is there a cure for aids yet?

Question

just curious that so many people has aids >

Answer 1

There is currently no vaccine against HIV or AIDS. The only known methods of prevention are based on avoiding exposure to the virus or, failing that, on an antiviral treatment directly after a highly significant exposure. Also, not a single case has been documented in which systemic HIV infection has been cured and even on the theoretical level, no plausible way of eradicating HIV infection has so far been found. Treatment for HIV can suppress viral replication to a degree sufficient to apparently stop disease progression, but success is critically dependent on the patients ability to keep perfect adherence to their drug schedule, which many people will fail to achieve. Also, modern combination therapy has been around for merely ten years, so it is not presently known whether treatment failure or inacceptable long-term side effects can be avoided in the majority even of perfectly compliant patients over a time-span of potentially many decades. However, it is known that without major medical and scientific breakthroughs, HIV will not have any problem surviving combination therapy for said decades. Still, in western countries, most patients survive many years following diagnosis because of the availability of the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).[21] In the absence of HAART, progression from HIV infection to AIDS occurs at a median of between nine to ten years and the median survival time after developing AIDS is only 9.2 months.[7] HAART dramatically increases the time from diagnosis to death, and treatment research continues.

Current optimal HAART options consist of combinations (or "cocktails") consisting of at least three drugs belonging to at least two types, or "classes," of anti-retroviral agents. Typical regimens consist of two nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) plus either a protease inhibitor or a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI). This treatment is frequently referred to as HAART (highly-active anti-retroviral therapy).[72] Anti-retroviral treatments, along with medications intended to prevent AIDS-related opportunistic infections, have played a part in delaying complications associated with AIDS, reducing the symptoms of HIV infection, and extending patients' life spans. Over the past decade the success of these treatments in prolonging and improving the quality of life for people with AIDS has improved dramatically.[73][74]

Because HIV disease progression in children is more rapid than in adults, and laboratory parameters are less predictive of risk for disease progression, particularly for young infants, treatment recommendations are more aggressive for children than for adults.[75] In developed countries where HAART is available, doctors assess the viral load, rapidity in CD4 decline, and patient readiness while deciding when to recommend initiating treatment.[76]

There are several concerns about antiretroviral regimens, as side effects of these antiretrovirals have caused problems such as lipodystrophy, dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance, an increase in cardiovascular risks and birth defects.[77][78] Regimens can be complicated, requiring patients to take several pills at various times during the day, although treatment regimens have been greatly simplified in recent years. If patients miss doses, drug resistance can develop contributing to the rise of viral escape.[79][80] Anti-retroviral drugs are expensive, and the majority of the world's infected individuals do not have access to medications and treatments for HIV and AIDS. Research to improve current treatments includes decreasing side effects of current drugs, further simplifying drug regimens to improve adherence, and determining the best sequence of regimens to manage drug resistance.

A number of studies have shown that measures to prevent opportunistic infections can be beneficial when treating patients with HIV infection or AIDS. Vaccination against hepatitis A and B is advised for patients who are not infected with these viruses and are at risk of getting infected. In addition, AIDS patients should receive vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae and should receive yearly vaccination against influenza virus. Patients with substantial immunosuppression are generally advised to receive prophylactic therapy for Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia (PCP), and many patients may benefit from prophylactic therapy for toxoplasmosis and Cryptococcus meningitis.

Various forms of alternative medicine have been used to try to treat symptoms or to try to affect the course of the disease itself, although none is a substitute for conventional treatment.[81] In the first decade of the epidemic when no useful conventional treatment was available, a large number of people with AIDS experimented with alternative therapies. The definition of "alternative therapies" in AIDS has changed since that time. Then, the phrase often referred to community-driven treatments, untested by government or pharmaceutical company research, that some hoped would directly suppress the virus or stimulate immunity against it. These kinds of approaches have become less common over time as the benefits of AIDS drugs have become more apparent.

