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...hand, I was struck that it was such as bold statement," says Rowena Johnston, vice president of research for the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). "On the other hand, I would certainly have to be concerned about how this information is going to be used...
...provocative as it is, the Swiss statement is actually based on some well-established scientific facts that AIDS researchers have accepted for some time now. Studies funded by the National Institutes of Health in Uganda, for example, showed that among heterosexual couples in which only one partner is HIV positive, the chances of spreading HIV are low if the HIV positive partner has low levels of virus circulating in the blood. Such viral load is also a key factor in determining whether HIV-positive pregnant women pass on the infection to their unborn children: women with lower viral loads have...
Still, the statement raises the intriguing question of whether an HIV-positive person being treated successfully with ARVs can ever consider himself non-infectious. Johnston points out that if the assumption behind the Swiss statement is true, then it bodes well for efforts to control the epidemic worldwide. "We are now at the point where there are a couple million people in the developing world on ARVs, and we might at least be getting to the point where we can wonder if treating these people is actually going to reduce the spread of HIV as these people become somewhat less...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, which could derail his peace talks with the Israelis. In his statement, Abbas coupled his condemnation of the Dimona attack with harsh criticism of an Israeli army raid in the West Bank. It was not lost on the Israelis that the al-Aqsa Brigades belong to Abbas's own Fatah movement, but it has spun out of the President's control...
...Vries showed chief Aruban prosecutor Hans Mos some of the video material beforehand. Apparently acting on these leads, Mos reopened the case last Friday. So far, no arrest has been made, nor has the prosecutor's office given an official statement on the developments. Interviewed in De Vries' show, Mos deemed the taped confessions "convincing," but urged caution in taking the case to court. "This calls for additional research and that is what we are going to do," he said...