Natural Cures For HIV

posted by admin on Jun 29

GENEVA (AFP) - Africa’s AIDS epidemic is so severe that it should be classed as a disaster comparable to floods or famine, the Red Cross said Thursday.In its annual “World Disasters Report”, the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said that there was “no doubt” that HIV/AIDS matches the UN definition of a disaster.

About two thirds of the world’s HIV-positive cases are in sub-Saharan Africa. At least one person in 10 is living with HIV in nations such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland and Zambia, the report said.

The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs classes a disaster as a “serious disruption of the functioning of a society, causing widespread human, material or environmental losses which exceed the ability of a society to cope using only its own resources”.

The Red Cross said such a crisis now exists in Africa.

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posted by admin on Jun 29

Like guided missiles, radioactive anti-HIV antibodies seek out and destroy HIV-infected cells.

The new approach to AIDS therapy — called radioimmunotherapy — works in mice, report Ekaterina Dadachova, PhD, of New York’s Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and colleagues.

“Radioimmunotherapy is supposed to be curative,” Dadachova tells WebMD. “Current HIV treatments kill the virus, but it will come back because it hides in latently infected cells. Our goal is to go after those cells, so radioimmunotherapy has the potential to cure somebody completely.”

Dadachova’s colleague, Harris Goldstein, MD, tempers his enthusiasm a bit more. Goldstein is director of the Einstein/MMC Center for AIDS Research in New York.

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posted by admin on Jun 26

Thursday.

The report, from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, also called on governments and humanitarian agencies to pay more attention to AIDS in their response to natural disasters and armed conflicts.

“HIV is a long-term and complex disaster on many levels … For marginalized groups across the world — injecting drug users, sex workers and men who have sex with men — rates are on the increase,” said the Geneva-based humanitarian agency.

Those groups, living on the fringes of society in many countries and especially in the developing world, “often face stigma, criminalization and little, if any, access to prevention and treatment services,” it added.

The 248-page study, an annual World Disasters Report, gave no new figures for AIDS sufferers but cited United Nations statistics that 2.1 million died from the disease last year.

The Federation said the HIV virus was at the root of a rolling social crisis across southern Africa.

Its officials told a news conference the recent violence in Zimbabwe — where until recently the battle against AIDS had benefited from a widespread treatment network — could disrupt medical care and make that situation worse.

“We must not let what we have achieved be put into reverse,” Federation specialist Mukesh Kapila said. The body’s deputy secretary general Ibrahim Osman said it would help the Zimbabwe Red Cross double the HIV sufferers it supports to 260,000.

The Federation said it centered its 2008 World Disasters Report on the immune-destroying disease rather than floods or earthquakes because for many communities the epidemic “is undoubtedly a disaster.”

“Government services are overwhelmed by the need for support and treatment, stigma still prevents access for many, even where services exist, and communities are devastated by its effects,” it said.

There were 405 natural disasters worldwide last year, compared to 423 in 2006, the Federation said. Those killed just under 17,000 people, the lowest annual figure for a decade, but the numbers affected rose by 40 percent to 201 million.

(Editing by Charles Dick)

posted by admin on Jun 25

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posted by admin on Jun 24

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