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HIV drugs 'add 13 years of life' |
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Friday, 25 July 2008 |
 Researchers said it meant HIV was now effectively a chronic condition like diabetes, rather than a fatal disease, the Lancet reported. The team, involving Bristol University staff, looked at over 43,000 patients. The study found a person now diagnosed at 20 years old could expect to live for another 49 years. But the Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration, which includes scientists from across Europe and Northern America, warned this was still short of the life expectancy for the wider population which stands at about 80. Antiretroviral treatment for HIV consists of drugs which work against the infection itself by slowing down the replication of the virus in the body. This method of therapy was introduced in the 1990s, but has since become more effective and better tolerated. The researchers looked at life expectancy during three time periods after the introduction of the drugs - 1996-9, 2000-2 and 2003-5 - in high income countries. Just over 2,000 patients died during the study periods. |
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Researchers Modify T-Cells, Make Them HIV Resistant |
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Thursday, 03 July 2008 |
To share that naturally occurring proteins called "zinc fingers" are being used in a new approach to AIDS treatment. Using modified T-Cells with the zinc fingers, researchers at the Pennsylvania School of Medicine have shown a reduction in viral load in mice. The news source writes - "'By inducing mutations in the CCR5 gene using zinc finger proteins, we've reduced the expression of CCR5 surface proteins on T cells, which is necessary for the AIDS virus to enter these immune system cells,' explains first author Elena Perez, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Penn. 'This approach stops the AIDS virus from entering the T cells because it now has an introduced error into the CCR5 gene.'" Read more
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STD,HIV/AIDS Awareness Education Workshop in the Village |
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
On May/June,2008, Aids Alliance Nepal (AAN) conducted four STD,HIV / AIDS Awareness Education Workshops in the Village Communities of Thankot, 15 kilometres far fromKathmandu. Thankot Mahila Jagaran ,a network of women's Cooperative Saving and Credit Association has four hundred members in it.In 2007,AAN reached there for awareness education training and conducted a day workshop with the homemakers of the network.AAN talked to them, discussed about sexsually transmitted diseases, HIV and AIDS,its modes of transmissions, prevention and safety measures and human rights of PLWHA.They showed very keen interest on the issues.AAN found them very open minded.Extending full cooperation,they demanded to organise the awareness trainings for all the members.
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