It is hard for current technology to identify a vaccine that can effectively target HIV, which not only mutates, but is also extremely difficult for the immune system to detect. It is also difficult to find a vaccine that can keep HIV viruses from penetrating cells, let alone a vaccine that kills or informs the body to kill HIV. Basically, vaccines are strands of the virus, but inactive (i.e. will not make you sick) injected into your body for your immune system to battle and win. But a virus that shuts down your immune system... Well, I think you know how that will resolve.
2006-09-21 22:21:31
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answered by Anonymous
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Ah, Vaccines and medications for HIV. Yes, I too find myself puzzled by this issue, but that is as a person who doesn't work as a scientist. I started working in HIV research in 1992 prior to the approval of HIV medications the Protease Inhibitors (PI). PI's began a road to medications that really help slow the HIV virus process down. Viruses in general are truly amazing things. The HIV virus is especially lethal in that it is highly clever in the way that it replicates in our bodies and in the process of outsmarting the HIV drugs that target HIV replication. The medications that are available that is the process that they engage in - stop the process of replication. Vaccines, well that is a trickier issue. Scientists are just now after 20+ years of working with the HIV virus beginning to understand what makes this virus tick. Cancer research is exploding in the process of how medications are designed to attack cancer. Some of these same processes are being replicated in how HIV is attacked. We are many, many years from an HIV vaccine. Due primarily to the multiple strains that exist. HIV can be prevented. Perhaps, not an easy task. Abstinence, safe sex practices these are challenges that are issues that we need to address. Education about how HIV is contracted and how easy it is to unsuspectingly be exposed. Never before has there been such an increase in sexually transmitted diseases which is troubling because that means that the message in our education is not working. Abstinence is a wonderful concept, but if we are honest about the sexuality that is part of the human process abstinence is not such a simple idea. Multiple tools and increased awareness and education are what people need to help decrease the spread of HIV. At least until scientists understand more about HIV and can develop a vaccine.
2006-09-22 00:07:59
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answered by playitbyearinc 2
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If HIV was the most severe cancer there was, and we had something to eradicate HIV, then we have something to work on all virus.
I am not a scientist but studied from home, and in my research I have realized how Herpes simplex absolutely hates cloves. There is a property within it that I believe could hold a very important key to it all.
I have shared some thoughts in my 360, but I actually believe herpes simplex is the sleeping baby to all cancers including HIV obviously, and the herpes simplex is a requirement to the human body.
We cannot live without it!
Yet if was the original sleeping baby of cancers, and it mutated and some many mutations to create something new and original, then we can't kill cancer, but separate the dark from the light within us. The 'cancer' and herpes.
98% of the human population, take this into consideration and it is also incurable.
I will, when get time elaborate in my 360 because there is so much to say about it, and share but we have to 'separate', not try and kill as a whole
Herpes simplex incubates in mu cos, and when the immune system is down, it awakens from a dormant sleep
2006-09-21 22:34:15
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answered by WW 5
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there is a medication out there and people have been using it for years. Thats why some people with HIV can live a "normal" life now, where as in the 1980s just shriveled up and died from the AIDS effects. I'm not saying its a vaccine, but there is a medication that is used and people are living longer and their symptoms are lessened. not sure if that helped! Look up AIDS meds or something like that. Newsweek did a whole magazine devoted to AIDS in 30 years or something and it was a glimpse of where we are now, as opposed to then.
2006-09-21 22:23:07
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answered by Anonymous
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The primary problem is incompetence and greed in the medical profession. This includes top AIDS researchers that professed to want to work effectively together at the last AIDS conference in Toronto. They took their grants fast enough from Bill and Melinda Gates.
The medical professional who found the new weapon against AIDS in pregnant women can verify that the herbal oil of peppermint when combined with saliva ( lysozyme is an enzyme found in saliva ) can produce a substance which is effective against the virus. In fact it could be so effective that it's use could vaccinate the bloodstream against any remaining virus hiding within the body. It is my hypothesis that a vaccine introduced into the body ( even a non-specific one ) could expediate the restoring of the immune system when used in combination with the herbal remedy. Lysozyme works.
2006-09-25 13:01:07
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answered by Gerald 3
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There's medicine to lessen the effects. The truth is that we don't have an effective vaccine against any virus at all. So far that has remained beyond the ability of medical science.
2006-09-21 22:19:51
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answered by Anonymous
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The virus mutates as it's spread. I'm no expert, but I assume it mutates to a new form faster than scientists can make a vaccine. Just like with flu. Its different strains or mutations require different types of vaccine.
2006-09-25 03:14:08
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answered by jessicab0414 1
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medicines and vaccine strengthen the immune system and help it to produce antibodies that would kill the invading organism.
But HIV attacks the immune system cells and weakens it so that the body does not have immunity against simpler diseases like pneumonia, TB, malaria etc. It is like someone infiltrated your army and weakened it from inside so that even weaker enemies can attack you
2006-09-21 22:23:57
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answered by lose control 2
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There's no medicine they've been able to invent or discover. But I think I have an idea of how it could be cured. My first time I'm telling anyone. The solution is right in front of us.
2006-09-21 22:36:33
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answered by Harry thePotter 4
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as far as i know, there are NRTI, NNRTI, PI drugs for hiv/AIDS. But problem is these drugs only manage to suppress viral replication for a period of time after which drug resistance come in. So tats why till now still no cure for it.
2006-09-21 22:23:55
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answered by usingtea 1
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