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Published: 11/30/10

World AIDS Day Question: How Close Are We to a Cure?

By Dave Thier - AOL News

(Nov. 30) -- Wednesday is World AIDS Day, where people around the world rally to raise funds and awareness to combat the still-potent global pandemic. But 30 years after the auto-immune disease surfaced in Central Africa, there remains no cure and no vaccine. In western countries, drug cocktails that include anti-retrovirals can manage AIDS and reduce levels of the HIV virus to undetectable amounts, but small, self-replicating viral reservoirs remain in patients' immune systems. Properly medicated HIV-positive people can now live relatively normal lives, but eliminating the virus entirely ...

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Published: 07/13/10

Obama to Unveil New Plan for Combatting HIV, AIDS

By not in system - AOL News

WASHINGTON (July 13) -- President Barack Obama is announcing a new national strategy for combatting HIV and AIDS aimed at helping reduce the number of infections and providing those living with the virus high-quality care free from stigma or discrimination. The strategy calls for reducing the rate of new HIV infections by 25 percent over the next five years, and for getting treatment to 85 percent of patients within three months of their diagnosis. Administration officials, including Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and domestic policy chairwoman Melody Barnes, were to ...

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Published: 11/4/09

South Africa Gets Real on AIDS Crisis

By Theunis Bates - AOL News

(Nov. 4) -- After failing for years to face up to its tragic status as the country most ravaged by HIV/AIDS, South Africa is taking a dramatic new approach to the epidemic that experts say could stop a hemorrhage of unnecessary death. AIDS causes about 350,000 deaths per year in South Africa, which has 5.7 million HIV-infected people -- more than any other nation in the world. And yet instead of declaring war on the disease, former President Thabo Mbeki spent much of the past decade denying it. Under Mbeki, the South African government delayed the launch of lifesaving drug treatment ...

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Published: 09/24/09

First Glimmer of Hope for an AIDS Vaccine

By Ria Misra - Politics Daily

A new vaccine created by cobbling together two older, ineffective AIDS vaccines shows the first evidence of being able to prevent the virus, though only in less than one-third of cases. Still, it's a major breakthrough and one that the scientists who completed the study are justifiably thrilled with as a first step towards finding a vaccine that could be widely used. The study, completed in Thailand on a sample of more than 16,000 people, was the result of a partnership between Thailand's Ministry of Public Health and the United States. Though it's a groundbreaking medical discovery, ...

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