How can we find out medicine for aids?Will cancer be usefull for finding medicine for aids?
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Here is a good place to start.
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There isn't a cure, and there may never be.  Some cancers have really good therapies (ie testicular cancer, childhood leukemia).  Some really don't, ie pancreatic, glioblastoma.  Some cancers still kill within 1-2 years, and this hasn't changed in decades.  But many are more treatable now.  AIDS has alot of drugs for treatment, but it's actually hard to prevent people from getting AIDS (vaccines difficulties) or to root out HIV (antiviral difficulties).  All we can do really is keep it from spreading.  Maybe in a few more decades we can do this.  Cancer will always be a problem because you won't know you have it until it's too late, since most people don't do checkups for every type of cancer out there every year.  Maybe in the future we'll have a blood test that can tell if you have any type (or 99% of them) of cancer.  ALot of work is going into that, including some that our lab is doing.  But believe me there is no vast consipracy; but you can make the arguement that potentially life saving drugs are not on the market because the regulatory hurdles are too high or they won't make a profit.  Drugs cost billions to get FDA approved, and unless they are going to benefit alot of people pharma companies aren't going to bother with them.  That's economics, it's not a conspiracy.  If we didn't have such huge requirements then there would be alot more drugs available, and alot more people will die from them.
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There are many agencies/organizations that can help in different ways. Some are for specific cancer types and others are for cancer patients in general. The following site lists a lot of these and should lead you to one or more that can help you. http://cellscience.com/CANCharities.html\nAnother which has been helpful to me, but is not on the previous website, is http://www.cancercare.org/services.html
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HIV cannot be cured - even in the early stages.  \n\nI think the poster above is thinking of medications you can give someone who has been stuck with an infected needle.  Those medications are given immediately after exposure.  They prevent HIV from infecting cells.  But, once you're infected with HIV - you always will be.  There is no cure.\n\nHIV attacks something called your "T-cells".  They are part of your immune system.  Their job is to stimulate an immune response in your body.  As HIV progresses, you have less and less T-cells.  It becomes easier to get sick.  \n\nDoctors measure how sick someone is by counting t-cells in a sample of your blood.  \n\nA healthy person has 800 - 1200.  \n\nA person who has HIV, and their T-cell count is 500 or below is diagnosed with HIV-related illness.  This means that it's easier to get sick from common things like bacterial or fungal infections, etc.\nIt also means they might want to make some decisions about medications.\n\nA person is diagnosed with AIDS when their T-cell count is 200 and below.  At this point, people are susceptable to many different infections because their immune system has been damaged by HIV.
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There is no prevention medicine for AIDS.  \n\nThere are education, condoms, and life-sustaining drugs.  \n\nHere's info on who gets what how:\n\nhttp://www.globalissues.org/health/aids/\nhttp://www.globalissues.org/TradeRelated/Debt/USAid.asp\nhttp://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/aids/2003/0603billion.htm
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It depends which STD you're talking about. So far no one has found a cure for AIDS. Medications for syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and herpes are available with a doctor's prescription. I think you've been watching some pretty slanted reports designed to scare the populace and make them madder at the pharmaceutical companies than they already are.
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i really don't know the answer to your question,but i know of a place that might,i go here for support,and there's  a place  for advice on hiv,so i thought this would help,,click on below
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I'm not sure if any doctor has cured it because there is no cure for cancer, yes we can kill it, remiss it but cure it? I don't know about that because the virus is still out there and living in people.\n\nWith blood cancer, the stem cells, bone marrow, and newer chemo's can remiss it and there is a chance that the person could always be living with cancer like people live with diabetes or asthma.\n\nHere is a link to a good reference site:\n\nhttp://www.cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/results/blood-cancer-transplants0101
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how modern is medicine? never enough. There will be always new viruses (maybe made by huge laboratories), and medicine people will always look for new cures. think about cancer it's been discovered and studied for thousands of years.
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No disease is accepted by anyone if their is a cure available.but the irony about AIDS is that Its not curable but completely preventable...thats why the interventions are targeted to youth to make them acknowledged so that they can prevent it..
