Epidemiologist Sees a Way to Curb Spread of HIV/AIDS

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Epidemiologist Sees a Way to Curb Spread of HIV/AIDS

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Going after HIV with antiretroviral drugs as soon after infection as possible could significantly slow the spread of the virus, according to epidemiologist Brian Williams. One familiar challenge in implementing this strategy, however, lies in getting people to agree to be tested. —KA

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The concentration of the virus drops by a factor of 10,000 with antiretroviral treatment, resulting in 25 times the reduction of infectiousness, said Williams, formerly of the World Health Organization and now at the South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis. That means that if more people with HIV received this therapy early, there would be fewer new cases of the disease, he said Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

“We could effectively stop transmission within five years,” Williams said.

About 33 million people are living with HIV, according to 2008 estimates by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS. That year, 2 million people died of AIDS and 2.7 became newly infected.

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By SpiderWoman, February 23, 2010 at 4:52 am Link to this comment
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This is even crazier than it seems at first blush. It’s
being hyped - but hasn’t even been tested yet.
Obviously, there are plans to implement testing and
drugging. But it won’t catch only those who are
actually positive for HIV. The most common test - the
cheapest one, so you know that’s the one to be used -
gives 2 false positives for every actual positive.

There’s more info here: http://bit.ly/cYAb9I

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By LadyRoisin, February 22, 2010 at 1:16 pm Link to this comment

Have they stopped using AZT - the pharma which stops cells dividing to grow - which is injected into the large bone centres, where white (intruder-bashing) cells are made? Since Aids did not act like a virus - certainly nothing like last year’s common flu which spread from young to old throughout the population - then why is big pharma insisting that it still exists and provides hideous treatments for it?

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