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Another potential solution is being explored by Dr. Allan Goldstein at George Washington University. Goldstein has found that it is possible to use a protein from the core of the AIDS virus to immunize laboratory animals. This protein, unlike those in the outer coat, does not vary much from one strain of the virus to the next. Says Goldstein: "We think we've overcome the problem of a constantly changing virus." Even if he has, it remains to be shown that this or any other vaccine preparation can actually protect people from infection. Predicts Dr. Anthony Fauci, director...
Until vaccines become available, many doctors urge that a combination of condoms and spermicides be used to prevent sexual transmission of AIDS. Laboratory tests show that nonoxynol-9, the active ingredient in many U.S. spermicides, can prevent the virus from reproducing. A more potent product, under development by Exovir in Great Neck, N.Y., would contain both nonoxynol- 9 and alpha interferon, a combination that compounds the killing effect. Pharmatex, a spermicide sold in Europe and Africa, also appears to inhibit the virus in the test tube...
...Josephine's own symptoms are well along. She knows she will die, just as thousands of people in her town and the surrounding countryside have already died after being infected with the AIDS virus. Townspeople first attributed the mysterious disease to witchcraft. Now they know that their lovemaking is to blame. They have seen the pattern of infection as it travels from husband to wife to lover. Fifty of Kyotera's leading businessmen are dead. The streets are filling with homeless orphans, the offspring of AIDS victims in outlying areas. Josephine, racked by fevers, chronic diarrhea, throat lesions...
...Samuel Okware, the Ministry of Health official in charge of Uganda's AIDS prevention program: "In the year 2000, one in every two sexually active adults will be infected." The Geneva-based World Health Organization estimates that 2 million to 5 million Africans are now carriers of the AIDS virus. Leading researchers believe at least 50,000 people have already died of AIDS in Africa, and unless a treatment and vaccine are found, a million and a half more may succumb over the next decade...
...Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, 16% of the adult population, including up to 30% of the men, have been exposed to the AIDS virus. Now babies and young children are also being infected, some at birth via their mothers, who are AIDS carriers, and others through blood transfusions, which are frequently administered to children suffering from malarial anemia. In tiny Rwanda (pop. 6 million), researchers estimate that as many as 22% of AIDS victims are children...