What is AIDS or HIV ? Any cure for AIDS ?

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Happy Worlds Aids Day

Answer 1

Treatment for AIDS.

There is currently no vaccine or cure for HIV or AIDS. The only known methods of prevention are based on avoiding exposure to the virus or, failing that, an antiretroviral treatment directly after a highly significant exposure, called post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).[65] PEP has a very demanding four week schedule of dosage. It also has very unpleasant side effects including diarrhea, malaise, nausea and fatigue.[73]

Current treatment for HIV infection consists of highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART.[74] This has been highly beneficial to many HIV-infected individuals since its introduction in 1996 when the protease inhibitor-based HAART initially became available.[75] 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 (NARTIs or NRTIs) plus either a protease inhibitor or a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI). 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.[76] 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.[77]
Abacavir - a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NARTIs or NRTIs)
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Abacavir - a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NARTIs or NRTIs)
Atazanavir - a protease inhibitor
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Atazanavir - a protease inhibitor

HAART allows the stabilisation of the patient’s symptoms and viremia, but it neither cures the patient of HIV, nor alleviates the symptoms, and high levels of HIV-1, often HAART resistant, return once treatment is stopped.[78][79] Moreover, it would take more than the lifetime of an individual to be cleared of HIV infection using HAART.[80] Despite this, many HIV-infected individuals have experienced remarkable improvements in their general health and quality of life, which has led to the plummeting of HIV-associated morbidity and mortality.[75][81][82] 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] Still, for some patients - and in many clinical cohorts this may be more than fifty percent of patients - HAART achieves far less than optimal results. This is due to a variety of reasons such as medication intolerance/side effects, prior ineffective antiretroviral therapy and infection with a drug-resistant strain of HIV. However, non-adherence and non-persistence with antiretroviral therapy is the major reason most individuals fail to get any benefit from and develop resistance to HAART.[83] The reasons for non-adherence and non-persistence with HAART are varied and overlapping. Major psychosocial issues, such as poor access to medical care, inadequate social supports, psychiatric disease and drug abuse contribute to non-adherence. The complexity of these HAART regimens, whether due to pill number, dosing frequency, meal restrictions or other issues along with side effects that create intentional non-adherence also has a weighty impact.[84][85][86] The side effects include lipodystrophy, dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance, an increase in cardiovascular risks and birth defects.[87][88]

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.[89] 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. Only a vaccine is postulated to be able to halt the pandemic. This is because a vaccine would possibly cost less, thus being affordable for developing countries, and would not require daily treatments.[89] However, after over 20 years of research, HIV-1 remains a difficult target for a vaccine.[89]

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 becoming infected.[90] In addition, AIDS patients should receive vaccination against Streptococcus pneumoniae and should receive yearly vaccination against influenza virus.[citation needed] Patients with substantial immunosuppression are also 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.[90] 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;[90] 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.[91] 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.

p.s lol happy World AIDS day ....go check out http://www.worldaidsday.org/default.asp and put a virtual ribbon on your homepage or myspace . Break The Silence!

Answer 2

What is it?
HIV - just one more virus we have in our body. Like HIV, we have millions within. HIV may or MAY NOT cause AIDS.
AIDS. Disease that affect immune system. NOT ALWAYS CAUSED BY HIV!!!!!
Fact: a cure for it is still unwelcome. As we know some got rid of it and suddenly, they disapear from the news.

Cure?
So many things to say about it...
They say between 15 yrs and... unlimited!!!
Maybe even more than a normal person?!
Cure: not alowed?!?!
...and what about that guy in london who's been cured from HIV/AIDS? no more news about that... forbidden?
Has anyone heard of the cure that has pattent in US but hasn't been approved by FDA?
Don't take no as an answer.
Answer that we have: "There's no medicine or medical treatment that cures hiv/aids."
A new answer for you to learn and research more: "Work on cure using this mix: acumpuncture, 'The $19 cure for AIDS', Dianetics, NLP, Hypnosis, Astral Projection, Cure by energy (chi/ki/qi), Quantum energy/psychology,hemi-sync, chakra, energy places, human tea, alkalining, theta waves, and all branches of all these subjects."
Mix them all, some of them are becoming illegal in some countries such as Dianetics (cure by clearing engrams, very powerful).
These are some steps for curing anything and Everything!
Once you are cured of any disease that "cure hasn't been found or has been hidden", physical or mental, hide it from the media and spread the mix of the cure, experiences, tactics, tips and methods.

"Everything is possible"
"We have FULL control of our body, mind and energies"
"We are so much more than we think we are"

Facts:

One day, the human being lived more than 200 years, was imune to any virus, bacterias, illnesess and diseases.

We have unlimited power. We are able to get rid of any virus, any disease caused by any virus, and to be imune to any virus or disease.

We can make changes in our DNA, energy, mind, body, vitality and millions of other things.

Please, research.

Answer 3

If we took each and every of the fee of the hype and the fee of ink for information thoughts and utilized it to study a treatment might want to correctly be got here across plenty quicker. i imagine it really is between the hot pink Scares, therefore blood. human beings make funds around the HIV/AIDS project, it has change right into a cottage market. no longer that there are not from now on those who care, many are engaged on the placement and are committed to a answer, and they might want to pay employ like anybody else. funds is a large component. Over inhabitants might want to correctly be yet another.

Answer 4

HIV is a virus which if not controlled in the body affects your immunity resulting in AIDS.It has no cure but if you take Antiretrovirals they can keep the effectiveness of the virus at bay and you can live healthy for years.

Answer 5

Aids is a one type of virus no cure of aids only for mantaing of distante of hiv

Answer 6

The cure for AIDS is to inject cancer in the AIDS cells. This kills the cells and cures you!

Hope this helps :)

Answer 7

AIDS IS DISEASE.HIV IS A VIRUS CAUSING AIDS.AIDS CAN NOT BE CURED,BUT CAN BE CONTROL

Answer 8

AIDS MEANS ACQUIRED IMMUNO DEFICIENCY SYNDROME & HIV MEANS HUMAN IMMUNO DEFICIENCY VIRUS.THERE IS NO CURE FOR AIDS.AFTER 7YEARS IT LEADS TO DEATH.

Answer 9

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