Examples of alternative medicine that people hoped would improve their symptoms or their quality of life include massage, herbal and flower remedies and acupuncture;[81] when used with conventional treatment, many now refer to these as "complementary" approaches. None of these treatments has been proven in controlled trials to have any effect in treating HIV or AIDS directly.[82] However, some may improve feelings of well-being in people who believe in their value. Additionally, people with AIDS, like people with other illnesses such as cancer, sometimes use marijuana to treat pain, combat nausea and stimulate appetite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Treatment

Answer 2

K every1 is saying there isn't a cure 4 AIDES, but what alot of people don't know there is a cure and that cure cost 1.5 million dollars. However the money that's being spent on research is bullshit cuz the money is in the medication not in the cure. Just 4 1mth supply cost @ least 1,000 per bottle and if u were spending that type of money on the medication would u let the poor have the cure. There trying 2 drop the population cuz @ least 3million a yr die fm this disease it wuz just recently on the news. Please don't get confused about what I said when I said there is a cure cuz aint nobody gonna agree w/me who reads this, but if society listens real close 2 what has been said and read any information they would c their is a cure. 4 example look @ Majic Johnson they can't find no trace, however the dr's said the medication is y they can't find it in his system, but he still has it. NOT. His wife is still not + after all these yrs. 2nd of all I just recently read where there was a guy I think in London who no longer has it and he's been tested 3x's cuz the Dr thought there wuz a mistake w/his labs and researches asked him if they can study him he said no, but yet he wants 2 help others and alot of dr's and researches r skeptical about this situation. The man said all he did was take care of himself and his body w/vitamins. I can't say if that part is true or not. No 1 has 2 believe me about this man, but u can actually read the artical on him. If ur really interested u can let me know and I'll tell u what website 2 read. I had 2 do research 4 school and that's how I found it. And of course every1 herd of the Majic Johnson story, so u tell me if that's true or not.

Answer 3

No, there is no cure. What there is, is medication that prolongs the length of time for people who have HIV from developing full-blown AIDS. This medication is protease inhibitors, or what is known as the "AIDS cocktail."

AIDS is actually an entire host of conditions--like Kaposi's sarcoma (cancer), pneumonia, and other diseases. What happens is that HIV--the human immunodeficiency virus--"activates" and then replicates, thereby destroying a person's immune system, which then makes the person susceptible to the sores and cancers and pneumonia, etc. Their body's defenses simply cannot ward off certain things anymore.

So, if HIV can be prevented from "activating," AIDS can be prevented. The protease inhibitors are keeping people from developing AIDS for years and years.

Answer 4

No cure, but there are treatments that keep the patient fairly healthy. The drugs are tough on the system and can do some serious damage to organs which can shorten life, and they are very expensive, and often must be taken every couple of hours so a full night's sleep is impossible. Do not get AIDS, do whatever you have to to not get it.

Answer 5

There's BEEN a cure for aids. Unfortunately, it is as fatal as the disease.

The blood must be heated to a temerature that the aids virus cannot survive in. This is above 105 degrees. It must be then recirculated through the body, heating the tissues and thereby killing the virus in those tissues. Unfortunately, permantent brain damage also occurs in this same temperature range.

Answer 6

the cure for aids is ...masterbate as much as you can to get the tough guy , run my mouth and anything but work to survive thoughts out of you and this will make you realize you desire (need and want) nothing at all from anybody or anything....aids instead of diabetes means that you will desire the things for somebody you are attached to i.e a mother...now have a priest (priest may be only person that sperm cant possess) help you want something again...done aids cured

Answer 7

What kind of aids? Financial aid? Is there a need of a cure for financial aid? Sorry, bad joke. No, there isn't.

Answer 8

unfortunately no cure. cure means total eradication of the disease. it is impossible but lots of hopes in new anti aids medications. they are miraculously effective in weakening the virus. the problem with the virus is that it is versetile and changes its antigens all the time so it is difficult to come up with an effective vaccine for it.

Answer 9

i think there is but the government is hiding it from the people because if the people don't have something to be afraid of and consequences to their actions they will keep making poor decisions that in turn have a bad effect on the rest of the world....that's my theory, but i think they have medications for HIV/AIDS, but no "cure" yet.

Answer 10

Sadly no, but there are drugs to slow down the HIV Virus from killing off all the T-9 cells. And know AIDS is a result of the HIV Virus.

Answer 11

Read Kevin Trudeau's Natural Cures They Don't Want You To Know About. In this book he talks about that virus. It is very interesting.