BS: New Hope for AIDS

Subject: BS: New Hope for AIDS
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 04:33 PM

This is a new and hopeful development. If you believe in the efficacy of prayer, now is a good time for it. If not, let us just keep this in our minds with as much hope as we can muster and maintain.

Obama's Scientists on New Track :)

"AIDS infects about 33 million people globally, according to the United Nations AIDS agency UNAIDS. It has killed 25 million people since the pandemic began in the early 1980s, and there is no vaccine or cure, although drugs can help control it."

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"Researchers have discovered antibodies that can protect against a wide range of AIDS viruses and said they may be able to use them to design a vaccine against the fatal and incurable virus.

The bodies of some people make these immune system proteins after they are infected with the AIDS virus, when it is too late for them to do much good. But a properly designed vaccine might help the body make them much sooner, the researchers reported in Friday's issue of the journal Science.

"I am more optimistic about an AIDS vaccine at this point in time than I have been probably in the last 10 years," Dr. Gary Nabel of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who led the study, said in a telephone interview."

Subject: RE: BS: New Hope for AIDS
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 06:39 PM

We can only HOPE!

Subject: RE: BS: New Hope for AIDS
From: Janie
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 11:07 PM

May his optimism bear fruit.

In the meantime, state/federal funded programs to provide medications to people with HIV who can not afford to pay are on the ropes, due to the economic downturn and it's loss of jobs and insurance.

Subject: RE: BS: New Hope for AIDS
From: Ebbie
Date: 08 Jul 10 - 11:11 PM

Incidentally, I had one more word on the title: Vaccine. Didn't catch, I guess.

I just hope this is not just another dead end. One of these times it will be the real thing, and then away we go!