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...ARVs, however, the problem of the virus becoming resistant to them is a potential drawback. Dr. Peter Piot, of UNAIDS, suggests basing microbicides only on the drugs that do not make it through the pharmaceutical pipeline - many are rejected because they don't maintain high enough levels in the blood to treat an HIV infection, but could be sufficiently powerful to prevent transmission. But Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of International Partnership for Microbicides, which has sponsored a number of the trials, believes that since microbicides aren't designed to enter the bloodstream and suppress HIV there, resistance...
...involving two compounds, Tenofovir or Truvada, are now underway in Thailand, Botswana, Peru, West Africa and even the U.S. It's being tested in groups at highest risk of transmitting the virus - commercial sex workers and gay men. "What you want is a high level of ARV in the blood and body secretions, so that when you are exposed to HIV, the ARV will kill the virus," explains Dr. Peter Piot, director of UNAIDS. "Because at infection, the number of virus particles is very, very small, so you can inhibit or kill them before they penetrate cells or just...
...slow course of the investigation has muted some of the fury that reached a peak last May when Congressman John Murtha, a Democrat from Pennsylvania with longtime ties to the military who has turned against the Iraq War, claimed that the Marines in Haditha had "killed in cold blood." Murtha too is facing a civil lawsuit for defamation from SSgt Wuterich, but he has not backed off his remarks...
...never let people out of the hospital, walking around getting drugs," and it went from "they'll never allow this to happen" to now its the standard of care. How many diabetics are out there that don't want to make sure they get good control [of their blood sugar] all the time. And it goes, again, from being indefensible to being indispensable...
...Syria. And the U.S. might have been able to wield some influence had it not been embroiled in a civil war in Iraq. We don't have to wait to learn what the legacy of the Bush Administration will be. We can see it now in all the blood being spilled and the destruction happening in Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. ERIK STOTTRUP Waupaca...