Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Where Is the Cure for HIV?

I was determined there was a cure out there. I finally read a book that suggested a treatment called Compound Q killed HIV. I remembered always seeing on the news how people were protesting and fighting for improvements in our health care. Trying to get funding for research for a cure. I was able to develop other side effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and lipodystrophy.
Where was the fight for the cure? We fought to lower the cost of the medication so the evil drug companies wouldn't become so rich. We fought to make sure people could have access to medications. Well if we won that battle why are the AIDS Drug Assistance Program rules so different from state to state?
The latest big fight is getting our drugs to third world countries. Let's get the drug companies more money. Don't these people just want a cure?
Now the drug manufacturers don't even bother making new drugs. Certainly prevention has helped. We have learned to tolerate the side effects. When do we start fighting for the cure again?
After all of this when do we start demanding a cure! When do we start protesting for a cure? When do we start saying to the pharmaceutical companies WE WANT A CURE? When do we start sending money to research for a cure? Don't give me more treatments and new side effects! I want a Cure and I want it now!

treatments do not eradicate HIV from host cells but rather inhibit virus replication and delay the onset of AIDS.
On infection, HIV spreads through the human body after the viral DNA is incorporated into the genome of host cells. Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) works by blocking HIV replication at various steps but does not eliminate the infected cells.
Prof. Loyter contends that while HIV integrates its DNA into the human genome, it only inserts enough DNA to replicate yet avoids host genome instability leading to programmed death of the infected cells (apoptosis).

Where’s the harm in fake AIDS cures?

First of all, fake cures are a swindle. Many peddlers of bogus cures insist their clients avoid all other treatments, including antiretroviral medicines. By the time a patient realises the “cure” hasn’t worked, their prospects for successful antiretroviral treatment may well have diminished.
Fake cures may also cause direct harm to health. Finally, the promotion of fake AIDS cures undermines HIV prevention. Curing AIDS is generally taken to mean clearing the body of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Usually the infected cells produce numerous HIV particles and die soon afterwards. Unfortunately, not all infected cells behave the same way. Probably the most important problem is posed by “resting” CD4 cells. Current therapies cannot remove HIV’s genetic material from these cells.
A cure for AIDS must somehow remove every single one of the infected cells.

Many researchers believe the best hope for eradicating HIV infection lies in combining antiretroviral treatment with drugs that flush HIV from its hiding places. The idea is to force resting CD4 cells to become active, whereupon they will start producing new HIV particles. The activated cells should soon die or be destroyed by the immune system, and the antiretroviral medication should mop up the released HIV.

Early attempts to employ this technique used interleukin-2 (also known as IL-2 or by the brand name Proleukin). This chemical messenger tells the body to create more CD4 cells and to activate resting cells. Researchers who gave interleukin-2 together with antiretroviral treatment discovered they could no longer find any infected resting CD4 cells. But interleukin-2 failed to clear all of the HIV; as soon as the patients stopped taking antiretroviral drugs the virus came back again.1 2

Many researchers believe the best hope for eradicating HIV infection lies in combining antiretroviral treatment with drugs that flush HIV from its hiding places. The idea is to force resting CD4 cells to become active, whereupon they will start producing new HIV particles. This chemical messenger tells the body to create more CD4 cells and to activate resting cells. Researchers who gave interleukin-2 together with antiretroviral treatment discovered they could no longer find any infected resting CD4 cells. Scientists are now investigating chemicals that don’t activate all resting CD4 cells, but only the tiny minority that are infected with HIV.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Miley Cyrus Photog Gets Death Threats

It is Anna Oliver's voice you can hear in the background of the Miley Cyrus drug video saying,  "I'm going to document the [expletitive] out of this," and talking Miley into doing more.
"What would you do if you met Anna Oliver? "Anna Oliver...I hate you."
"We should find Anna Oliver and feed her to the lions!"

"Anna Oliver needs to be shot."
"If karma doesnt get Anna Oliver.... i will!!"
Oliver has deleted her Twitter account and gone into hiding.

TMZ reveals a video of Miley Cyrus smoking Salvia. Salvia is an drug with psychedelic effect. In the Miley Cyrus salvia video, she was heard saying that she is getting a 'bad trip' after looking at a Liam Hemsworth look alike.

The video of Miley Cyrus with salvia has been named 'inappropriate'. This video was taken 5 days after Miley turned 18. Miley Cyrus was smoking saliva through a bong.
This incident has enraged Anthony Adams, former CA State Assemblyman. Anthony Adams confirmed that after smoking salvia, 'you do incredibly crazy things.' Miley is a star and young kids are going to emulate her behavior.'