Latest HIV Aids Treatment

It’s not surprising that almost everyone in the world now knows about AIDS. The disease is an equally opportunity killer and thousands of people have died of the disease in the last century. Thousands more are infected and will die over the next century. There is no cure and there is only a drug regime that you can use to control the HIV and prevent it from completely overwhelming your body and immune system. Another drawback is that patients can easily develop resistance to the medication requiring the use of new drugs. The entire process may seem like a vicious circle that eventually results in death and several people do die due to multi drug resistance and full blown AIDS.

But out of the thousands that are infected and slowly progressing towards full blown AIDS; there are a lucky few who have somehow managed to keep the disease in check without the need for drugs. Most drugs work on preventing the HIV virus from replicating and eventually overwhelming the body’s immune system. But this lucky batch of long-term non-progressors, manage to do just that without the help of any drugs! Although researchers are not sure about what happens exactly, the entire process is nothing short of miraculous. The long-term non-progressors body manages to keep the HIV virus from replicating while still having a steady count of the CD4 virus in their body. These lucky long-term non-progressors are few and far in between forming about one in 300 of HIV infected.

The main reason for the interest is that these blessed few may actually hold the promise of a functional vaccine in their blood, genes or diet. But no one has been able to find out exactly what makes them unique. According to the CDC, long-term non-progressors can be called as such if they are

HIV positive for seven years or more

Have a CD4 T-cell counts of 600 cells per cubic millimeter of blood or more for several years

Does not or never did suffer HIV-related diseases,

And has never had any previous antiretroviral therapy.

It becomes very essential for these blessed few to recognize their condition and contribute their tissues, blood and cells and whatever necessary to further medical research in AIDS.

FOR ALL LONG-TERM NON-PROGRESSORS OUT THERE- You could be harboring the future AIDS vaccine in your blood. All you have to do is take the time to contribute your little to help the millions who are sick.