Medical+Advancement+in+AIDS+(experimental+or+theoretical)

**//AIDS and medical advancement//**
is that scientists are working and giving in a lot of energy and money in finding the cure right now.**
 * The cure for AIDS has been wished and hoped for, for a long time. But what they don't know

The U.S. government alone spends $200 million a year on a hunt for a vaccine against AIDS. At the forefront of that search stands Dr. David Baltimore, chairman of the National Institute of Health's AIDS Vaccine Research Committee. Currently president of the California Institute of Technology as well, Baltimore won the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Betsey Arledge, producer of the NOVA film "Surviving AIDS," interviewed a cautiously optimistic Baltimore on the current state of the search for a vaccine. "We (USA) do far more AIDS research than the whole rest of the world; in the vaccine area alone, we do probably 90 percent of the research." States Dr. David Baltimore. "I'm impressed that AIDS remains a very noted disease in the United States. It's noted in the newspapers all the time. The thing that worried us at the time HIV was found was if there even was a vaccine." 900,000 Americans have HIV. When the HIV virus enters your body it goes straight to the cells that protect you from other viruses. It slowly destroys your immune system and if your immune system is destroyed you can die from just a normal cold. They are trying to find medication to slow down the process of HIV. Their are drugs that they have found to slowly slow down the process, they are called drug cocktails. It helps the immune system to recover, which is a very big improvement. But these drugs are very expensive ( 10-15000 dollars per year) and not every one can afford it. The drugs have saved the life of quite a few people. Even though the drugs have side effects like Steve Kovacev, who's nerves in his legs got damaged and he couldn't walk. The drugs can cause severe actions while by others it works media type="youtube" key="NwJBkNxZz9s" height="355" width="425" Movie: Canada's medical advancement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwJBkNxZz9s

People are now teaching children and teenagers from the ages 13-20 about HIV nad AIDS and how to prevent spreading or getting it, the cause of this is not to spread the virus. There was a man who couldn't catch AIDS. They tried inserting the deadly virus in his body a few times but nothing worked. They used him to find out a way to prevent AIDS. The HIV goes directly to the T-cell which can cause alot of problems. The program now extends to (1) adapting regimens, (2) developing new drugs and (3) natural history of people with HIV/AIDS who received anti-retrovirals (ARV), anti-opportunistic infection (01), or alternative care. Laboratory, prevention, and health system research are considered.

Light blue shows how much people knew about AIDS in 1908 and how much they have been trying to teach up to 2002. This shows how a few countries have been trying to teach people about the deadly virus. Scientists are not trying to find a cure to AIDS or HIV they are just trying to slow it down. AS you are reading this now, people are experimenting with blood. They are injecting the virus into the blood and then they use this to find way to slow it down. Some scientists think or say that there is actually no cure to AIDS or HIV but the battle between the us people and AIDS is still on. The Global Call for Action was launched on 18 May 2001 as a multi-lingual online campaign aimed at building awareness and support for AIDS vaccine research and access. The petition, which urges the world’s leaders to take concrete action in ensuring the development of safe, effective, and universally-accessible AIDS vaccines, has garnered signatures from over 175 countries around the world. In the first month alone the Global Call for Action collected over 50,000 signatures, which were then presented to the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS in June 2001. In building this "body of voices," an important message was, and continues to be, delivered to the world's leaders: the world needs an AIDS vaccine.

Bibliography http://www.bgay.com/m/archive/index.php/t-32.html http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/102231669.html http://curedisease.com/aidsoverview.html video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwJBkNxZz9s graph: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42340000/gif/_42340074_aids_hiv_gra3416.gif picture 2: http://hiv-aids-poz.com/posters/Hands-Holding-Up-Ribbon.gif

Made by Natasha Schoen, American School of Warsaw