[JayHMorrison]

ASIA is at a critical point with AIDS: link

One reason for Asia's complacency is low prevalence rates. Less than 1 percent of the populations of most Asian countries are infected. The good news is that Asia has a window of opportunity to avoid Africa-like outbreaks. The bad news is that HIV/AIDS rates tend to skyrocket once prevalence rates go above 1 percent. Time, in other words, isn't on Asia's side.

Investors may be able to ignore how HIV/AIDS is decimating Africa, but they'll turn a blind eye to events in China and India at their own peril. That goes for the rest of Asia, too. Africa represents about 13 percent of the world's population. Asia represents 60 percent and is home to some of the most promising economies.

[trespam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JayHMorrison', 'A')SIA is at a critical point with AIDS.

[JayHMorrison]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('trespam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JayHMorrison', 'A')SIA is at a critical point with AIDS.

[MrPC]

This isn't the 1980s. These days HIV is something you die with, not something you necessarily die from. So long as you have money or cheap generic meds that is. Does China make generic HIV meds by any chance?

[Guest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrPC', 'T')his isn't the 1980s. These days HIV is something you die with, not something you necessarily die from. So long as you have money or cheap generic meds that is.

[trespam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Anonymous', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MrPC', 'T')his isn't the 1980s. These days HIV is something you die with, not something you necessarily die from. So long as you have money or cheap generic meds that is.

[The_Virginian]

I am surprised that people think these drugs (azt, cocktails etc.) are so wonderful to begin with. They Do tend to extend the life of an HIV?aids infectee, but they maybe double the lifespan of an infected individual.

Second they make them LOOK healthy, and they are really not, so the are simply MORE EFFECTIVE CARRIERS....

Isolation is the ONLY possible solution at this time (and I say possible). Untill we fully understand RNA/DNA at its mechanisims, we will not be able to "cure" anyone.

[JayHMorrison]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The_Virginian', 'I') am surprised that people think these drugs (azt, cocktails etc.) are so wonderful to begin with. They Do tend to extend the life of an HIV?aids infectee, but they maybe double the lifespan of an infected individual.
Second they make them LOOK healthy, and they are really not, so the are simply MORE EFFECTIVE CARRIERS. Isolation is the ONLY possible solution at this time (and I say possible). Untill we fully understand RNA/DNA at its mechanisims, we will not be able to "cure" anyone.

[MrPC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JayHMorrison', 'I') agree with you on that. There is no cure for AIDS. All these drugs do is hide the disease temporarily. A person on AIDS drugs is still out having sex and possibly spreading the disease.

[Ender]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('JayHMorrison', 'I')n reality, spending money on AIDS drugs is a waste of money. People often don't take them properly and just encourage drug resistant varieties of the virus.

[The_Virginian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')xcept that someone on the meds has a lower viral load, which means it is far less likely that a negative partner will seroconvert relative to someone who is unmedicated and still screwing around (whether or not they know they have the virus). And don't kid yourself, both scenarios do happen.

[MarkR]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The_Virginian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')xcept that someone on the meds has a lower viral load, which means it is far less likely that a negative partner will seroconvert relative to someone who is unmedicated and still screwing around (whether or not they know they have the virus). And don't kid yourself, both scenarios do happen.

[some_guy282]

This virulent strain of HIV can turn into full blown AIDS in just 3 months!

Story

[MikeB]

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[Phil]

It's just nature's way of saying Hello.

[RIPSmithianEconomics]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Phil', 'I')t's just nature's way of saying Hello.

[TrueKaiser]

ah evolution in action.

[BabyPeanut]

HIV may have jumped from primates to humans via dirty needles. The key is serial passage which can greatly increase the virulence of a virus.

Here HIV-II is demonstrated to become more deadly to baboons via serial passage.

http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/full/77/1/77
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')ncreased Virus Replication and Virulence after Serial Passage of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 2 in Baboons
Christopher P. Locher,1,{dagger} Stephanie A. Witt,1 Brian G. Herndier,2,{ddagger} Nancy W. Abbey,3 Klara Tenner-Racz,4 Paul Racz,4 Nancy B. Kiviat,5 Krishna K. Murthy,6 Kathleen Brasky,6 Michelle Leland,6 and Jay A. Levy1*

Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143,1 Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, 92103,2 Department of Pathology, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California 94110,3 Department of Pathology and Koerber Laboratory for AIDS Research, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, D-20359 Hamburg, Germany,4 Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98104,5 Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, San Antonio, Texas 782456

Received 18 March 2002/ Accepted 27 September 2002

ABSTRACT

Similar to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection of humans, the natural history of HIV-2 infection in baboons (Papio cynocephalus) is a slow and chronic disease that generally takes several years before an AIDS-like condition develops. To shorten the amount of time to the development of disease, we performed five serial passages of HIV-2UC2 in baboons by using blood and bone marrow samples during the acute phase of infection when viral loads were at high levels. After these serial passages, virus levels in plasma, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and lymphatic tissues in the acutely infected baboons were increased. Within 1 year of the HIV-2 infection, all of the inoculated baboons showed specific signs of AIDS-related disease progression within the lymphatic tissues, such as vascular proliferation and lymphoid depletion. The HIV-2UC2 recovered after four serial passages showed increased kinetics of viral replication in baboon PBMC and cytopathicity. This study suggests that the HIV-2 isolate recovered after several serial passages in baboons will be useful in future studies of AIDS pathogenesis and vaccine development by using this animal model.

[TrueKaiser]

i wonder who was dumb enough to stick the same needle himself that was put into a animal?

[KiddieKorral]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TrueKaiser', 'i') wonder who was dumb enough to stick the same needle himself that was put into a animal?