AIDS continues to spread in all corners of the world.  It seems that in the US people have again become complacent about it, with rates increasing in all metro areas.  One factor that the increase of infection is being attributed to is the use of Meth.
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I think a lot of money goes into AIDS research, and although there is obviously no cure yet, there are drugs that greatly prolong life.  Treatment and drug distribution should be a major concern, however.  The AIDS epidemic in Africa is devastating, and it is genuinely horrifying to realize that I live in a country (U.S.) that would rather funnel my tax money into a phony war that I don't support than use it to help masses of people who suffer indescribable conditions every day of their lives.  First world powers, capable of stepping in, are just leaving the African continent to rot.  The vast majority of AIDS sufferers in Africa don't have access to the medication that could improve their health and prolong their lives, and government leaders constantly avoid discussing this issue.  Even in my own country, where we do not have socialized medicine, there are people living with this disease who have no means of paying for treatment.  Health care costs are exorbitant, and fewer and fewer companies are willing to provide workers with these benefits.  I constantly hear people referring to the U.S. as one of the richest nations in the world.  Well, that may be, but I'm not in the least bit impressed with the way in which our government allocates resources.  Obviously tax cuts for the richest 1 percent of our population are more important than providing decent health care to the middle and lower classes.  It's disgusting, and things have to change.  Greed is running rampant and we are squandering one of the world's most precious resources, human life.
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My answer was inacurate, the two answers following however quoted an excellent article. To save others the effort I will put the link in here. This article does an excellent job explaining the origions of HIV and the few places I have checked to verify the information contained in the article have checked out.
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No! No one is immune to HIV or Aids...\n\nWhy? Because the viruses change often (there is a high level of mutation). It's the same reason why they can't find a cure...It doesn't stay the same long enough for them to specifically target it....
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Africans beleive that they will be cured of aids if they have sex with a newborn.  Because of this, there is a lot of child rapes and also a very high precentage of aids in children.  In some african countries, aids has devastated the area so bad that the average person is only 16 years old.\n\nThe olny reason they are still there is because the average 12 year old girl will have an average of 9 babies before she dies.
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There are many medicines that can combat the effects of HIV/AIDS. These are mostly a class of drugs called "anti-retrovirals" that keep the virus from reporoducing.\nYou can find a database of these drugs at:\nhttp://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=ar-00-02
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Take A Look At The Sickness That Pervades Our Society Today, Theres Aids An Other Seual Diseases. Thats An Good Reason
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I personally feel that a good thing is that AIDS has not been cured with a pill.  AIDS is on the rise again due to people not seeing the death rate as before.  The medicine is making people live longer, but at what cost?  Plus the virus continues to mutate and get stronger.\n\nI have a friend who ended up contracting the HIV virus about a year ago.  He started out saying, "No big deal.  I will just take the pills."  Now he lives a life of being constantly ill from the medicines and with Diahreah. (m.s.?)\n\nI highly recommend that you go to your local County Infectious Disease Clinic and pick up some literature.  It gives statistics in your county.
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HIV does not survive well outside of the human body. This really smells like an urban legend.
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The HIV virus has been a living virus in the animal kingdom since time in the beginning. Your pet cat has the virus. What happen was this - as this world over populated and people began to starve, corruption in every corner of the globe, people ate parts of the "monkey" , the brains in fact, for the first time, and that is how the virus entered mankind. Now through bi-sexuality - it spread, and you know that you can be in any part of the world in less then 4-hrs - that is how it travelled into our countries. There will never be a cure for it, as man does not have the DNA link to the animal DNA - the only cure is safe sex, and unfortunately that is not working, or sinking into the heads of our young people. 4 young people and hour, under the age of 34 - (14-34) male and female, contract the AIDS virus an hour! in North America!! we are not far behind the 3rd worlds which have millions dying and dead from this uncontrollable disease. A generation of children are now orphans with both parents dead from HIV. Pass it on and only have safe sex. Good question - Check out "Bono's" site, big web and lots of info on this subject and on feed the world.
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Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for AIDS.
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Humans are the only known animals that can carry the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS.
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Yes. The Government doesn't do enough to help prevent HIV and the spreading of Aids. Some people still think by raping white women or babies cure Aids. To educate the people will be the main part in preventing the spread of the disease.
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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.
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I treat people with AIDS just like I treat anyone with a terminal illness. With compassion and understanding. To do anything else is unconscionable and inhuman.