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Health Related Forums => Health News and Events => Topic started by: IsseGole on February 16, 2007, 03:06:23 PM
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Check about the latest news up to this minute about the HIV/AIDS. It was published yesterday on the national institute of health nih' website.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/newsbydate.html
U.S. National Institutes of Health researcher Peter Kwong said the study, published in the journal Nature, may reveal HIV's long-sought "site of vulnerability" that can be targeted with a vaccine aimed at preventing initial infection.
"Having that site and knowing that you can make antibodies against it means that a vaccine is possible," Kwong said in a telephone interview.
Experts agree that a vaccine is the only hope of stopping the pandemic of AIDS, which has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981. About 40 million people now live with HIV, with sub-Saharan Africa hardest hit.
The researchers detailed the precise interaction that occurs as the virus tries to grab and infect protective immune system cells.
"The first contact is like a cautious handshake, which then becomes a hearty bear hug," said Dr. Gary Nabel, an NIH vaccine expert and a co-author of the research.
The virus uses the protein gp120 to gain entry into the CD4 T-cells it infects. But the researchers also found that the antibody b12 can block this process.
The virus mutates quickly and continuously to beat the immune system's efforts to target it. It also is cloaked in such a way that it stops antibodies from blocking the proteins that HIV uses to bind to a cell and infect it.
So this is a critical area of vulnerability, Nabel said. "This is certainly one of the best leads to come along in recent years," he said.
NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci said the findings are of great importance, but much more work in animal and human studies is needed, and any vaccine is years away.
If this is true, it means that the pandemic of HIV is coming to an end. ofcourse after many years, but this is very pleasant news any way.
We hope they succeed developing the vaccine or whatever protects people from getting infected by the virus, because not only the bad people are affected, but also the good ones are endangered.
This news was the latest news to this moment written by the national institute of health (NIH) of united states' website.
Ciise Dheere
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woooow great news!
But I am wondering what happened to sheikh zandani and his group who were announced the beginning of this year they were discovered a ttt for HIV that will bring years of suffering to an end!
I really would like to find an answer to this question since you live with zandani in the same country dear ciise lool!! give us more information about this ?
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By: Dr.Mahdi
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Bill Gates + Canadian Government payed $139 million initiative to establish a research institute for the development of an HIV/AIDS vaccine
Check the news from here http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=63608&nfid=43325
By: Dr.Mahdi