HIV and AIDS in America

[Ice29]

I was asked why the USA has like more than 400 times more people living with HIV and AIDS than New Zealand does.

I have no problem in giving the answer, and there I'll even level with ya....

Because American big cities are where the lifestyle in America often described as "Scummy" lives.

That's where the crime is, that's where there drugs are, that's where the poverty is, and that's where the lack of education and lack of self respect lives, and that's where the lack of personal achievement lives.
here in America.

And here in America that is also where the 3rd world trash from places like Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean and Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos all live, along with American blacks.

And that's where the Homosexuals also live.

The Big cities in America are where in America, that poor personal discipline and poor personal responsibility, poor awareness of personal behavior and a poor understanding of consequences, and an atrocity for an attitude lives.

In the Big Cities.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, parts of New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Saint Louis, Dallas, you name it.

That is the reason why America has such a higher population and population percentage of those with HIV, than New Zealand.
Because New Zealand doesn't have those problems.

 

[waltky]

SAMBA, or simple amplification-based assay...

Two-hour testing device boosts HIV battle
Mon, May 30, 2016 - A revolutionary device developed by a team of Cambridge scientists is transforming the diagnosis of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. The machine — known as SAMBA, or simple amplification-based assay — can help determine whether a person is infected with the virus within two hours of them giving a tiny blood sample. Virus carriers can then be offered immediate treatment and advice.

More than 20 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are thought to be carrying HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The chaotic conditions in some parts of the region — with transport, health services and electricity supply often poor or nonexistent — have made it extraordinarily difficult for doctors to keep track of infected people. The new analyser — the size of a small coffee machine — which was developed by a team led by Helen Lee, a Cambridge University professor of blood scientist, needs no laboratory or trained staff. It can be carried on a motorcycle — often the only method of transport in remote regions — and its reagents can withstand high temperatures and humidity. “Basically, they will still work even if the heat goes above 50oC,” Lee said.

In recognition of her team’s achievement in developing SAMBA, Lee has been named a finalist in this year’s European inventor awards. Winners are to be announced in Lisbon this week. “The crucial point about our device is that it provides you with a simple signal,” Lee told the Observer. “If two lights are produced, that shows a person has been infected with HIV. If only one light shines, they are not infected. We can show it to a patient and explain to them exactly what the lights mean and what is going on. That is a very powerful way to convince someone of their condition.”

Working in close collaboration with charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, Lee and her colleagues have tested SAMBA on 40,000 men and women in Malawi and Uganda since the first prototype was developed in 2011 and found it works extremely efficiently. Each test costs about ￡12 (US$17.6) to administer. “Now we are going to expand testing for HIV to pregnant women, mothers and newborn children, starting in Kenya,” Lee said. “That has all sorts of potential. For example, if we find a woman is infected, but not her newborn child, we can give advice her about how to prevent the baby picking up the virus during his or her infancy.”

The ability to make quick diagnoses is considered to be of crucial importance in controlling HIV in Africa. Until now, people have had to travel to health centers to provide a blood sample and then return weeks later for the results of their test. Up to 70 percent of patients will fail to return and are designated “lost to follow-up.” Lee’s tests should help to cut that number dramatically. “We are taking the test to the people rather than the other way around,” she said. This point was backed by Benoit Battistelli, president of the European Patent Office, which is running the inventor awards. “The test brings reliable diagnostics of HIV infection to areas where they are needed most and will also allow monitoring of the efficiency of medical treatments without laboratory infrastructure,” Battistelli said.

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[Clementine]

SAMBA, or simple amplification-based assay...

Two-hour testing device boosts HIV battle
Mon, May 30, 2016 - A revolutionary device developed by a team of Cambridge scientists is transforming the diagnosis of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. The machine — known as SAMBA, or simple amplification-based assay — can help determine whether a person is infected with the virus within two hours of them giving a tiny blood sample. Virus carriers can then be offered immediate treatment and advice.

