AIDS vaccine tests in South Africa

There is no cure for AIDS. Although antiretroviral treatment can suppress HIV-the virus that causes AIDS-and can delay illness for many years, but it cannot clear the virus completely. There is no confirmed case of a person getting rid of HIV infection.

Symptoms:
Lack of energy, weight loss, frequent fevers and sweats are all the symptoms of AIDS.Severe or recurring vaginal yeast infections
Periods of extreme and unexplained fatigue that may be combined with headaches,lightheadedness.and/or dizziness.
Rapid loss of more than 10 pounds of weight that not due to increased physical exercise or dieting
Increasing shortness of breath.


How dangerous AIDS is!

Good News!
Thirty six volunteers in South Africa will test the safety of an African-developed vaccine against H.I.V. The tests are the first step in human clinical trials of two vaccine candidates developed at the University of Cape Town.



These experimental AIDS vaccines are the first from Africa to reach testing in people. The National Institutes of Health in the United States provided assistance. Testing with twelve people began earlier this year in Boston, Massachusetts.
South Africa has more than five million people infected with H.I.V., the largest number of any country. Human trials of possible vaccines are taking place around the world. Scientists hope to get some results later this year.



But during last week's conference, experts reported the first decrease in international financing for AIDS vaccine research. They say funding dropped from about nine hundred thirty million dollars in two thousand seven to eight hundred seventy million last year.
Also at the conference, scientists presented the latest findings about new mothers infected with H.I.V. Two studies showed ways in which anti-H.I.V. drugs could permit infected women to breastfeed their newborns with less risk of passing the virus to them. The research was done in Cameroon, Ivory Coast, South Africa and Zambia.
In other new research, a study has found that circumcision does not decrease the risk that H.I.V. positive men will infect women. The findings, from Uganda, are in the medical journal, The Lancet.


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