Genes that can help control HIV detected

Scientists have pinpointed three genes that help some HIV infected people rein in the virus and postpone the onset of AIDS in a finding that may help guild vacinne and drugs development. The identified variations in the three genes that may help the immune systems of some people control the virus while others fail to control HIV proliferation.

The international teams of researchers scanned the genomes of 486 HIV infected people from others countries. AIDS is an incurable disease in which the virus damages the immune systems, the body natural defender. IN early stages of HIV infection before the virus has had time to cause full blown AIDS, there is the battle between the virus and the immune systems, which deploys key immune cells to try to prevent HIV from multiplying out of control. The immune systems sucess varies tremendously from person to persons.

What you'd like to do is understand why some people's immune systems can push the virus down to really low levels and others can't and you would try to capitalise on that with a vaccine strategy.

HIV treatment a failure

The world has not done enough to prevent the spread of HIV and million of deaths from preventable disease are a failure. Aids society menbers said about eleven thousand people were still contracting Hiv each day despite the huge advances knowledge of and treatments for the virus. He said less than a third of those living with HIV in low and middle income countries were treated with life saving medication and even fewer could access proven prevention methods such as condoms and clean syringes.

Science has given us the tools to prevent and treat HIV and the facts that we have not yet translated this science into practice is a shameful failure on the parts of the global community. The conference was attended by more than fivr thousand delegates to discuss cutting edge treatment for HIV, including two new classes of drugs that could hope to those who have developed a resistance to existing retroviral drugs.