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...We’re in a new environment when funding is getting more difficult to come by,” says HMS professor Dr. Bruce D. Walker. “I think that the whole nature of research is gradually changing certainly related to HIV and AIDS. My feeling is that we need to bring people together at a place like Harvard...it is a solvable problem but it will take more resources...
...Youse's search turned up iThemba Lethu Orphanage in Durban, South Africa, which had established a breast milk bank in 2001. Babies infected with HIV, orphaned and abandoned because their mothers had succumbed to AIDS, are cared at the orphanage. In sub-Saharan Africa, three million children, age five and younger, are orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS. Since the virus can transfer through breast milk, and formula is often mixed with unclean water by African mothers, iThemba Lethu relies on donated breast milk to feed the children there and boost their immune systems...
Alisha Saleem, 20, was born too early to benefit from the newest antiretroviral (ARV) drugs. In fact, there weren't any HIV treatments for adults, much less children, in 1986. Saleem, who contracted the virus from her mother, an intravenous-drug user, was 4 when she took her first AIDS drug, and even then the only option she had was AZT. Today doctors know that the best way to fight the virus is to hit it with three drugs at once, one of which is preferably a protease inhibitor. But early patients like Saleem had to learn the hard...
...wake her up at 4 a.m. to administer the first of four daily doses. Today the blond, blue-eyed girl, who looks like any active Midwestern teenager, has to take her medications only once a day. "Most of the time, I don't even realize I have HIV," she says...
...number of HIV-positive American kids dwindles, it's getting harder to study the long-term effects of these drugs on children in the U.S. Says Hazra: "These are questions that will only be answered now in the developing world," where newly infected babies are still available, unfortunately, in huge numbers. But with the answers they provide, perhaps that current wave of young patients can be the last...