More than 20 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are thought to be carrying HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The chaotic conditions in some parts of the region — with transport, health services and electricity supply often poor or nonexistent — have made it extraordinarily difficult for doctors to keep track of infected people. The new analyser — the size of a small coffee machine — which was developed by a team led by Helen Lee, a Cambridge University professor of blood scientist, needs no laboratory or trained staff. It can be carried on a motorcycle — often the only method of transport in remote regions — and its reagents can withstand high temperatures and humidity. “Basically, they will still work even if the heat goes above 50oC,” Lee said.

In recognition of her team’s achievement in developing SAMBA, Lee has been named a finalist in this year’s European inventor awards. Winners are to be announced in Lisbon this week. “The crucial point about our device is that it provides you with a simple signal,” Lee told the Observer. “If two lights are produced, that shows a person has been infected with HIV. If only one light shines, they are not infected. We can show it to a patient and explain to them exactly what the lights mean and what is going on. That is a very powerful way to convince someone of their condition.”

Working in close collaboration with charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, Lee and her colleagues have tested SAMBA on 40,000 men and women in Malawi and Uganda since the first prototype was developed in 2011 and found it works extremely efficiently. Each test costs about ￡12 (US$17.6) to administer. “Now we are going to expand testing for HIV to pregnant women, mothers and newborn children, starting in Kenya,” Lee said. “That has all sorts of potential. For example, if we find a woman is infected, but not her newborn child, we can give advice her about how to prevent the baby picking up the virus during his or her infancy.”

The ability to make quick diagnoses is considered to be of crucial importance in controlling HIV in Africa. Until now, people have had to travel to health centers to provide a blood sample and then return weeks later for the results of their test. Up to 70 percent of patients will fail to return and are designated “lost to follow-up.” Lee’s tests should help to cut that number dramatically. “We are taking the test to the people rather than the other way around,” she said. This point was backed by Benoit Battistelli, president of the European Patent Office, which is running the inventor awards. “The test brings reliable diagnostics of HIV infection to areas where they are needed most and will also allow monitoring of the efficiency of medical treatments without laboratory infrastructure,” Battistelli said.

MORE

I recall a poll several years ago where many said they didn't want to know if they had it. There was also a practice where gay men would have sex knowing people had aids and part of the "excitement" was not knowing whether they were risking their life.

While treatment has come a long way, people's behavior continues to be dangerous.

Drug users sharing needles is another big problem when it comes to spreading many diseases.

But, don't dare suggest that schools discuss it more in detail or recommend that kids either be super careful who they sleep with or tell them that the only surefire way not to get pregnant or contract sexual diseases is to refrain from sex. Schools thought passing out condoms was the answer and kids probably think that's all they need to be protected.

There is so little emphasis on changing behavior. The left seems to think no one has the ability to practice self-control and they mock those who think otherwise.

Young people need to understand that their behavior can ruin their lives. We have liberals who seem to want to take over the role of parenting, but they still don't teach personal responsibility.

 

[waltky]

Obama doin' all he can to stop HIV...

Obama Proclamation: Gay, Bisexual Men, Transgender Women at 'High Risk for HIV'
May 31, 2016 | President Barack Obama issued a proclamation on Tuesday declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, and in the proclamation noted that "gay and bisexual men and transgender women of color are at particularly high riks of HIV," the virus that causes AIDS.

“We remain committed to addressing health disparities in the LGBT community--gay and bisexual men and transgender women of color are at a particularly high risk for HIV, and we have worked to strengthen our National HIV/AIDS Strategy to reduce new infections, increase access to care, and improve health outcomes for people living with HIV,” the proclamation states. Obama credits the LGBT community and its supporters for “sweeping progress by changing hearts and minds and by demanding equal treatment -- under our laws, from our courts, and in our politics,” the proclamation states. “This month, we recognize all they have done to bring us to this point, and we recommit to bending the arc of our Nation toward justice.”

