Anthony Fauci, director of the Research Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases America (NIAID), one of the scientists leading the HIV / AIDS, said so at the Plenary Session of the International Conference XIX th on HIV / AIDS (taking place in Washington) on the morning of Monday, 7/23/2012
In his speech, Mr. Anthony Fauci spent a considerable amount to where things that mankind has made in the fight against HIV, which he said there were many important advance in each stage to reach the significant progress today.
First of all, that human understanding of HIV replication in cells and can say this is "the most important factor in scientific progress which we have accumulated." This understanding has helped us identify some "vulnerability" of HIV and thus be regarded as a kind of basic scientific knowledge to design interventions should be mainly in the field of prevention and HIV / AIDS.
The next significant step was the invention of antiretroviral drugs (ARV) first, known as Zidovudine (AZT), have provided a "glimmer of hope" for the treatment of AIDS. However, due to limited effect institutions should not affect large AZT, did not last and a few years back has been replaced by treatment combination of two drugs.
Mark a breakthrough in the study therapy is recognized AIDS Conference XI th International HIV / AIDS, held in Vancouver (Canada) in 1996. It is a method of treatment of three ARV combination, because it has made the load of HIV in the blood drops below undetectable levels and remain so for a long time. It can be said treatment drug combination 03 has opened a new era in the treatment of AIDS and it has contributed to changing the lives of millions of people infected with HIV.
Thanks to the success of scientific research, to date we have over 30 approved drugs to treat AIDS. However, Mr. A. Fauci said that we can not stop here because there are still many who do not respond to these drugs, and we must take the drugs longer effective.
Mr. A. Fauci said that in the early stages of HIV / AIDS, nearly half of his patients die within 6 to 8 months from when they went to the first examination. But now, if a person is infected with HIV at age 25 entered the clinic of the National Institute of Health USA (NIH) or anywhere else that offers services and be treated with ARV therapy mixed method drug, then we (doctors) can confidently look into the eyes of patients and said if they comply with good treatment, they can live another 50 years.
The move followed the recent studies demonstrate that antiretroviral drugs can reduce the risk of HIV transmission from HIV-infected persons to their uninfected partners, if their partner is HIV-infected Daily use and antiretroviral adherence. This method is called prophylactic treatment before exposure to HIV.
Together with research and development of drug therapy, vaccine research has been strengthened and has already achieved some steady progress, encouraging, though still not enough to be able to go to production of a vaccine effective against HIV. It means very much to do.
One of the 02 biggest problems to be solved to eliminate HIV / AIDS (the first issue is to develop vaccines as mentioned above) is to find ways to cure AIDS. Mr. A. Fauci said that this is a "major scientific challenge," but can still accomplish. Until now, scientists still are focusing all efforts to work in several directions with the scientific basis, such as looking to types of HIV from the body, or to enhance the body's immune system to deal with HIV, or somehow alter the body's cells are resistant to HIV ...
Thus, according to Mr. A. Fauci, today, a day of July 2012, we can say that we have the science to advance the goals of ending AIDS. However, that goal will not happen spontaneously, but many, very many countries, many areas have a lot of work to do.
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