A New AIDS Plan for Americans, and New Hopes for a Vaccine
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This is the VOA Special English Health Report.
Researchers, policy makers and activists are busy preparing for the International AIDS Conference. The next conference begins Sunday in Vienna, Austria.
On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced its National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The plan aims to reduce new HIV infections by twenty-five percent within five years. It also aims to make sure infected patients get treatment more quickly.
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. The government says sixty-five percent of Americans who discover they are infected get treatment within three months. The new plan calls for increasing that to eighty-five percent.
Thirty million dollars from the health care reform law is to go to support prevention activities, including expanded HIV testing.
Over one million Americans are living with the virus, out of an estimated thirty-three million people worldwide.
Last week, government scientists in the United States announced the discovery of two antibodies that raise hopes for an AIDS vaccine. They say these antibodies can stop more than ninety percent of all known strains of HIV. Antibodies are proteins that the body makes to help protect itself against infection.
Researchers made the discovery at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The director of its Vaccine Research Center, Gary Nabel, says each antibody blocks the virus from attaching to white blood cells.
GARY NABEL: “It reacts with that region, it inactivates the virus and the virus never has a chance to enter the cells that it would otherwise infect.”
The antibodies were discovered in a man, known as Donor 45, whose body produced them naturally.
Patients with HIV must take medicine all their lives to prevent AIDS. Combinations of drugs are able to suppress the deadly virus in the body — if not a cure, then the next best thing.
In another development, the United Nations reported Tuesday that the number of young people becoming infected with HIV in Africa is falling.
The U.N. AIDS agency gives credit to better use of preventive measures. It says young people in Africa are waiting longer to have sex. They are also having fewer sexual partners. And they are increasingly using condoms. As a result, the agency says HIV rates are falling in sixteen of the twenty-five hardest-hit countries in Africa.
And that’s the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Mario Ritter. I’m Steve Ember.
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Includes reporting by Jessica Berman and Lisa Schlein
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13 Comments for A New AIDS Plan for Americans, and New Hopes for a Vaccine
1. Phan Thi Ngoan | September 15th, 2010 at 12:48 am
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September 17th, 2010 at 8:43 am
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4. Nguyen van Thuy | September 16th, 2010 at 4:48 am
Thank Steve Ember for your information. It’s so great to hear that the sciencetist found 2 antibodies for making an AIDS vaccine. Maybe you don’t know, In Viet nam, Young people make unsafe sex more and more and they have high risk to be infected AIDS. Research and make an AIDS vaccine are absolutely necesary. I don’t understand why Africa reduce people infected HIV while there Vietnam increase year by year.
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5. dang binh | September 16th, 2010 at 2:18 pm
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7. Le Thanh Nhan | September 18th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
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8. lan | September 18th, 2010 at 3:54 pm
why can’t listen all lessons of listening . please check for me as soon as possible .Thanks so much
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9. tttt | October 1st, 2010 at 10:04 am
Who is a man, known as Donor 45, whose body could make natural antibodies against HIV? I wish that I were like him so that I could have natural antibodies to donate AID patients.
I wonder that whether scientists found a method to activate the natural antibodies on other bodies? and outside the above two types of antibodies, possibly they found more many other new antibodies.
The data of number rates on AID patients in VN is realy difficult to estimate, all is just a guessing, while infected deseases by AID is increasing more in fact. This is threatening the life community.
Hope scientists will be successfully in the fight against H.I.V in VN.
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10. huong thi pham | October 4th, 2010 at 9:20 am
I concern about this disease so much. I have withnessed more than twenty young boys in my village died of AIDS.Their parents were extremely miserable. Children are the future, the fortune of their parents.I hope that reseachers will soon find out drugs which treat HIV/AIDS.
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11. Tuxedo_Mask | December 26th, 2010 at 11:53 pm
Not only in America but in Australia also!
It’s great achievement of science and bring hope to the people who have HIV virus, I hope it would be in VIETNAM soon !
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12. Tassilyn | April 12th, 2011 at 1:23 am
dIb6l9 I’m out of league here. Too much brain power on display!
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