Obama praised the U.S. Supreme Court decision on homosexual “marriage” and pledged that the U.S. government would make sure that older homosexuals would have “affordable, welcoming, and supportive housing.” “During Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, as Americans wave their flags of pride high and march boldly forward in parades and demonstrations, let us celebrate how far we have come and reaffirm our steadfast belief in the equal dignity of all Americans,” the proclamation states.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), men having sex with men (MSM) represent the highest number of new HIV infections in the United States. In addition, the CDC states, “Anal sex is the highest-risk sexual behavior. For the HIV-negative partner, receptive anal sex (bottoming) is riskier than insertive anal sex (topping). … In fact, having anal sex is the riskiest type of sex for getting or spreading HIV.” “In 2010, the estimated number of new HIV infections among MSM was 29,800, a significant 12% increase from the 26,700 new infections among MSM in 2008," said the CDC. “Although MSM represent about 4% of the male population in the United States, in 2010, MSM accounted for 78% of new HIV infections among males and 63% of all new infections. MSM accounted for 54% of all people living with HIV infection in 2011, the most recent year these data are available.

“In 2010, white MSM continued to account for the largest number of new HIV infections (11,200), by transmission category, followed closely by black MSM (10,600). “The estimated number of new HIV infections was greatest among MSM in the youngest age group. In 2010, the greatest number of new HIV infections (4,800) among MSM occurred in young black/African American MSM aged 13–24. Young black MSM accounted for 45% of new HIV infections among black MSM and 55% of new HIV infections among young MSM overall. “Since the epidemic began, an estimated 311,087 MSM with an AIDS diagnosis have died, including an estimated 5,380 in 2012.”

Obama Proclamation: Gay, Bisexual Men, Transgender Women at 'High Risk for HIV'

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Obama doin' all he can to stop HIV...

Obama Proclamation: Gay, Bisexual Men, Transgender Women at 'High Risk for HIV'
May 31, 2016 | President Barack Obama issued a proclamation on Tuesday declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month, and in the proclamation noted that "gay and bisexual men and transgender women of color are at particularly high riks of HIV," the virus that causes AIDS.

“We remain committed to addressing health disparities in the LGBT community--gay and bisexual men and transgender women of color are at a particularly high risk for HIV, and we have worked to strengthen our National HIV/AIDS Strategy to reduce new infections, increase access to care, and improve health outcomes for people living with HIV,” the proclamation states. Obama credits the LGBT community and its supporters for “sweeping progress by changing hearts and minds and by demanding equal treatment -- under our laws, from our courts, and in our politics,” the proclamation states. “This month, we recognize all they have done to bring us to this point, and we recommit to bending the arc of our Nation toward justice.”

Obama praised the U.S. Supreme Court decision on homosexual “marriage” and pledged that the U.S. government would make sure that older homosexuals would have “affordable, welcoming, and supportive housing.” “During Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, as Americans wave their flags of pride high and march boldly forward in parades and demonstrations, let us celebrate how far we have come and reaffirm our steadfast belief in the equal dignity of all Americans,” the proclamation states.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), men having sex with men (MSM) represent the highest number of new HIV infections in the United States. In addition, the CDC states, “Anal sex is the highest-risk sexual behavior. For the HIV-negative partner, receptive anal sex (bottoming) is riskier than insertive anal sex (topping). … In fact, having anal sex is the riskiest type of sex for getting or spreading HIV.” “In 2010, the estimated number of new HIV infections among MSM was 29,800, a significant 12% increase from the 26,700 new infections among MSM in 2008," said the CDC. “Although MSM represent about 4% of the male population in the United States, in 2010, MSM accounted for 78% of new HIV infections among males and 63% of all new infections. MSM accounted for 54% of all people living with HIV infection in 2011, the most recent year these data are available.

