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thank the powers that be a cure for timothy
i beleve the are holding back hiv cure and dis is not fair
Gc-maf works... please take a look at ICAR 2011 in Florence Italian annual AIDS meeting . One patient, 44 years old, has been diagnoseg hiv+ since 1984, and full blown aids in 2001. In 2009 this patient developed resistance to conventional antiretroviral ARV and observed a decline of cd4 to 40 cells/ml and general health, and viremia arise up to 160.000 copies/ml After only 10 injections of Gc-maf, at the end of 2010, viremia decreased to 2343 copies/ml and cd4 increased up to 298 copies/ml.
I think stem Cell is the only way out, for researchers to have gone that far, then we all have hope in this century. HIV/AIDs will have cure soon! this i beleived so much.We looking forward for more versatile research on stem cell.
There must be competent doctors who perform marrow transplants, and delta 32 potential donors who could both stand to earn what hiv people are willing to pay for this procedure. I wouldnt be surprised if it's already happening, very quietly.
The ablation was necessary for the leukemia, but I'm wondering if the CCR5 delta-32 deletion stem cells alone introduced into the system (over time) would have led to the same (or similar) results... no evidence of HIV. Not all HIV was was removed from the patient's body at the time of transplantation. Since it wasn't all removed (but substantially lessened) would a the same or a larger transplant of stem cells yield the same result without the need for ablation? Ablation is dangerous.
Check out the blog post we just wrote-NAPWA has decided NOT to advocate for AIDS cure research during the national AIDS lobby event Feb 16-18 www.blogs.poz.com/aidspolicyproject/2011/02/is_aidswatch_keeping.html It would be great if you could weigh in at the end of that blog post in the comments section. PS-New research at UNC, Penn and UC Chapel Hill is trying to doctor up patients' own immune cells to mimic the Berlin Patient case--but if successful it would be much safer.
J Clark
This is something I've wondered about for years. People with an immunity, and believe me there are, to be the answer to the vaccine and or stem cell source to finally end this nightmare disease. But why hasn't anybody thought of this before? So many have been lost. I'd even volunteer as a immune donor because I am still HIV- and was very careless in my 80's youth.
June 10, 2011 • Phoenix, AZ