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Last January a team of scientists at the World Health Organization (WHO) published a study in the British medical journal the Lancet making the audacious claim that the tools already exist to end the AIDS epidemic. Doctors have long noted that antiretrovirals - the drugs commonly used to treat HIV - are so successful at suppressing the number of viruses in an infected patient's blood that they can render a person no longer contagious. Using mathematical models, the researchers claimed that universal HIV testing followed by the immediate treatment of newly infected patients with antiretroviral drugs could eliminate the disease from...
Further research revealed that the same proteins also help cells resist illnesses such as West Nile virus, dengue fever, and yellow fever. But the proteins did not seem to be effective in defending cells from HIV or hepatitis...
...researchers, who had already used this same process in studies of HIV and the hepatitis C virus, hoped to find that some of the treated cells could not be infected with the influenza virus, which would suggest that the virus needed the deactivated gene to function. Instead, the researchers were surprised to find that the rate of infection increased dramatically when certain genes were deactivated...
...will go to HIV testing if he knows that he will suffer the death sentence...
ELIZABETH MATAKA, U.N. special envoy for AIDS in Africa, on a proposed bill to criminalize homosexuality in Uganda and execute those who test positive for HIV. Because of widespread criticism, the execution provision was removed; the bill is expected to be introduced this month...