“In 2010, white MSM continued to account for the largest number of new HIV infections (11,200), by transmission category, followed closely by black MSM (10,600). “The estimated number of new HIV infections was greatest among MSM in the youngest age group. In 2010, the greatest number of new HIV infections (4,800) among MSM occurred in young black/African American MSM aged 13–24. Young black MSM accounted for 45% of new HIV infections among black MSM and 55% of new HIV infections among young MSM overall. “Since the epidemic began, an estimated 311,087 MSM with an AIDS diagnosis have died, including an estimated 5,380 in 2012.”

Obama Proclamation: Gay, Bisexual Men, Transgender Women at 'High Risk for HIV'

That's like declaring that people who live in Alaska are at higher risk of hypothermia.
That Obama, boy is he smart.

 

[Manchester]

I was asked why the USA has like more than 400 times more people living with HIV and AIDS than New Zealand does.

I have no problem in giving the answer, and there I'll even level with ya....

Because American big cities are where the lifestyle in America often described as "Scummy" lives.

That's where the crime is, that's where there drugs are, that's where the poverty is, and that's where the lack of education and lack of self respect lives, and that's where the lack of personal achievement lives.
here in America.

And here in America that is also where the 3rd world trash from places like Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean and Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos all live, along with American blacks.

And that's where the Homosexuals also live.

The Big cities in America are where in America, that poor personal discipline and poor personal responsibility, poor awareness of personal behavior and a poor understanding of consequences, and an atrocity for an attitude lives.

In the Big Cities.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, parts of New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Saint Louis, Dallas, you name it.

That is the reason why America has such a higher population and population percentage of those with HIV, than New Zealand.
Because New Zealand doesn't have those problems.

What a boring load of hate fueled bullshit.

The answer is that HIV originated in Africa and New Zealand has less migration to it from Africa. It's further away and doesn't hold the same lure. New Zealand has the same slums and the same problems as the USA does but on a smaller scale, blurting out racist shit about "3rd world trash" is just a ignorant dick making noise
.

 

[waltky]

Ban doin' all he can to Ending HIV/AIDS...

UN Backs Accelerated Response to Ending HIV/AIDS
June 08, 2016 — When Loyce Maturu was 10, she lost her mother and brother to AIDS and tuberculosis in the same week. Two years later, she was diagnosed with both illnesses.

The young Zimbabwean experienced harsh emotional and verbal abuse from a family member because of the stigma attached to her health status, and in 2010 she attempted suicide. But today, she is a thriving 24-year-old who is working to empower girls and adolescents who are HIV-positive. “Now every day that I live, I am thankful that I am one of the 17 million people that mark the success of HIV treatment over the past years, and it shows that together we have the greatest strength of saving more lives,” she told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday during a high-level meeting on ending HIV/AIDS by 2030.

HIV/AIDS has greatly affected young people. About 14 million children have been orphaned by the epidemic. Young people also have a high infection rate — about 2,000 new ones each day. This has led to an increase in AIDS-related deaths among the young. It is now the second-leading cause of death in adolescents globally. “We need to equip them, we need to bring skills, we need to make sure sex education becomes a reality everywhere, so they can really be able to avoid risky behavior,” said UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibé. He said it also was vital that young people be at the center of what he called a “prevention revolution.”

On the fast track

In the past 15 years, substantial progress has been made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS, and the U.N. is trying to consolidate that success to end the epidemic by 2030. “We have halted and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the meeting. “New HIV infections have declined by 35 percent since 2000. AIDS-related deaths have gone down by 43 percent since 2003.” He said this was due in part to cheaper anti-retroviral drugs, new funding and leadership from those within the HIV/AIDS community and civil society. Ban urged donors to meet the annual funding target of $26 billion, saying the next five years offered a unique opportunity to change the direction of the epidemic and end AIDS forever.

