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Close to the Cure: Developing HIV/AIDS Vaccination

by Gordon Clark | November 17, 2009 at 03:27 pm

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Researchers are optimistic about AIDS vaccinations. In the past year there have been a huge increases in understanding the disease and possible cures. Conferences held all over the world are introducing potential HIV/AIDS treatments that they think are ready for human testing including Winnipeg's:

Experts at an international HIV/AIDS conference in Winnipeg say researchers around the world are closer than ever to finding a vaccine against the virus.

Frank Plummer, director of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Laboratory, said he expects to see a vaccine in his lifetime.

"I'm confident that we will get there eventually," Plummer said. "It's not a simple problem. If it was, we would have done it already."

He said there are cases around the world of people who have had contact with the virus but haven't become infected. Plummer said some of that is luck, but it may also be due to natural immunity.

Solid research has been found that babies who breastfeed from a mother who has HIV is far less likely contract it later in life in comparison to a baby who breastfeed from a mother who is HIV-negative. Obviously there could be a host of reasons for this and correlation doesn't always mean causation but:

Canada's chief public health officer, David Butler-Jones, said some of the greatest vaccine discoveries have come from figuring out natural immunity.

"The original vaccine for smallpox was a recognition that milk maids who had cowpox were not susceptible to smallpox," he said.

Time magazine posted the HIV vaccination AIDSVAX as the 8th best invention of 2009. Given that roughly 31 million people are infected in the world I would have expected it to be higher up the list.

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CynMoniste

at 21:06 on November 17th, 2009

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master_jim2008

at 21:10 on November 17th, 2009

I think certain factions within our government know the cure but won't release it. I think that if they do, that will be the only way anyone will come up with a cure.

Arthur Gittleman (not verified)

at 13:39 on December 28th, 2009

A trial was done seven years ago in Japan by Nobuto Yamamoto. It was publish beginning of year by a medical journal. It is a cure for HIV and some cancers. The problem is you can not make money from it. And money is needed to get approval from the FDA. Anybody have a loose 100 million dollars they don't need? The cure does require a drug. I have noted that you can get blood counts normalized using a herbal formula from India. Don't know about clearing resting infected cells. But likely it also can be done. It would never be approved by FDA since it is herbal medicine. Maybe you can get your member of congress to start changing their laws otherwise you need one of the major drug companies willing to take a billion dollar loss. Somehow I don't think you will find either a congressman or drug company to do either.

johnnycomelately (not verified)

at 13:01 on December 30th, 2009

i will tell you where the cure to HIV is.. It is tightly guarded in a well locked lab in Boston, Massachusetts. The United States Government has always had the cure for the disease, for it is the United States Government who created the disease. He who holds the key, has the power.