does the parazapper kill the HIVirus?
95431
nothing can cure the HIV virus. it may aid in slowing down the symptoms. but cure it, no.
459050
There is a process called sperm washing that many believe eliminates the HIV from the sperm. But there is no 100% sure way of cleaning the sperm so that nether the child or the birth mother have a chance of getting the virus. Many people consider the risk worth it though. You should talk to a doctor about it though.
1064058
Viruses are very hard to kill. Take HIV/AIDS for example.\n\nAt least herpes is not deadly, like AIDS is. I'm sure someday they will find a cure. It might be another 10 years or so, but I believe someday they will find a cure for it.
177909
yes there is a very expensive scientific way of "washing" the sperm negating the risk of exposure to HIV
545958
Yes. A new approach to fighting the virus by stopping it from infecting cells. The medical professionals call the new drugs entry inhibitors. I call it slowing the immune response. It can be done with peppermint oil lozenges. This could help third world countries. Perhaps the caring medical professionals would like to do a study to prove it can work against HIV.\n Ask any medical professional you know if they would like to help in the study.
591330
No, they think of the business. Even condoms aren't 100% effective, as you can still get AIDS/HIV through open cuts, semen/vaginal fluid, etc.
47667
While it is possible it's virtually nonexistent. The mosquito would have to bite a person with HIV. This person would also have to be in a stage of infection when HIV particles are in the blood. The blood taken by the mosquito would have to have HIV particles in it. These HIV particles would have to somehow get into the saliva of the mosquito, and then be transferred to a new person. So it's really minimum.
616499
No. HIV (the virus causing AIDS) is very vulnerable. It needs to live in a moist environment. 2 hours out in the air, it dies. If you're really worried, use some good antiseptic soap to wash the jeans, hang it out to dry, or take it to the dry cleaners.
393844
There are currently drugs available that enabled a HIV positive person to live a normal life span. The treatment is not cheap, but for someone living in the US, HIV is not a death sentence anymore. \n\nThere are also studies underway that indicate that certain combination of those drugs prevent the user from getting HIV, similar to Malaria prevention drugs. Those studies look very positive, but a prevention is not a cure. \n\nTo completely eradicate the HIV disease, a vaccine would be required and that still seems to be some time in the future.
570228
There's also cell apoptosis.  infected cells put out a self-destruct signal so the virus can't reproduce.  its actually what i work on, with herpes
684245
Very Very Unlikely.  You would have to cut the person with HIV and then immediately cut yourself with the same razor.  HIV can only live outside the human body for a few seconds to a minute so just make sure you clean things well and be careful.  You stand a bigger risk from hepatitis than HIV and even that is too remote a posibility to mention.
681674
My answer was inacurate, the two answers following however quoted an excellent article. To save others the effort I will put the link in here. This article does an excellent job explaining the origions of HIV and the few places I have checked to verify the information contained in the article have checked out.
644216
yes it is. i don't remember any details by i heard a scientific report a few years back that basically said that the HIV virus needs the help of a vitamin (i forget which) to get into your cells. if i remember my biochemistry correctly, a virus is only a sort of capsule full of DNA. what it does is it attaches to a cell and feeds it the DNA, so that the cell turns into a virus factory, instead of continuing to fulfil its original function. if the cells aren't doing what they're suppose to be doing, you get sick and eventually die. \nso the virus can't actually do any harm until it can get into the cells and this vitamin opens a doorway. unfortunately, it is one of the vitamins the human body produces naturally. however, there are some people who do not produce this vitamin. they have some helth issues because of it, but because they don't have this vitamin in their body, the HIV virus cannot get into the cells and so they are immune to AIDS. they do however, carry the virus around with them and so they can pass it on.
1012599
Eliminating HIV, or curing it or making a vaccine, will be a hugely difficult task.\n\nHIV is a very difficult target, because it mutates -- that is, changes its genetic code -- at an amazingly high rate. In fact, every single person with HIV has a different strain or set of strains of the virus. This is because HIV is a retrovirus, which contains RNA instead of DNA. To infect a cell, the RNA must be copied into DNA by an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (RT). RT is a very sloppy copying process; it makes a mistake in roughly 1 in 2000 base pairs. In contrast, DNA copying through DNA polymerase (which has error correction) can copy millions and millions of base pairs without a single error.\n\nThis tremendously high error rate sounds like a recipe for disaster for the virus, and in fact I'm sure it leads to the creation of a lot of "dud" copies of the virus that do nothing. But it means that, from one generation to the next, if the mutations are not fatal to the virus, then it will be sufficiently different so as to evade detection. It also develops drug resistance very, very quickly this way unless drugs are combined to keep it "fenced in".\n\nSo RT is a potent weapon in HIV's arsenal, but it's also a point of control for HIV infections. Since it has no error correction, drugs that look *almost* like nucleotides (base pairs in DNA), can be used. These molecules have critical changes in them so the resulting DNA breaks up as soon as it's assembled. DNA polymerase recognizes that these are not valid nucleotides and replaces them for legitimate cell activity. Those drugs are called "nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors". They are effective at controlling HIV infection when used in combinations of three or more, but they are not cures.
156911
as a person that is HIV+ please listen to this... its not 6 months anymore. The CDC recommends 13 weeks but the ELISA and Western Blot test can detect the virus much sooner. Until you find out your results please make sure that you are protecting not only yourself but the ones whom you engage in relations with. And as far as Post Exposure Prophalaxis is concerned it hasn't been proven to be 100 % effective and generally is done with rape victims only.
152174
I don't think the HIV virus ever dies.  I'm pretty sure it doesn't.  Viruses are usually incurable and the person will have it for the rest of their lives.
426435
Because of the viral load. It does not replicate/ amplify enough in the mosquito to cause an infection in its next victim...\nIf say the mosquito suck a 'mouthful' of blood from an HIV individual...that would only work out to maybe 1 or 2 virions. Far more is needed for an infection to be transmitted.