“If we do not act,” he warned, “there is a danger the epidemic will rebound in low- and middle-income countries.” Currently, 36.7 million people are living with HIV/AIDS around the world. Each year, another 2.1 million people will become infected, and half that number will die. The U.N. says if the global response can be fast-tracked, millions of new infections can be avoided. One area in which there has been welcome news is in reducing mother-to-child transmission. Four countries — Armenia, Belarus, Cuba and Thailand — have eliminated transmission of the disease from pregnant mothers to their infants, and 80 more countries are getting close, with fewer than 50 babies born each year with HIV.

Challenges

 

[WillMunny]

Because unlike NZ, we have 40 million basketball-Americans and the overwhelming majority of AIDS cases are among our carpet-headed conniseurs of Nike-Air-Jordans. They carelessly, casually fuck without condoms (for the gimme dat) just as irresponsibly as white gays do.

 

[waltky]

AIDS can be a chronic, manageable disease, if caught early...

Knowing HIV Status First Step in Controlling AIDS
July 02, 2016 | WASHINGTON—The 21st International AIDS Conference starts in a few weeks in Durban, South Africa. Perhaps the greatest achievement in the long fight against HIV/AIDS is that it's no longer a death sentence. Instead, AIDS can be a chronic, manageable disease, if people receive treatment.

Testing is the first step toward that goal. It is as simple as swabbing the inside of the mouth or getting a finger prick. In the latter, the blood is then put on a test stick that shows results within minutes. One line is negative; two lines, positive. VOA went to Nova Salud, an organization whose mission is to reduce the risk of HIV/AIDS and common sexually transmitted diseases, or STD's. A man who identified himself only as "Rigo" said he encourages all Latinos to get tested because, "You don't know the past of your partners, and you can be living with the (HIV) virus and you don't know it." He was followed by a woman with a toddler named Zoey. Zoey's mother said she gets tested because she has children and has to know her status because of her family. HIV is both treatable and preventable. People who have the virus can live normal lives, as long as they stay on treatment, and, those at risk of getting HIV can go on treatment to keep themselves from getting it.

In most parts of the U.S., HIV/AIDS is declining, according to Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who spoke to VOA by Skype. "We've seen huge decreases in heterosexual transmission -- more than two-thirds - 80 percent reductions, generally. We’ve seen the huge decreases in injection drug use as a cause of transmission, but among young men who have sex with men, we’ve seen increases in HIV infections." The groups in the U.S. that are most at risk are Hispanics and African-Americans, especially men between the ages of 24 and 35. Rodney McCoy, at Nova Salud, says he sees that in his work in these communities. "When we look at who progresses from HIV on to AIDS, again blacks and Latinos are most at risk for that." Still, progress has been made among these groups, too.

In the latest study from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, death from HIV ranks sixth among black men ages 25 to 34, and seventh among Asian/Pacific Islander men and Hispanic men of the same age group. HIV does not rank in the top ten leading causes of death for white men ages 25 to 34. In his Skype interview, Frieden said, "We're going to have to try more intensive approaches including testing...and some use of treatment of PrEP or pre-exposure prophylaxis for high-risk individuals." Pre-exposure prophylaxis means putting those at high risk of getting the disease on treatment, because it's been shown to keep them virtually HIV-free.

Nova Salud works with African-American and Hispanic communities in the metro-Washington area on health issues involving HIV and sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs. But, sometimes it hard to get people tested because of the stigma. McCoy says they take a different approach at Nova Salud. "The first thing we do is we acknowledge that there is stigma." And, he says, there's a way to normalize HIV testing and that's during routine medical checkups. If you go to the doctor to get your blood work for cholesterol, for high blood pressure, why not start including HIV and STDs? The goal everywhere is to get to the point where 90 percent of those with HIV know it, and that 90 percent of those who are positive get treatment and, finally, that 90 percent of those in treatment the virus in their blood to un-detectable levels. The theory is that this will end the AIDS epidemic as a global public health threat by 2030.

