New pollsA Cure For AIDS Is Created
More than 30 million of people live with AIDS worldwide and this number is growing every day, because the HIV (virus, causing AIDS) is easy transmissible between humans through bodily fluids.
Till now, no effective cure exists for AIDS. Some treatments can slow down the course of the disease, but they are expensive and not available throughout the world.
However, scientists put huge efforts to find a vaccine from AIDS. On November 12 the news from Germany stroke the world and started another ray of hope to all AIDS sufferers - a man with HIV became HIV-negative after a stem cell transplant. Although the transplant was aimed to fight his leukemia, the body cells became resistant to HIV after that treatment as well.
Scientists warn that this does not mean a cure for AIDS is created. The patient is only functionally cured and he may still have very small quantities of the HIV in his cells. Moreover, the therapy he took has a big mortality rate and costs about $250,000.
With the mentioned problems to overcome, a cure for AIDS is still on its way to be created. However, the mentioned recovery of a HIV-positive patient is a large step forward - scientists already know how to get resistance to HIV and they also have a proof that gene therapy has an effect on AIDS and could be the solution to this problem.
What do you think on this topic - did we reach a significant breakthrough and the cure for AIDS will be created in about a year; or this is only the beginning of a long process and the whole world will have to wait a great while for the AIDS cure?