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Don't you know that they can and do also test for the presence of HIV virus? Like, they can detect HIV years before they detect AIDS. Please read this: http://www.med.unc.edu/wrkunits/orgs/stepaids/testing.htm\n\nYour immune system will try to fight back by producing antibodies to HIV. Each type of antibody is unique to the disease, so if you have HIV antibodies then you have the virus.\n\nIt can take years for the HIV virus to kill all or most of the immune cells, and once someone has lost most of them its called AIDS. Hunger and malnutrition aren't good for your immune system, but they kill in different and easily identifiable ways that don't look like AIDS to a doctor.\n\nThis will answer most of your other questions:\nhttp://www.aids.org/info/FAQs.html
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I would like to hope that medical professionals would release info to the public that would help people. However, I would venture to say it could be a possibility that there is information that could help people with AIDS but medical professionals won't release it. \n Medical professionals have been reluctant to study herbal therapies. Perhaps because there would not be much profit if they were proven to work against diseases or perhaps just having a lackadaisical approach to finding other ways to combat ailments is the reason why they have been reluctant to study alternate therapies.\n Is it possible to reduce viral load with alcohol? Ask any medical professional if a small quantity of alcohol would work in reducing viral load. I say it can.\n Is it possible to use peppermint oil lozenges to slow the immune response so that the killer cells can destroy virus before the virus destroys helper cells? I say it can.\n You are very wise to ask the last question. Is it possible to reduce viral load along with a consistent slowing down of the immune response (without hindering the power of the immune system) and then use a vaccine ( even a non-specific one ) to help rebuild the immune system? Ask the top AIDS researchers if it can work. I say it can work. I believe it could be possible for the bloodstream to have an immunity to the virus although some virus may still be hiding within the body. In essence this could be a cure for AIDS.\n This treatment could be a cheap and effective way to help people .
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I've never heard of that drug but if you think it's for cancer a great resource for looking up cancer drugs by letter is http://www.nfcr.org/Default.aspx?tabid=411&ccDocumentId=983\nHope you find what your are looking for. Good luck.
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get rid of aids? you can't get rid of aids. They are searching for a cure, but one has not been found yet.
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Bingo!  In fact, when doctors test for certain kinds of diseases, including HIV, they don't look for the disease itself, but for antibodies in your blood that are specific to that disease.
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At the present time, there is no cure for AIDS. Treatment stresses aggressive combination drug therapy when possible. The use of multi-drug therapies has significantly reduced the number of U.S. deaths resulting from AIDS. The potential exists to possibly prolong life indefinitely using these and other drug therapies to boost the immune system, keep the virus from replicating, and ward off opportunistic infections and malignancies. Prognosis after the latency period depends on the patient’s specific symptoms and the organ systems affected by the disease. Patients with AIDS-related lymphomas of the central nervous system die within two to three months of diagnosis; those with systemic lymphomas may survive for eight to ten months. In America, the successful treatment of AIDS patients with HAART has actually led to a growing number of people living with HIV. About 25,000 infected people per year are added to the list of HIV-infected Americans.As of 2000, there is no vaccine effective against AIDS. Several vaccines to prevent initial HIV infection and disease progression are being tested. In 2002, reports showed a new “library” vaccine showed potential. The vaccine is composed of up to 32 HIV gene fragments that can induce a number of immune responses. In the same year, the British government worked with five African countries in a trial to find an effective gel that would protect women against HIV during sex.
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Cancer is an erosion of the genes.. its when free radicals attack the molecular structure of cells and eventually destroy the cell.. it can attack any part of the body but I would say it must come through the blood or vital organs.. which process/carry foods.. I believe cancer is created from ingestion of free radical and toxic additives and preservatives.. apart from the obvious like asbestos which breaks up and then spears the tissue until it bleeds internally and becomes infected then cancerous.. or simply blocks the lungs which become clogged with mucos.. \n\noverall i strongly feel an anti-oxidant rich diet will help heal and avoid cancer.. i am about to go on a major detox.. and a friend of mine is a therapist.. he discovered a herb.. which is currently being "investigated" and tested.. but he claims he administered in trails to numerous patients.. some were completely healed others who were terminal had lengthy life entensions and no pain.. this plant is known to the aboriginal people.. who never get cancer incidently.. look into this.. i cant say the name- my mate will kill me.. but it is found in mercury rich soil.. i know that much.. and is a dar k green plant found in the desert which is very anti-oxidant rich.. a short leafy plant..  there is a simular plant recently discovered in africa too.. and a lot of new herbs and plants are now being checked out.. hopefuly theres still some left to discover.. maybe we should ask the aboriginals .. they might have all the cures we want.. if we listen to them..