Experts say goals of ending #AIDS are doable

 

[Maryland Patriot]

Because unlike NZ, we have 40 million basketball-Americans and the overwhelming majority of AIDS cases are among our carpet-headed conniseurs of Nike-Air-Jordans. They carelessly, casually fuck without condoms (for the gimme dat) just as irresponsibly as white gays do.

basketball-Americans and carpet-headed conniseurs of Nike Air-Jordans.
Thats some funny shit right there.
thanks. Gonna use it when I can.
Needed to update my "Fuzzy headed mud worshipers" anyway. and porch monkey was just getting too much negative feed back for some reason.
I do refer to obama as the "shoe shine boy" but I want to keep that just for him out of respect you understand.

 

[WillMunny]

Because unlike NZ, we have 40 million basketball-Americans and the overwhelming majority of AIDS cases are among our carpet-headed conniseurs of Nike-Air-Jordans. They carelessly, casually fuck without condoms (for the gimme dat) just as irresponsibly as white gays do.

basketball-Americans and carpet-headed conniseurs of Nike Air-Jordans.
Thats some funny shit right there.
thanks. Gonna use it when I can.
Needed to update my "Fuzzy headed mud worshipers" anyway. and porch monkey was just getting too much negative feed back for some reason.
I do refer to obama as the "shoe shine boy" but I want to keep that just for him out of respect you understand.

Those aren't bad insults, either. Another good one for blacks is "crybaby-Americans" because, let's face it, there does not exist another race as soaked in butthurt grievance-mongering.

 

[waltky]

2.5 Million People Infected with HIV Each Year...

Study: 2.5 Million People Infected with HIV Each Year
July 19, 2016 - About 2.5 million people are infected with HIV every year, according to a recent analysis of a global AIDS study.

During the past decade the rate of new infections have "stayed relatively constant" since its peak in 1997 of 3.3 million new infections per year. While the rate of annual death from HIV/AIDS has been in a steady decline from a peak of 1.8 million in 2005 to 1.2 million in 2015. "Although scale-up of antiretroviral therapy and measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission have had a huge impact on saving lives, our new findings present a worrying picture of slow progress in reducing new HIV infections over the past 10 years," said lead author Haidong Wang. The report, which analyzes findings of the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study, was published in the Lancet HIV Journal to coincide with the launch of the International AIDS meeting in Durban, South Africa.

An early clinical trial shows that passive immunization with an HIV-1 neutralizing antibody can help lower the amount of virus in the blood of an HIV-1-infected subject.​

According to the GBD 2015 study, 75 percent of the new HIV infections occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, while south Asia accounted for 8.5 percent and southeast Asia for 4.7 percent. It says that in southern Africa, more than one percent of the populations of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland were becoming infected with HIV. In Europe, Russia and Ukraine had the highest rates, while Cambodia had the highest rates in Asia. Between 2005 and 2015 the use of antiretrovirals has increased from 6.4 percent to 38.6 percent for men and from 3.3 percent to 42.4 percent for women.

Despite those increases, the study says most countries fall short of the UNAIDS target calling for countries to ensure that 81 percent of people living with HIV/AIDS are receiving ART by 2020. Although, according to report, no country has met that goal, Sweden, the United States, Netherlands and Argentina are all close at about 70 percent.

http://www.voanews.com/content/stud...ople-infected-with-hiv-each-year/3424684.html

 

[waltky]

No vaccine for AIDS in the near term...

No Vaccine in Sight for HIV/AIDS, Scientists Say
July 20, 2016 — Scientists attending the 21st International AIDS Conference in Durban say there is still no vaccine in sight to prevent HIV/AIDS infections.

While it is impossible to predict when such a goal will be reached, says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, he is optimistic about researchers' progress. "It is impossible to say exactly how far we are, but one thing we can say is that over the last seven years we have made important strides in the direction of getting a vaccine,” he said, “but getting an HIV vaccine will probably be one of the most important and difficult scientific challenges in all of HIV research."

