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HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials
amigoro writes with the happy news that a possible vaccine against HIV is nearing readiness for clinical trials. The compound could provide a 'double whammy' by not only inoculating the patient against future infection, but destroying an HIV infection in progress. "The vaccine is an artificial virus-like particle whose outer casing consists of the TBI (T- and B cell epitopes containing immunogen) protein constructed by the researchers combined with the polyglucin protein. This protein contains nine components stimulating different cells of the immune system: both the ones that produce antibodies and the ones that devour the newcomer."
I mean, what if the vaccine fails to work? Are you then doomed for life in such a case? I know that the AIDS viruses employed in the vaccine are extremely weak, but again, what if all this fails to work? AIDS is no joke guys!
If it's not addictive, and not something that infected person's have to take for the rest of their lives, I just don't think the drug companies will approve.
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Negroes will surely welcome this progress, because after homosexuals, Negroes carry more AIDS than any other group.
Blacks are 30 times more likely to have Gonorrhea than whites and 11 times more likely to have it than Hispanics. A large majority of all Americans infected with Gonorrhea are black, despite making up only 13% of the population. Source: CDC
Black women are 7 times more likely to have Chlamydia than white women and 2 times more likely than Hispanic women. Source: CDC.
Blacks are 5.4 times more likely to have Syphilis. Source: CDC.
Blacks are 15.7 times more likely to have congenital Syphilis than whites. Source: Source CDC
Black women are 24 times more likely to have AIDS than white women. Source: OMH
Black men (including gays) are 8 times more likely to have AIDS than white men (including gays). Source: OMH This disparity approximately doubles when gays are excluded. Source: Kaiser Foundation.
Blacks in general are 10 times more likely to have AIDS than whites, and the disparity is growing each year. Among teenagers diagnosed with AIDS, 66% are black. A staggering 67% of new AIDS cases among women are among black women. A study found that 2.2% of all blacks in the US were HIV positive between 1997-2002. AIDS is the 3rd leading cause of death for young African Americans. Source: Kaiser Foundation.
In 2002, AIDS became the #1 leading cause of death for young black in the US. Femicide is another leading cause of death among young black women. Source: Kaiser Foundation.
...if you got it, you shouldn't have been sleeping around. A sad society that we live in today--no one takes anything with any reverence.
Neat. So now we have the problem where a bunch of humping idiots are going to be alive instead of following the rules of nature. GREAT!
that this is a great step in the right direction for finding a cure/prevention for AIDs.
The technique for the prevention of AIDs is already well known and well proven. It's got a 100% effective prevention rate.
It's called abstinence.
Other techniques, such as not engaging in risky activities are also highly effective.
How do you know Nature invented it?
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