billions of dollars have been spent studying the virus, AIDS and AIDS
related diseases. Since the beginning of the epidemic, nearly 30
million people have died from AIDS-related causes.. Sometimes science
moves slowly which is no consolation for patients affected by viruses.
Anti-HIV Pills Powerfully Protect Uninfected Heterosexuals
by=A0Jon Cohen=A0on=A013 July 2011, 1:26 PM
Credit:=A0University of Washington
It's a bad day for the AIDS virus. Results from=A0two=A0studies=A0in
sub-Saharan Africa, simultaneously announced today, show for the first
time that daily doses of anti-HIV pills taken by uninfected men and
women can prevent heterosexual transmission of the virus. Widely
hailed as a "breakthrough" in HIV prevention by public health
officials, the studies=97one of which dropped its placebo arm today
because of the convincing effects of the intervention=97add powerful new
tools to derail transmission of the virus in the population that
accounts for most of the 34 million infections in the world.
"The evidence we're providing today is extraordinarily strong," says
Jared Baeten, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington,
Seattle, who co-led the larger of the two studies. "We're thrilled."
Epidemiologist Lynn Paxton, who coordinated the second study for the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says the word "
'exciting' is a low-key term for this."
The full story can be read here:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/07/anti-hiv-pills-show-powerful-=
eff.html?ref=3Dhp
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