Graca Machel, right, wife of former president Nelson Mandela makes a point about the rights of young adolescent women as actress Charlize Theron looks on at the 2016 AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa​

Although no specific vaccine has become the sole hope, scientists are vigorously pursuing tests and trials called HVTN 702. The vaccine being tested was developed from a trial in Thailand several years ago, and showed a modest degree of effectiveness. The trial of the vaccine is set to start in South Africa and other African countries later this year, but Fauci says it could be quite some time before results are known. "It will take at least a couple of years to determine if that vaccine works,” he said. “If it does, then hopefully we will be closer to where we need to be."

Civil rights activists march in Durban, South Africa, at the start of the 21st World Aids Conference​

The Vaccine Research Center at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in South Africa is testing the ALVAC gp120 vaccine, according to Fatima Laher, who leads the center. "The vaccine work that we do is to prevent HIV infection from happening in people who are negative,” she said. “We are only a few months away from opening that trial that will show whether or not this vaccine will prevent people from getting HIV."

No Vaccine in Sight for HIV/AIDS, Scientists Say

 

[waltky]

Vaccine to re-train the body's immune system to attack HIV...

Scientists Take Lesson From Immune System in Hunt for HIV Vaccine
September 09, 2016 - Scientists are one step closer to success in the battle against HIV with an experimental vaccine designed to retrain the body's immune system to attack the virus that causes AIDS.

A vaccine has been elusive in part because the AIDS virus mutates rapidly, making it a moving target for researchers. However, in a small fraction of people who have been infected for a couple of years, their immune systems learn to recognize the viral mutations, cranking out “broadly neutralizing antibodies” that naturally block HIV in its many disguises. Scientists have tried to harness the potential of these antibodies and translate that knowledge into a vaccine that could induce antibodies in humans to fight the ever-changing virus. Now, researchers in a large-scale collaboration at a number of institutions say they have taken a major — though early — step toward such a vaccine development.

A doctor draws blood from a man to check for HIV/AIDS at a mobile testing unit in Ndeeba, a suburb in Uganda's capital Kampala.​

Experiments with the vaccine were successful in a mouse model that mimicked the human immune system. The achievement was described in five papers published simultaneously in the journals Cell, Immunity and Science. Frederick Alt, director of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, led researchers in creating the humanized mouse model. Alt says the approach, referred to as "sequential vaccination," retrains the immune system's B-cells to recognize the HIV virus in all its forms and kill it by producing highly specific antibodies.

Seek and destroy

Scientists worked with non-infectious, genetically modified HIV proteins. These stimulated young immune system cells, called precursor B-cells, to produce oddly shaped antibodies. The antibodies — which can recognize mutated versions of the AIDS virus — attach themselves to other components of the immune system that then seek out and destroy the virus. So far, scientists have engineered two proteins to prime the immune system, which were shown in the mouse model to produce antibodies with many of the same genetic features as naturally produced broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Because there are millions of varieties of HIV, vaccination would require more than one shot, according to researcher Bill Schief, a vaccine designer for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. "Basically, what we are trying to do … is devise vaccines that will teach the human immune system to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies so that after you get the vaccine … if you are ever exposed to the virus, you'll be protected no matter which of the tens of the millions of strains that are circulating now that you're exposed to — hopefully, it won't matter, if we do our job perfectly well," Schief said. Researchers plan to test one of the stimulating proteins in a clinical trial next year, to see if it activates B-cells as intended. It is work that scientists hope will rewrite the rules of vaccine development, and vanquish a formidable foe — the AIDS virus — for good.

Scientists Take Lesson From Immune System in Hunt for HIV Vaccine

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Vaccine to re-train the body's immune system to attack HIV...

Scientists Take Lesson From Immune System in Hunt for HIV Vaccine
September 09, 2016 - Scientists are one step closer to success in the battle against HIV with an experimental vaccine designed to retrain the body's immune system to attack the virus that causes AIDS.

A vaccine has been elusive in part because the AIDS virus mutates rapidly, making it a moving target for researchers. However, in a small fraction of people who have been infected for a couple of years, their immune systems learn to recognize the viral mutations, cranking out “broadly neutralizing antibodies” that naturally block HIV in its many disguises. Scientists have tried to harness the potential of these antibodies and translate that knowledge into a vaccine that could induce antibodies in humans to fight the ever-changing virus. Now, researchers in a large-scale collaboration at a number of institutions say they have taken a major — though early — step toward such a vaccine development.

A doctor draws blood from a man to check for HIV/AIDS at a mobile testing unit in Ndeeba, a suburb in Uganda's capital Kampala.​

Experiments with the vaccine were successful in a mouse model that mimicked the human immune system. The achievement was described in five papers published simultaneously in the journals Cell, Immunity and Science. Frederick Alt, director of the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital, led researchers in creating the humanized mouse model. Alt says the approach, referred to as "sequential vaccination," retrains the immune system's B-cells to recognize the HIV virus in all its forms and kill it by producing highly specific antibodies.

Seek and destroy

Scientists worked with non-infectious, genetically modified HIV proteins. These stimulated young immune system cells, called precursor B-cells, to produce oddly shaped antibodies. The antibodies — which can recognize mutated versions of the AIDS virus — attach themselves to other components of the immune system that then seek out and destroy the virus. So far, scientists have engineered two proteins to prime the immune system, which were shown in the mouse model to produce antibodies with many of the same genetic features as naturally produced broadly neutralizing antibodies.

Because there are millions of varieties of HIV, vaccination would require more than one shot, according to researcher Bill Schief, a vaccine designer for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. "Basically, what we are trying to do … is devise vaccines that will teach the human immune system to produce broadly neutralizing antibodies so that after you get the vaccine … if you are ever exposed to the virus, you'll be protected no matter which of the tens of the millions of strains that are circulating now that you're exposed to — hopefully, it won't matter, if we do our job perfectly well," Schief said. Researchers plan to test one of the stimulating proteins in a clinical trial next year, to see if it activates B-cells as intended. It is work that scientists hope will rewrite the rules of vaccine development, and vanquish a formidable foe — the AIDS virus — for good.

Scientists Take Lesson From Immune System in Hunt for HIV Vaccine

Awesome.
Then homo male promiscuity will just unleash more dormant STDs.

 

[JQPublic1]

I was asked why the USA has like more than 400 times more people living with HIV and AIDS than New Zealand does.

I have no problem in giving the answer, and there I'll even level with ya....

Because American big cities are where the lifestyle in America often described as "Scummy" lives.

That's where the crime is, that's where there drugs are, that's where the poverty is, and that's where the lack of education and lack of self respect lives, and that's where the lack of personal achievement lives.
here in America.

And here in America that is also where the 3rd world trash from places like Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil, Sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean and Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos all live, along with American blacks.

And that's where the Homosexuals also live.

The Big cities in America are where in America, that poor personal discipline and poor personal responsibility, poor awareness of personal behavior and a poor understanding of consequences, and an atrocity for an attitude lives.

In the Big Cities.
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Chicago, parts of New York City, Boston, Baltimore, Saint Louis, Dallas, you name it.

That is the reason why America has such a higher population and population percentage of those with HIV, than New Zealand.
Because New Zealand doesn't have those problems.

 

[JQPublic1]

Because unlike NZ, we have 40 million basketball-Americans and the overwhelming majority of AIDS cases are among our carpet-headed conniseurs of Nike-Air-Jordans. They carelessly, casually fuck without condoms (for the gimme dat) just as irresponsibly as white gays do.

basketball-Americans and carpet-headed conniseurs of Nike Air-Jordans.
Thats some funny shit right there.
thanks. Gonna use it when I can.
Needed to update my "Fuzzy headed mud worshipers" anyway. and porch monkey was just getting too much negative feed back for some reason.
I do refer to obama as the "shoe shine boy" but I want to keep that just for him out of respect you understand.